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Now, on your screen, is a live picture of the Old Supreme Court chamber in the Mississippi State capitol. Booktv is in jackson this weekend, covering the first annual mississippi book festival and well be back in just a couple of minutes with more live coverage. [inaudible conversations] one day late in the 2000s i was looking at this library and i asked myself, how did all this music actually get here . How is this actuaos [inaudible conversations] one day i asked myself how did they get here in the first place . How is this possible . To investigate and found the most astonishing thing. To b...

Commission. We are being recorded live on cspans booktv so if you have not already please silence your cell phones. If you have not purchased the books, the panels have written you will have an opportunity to do that after outside. The authors will also be signing immediately after this panel in the authors attempt. The moderator for todays panel is robbie luckett. Robbie luckett received his ph. D. From the university offr l georgia with a focus on civilve rights history, the native mississippian he returned home to accept the position ofas associate professor ofci histord and director of the...

All the other has professional historians in the state issued a press release that was read on the Capitol Steps endorsing a new flag. Thats my answer. Talk about what senator might do, he was a loyalty to to his ancestor and his heritage, he had his name on the marker he went to gettysburg where they were killed and they told him there some land over there that they would like to buy but it was going to be buffered development. He went back and had the land purchase for the park service, so he was loyal to the college. Given his years in service of the fact that he counted toward the end chan...

Hi everyone i am carolyn greer, the producer of the brooklyn book festival with my colleague ms. Koch. We are in our 12th year this season and so delighted to have all of the fabulous authors participating. This year we had a very special circumstance with this particular program. Which is very important and very compelling on the subject of refugees. We decided to go in a different direction and do it from reporters. Telling from their insight and experiences in the field. And what happened is actually some reporters that we were having come got stuck on current assignment in the field. For i...

Quite wonderful and he cannot be here today. And Oscar Martinez in san salvador is doing an investigative report right now. And as of yesterday could not make it out of the country to be here. We are fortunate though to have a very nuanced and experienced reporter Deborah Campbell, with her book. And we have lauren wolf. We hope that you will enjoy all the programming on cspan booktv live from brooklyn book festival today. Just keep reading. Here, a few more people. I just want to start off by saying first of all good afternoon. Thank you all for coming. I am lauren wolf. I will tell you about...