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Blueprint, we navigated pretty well, it is a remarkable story. I can almost say that except when Abraham Lincoln died, we were supposed to get Abraham Lincolns vision of reconstruction but instead the bullet of john wilkes move gives us johnson was a man born racist, died a racist, the last president to own slaves, a man who didnt anticipate his own slaves until 7 months after the emancipation proclamation, a man who has president ended up resurrecting every moment of the confederacy paving way for the jim crow laws which gave us segregation. If i look at the story of civil rights and postcivil war america it can be described as a story of two president ial assassinations beginning with Abraham Lincoln and ending with james garfield. When i set out to write the chapter about Andrew Johnson you think what can i write that great scholars havent written about this sort of seminal moment in history and i decided to vindicate the one stanley cans record which is putting Andrew Johnson a hea
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Enjoy booktv now and over the weekend on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] all right. Good evening ladies and tillman. My name is jasmyne post. Im a scholar here at university of louisville and its an honor to welcome you to our Mcconnell Center event. In celebration of Constitution Day we thank you for joining us for debate on did america have christian founding . Its my pleasure to introduce aa moderator for this the next debate. Olde providence 24th dean or the Brandeis School law at the university of louisville. Prior to becoming too brandeis Dean Crawford said at the robert professor of environment the tw at Tulane University law school in new orleans. Before killing he was a tenured member of the faculty at Georgia State University College of law in atlanta where he found and codirected the center for comparative study of metropolitan growth which has developed new models for fieldbased fuelbased education and comparative and environmental landuse law. Dean crawford is a lot of t
Hes also author of prelude to cruise which is winner of the penn joyce author award for poetry and at the 2015 stonewall literature award. Poetry collection is also a finalist for the 2015 National Book critics circle award as well as awards lambda literary and the publishing triangle in 2015. Saeed jones served as cohost of buzzfeeds morning show and served as buzzfeeds lgbt and culture editor. He grew up in lewisville texas and earned a ba at Western Kentucky University and an mfa at Rutgers University in newark. He lives in new york city and tweets at the ferocity. Thank you for being here saeed jones. As a side note, the southern festival of books remains completely free because of Strong Community support and we want to keep it that way. So you can donate on the web. Humanities tennessee. Org or by the southern festival of books or by the collection plate thats been passed around. Saeed is going to read for us. We will have a q a and when we get to the q and aplease use the microp