Good evening. My name is tony green. I am the Vice President for programs and National Outreach at the National Constitution center. I want to welcome you. Today, we are spending a lot of time marking the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights act. Were looking at it through the lens of one woman, viola liuzzo, who died in the Civil Rights Movement. Upstairs, and im sure all of you have been to the National Constitution Center Exhibit space, we have something called the American National tree, which has the stories of 100 people. And two of the people on there, at least, are heroes of the Civil Rights Movement and the battle to get to the Voting Rights act, and they are viola liuzzo and john lewis, who is supposed to be here tonight, but unfortunately is stuck in washington for votes. Gary may, who has written a very readable, interesting, and compelling book, is with us tonight to talk about the fbis role in Viola Liuzzos murder, the ku klux klan, and the other factors that led to why
To ask a question because we after susans talk today she is taking questions and if you like to ask a question you are asked to line up at the microphone here. She will speak for about half an hour. Please dont ask your question from your seat but from your microphone. As someone who has written about civil rights in the south and my next book takes place in 1936 in nazi germany at the olympics. I cannot could not be more excited about being here in nashville with susan to hear about her new book. Shes one of the leading philosophers of the time. This is such an important book for these times. She studied at harvard. Shes taught at yale and tel aviv university. She is now the director of the Einstein Forum outside of berlin. Shes been in the u. S. On her book tour for about five weeks. I know shes looking forward to getting back home after a long book tour. Please join me in welcoming susan neiman to nashville. Thank you so much for coming. [applause] thank you. I am delighted to be he
Festival. You can do that online, or you can do that in various spots around the book festival. Youll see the donation stations. To thank you for considering that. Also after susans talk today, she is taking questions, and if you would like to ask a question because we aren on cspan, youre asked to line up at this microphone here. Shell speak for about half an hour so shell have about 20 minutes for questions. Please, dont ask your question from your seat, but from the microphone. My name is andrew maraniss, and as someone who has written about civil rights in the south and my next book takes place in 1936 nazi germany at to him picks i could not be more excited about susan here to talk about her new book, and im so eager to hear more about it. Learning from the germans. Theres probably no person on the t planet that is more qualified to write about this subject than susan who was born in atlanta during the segregated time and now lives in berlin. One of the leading philosophers of the
We are going to talk about something thats very popular right now. Podcasts. I dont know what they are, you dont know what they are. Nobody knows. But these people know and they will help walk us through what we need to do to create a podcast. Joining me today , i have the take off the glasses. Is a journalist. She relocated from chicago. Shes the host of the promise podcast which is about life in nashville Public Housing. Covers manufacturing in the rustbelt. Aviation and transportation. New york times, the new yorker, and on and on. Actually i have six cats. I have five cats. Ive gone full crazy. At the end is former director of nonfiction programming for slate sister company. She has hosted probably by the book. When megan met harry appeared in the Washington Post, collects im a dog person. But im allergic to all animals. No offense. Stephen is Program Coordinator for fm for memphis, tennessee. Because he apparently angered the gods at one point, stephen has on more than one occasio
our substantive program and that is going to be a program today on sparking civic engagement through history education and last night at the conclusion of the program. i said that education is certainly a common thread that we all share and is critical to the future of our country and we are honored that we have as the moderator of this group dr. kathy gorn who you know is the extraordinary leader of national history day and she is been on our board for many many years former member of our board of directors of the white house historical association joining her on stage or dr. david bob president of the bill of rights institute, tim bailey director of curriculum development and instructional of the design for the guilder airman institute of american history and wendy, may dryer board chair of eye civics, please join me in welcoming our first panel of the 2022 presidential sites summit. good morning, everyone. i m kathy goren executive director of national history day. and it