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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Constitution Center. I am the president of this institution and this is such a happy day to celebrate the collaboration between the National Constitution center and cspan. [applause] cspan has a mission to bring unfiltered information about the u. S. Government to american citizens and that coincides with the Constitution Centers mission which i want you to reside along with me to inspire our guests and viewers. The National Constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution o...

Politically, militarily. Country, ourhis views on gender and racial equality are shaped by the experiences in world war ii. There were black americans, hundreds of thousands of them, who served in the war mostly in allblack units. It was a segregated military. Many of them had a double v campaign. Victory against fascist opponents overseas and victory against racism at home. And the dignity, the empowerment, the sense of service, the sense of cohesion that that experience brought to black america was a propulsion system for the Civil Rights Movement after the war. The same for gender equality....

Always free and open to the public. You come here and you buy your look and you buy your stock and greeting cards and we really appreciate it. Our guests will be speaking tonight. The event will be recorded icy spam, sell an extra special reminder to silence your cell phones. After our guest is done speaking about the book there will be an opportunity to ask questions and people have mics available so that your questions can be picked up as well. If you would like to stick around afterwards and get a book signed we can accommodate that. We just ask that you first purchased the book downstairs....

Welcome to the Constitution Center. Tos is such a happy day celebrate the collaboration between the National Constitution center and cspan. [applause] nonpartisans a mission and that coincides with the Constitution Centers mission. The National Constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. That was so well done. I was so thrilled when my friend and colleague susan swain, the head of cspan, came just a few months ago, or rather weeks ago, and said, we have this great new boo...

Susan early on your latest book is an epic journey from slave to freedom. What makes their story particularly compelling to you. Ilyon woo i cant even begin to say what does not make it compelling for me i am obsessed with the story and have been for a really long time. I think what originally drew me to it was the phenomenal adventure story and their narrative, running 1000 miles to freedom which they published in 1860. It talks about this incredible escape they make. They are husband and wife enslaved in makem george at jaya georgia and they decide they are going to for freedom not with any ...