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potential of conflict. we re at a crossroads. we re at one of those really hinge points in history. one path could lead to an enduring resolution and international communities concerns about iran s nuclear program. the other path could lead to continued hostility and potentially to conflict. and i don t have to tell you that these are high stakes. this weekend on c-span, secretary of state john kerry on why house members should not impose additional sanctions against iran as talks continue on freezing parts of iran s nuclear program. watch this morning at 10 eastern on c-span2 s booktv, dick cheney and his longtime cardiologist jonathan reiner talk about the former vice president s history with heart disease and recent advances in cardiology, tonight at 11. and on c-span3 s american history tv, a look at the free african-american men and former slaves who fought for the union, sunday at 13 a.m. eastern. and now on booktv, taylor branch, author of the multi-volume ....
but use that technology to invite large numbers of students to take part in sending questions and questioning to what is and get to know each other or using the web. there are a lot of newfangled items going on about how this is presented as i am struggling to catch up with myself. they instructed me how to sweet and twitter and facebook and all these other things but a lot of things like the enhance e-book i can t do because i don t have and i had but i do believe in the possibility of the immediacy year and if you are trying to tell legitimate story that is important from history you need to take every resource, every chance you can to make connections. that is the novelty side of what i am presenting here and i m interested in what you have got to think about. the notion of repeating, using some language, i 6 things together in these stories. let me talk about misremembering, imbalanced sense of history, the urgency that lies in this book, why i want to do it, take t ....
state, how the united states was world that people would hear about and read about and the fact that there seemed to be a lot of episodes that kept happening, whether as lunching or some kind of discrimination taking place in the country. so the idea was, as eisenhower said he slammed the table is inside those are the facts. the commission has been out, there is a tough problem that people don t want to do anything about it. so they get a report on it goes away. but this commission is supposed to put the facts on top of the table and then its future would depend on what i found out, how aggressive it was and what the public thought about what they were doing. said this was initially set up as a temporary commission? just go right it came the year before the little rock crisis. but the ferment going on in the country, it was to defuse part of the christ is an present a better image of the country to the world that if i m the way they could recommend some solutions, tha ....
mary frances berry on booktv on c-span 2. i m sure you re more familiar with malcolm knox. at that time, he was always supposedly the man in favor of violence. that wasn t the issue. he did support the right of armed self-defense, but he didn t promote progressive violence. malcolm x said power against power. we are not going to convince the right segregationists to accept. we have to build our own four saves until they have no choice but to recognize their demands and that s power. and he called this black nationalism. he built a whole ideology about it. that s black pride. it meant economies of black communities, the northern ghetto, so to speak should be run by blacks instead of absentee white owners. he believes community control of schools. so yes, he believes in black autonomy. he s not an integrationist as such and he said it s up to us, it is o ....