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Washington and i just got in about an hour ago. We were on the tarmac. And then thats when i realized one of the things i dont miss about in congress is sitting on the tarmac at Reagan National airport waiting to get here or sitting on the tarmac at laguardia to go there. Welcome to theodores books. Its wonderful to have you all. Many of you know that i did leave the United States house of representatives after six years and very rare form i left undefeated and unindicted, which is a triumph the...

Power starts right now. Enjoy that. static Static Continues Car Engine Humming intense wind its such a such a sort of, satisfying thing, i guess, to be in power. And they usually, the great persons usually told you to do. If you looked around, they werent there when the showdown came. Whistle Blowing [officer] go home or go to your church, this march will not continue. [ella] what i do, [officer] see that they disperse. [ella] is supposed to speak louder than what i say. Marching Footfalls siren...

Opening the building, why would the museum even help to organize such a conference . Well, the simple answer is that were crazy. But the real answer is that at the smithsonian, at this museum, scholarship is the engine and research is the lifeblood of the institution. Without the decade of research and academic scholarship as a foundation, there would be no National Museum of African American history and culture. So we know that we are tied so much to the work that so many of you do. So much of ...

Take this to the country and run on this and litigate this. We want to defend it so that if and when we win, we can do it. [ applause ] guess what . Guess what . Hillary clinton isnt going to do one of these things. Not going to do a darn thing. Shes against all of these things, these principles we believe in. This is a binary choice. It is either donald trump or Hillary Clinton. If youre not for donald trump and not voting and not showing up, youre helping Hillary Clinton. [ applause ] pretty m...

This is how we tell the history, but my goal is to silence less and less people and thats what i would hope were doing in history. Which is not necessarily creating im not trying to create a new narrative. Im not trying to say if we do that now, well come to another narrative that were all going to agree on. I guess what i hope for the museum is that there is a lot of things that we have been silent about that show up in the museum in some kind of in some kind of way and now spaces for people to...

Field of africanamerican history and culture has expanded and morphed so many times. As such, theres so many issues, so many topics, so many themes that it was impossible to do everything in this conference. And theres so many gifted scholars whose voices should be heard but cant for this particular conference. It says, i think, so much about the vibrancy, the importance, the expansive nature of the field of africanamerican history, that no single conference can hold it all. But we are so excite...

Power and the meredith march against fear. And at the university of memphis for fester tells the story of James Meredith the first africanamerican admitted to the university of mississippi who was shot upon his return to the state to promote Voter Registration. The ensuing civil rights battle rock the black Power Movement to the forefront. The program is about an hour. Host what a pleasure to be with you today to talk about your book. You know i looked at its cover and i was immediately intrigue...

I emphasized words there were also failures that they learned from and i think they see those broader issues as part of what you are referring to. The martian watching 10 in 1963 was for jobs and they were intimately linked. The night he proposed the bill john kennedy cited a series of sobering statistics about the differential prospects of a blackandwhite way be born in the same day in the same city and questions like Life Expectancy health the situation is better today. On questions like lifet...

Heavily armed local police. Lewis suffered a fractured skull. It would forever be remembered as bloody sunday. The images of brutality shocked the nation. Galvanizing support for the Voting Rights act, signed into law by president Lyndon Johnson. Lewis never lost his young, activist spirit. Taking it from protest to politics. Standing up for what he believed was right, lewis was arrested more than 40 times by police, according to his congressional office. Im on my way, and we are going to win th...

- [wendell] you began to see a change in local government that no one living had ever experienced before. - [speaker] john hulett, sheriff lowndes county, lord have mercy. (laughter) power. - [john hulett] truly, i felt one day it would happen, but i never thought in terms of running for sheriff, i just hope it continues. - [stokely] its good to be home again. its been quite some time. we came into lowndes county, werent too many people wanted to come into lowndes county. we came into lowndes co...