[applause] it is good to be at the mississippi delta. May be so much change. To talk about this book so hiding from police on this particular street and had even more memories of city police here and this is what much of the book was about of those strong people of creed would that does not include i tell the story and i want doing here but the green family the legendary family and laura who ran the sheriff in town exceptionally strong people and part of the Southern Movement is the people that protect us. I will get back to that thought. I am often asked with this particular book when you read the book you will see this is much more than a book about guns. I have been a working reporter for most of my life. I primarily has been a Foreign Affairs reporter. To have established national geographic. With the Internet News Service concern i recommend you could, that all africa is the only way to keep up during the day this is what is happening in nigeria and one of the things i learned alm
Iran, coverage of bookfairs and festivals from across the country and the best sellers from this year and let us know what you think about the programs youre watching. Call us at 2026263400, or you can email us at comments at join the cspan conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Charles cobb, former field secretary for the student nonviolent coordinating committee, or sncc, reef count tuesday the possession of and use of firearms by civil rights activists for selfprotection during the 1950s and 60s. This is an hour and 15 minutes. Thank you. Its always good to be in the mississippi delta, especially this changed mississippi delta. Perhaps i should say somewhat changed mississippi delta. This is an appropriate place to speak about this book, because i have vivid memories of hiding from police along this particular street, the county courthouse is over there, and i have even more vivid memories of posses and city police here, and i have memories in this is really what m
I will get back to that thought. I have often asked why dont you do this particular book . It is much more than a book about guns. I have been a working reporter most of my life. As a working reporter i primarily have been a foreign reporter. You helped establish the schulhof geographical africa led. Com. And in the world. You click on to all africa. Com. Is a news site not a teachers side. Almost immediately to enter into the field. And it is more often distorted morris and any bias. You could spot bias. If something is left out you dont know it is left out. This is a problem with history and of particularly a problem with history of this other freedom with what to a place in alabama or mississippi or the black belt sauce. It is mostly shaped by what has not been told. With my dissatisfaction with the history of the movement and that problem operates of several different levels. So when i did the book in 20011 is a book about education to give it to people in mississippi include being
In march 8, 1971, a group of activists come including a cab driver, a daycare director, into professors, broke into an fbi office in media, pennsylvania. They stole every document they found an elite the press shocking details about fbi abuse and the then secret cointelpro program. , the firstr letter file i read was about a group of fbi agents who were told to enhance the paranoia and the Antiwar Movement and create an atmosphere that there is an fbi agent behind every mailbox. No one was ever caught for the fbi breakin. The identities of the media burglars made a secret until this week. Today, three of them join us on the show as well as the former Washington Post reporter, Betty Medsger, who first broke the story of the still of fbi documents in 1971. This week she revealed the identities of the burglars in her new book, the burglary the discovery of j. Edgar hoovers secret fbi. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im a
In march 8, 1971, a group of activists come including a cab driver, a daycare director, into professors, broke into an fbi office in media, pennsylvania. They stole every document they found an elite the press shocking details about fbi abuse and the then secret cointelpro program. , the firstr letter file i read was about a group of fbi agents who were told to enhance the paranoia and the Antiwar Movement and create an atmosphere that there is an fbi agent behind every mailbox. No one was ever caught for the fbi breakin. The identities of the media burglars made a secret until this week. Today, three of them join us on the show as well as the former Washington Post reporter, Betty Medsger, who first broke the story of the still of fbi documents in 1971. This week she revealed the identities of the burglars in her new book, the burglary the discovery of j. Edgar hoovers secret fbi. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im a