Was akin to everyone. He was a relation. Okay. [applause] thank you so much. Thank you for joining us everyone, have a wonderful afternoon. The john locke foundation. Here is our prime time lineup. At 8 15 congressmen talks about recent book, guardian of the republic. Followed at 10 00 with charles thoughts on how to reduce the power of the federal government through the use of technology and at 11 00 a look at japan as tomorrow marks the anniversary of the u. S. Bombing. The corner and joining us right now is one of the actors thats exhibiting and talking about his book. Hes the author of gas money. Its a little small town in virginia. Why does it matter to you . It provided me with the foundation that i ended up with, its the place that made me me. All of the people that changed my life, thats where everyone organize when i left in 74 the population has doubled. Its a very small town. Everyone knows everyone. That makes it kind of unique. Its pretty much smalltown america. Yes, sir.
Everyone originated from. A population of 769 in 1960, thats where you grew up. What was it like then . Yeah, its 769 now. Its a small town. Everyone knows everyone. It makes it unique. Does it reflect the issues that happened in the 1960s . Yeah. I grew up going to segregated schools. We integrated in 1969, and that was a big deal. When changes were taking place in the country, they. Also taking place in saluda. There was one Black Elementary School and one white elementary. Waus the what was the population . In each grade maybe 50 kids. 150 total. Segregated neighborhood as well . No, everyone kind of lived next door to each other. There was 50 yards to 100 yards between each house and people got a long, we just didnt go to church or school together. You talk about this in your book gas money, a copy is right there. Getting along and going to segregated schools, you touched upon that in the book. Yes, i do. When we integrated in 1969, i was in the third good day, it was grade. It was
Hello welcome to our afternoon session. Todays format we had three distinguished panelists and coauthors we are joined by the professor. Thank you so much for taking time to be with us today. As a friendly reminder if you have not heard this yet please think about donating to our sources. Each of the authors a portion of the proceeds go directly back to the festival. About the book before we get started. And not only recounts the events of a terrible day that happened in june of 2015 but also offers us a History Lesson that really reveals a deeper look at suffering, tramp in ongoing rage of people who helped form the church. In many ways todays book and discussion is not only charlestons story but its a story of america. As a story of the deep south. Fighting for freedom and fighting for civil rights. We hope you will engage the authors as we talk talk and hear from them. The shootings that took place in charleston opened up a deep wound of racism that still permeates the south and sou
Now the last author panel is about to begin. It took place at the mother manual church in charleston last year. Hello welcome to our afternoon session. Todays format we had three distinguished panelists and coauthors we are joined by the professor. Thank you so much for taking time to be with us today. As a friendly reminder if you have not heard this yet please think about donating to our sources. Each of the authors a portion of the proceeds go directly back to the festival. About the book before we get started. And not only recounts the events of a terrible day that happened in june of 2015 but also offers us a History Lesson that really reveals a deeper look at suffering, tramp in ongoing rage of people who helped form the church. In many ways todays book and discussion is not only charlestons story but its a story of america. As a story of the deep south. Fighting for freedom and fighting for civil rights. We hope you will engage the authors as we talk talk and hear from them. The
Have not heard this yet please think about donating to our sources. Each of the authors a portion of the proceeds go directly back to the festival. About the book before we get started. And not only recounts the events of a terrible day that happened in june of 2015 but also offers us a History Lesson that really reveals a deeper look at suffering, tramp in ongoing rage of people who helped form the church. In many ways todays book and discussion is not only charlestons story but its a story of america. As a story of the deep south. Fighting for freedom and fighting for civil rights. We hope you will engage the authors as we talk talk and hear from them. The shootings that took place in charleston opened up a deep wound of racism that still permeates the south and southern institutions and pretty much the fabric of in the fabric of our society. We are trusted tells a story of people who have been a continually beat down by who have also triumphed over the worst of adversity. Exploring