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Authors discuss then < 1955 mur of emmett till, and the role of these events in the Civil Rights Movement. Cspan recorded the panel at the 2018 festival of books in nashville, tennessee. Greetings. My name is lee williams, jr. Im an associate professor of africanamerican and public history at Tennessee State university, and i will be the moderator for this panel. First id like to welcome you to nashville. If youre not a nashville resident, welcome, welcome. And welcome to the greatest library in america. This session will run precisely 50 minutes i am told. So we will give both our authors 20 minutes to speak, and well allocate ten minutes for question and answer. I was also admonished to remind you if youre really enjoying yourself this southern festival of books depends upon individual donations. So if you really enjoy what youve seen over the past couple of days id ....
Will give both our authors 20 minutes to speak and we allocate 10 minutes for questionandanswer. Im also admonished to remind you if youre really enjoying yourself, that the southern festival of books depends upon individual donations. If you really enjoy what youve seen over the past couple of days, id encourage you to donate as much as you can. We are in for a treat today. I asked these two jennifer bio gentleman for bios a couple of visio. They are esteemed scholars but also some of the most modest men that ive met. I will give you a brief and iuction to them encourage you to speak with them after the session ends. Our first presenter this morning gorn. Liott born chair and american urban history at Loyola University in chicago. Books author of five including a brief history of american sports, mother jones the most dangerous woman in ride thend wild year that made americas public enemy number one. And the work he will be ta ....
Reopening public spaces parks and beaches. The governor says more details on that will come thursday as well. Speaking of a place that might not be open much longer is dolores park that is what San Francisco mayor london breed was warning today. She says that people dont start respecting physical distancing at the popular open space in the mission. So close the dow called for ski rouhani has more from todays briefing. As some counties in california prepared to resume operations for most retail businesses, San Francisco is taking a measured approach. On monday mayor london breed caution that we likely wont see widespread reopening on friday. In fact breed warned the city may have to take further restrictions to encourage social distancing after another busy weekend at dolores park if we see that that behavior has not changed. We will close the park. And i want to be clear. This ....
Effect and this had many people in the kincade fire zone pretty concerned. Taking a look at the weather radar. You can see some of the bands of the storm over the everything specially out there in the north bay. Showers and the rest of the bay area is going to get a lot of rain here as we move to the next few hours. We have Live Team Coverage of the storm. We go to ktvu stem baker live with more on that concern about the debris of the kincade fire being swept away by the rain. Reporter less than three weeks, weve gone from extreme fire danger to flash flood warnings. A very big difference. Of course, up here in the kincaid area, that has folks concerned. With one big atmospheric wind behind them, worried about a cold front about to hit, people in the kincade fire bern area is concerned of what is coming overnight friday into saturday. Sonoma county and the foundation coldwater marines are going to burn area victims providing f ....
Wizards. He was one of the first individuals in the modern era to be tried for war crimes. And henry wirz trial in the fall of 1865 actually set the precedent for more recent war crimes trials, most notely, the nurrenberg most notably, the nurrenberg trials after world war ii, the allied prosecutors who were preparing for those prosecutions in nurrenberg actually studied the wirz trial and particularly his defense so they could prepare for what they anticipated the naysy defense would be and actually called it the wirz defense, which was basically, you know, i was only following orders. That is the typical defense, and they used henry wirz trial to help prepare for that in 1945. This is a really important moment, not only in american legal history, but also in world legal history. We will be thinking about the conditions at andersonville itself and what led the conditions to be so horrible and what led to the, you know, catastrophic loss of life that was suffer there had in 1864. We wi ....