Long island, and all of his papers and stuff is there. Not many people had looked at it at all, so i really was the first guy to get in there, and it was a gold mind of information about him. Host professor steven watts and author of this, among other books, selfhelp messiah about dale carnegie. Thanks for being on booktv. Guest pleasure talking with you. Booktv is on twitter. Follow us to get publishing news, scheduling updates, author information and to talk directly with authors during our live programs. Twitter. Com booktv. [inaudible conversations] oh, thats much better. Good evening, everyone. And what a great crowd. Thank you all so much for coming out tonight. Im lissa muscatine, one of the coowners of politics prose bookstore, and we are really delighted to be here at 14th and v and sponsoring this event. I dont know how many of you realize we also have a book operation here in the store as well as the busboys and poets at brookland and tacoma. About a year ago, the own or app
Up next on booktv after words with guest host Michael Meyers executive director of the new york civil rights coalition. This week jason sokol in his latest book all eyes are upon us. In that the historian argues that while the northeast enjoyed a reputation as a bastion for racial equality in reality blacks were relegated to living in ghettos and working menial jobs until Northern Leaders challenged citizens to practice what they were preaching. This program contains language that some may find offensive. Host jason its very difficult to decide where to begin with your book. We are going to make a teaser to the audience. We are going to get to the conflict in a clash between at brooks and joe biden. Thats a teaser. Lets begin where you you began and that is with some history. This is a history book but the precipice to brown v. Board of education and the springfield locale. Guest right. Well the sense of history, i do have an argument they are about the way that northern history operat
Where southerners have all around them the trappings of slavery and segregation and something to unload, a burden to unload. Worse people in the north, particularly white northerners dont think of their round paths are their own heritage in that way. In fact, they think of it as something to about two, something to aspire to. That is what i mean about the sense of history at the beginning and the first story that i start out with as you said is about springfield, massachusetts. That city is a small city in massachusetts about 150,000. In 1939, just as world war ii was starting, the later said that city and School Superintendents pioneer plan they said would abolish prejudice and abolish racism. From the School System and from the city of large. So they adopted the curriculum and these principles with the highminded goal of eradicating from young peoples minds racism. He came upon it on their own or did something push them to a . Well, they drew upon curriculum being developed by a bunc