Who is here tonight who came from salt lake, utah, his name is devery anderson. He is the author of the book, emmett till the murder that shock the world and propelled the Civil Rights Movement. It is one of the most definitive books on the subject. It took him 21 years from conception to completion to write this book. And i had the privilege to work on this case, emmett tills case, starting in 2002 with emmett tills mother, to work toward the reopening of the case to be reinvestigated and to have the United States congress to pass the emmett till unsolved civil rights crime act. That is now in the works being we authorized again. Congress is working on it right now. We expect in the next several weeks for that to pass. [applause] anderson is an editor at signature books in salt lake, utah, and is currently working on a masters degree in publishing at the George Washington university. He is the editor and coeditor of several books on mormon history. And in 2015, the University Press of
Whose time has come, eyes on the prize, and waking from the dream this is just under an hour. Nowk festival, a discussion about the Civil Rights Movement with dave chapelle, and Juan Williams. Thank you all for coming. And share of the humanities department. I would just like to ask that you would all silence in the cell phones or other Electronic Devices of the panel is not disrupted. I want to start by acknowledging that yesterday was the 46th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther king. Would like to ask if we can all take a brief moment of silence in his honor. Thank you. We have an interesting array of books represented year. They cover a chronology of the Civil Rights Movement. I guess i will introduce them in sort of the order of the periods that they cover. Eyes on the price covers the Civilrights Movement from 1954 to 65 offering closeups of the struggles of many of the people who made up the movement. A contributor to fox news since 1997 and has worked for npr, a W
Back to the kids. Is there a generation of 8 or 9yearolds capable of doing what those kids did then . Particularly, wrarches to the common core, force feed confidence in the generation coming up, are we losing any way of them in the history, the culture that they are going to need to question are deemphasizing citizen in the core curriculum in the United States. You could turn it around and say, if youre in my generation and benefited, i think the breakthrough in birmingham in 19633 opened up doors for equal citizenship for young people doing something for us, we do something for them to restore education and really studying and not approaching young people on the basis of what we may have heard. Some young people are far more liberated and natural in their views and apt kuwaited prejudices, and they are free of them, but some are trapped in them, and they are not educated. We have to encourage the good part and try to rescue our education so that it makes the kind of citizenship examp
His fight is our fight. It was one of those fateful intersections in history that was very important. We are here to say that we are not afraid. One of the reasons why Martin Luther king was so successful was that he understood television. Thank you, doctor. He understood that imagery was everything. People of action. Dr. King understood that you can make people own their shame. The power structures are forced to answer. Right now we want the world to see [ sirens ] hello, sir. How are you . Good. The reason i pulled you over, your brake lights are out. On july 6th, 2016, outside st. Paul, minnesota, officers pulled over 32yearold Philando Castille on a routine traffic stop. Do you have a license and insurance . I have to tell you, i do have a fire firearm on me dont reach for it. Dont pull it out. [ shots ] you just killed my boyfriend we got pulled over for a busted taillight in the back. And the police just hes covered. They killed my boyfriend. Just 40 seconds after the last shot w
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