It slowly began to sink can that there is something. That working in conjunction with this rising popularity of all things southern about the same time is going to make kentucky look appealing and another reason that the balance south was having a resurgence of popularity about this time in the late 1890s early 19 hundreds is because the daughters of confederate veterans are going all over the south and building memorials to the confederates. We got one in lexington. This is what started the entire research for me. I wondered whyi wondered why we can have a guy a horse in front of an old courthouse confederate guy who actually was courtmartialed always waiting for courtmartialed to take place when someone often because he lost control of his men. His own army is going to courtmartialed and. Now he is made into a hero in lexington. He was raised here. He is on this horse and still is downtown. Why could this happen when we were union state . We were not neutral, as they taught generatio
In terms of her powers and making an observation he couldnt have chosen a better friend of the 20th century. Maybe one of the 20th now. Big sur conversation. This has been terrific. I am looking forward to the boat. Im looking forward to going back and look unite viewers to see if the reallife ties between her life. Guest good thank you so much. Host and booktv will want to introduce you to northwestern Professor John marquez come assistant professor of africanamerican studies and the author of this vote, blackbrown solidarity racial politics in the new gulf south. Professor marquez before we get started on the specifics, what is your goal . What are you to accomplish . Guest i think there were a series of holes that i try to accomplish. The book begins my interest in the book begins around 2002. There is an incident of Police Brutality in my hometown, which is a bluecollar suburb in the houston metropolitan area. The 45yearold mexican immigrant was beaten and choked to death by four w
A fantastic book and i enjoyed it thoroughly. Its a pageturner a thrilling adventure permanently accessible. Congratulations on it. Guest thank you, coming from you that is praise indeed. Host talk about the subtitle of your book if i may quote henry folgers obsessive hunt for shakespeares first folio but i think it might be helpful originally to talk about those two men in the context of their times. Of course if i made they were two men look alike in dignity quoting from shakespeare and yet separated by 400 years and the Atlantic Ocean very different that but they share one thing, a passion for in one case writing and the other collecting but put them in the context of their lives if you would please. Guest sure. Shakespeare was writing around the 1600s. His life was 20 years before, 20 years after the 1600. During the rain of elizabeth and james the first. He was a wellknown playwright poet. He wrote sonnets and he was also a businessman. Here is a shareholder in the globes Theater
Guest there was a series of goals that i tried to accomplish. The book begins my interest begins around 2002 there was an incident of Police Brutality in my home town. A 45 yearold mexican immigrant was beaten and choked to death by four White Police Officers it was caught on videotape. The grand jury was convened to decide whether or not charges would be pressed and then they decided not to the video tape revealed it was of a clear act of Police Oppression the medical examiners report that was released also ruled the death a homicide by a asphyxiation am blunt impact trauma. As a result of the ruling by the grand jury coming an activist awakening inspired in my home community. I was interested for a variety of reasons but it was the first monumental time that people of color specifically africanamerican and latino people organize themselves to protest against the judicial system and police. Second, it involved a coalition of africanamericans spearheaded largely by African American lea
Senator Lindsey Graham telling cnn if theres something there that the fbi believes is criminal in nature, then for sure you need a special prosecutor. If that day ever comes, ill be the first one to say it needs to be somebody other than jeff. Reporter some democrats taking it even further. House minority leader nancy pelosi, Elijah Cummings and senator Elizabeth Warren all calling for sessions to resign. The white house are calling these new reports just the latest in partisan attack. Snapchat set to make its market debut this morning and few will be watching more carefully than the school in mountain view. It stands to make millions today. Abc7 News Reporter matt keller live for us at st. Francis high school. Reporter good morning, reggie and natasha. Here at st. Francis you learn reading, writing, arithmetic and apparently stock picking. They have a really nice campus here. Theyre going to make a lot of money on snop chat. St. Francis endowment fun was in on one of the earliest inve