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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book Discussion On We Could Not Fail 20150907

we re here to talk about our book, we could not fail: the first african-americans in the space program. it looks at nasa s role in civil rights in the years before the civil rights act passed, and that s an important distinction. because before the civil rights act passed, discrimination was not against the law. it was legal to say, no, you can t use this toilet, you re black. or, no, you can t come into this restaurant, you re black, which is an important distinction that will become even more so as we talk about the achievements of some of the people in this book. we ll be talking about the rules put in place by the kennedy administration to try and address workplace discrimination and how they were implemented by nasa and by its contractors. but more importantly, we ll be talking about the people whose lives were touched by those rules. our book tells the stories of ten men, most of whom came to work in the space program during the years that we call the civil rights era

Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book TV 20141206

you re watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. this weekend on booktv arthur brooks is live on in depth. jason so kill sits down on after words, nick childs and robinship advise african-americans on how to deal with police and the criminal justice system in the u.s., robert baer provides a history of political assassinations and a literary tour of waco, texas. check out our full schedule online, booktv.org. you give me your name and the title of the book and tell me how you came to the project. hi, i m lawrence knutson, the title of the book is a wave in the white house, i came to the project because i am a retired reporter for the associated press and in my last three or four years i exploited a personal interest and wrote a column about american and washington history. that led me to the publisher of this book which is the white house historical association. we started talking abou

Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book TV 20141207

backpack. it s licensed in the state of louisiana, and i ve got a little weed. [laughter] so you know just shut up already. so he ended up having to take a plea. because he defeated attorneys ability to get the stop, the evidence was obtained as a result of the stop suppressed because he volunteered this information. everybody will say, you know, you didn t read robbin shipp s book. [laughter] she told you to just shut up. so now this kid has a criminal record. he s got a felony record. and a serious felony record because he was committing a felony, the amount of marijuana he had was a felony amount. and then he was in the possession of a firearm. so he got a gun charge on his record. he s like 26. no priors, none of that. and he had this long history also though of mental health challenges. and we talked about that, and we talked about the fact that black and brown folks don t like to get their kids tested. well, why not? you know? my child as learning disabilities, developm

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