I will try to integrate your questions as much as possible. Mab segrest is a professor at Connecticut College and a longterm activist and social justice movements. She is author of memoir of a race traitor. An addition of that book came out in 2019. She is also an author of other books. I am delighted to be here. You spent more than a decade writing this book. What is it that first grabbed you and held so long. Alabama and ind love southern literature growing up in the south in the 1950s and the apartheid culture, a little white girl in a segregated family. Dontalways looking for i understand this and i turned to writers. I didnt know what milledgeville was. I knew that i had been threatened to be dragged off to in the 1950s and 1960s when i was at my most interesting and curious. From my aunt out may, the deep dark secret which was that my greatgrandfather, a confederate veteran, died in a hospital in alabama in 1901. He was committed by a family because he thought he saw people shoot
Career, and a look at the American Indian Museum Photography collection. In 1939, newlyreleased color film to photographers working for the u. S. Government. American history tv visited the library of congress to meet curator Beverley Brennan and not about the collection of images documenting the Great Depression and world war ii. In 19 thirties, the United States experienced an economic depression and an agricultural disaster. It was a great drought. People were not able to make a living on their farms, they began moving other places looking for a new lands to live on. People who are in dire straits, one of the worsthit areas in the economy was agriculture. The Program Began under top well, who was one of the advisers to president Franklin Roosevelt to document the conditions under which people were living. This was back when we did not have television. We had radio but a lot of places did not have electricity, so they could not listen to the Radio Broadcasts to find out what was goin
Gentleman from texas, mr. Castro. Mr. Castro madam chair, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and tend their remarks the speaker pro tempore without objection, so ordered. Mr. Castro i yammings. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman virginia tech. Mr. Castro i rise in support of the uighur forced labor prevention act. The human rights atrocities, the Chinese Government is perpetuating are now wellknown. More than a million uighurs and muslims, ethnic north have been thrown into detention camps where they face torture, brainwashing, sexual abuse, and even forced sterilization. These atrocities are horrific, and the congress has acted to hold perpetrators of these crimes accountable by passing the uighur human rights policy act. We must not stop there. The legislation we are considering today focuses on a specific form of abuse. Forced labor, an abuse of human rights, which also has grave implications for supply chains and consumers worldwide
It was 1972, to a plot 30 in the morning when George Mcgovern delivered his acceptance speech. A few months later, he would lose badly to president Richard Nixon. Tonight, the candidacy and legacy of George Mcgovern. We are live from the mcgovern museum in mitchell, south dakota. Joining us is provincial author scott farris. It was 2 30 when he delivered the acceptance speech in miami. Why . It was emblematic of the whole Mcgovern Campaign, which was it was an insurgent campaign run against the establishment. What happened was, as you heard from senator mcgovern, he was very strong on the issue of vietnam. One of the things about senator government senator mcgovern as one of the most influential who ran for the presidency who was not successful, he went after the vietnam issue. He spoke about that war in ways no patinkin that had ever spoken about war before. No president president ial candidate had ever spoken about war before. It was Strong Language that unsettled lots of americans a
The Atlanta History Center hosted the discussion and provided the video. Ms. Prescott hello, and welcome to the First Virtual author talk series. I am virginia prescott host for , these talks. Tonight i am talking with mab rest about her new book. You can purchase the book directly from a couple of books at the link provided at the Atlanta History Centers website. There is also a link to the right of your screen on the chat and there is desk that is also where you can ask westerns. Please submit your questions that i will try to integrate them as quickly as possible. Mab segrest is a Professor Emeritus of gender and womens studies at connecticut college, and a longterm activist and social justice moment activist in social justice movements. She is author of memoir of a race traitor. She is also the author of my mom scleral. Uar she is also an author of other books. Welcome. Mab i am delighted to be here. Ms. Prescott so, you spent more than a decade writing this book. What is it that f