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Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our distinguished guest for todays commemoration program. Nancy ruso. Michael moor r, superintendent of the Little Rock School district. The director of hutchins senter for African American research at harvard university. The honorable mark, mayor of the city of little rock. Cameron shawly midwest regional director, National Park service. The honorable asa hutchinson, governor of arkansas. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the 42nd president of the United States, William Jefferson clinton. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, please give a special welcome ...

Race and media and i interviewed to rosie virginia native, you worked in investment banking. That was my first job. Also exa magazine in mexico. You started working on Hidden Figures in 2010. And became a New York Times number one bestseller. Spawned a movie that was oscarnominated, Margot Lee Shetterly everyone. [applause] so, i heard that you gave an amazing speech last night we talked a little bit about charlottesville and race. Keep give us a taste of what you talked about there and how it compares to what you talk about in the book . Yeah. The thing that we talked a little bit about what ...

May have your attention please . Before i get started itll be most likely question answer at the end of the presentation. You can go to a microphone at anys side of the stage. I like to introduce eric who is a tv critic for npr. [applause] how are you doing . Thanks for joining us here. As we said my name is eric and im the tv critic so i should be talking to an author. Ive written a lot about race and media and i interviewed hansen. So we have little in common here. Our guest, the daughter of a nasa scientist an english professor. A virginia native you worked in Investment Banking . That was ...

Instagram booktv is our handle. Were kicking off today with an author discussion on Eleanor Roosevelt with emily wilson and National Book Award Finalist Patricia Bell scott. This is booktv on cspan2. Its live coverage of the southern festival of books. [inaudible conversations]. Since this session is being taped live, if you please use the microphone if we have time for questions at the end of the session, the microphone is over there, we will need the to end the session at 12 50. After that we will head to the book and author signing area where you will have an opportunity to meet the authors...

For a complete schedule a visit booktv. Org or follow along on our social media sites. We are on facebook, twitter and instagram booktv is our handle. Were kicking off today with an author discussion on Eleanor Roosevelt with emily wilson and National Book Award Finalist Patricia Bell scott. This is booktv on cspan2. Its live coverage of the southern festival of books. [inaudible conversations]. Since this session is being taped live, if you please use the microphone if we have time for questions at the end of the session, the microphone is over there, we will need the to end the session at 12...