Century. They discuss in detail the work of longtime district president s rosa parks and congressman john conyers. This event was part of the association for the study of African American life and historys annual conference. They also provided the video. We have three panelists today. I think i have this order right. Doctor danielle mcguire, is a great friend from grad school and colleagues. She is a author and historian and independent scholar now. Shes the author of the path of breaking and deeply influential book, at the dark end of the street. We also have, ive lost track of whos gone, i think its kalonji whos going next. Doctor kalonji walton who is the director of global black studies at western carolina. Our third panelist is doctor David Goldberg, who isnt associated associate professor at wayne state university. The term comment or today is jamon jordan, who is the ditch the president of the detroit chapter of a sala. He is a tour leader and historian of all things African Ame
Kalangi walton. Panelist isrent dr. David goldberg who is associate professor at Wayne State University. Who is the detroit president president of the detroit chapter and tour leader and historian of all things africanamerican detroit. Communityincredible scholar out of detroit. A wonderful set of folks who will help us think about think about politics in detroit and michigan. I am going to throw it over to the panel. Thank you for being here. Thank you. Chair. E i have a couple of remarks really quick. I want to thank everybody for detroitnd hearing about politics in particular is radical. I think my panelists for being here. About theking the20th century up until beginning of the 21st century there is a span of influence of rosa parks, john conyers, and mayor Coleman Young. The radical black politics began in the 1800s. A couple of things that happened that really sets the stage for detroit being this hotbed of radical black politics is the uprising in 1833. 400 black people lead an
The conservative movement on the other, so this is a natural kind of looking at that area. Natural kind of outgrowth of her previous work looking at that area. Heather has watched maybe not watched every single one of 33 years of firing line episodes but pretty close. She is probably the reigning expert now on all things related to firing line. Please help me welcome Heather Hendershot to the podium. [applause] she is probably the reigning sother hendershot thanks much. It is really great to be here, particularly here at the Hoover Institution because hoover was so important to the research i did on the book. I was out at stanford where all the papers are, and the preserved all the episodes in the papers and transcripts, i really could not have done it without the Hoover Institution, so it is great to be here. The first thing that people ask me about this book is why did you write it . The short, quick answer in part is this guy. Book been working on the since 2011, and about a year an
Selfdetermination. Host author herb boyd with us on this Independence Day weekend. Professor boyd, what is july 4 me deal . Guest it means the same thing what it meant to Frederick Douglass, you know. While you can have the general celebration and everything, we have a different perspective from the africanamerican community. This was a long history to understand exactly the distinction in terms of the celebration for one community and the kind of lack of observers on the other part of the community. What does it mean to people who history of segregation. You have to understand the kind of sensitivity that might be distinct from one community to another. Obviously we Start Talking about this history of this country and the role of africanamericans in terms of providing that celebration, that is a whole another question because we have been in the forefront of the socalled battle for freedom and justice and liberty in this country from day one. From day one going back to the socalled bo