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Looks at the political battles involved in passing the Civil Rights Act, 50 years ago this summer and regarded as one of the most significant legislative achievements of the moment. Todd burnham spent years at the white house as Diplomatic Correspondent Dan Los Angeles bureau chief, now National Editor of vanity fair. And david ship hells waking from the dream tracks the history of the Movement Since the death of dr. King. David chappell is professor of modern American History, taught in arkansa...

Now from the Annapolis Book festival, a discussion about the Civil Rights Movement with dave chapelle, and Juan Williams. Thank you all for coming to our panel and the Civil Rights Movement. Im the chair of the Humanities Department here in at the school. I would like to ask you all sign out of any cell phones are and Electronic Devices of the panel isnt disrupted. I would like to start by acknowledging yesterday was the 46th anniversary of the estimation of Martin Luther king. If we could all j...

It ahn mccain and i called coup because thats exactly what it is. Gwen and new disclosures about ofernment surveillance american citizens. I think that the trust of the American People in their at staket is whats here. Gwen a trio of late summer dilemmas, plus 50 year later, we look back at the march may have changed america. Gjelten the week, tom of npr, Alexis Simendinger of real clear politics and Michael Fletcher of the washington post. Awardwinning reporting and analysis, covering history a...

It ahn mccain and i called coup because thats exactly what it is. Gwen and new disclosures about ofernment surveillance american citizens. I think that the trust of the American People in their at staket is whats here. Gwen a trio of late summer dilemmas, plus 50 year later, we look back at the march may have changed america. Gjelten the week, tom of npr, Alexis Simendinger of real clear politics and Michael Fletcher of the washington post. Awardwinning reporting and analysis, covering history a...

Host Walt Mossberg, has technology plateaued . Guest oh, no, absolutely not. Absolutely not. Technology is always changing and always coming up with Technology Companies are always coming up with something new, and there are new Technology Companies all the time incubating, a lot of them are in what we call stealth mode. We dont even know who they are. Certain technologies plateau and things move on, but in general, no. Not at all. Host i guess i ask that because the last couple years weve had t...

Could have gotten all the civil rights leaders into one room to agree on common action. >> so the march stand headed by byron rustin had two months approximately to organize the march. >> we moved up to 130th street to what was then a failing ramshackle building. it was not elegant, to say the least. >> we were three floors -- it could have been four in a beg hollowed brown stone. lots of rooms. >> the office was one of the most exciting places ive ever worked. people were coming. people were go...

Welcome back. we are continuing our conversation on amendment one in north carolina and the wedge between the black and the gay communities and joining me are aisha moody mills, and jennifer kresler of the american quality council and reverend ray barber from the american could sill of the naacp, and you guys were giving it to me good in the break. dont leave it all here in the ad space, because there are deep interconnections between the idea of a wedge which is historically silly. i want to re...

laden. president obama commemorated that day with a trip to afghanistan where the war on terror began and while there he signed a ten-year agreement with afghan president karzai while we will draw down the troops and bring them home. >> our troops here in afghanistan launched the trip that killed osawma bin laden, ad the chance to defeat al qaeda is now within our reach. >> so with one speech, he is able to take responsible for killing the head of the global terrorism, and vow to commi...