Interview with Joan Trumpauer mulholland. She recalls taking part in the 1961 freedom rides, attending tougaloo college, and serving at the Mississippi State penitentiary with other activists. This interview is part of a project on the Civil Rights Movement initiated by congress in 2009, conducted by the Smithsonian National museum of africanAmerican History and culture, the american full like american folklife center. Joan i was born in washington, d. C. And raised in arlington, virginia, basically a mile down the road in apartments, which at that point was the only place in Northern Virginia that would rent to jews. This was the early 1940s, folks had come from new york, looking for government jobs. They wanted out of the boarding houses and they can move to buckingham and that was about it. What did your dad do . Joan they had those government jobs. My father came from southwest iowa, during the depression. My folks met at the midnight shift at the post Office Building in the elevat
Facebook. Com booktv. My forthcoming book is called r freedom now, and i have an edited volume, black women respond to michelle obama. I want to welcome everybody on behalf of the links, wonderful organization here in charlottesville, virginia, as well as the Virginia Foundation for the humanities and the producers of the virginia festival of the book. Please turn off all your cell phones, okay . I will just tell you the festival is free of charge, not free of cost. So please remember to go online and give back or pick be up a giving envelope from the information desk at the omni hotel and support your festival so we may sustain it for many, many years. Please till out the evaluations, these provide useful information that helps the festival continue to be free and open to the public. Following the talk there will be a book sale so, please, support our fabulous authors by buying tear books, okay their books, okay . And the program today is called africanamerican stories of work, change
And also very good about corruption. They went to get installed of big guns. That this is where were going is what fascinates me. Gaul other than the revelation i thank you had a lot of fun writing the book. Then you think now what am i going to do . But i really felt it was fun. Yes. Is there a movie deal . We are working on it. [applause] i will not say anything until it happens. Thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] here is in the house we have the book for sale on the counter. That was a wonderful presentation. Give her another hand. [applause] [inaudible conversations] host joining us now on booktv, what do you write about . The latest book is called the eyes on target about the navy seals but it is different about the culture culture, what makes them different and unique. They spend millions of dollars to discover how when a navy seal is made what makes some people make it through basic training and 70 fail their luck at demographics and family background and
Quote, and expressed no position on a different deranged spiri Conspiracy Theory that hes been spreading about whether the bin laden raid was staged. President trump also claimed the nation is rounding a corner when it comes to the pandemic. To be clear, according to Health Officials, the u. S. Is not rounding any corner. In fact, the trajectory is not around at all, its up. The United States confirmed 218,000 cases of coronavirus. Thats the highest in the world, and the u. S. Topped 60,000 new cases with states having their highest amount ever. President trump will have two rally events in florida, tomorrow in georgia. Were going to Jeremy Diamond who is in florida with President Trump. Jeremy . Reporter jake, to arrive at this trump rally is really to answer an alternate universe of sorts. You have thousands of people here. The same amount of crowds that you would see for the president back in the 2016 campaign here in the state of florida. What is so remarkable, jake, is that of cou
Socially distanced philadelphia drivein rally. He hasnt shown any interest in doing the work or helping anybody but himself and his friends or treating the presidency like a reality show that he can use to get attention. Even then, his tv ratings are down. So you know that upsets him. I get that this president wants full credit for the economy he inherited, and zero blame for the pandemic that he ignored. Tweeting at the television doesnt fix things. Making stuff up doesnt make peoples lives better. Donald trump isnt suddenly going to protect all of us. He cant even take the basic steps to protect himself. And just now, President Trump has released his copy of his entire 60 minutes interview with lesley stahl which the white house recorded, three days after the interview took place. Well have more on that later in the show. Nbc White House Correspondent Peter Alexander and nbcs mike memoli covering the Biden Campaign. Peter, to you, the president now releasing his copy of 60 minutes, i