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Comcast supports cspan is a Public Service along with these other Television Providers giving you a frontrow seat to democracy. Good morning. Im a reporter with National Public radio. Such an honor to be the National Book festival and we do these distinguished authors. Within the next hour almost which is just notot enough time learning about two of the most unsung female heroines at the Civil Rights Movement, two women who in many, many ways could that have been more different. One was establishment. One was grassroots. One was upwardly mobile, kobe well educated and the other one came from a background filled with such deprivation that describe it that seems almost a greater one was an obvious leader one was an unlikely and late in life luminary. Both of them change the course of history and neither one of them has been given their due. Hopefully these biographies thao were going to be discussing will help change that tomiko brownnagin is a dean at the harvard, at harvard university.