I want to get a few points across please put your cell phone on silent. If you would like to share on social bdm ago to a book festival. Thank you. Welcome to the session on southern history and we also want to thank our sponsor for this session. I would like to introduce you to robert who will be our moderator for today. He is a member of the board of directors for the mississippi book festival as well as a director for the center at Jackson State University whereja hhes also a professor. He is also an author. Thank you and welcome. Glad to see everyone here this afternoon. Im going to go down and introduce our panelists today. First, we have to my immediate left adrienne is the author of water tossing boulders help of chinese immigrants led the first sitedevice to desegregate schoon the south. She currently serves as managing editor of the daily paper in williamsburg virginia and at the school of journalism recently served as the writer an and a resident at the delta State University
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