Barack obama talks about the daytoday workings of the presidency including history making about what he witnessed exploring the american story watch American History tv saturday o cspan2 and fd a full schedule under Program Guide or watch online anytime at cspan. Org history. Lynn hudson is a professor of history and affiliate faculty member of black Student University of illinois at chicago Peer Research focus the study of race and gender on the u. S. West. Shes the author of a black entrepreneur who in 19th century San Francisco which was awarded the prize from the western association of womennt historians. She was a fellow at the huntington library. Her new book is west of jim crow the fight against californias color line which covers a history of discrimination White Supremacy in california. You for being with us peer ongoing handed over to you and i will see you again for q a with the audience at the end. Thank you so much. I am just so happy to be here. Let me just get this going
Occupants were transported to the hospital for observation and nonlife threatening injuries. Mother story part happening now. Bart has shut down transbay tube service between San Francisco and the weekend. The closure is necessary for track maintenance, repairs and upgrades. Kron fours Jackie Sissel is live at the transbay terminal in jackie . Reporter normally people beginning on people beating embark but the beginning on three buses see it from one sunday to the other. Talk of the work got off the phone and spokesperson for bart got an update about the work and how its brick pressings of our video from and said the transmittal lesson at Midnight Mission down and start it worked at about a hundred people inside the tunnel were ignorant clock to get the work done as you talked about. They are going to do some track replacement some maintenance inside and because of that that the shutdown the tunnel altogether he says right now they are on schedule and everything is progressing without
Good evening and it is great to have you with us on this busy wednesday night. We begin with the breaking news here. President obama and his message to america, just a short time from now. Laying out his plan to take down isis, the brutal killers who executed those two american journalists, james foley and steven solt lof. Tonight, three weex after the first of those grisly videos surfaced, the killers still on the loose. At this hour, president obama facing a defining moment. Our team getting a first look at what hell say to the american people. Just 14 dames ago, he say, we dont have a strategy yet about isis in syria. So many asking, do we have one now and what will it mean for u. S. Troops . We have Team Coverage tonight. George stephanopoulos standing by an our entire team. We begin with Jonathan Karl tonight. Jon, good evening. Reporter good evening, david. After weeks of muddled and contradictory statements, the president will say tonight that he has a clear and comprehensive st
Now on booktv from the 13th annual National Book festival on the National Mall in washington, d. C. , Harvard University law professor kenneth mack presents his book representing the race the creation of the civil rightsr lawyer. Kennet thank you. Thank you to the library of congress for inviting me. And thank you to all of you for coming. What i would like to do today is talk a little bit about the bitt book, lived about how i came to little bit write it and ill be just ae to little bit also. And then we will tak e questions. Will take questions. So the book, the book is a biographical account of men and women to change america, men and women who helped transform america from a country that denied basic Citizenship Rights to a portion of its citizens based on race to the country we know today that embraces racial equality as one of its core principles. Is a collective biography of africanamericans who practiced law during the era of jim crow. Lawyers like Thurgood Marshall and lesser
Mack presents his book, representing threpresenting te creation of the civil rights lawyer. Well, thank you. Thank you to the library of congress for inviting me, and thank you to all of you for coming. What i would like to do today is talk little bit about the book, a little bit about how i came to write it, and ill read just a little but also and then we will take questions. So the book. The book is a biographical account of men and women who changed america. Men and women who helped transform america from a country that denied basic Citizenship Rights to a portion of its citizens based on race to the country that we know today that embraces racial equality as one of its core principles. Its a collective biography of a group of africanamerican civil rights lawyers who practice law during the era of jim crow. Lawyers like Thurgood Marshall and a number of lesserknown figures like los angeles lawyer laura miller, polly murray who has spent some of her career here in washington, d. C. ,