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[applause] good morning. Im from the school of law and pleased to welcome you to the seventh annual u. C. I. Law Supreme Court determined review event. Our first event was held in the closet. So were expanding. This event brings together the law school, the university, and the larger and broader Orange County community to talk about one of the most important but most publicly neglected institutions, the United States Supreme Court. We have a unusually bright group of scholars to talk about the changes to come in the terms ahead. I ore turning to the program want to thank the organizations that...

[applause] good morning. Im from the school of law and pleased to welcome you to the seventh annual u. C. I. Law Supreme Court determined review event. Our first event was held in the closet. So were expanding. This event brings together the law school, the university, and the larger and broader Orange County community to talk about one of the most important but most publicly neglected institutions, the United States Supreme Court. We have a unusually bright group of scholars to talk about the changes to come in the terms ahead. I ore turning to the program want to thank the organizations that...

Chucky taylor so it is difficult wanted to part because of the atrocities he committed in the library when it was essentially a lawless war zone but because it seems to bizarre that a teenager from suburban florida could wind up there. Johnny dwyer spent five years researching it is in close contact with chucky, ism and the american officials who were ultimate brought about his conviction. He demonstrates his skill as a reporter when he put chuckys store in the context many readers would find invaluable. The nations of library and the u. S. A. Have a long and complicated relationship with one ...

Historians talks about what life was like for freedmen after the civil war and the overall successes and failures of reconstruction. They discussed Educational Opportunities, land redistribution, and Voting Rights as well as the politics behind these reconstruction measures. This panel was part of the annual lincoln forums symposium. It is about an hour in 15 minutes. The title of this panel may be a little deceiving. If i can read it here. [laughter] Voting Rights for black freedmen. What went right and what wrong. It seems to be couched in the terms of Voting Rights. It is really about recon...

I think you all know that and get it because what undermines the whole progressive effort to reconstruction is the lack of Voting Rights for those freed men and women. We will expand this beyond voting. We just could not get there is a nation with the 13th amendment, with the Civil Rights Act of 1866. It did not give Voting Rights to the africanamericans. And neither did the 14th amendment with its equal protection and due process. It took the 15th amendment. And of course that is not work either because of every effort by some to deny africanamericans this great franchise of voting. Why do yo...