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create new deal legislation including social security, unemployment insurance and the minimum wage. the author spoke at the ninth annual book festival which is library of congress hosted on the national mall. this is very interesting and personally meaningful to me because the genesis of my entire book, which is the woman behind the new deal. it s the life of francis perkins i ll explain to you how that happened. and much of the research was done at library of congress which is sponsoring today s events. it s a wonderful institution. the beautiful buildings, there s such important research materials there. and it s all available free. these public access libraries are really one of the things that make our nation great. and i m very grateful to the library of congress for being here and for continuing to give us such wonderful material. now, this is a self-selecting crowd. i know some of you already know who francis perkins is. but a lot of people don t. so let s start by
we have the honor of having with us to start this whole celebration off is dr. jeanne theoharis who asked that question of rosa parks, what was behind that no, that no heard around the world? those little two letters that opened the flood gates of all those divergent streams into that one vast ocean. at the time that no carried with it great risk. risk in terms of gender, trials and race. the question is what is behind that kind of courage? what makes one take those kind of stands? and more importantly, what is the price paid for having done so? the doctor answers some of those questions, and she writes it in her new book, the rebellious life of rosa parks. jeanne theoharis was born in staten island and spent about six weeks there and her family moved to milwaukee, wisconsin, where she was raised. and as professor of political science at brooklyn college and also co-founder for educators for civil liberties. she s author of numerous books on the civil rights movement and cont
Thousands of immigrants in the u. S. May face violence and murder in their home countries. What happens when they are forced to return. We will speak to sarah stillman. Then as dodge ram uses the words of Martin Luther king to sell trucks in a Super Bowl Ad, we will look at the whitewashing of civil rights history. Messageduce dr. Kings to a ploy to sell trucks is appalling. Dr. Kings message in this day and age under the circumstances that exists, given the we are up against as a people and where we look like we may be headed as a nation, is despicable. We will speak to sociologist and civil rights activist Harry Edwards and historian jeanne theoharis, author of the new book, a more beautiful and terrible history the uses and misuses of civil rights history. All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Global markets are tumbling this morning across asia and europe after the u. S. Stock market went into a free fall