Quite often and many of our most greatest decisions are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets go to a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually, what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who help stick together because they believed in a rule of law. Cspan and the National Constitution center. Welcome you to the land more cases. Our 12 part history series. Exploring the people and the stories behind some of the Supreme Courts most famous dissidents. Tonight, we will be learning more about the dred scott case of 1857. Let me introduce you to our two guests to tell us about the history and impact of this case. Chris bracey is at George Washington University Law school professor. He is also the coeditor of a book called the dreads caught case and contemporary perspectives. Welcome. Martha jones is at the university of michigan. She is a history professor there and also the chair of afro american and codirector of the race line his
Exhibit, descendants of slaves, in alabama may be close and i am giving you a synopsis of a synopsis, ultimately the first lady, at the end of the tour, these black women, five black women who i do not believe were republicans, they were so happy, they embraced the first lady in a huddle, thank you jesus and started to climb and a descendant of a slave, fifth generation removed from a slave. Mayor are a lot of human stories people can relate to in this book and it is about you and me, not just black but white and all of us coming together. People go to booktv and type in april ryan, they will see this big panel, an author panel, what was that . Panel discussion on race. He talked about criminal justice. Wheat had julie reid, an author as well. And we had michael eric dyson, author himself. I was a moderator. We had a serious discussion, serious civil discussion on issues of race, and my authors have written about it and researched it. We had a panel discussion, people from all walks of
Chance to get up close view of the presidency of the United States. What is the blackandwhite . The black and white is cyclical and continues to happen. The placement of africans in the country. Theres a problem with race in this country and has yet to be fixed. We saw major legislation, major laws, there is an intrinsic problem that should be fixed. Today we are seeing tensions between the black community and police, not saying we dont enforce law enforcement, wholeheartedly, but they have to be winning out of that. A lot of the problems, settled, some of it is over. I talked to president obama recently on a flight, he is here to close the gap, gaps still remain in this nation, there are still gaps. This is an issue that is not going away. Other countries are watching us. If someone picks up the presidency in black and white will they hear stories something you want to share . When the person picks of the presidency black and white, three president s in america, does get very confused
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