sift. coming up right now. contributions from m to your pbs station from viewers like you, thank you. america s criminal justice system has become a critical debate. the impact on people of color. however, the war on crime that deeg began in the 1970s, in the book locking up our own, crime and punishment in america. professor foreman, good to have you on this program. ru part of a grand legacy. good to be here. let me start with the remarks of the relatively new attorney general, jeff sessions. he wants to go back to the re n reagan era tactics, my read of it was undoing everything that eric holder tried to do. is that the right or wrong direction? it is the wrong direction, he wants to take us back to policy that is have proven to have fail and caused great damage. if you think about attorney general session, he said marijuana is slightly less deadly than heroine. people have gotten to a point where they recognize the era in the approach, they recognize the incredibl
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it has been a long time i won t spend a long time doing that. i want to make some comments about the actual content of the why in outline for you think guns made the civil rights movement possible. and then i will sit down with rex and pursue that conversation and finally take questions from you i ll in the audience from you in the audience. that is a lot to do in an hour or so. , in some ways, my thermination to address question of how the southern freedom movement is portrayed. i have long been dissatisfied with what might be called the canon with regards to the southern freedom movement. , when i began this book, sort of neatly and with a great deal of irony, put the me.n in perspective for martinboils down to standing up and the white folks seeing the light and saving the day. that, more or less, is my complaint about much of the narrative. there is a newer body of scholarship emerging, younger historian emily crosby, leslie hogan, they were here yesterday to represen
holton he was more than 1000 eyewitness accounts to construct this history. many of those are freely available online for you to read for yourselves. the original words of leading figures of the revolution may be found on founders online, it website hosted by the national archives with the national historical publications and records commission. children in elementary schools across america learned of the decal the declaration of independence and the battles led by george washington. looking back nearly 250 years, the american revolution and its outcome can appear inevitable. but engaging and defeating a military power such as great britain required the involvement of people from many walks of life. liberty is sweet uncovers the roles played by women, native americans, enslaved africans, and african americans, and religious dissenters. holton also focuses on often overlooked factors such as whether, geography, and disease. too often, we jump from july 4th 1776 to washington s