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Was not a place for the faint hearted to brave integration it was a little first grade girl who did it she got great grades she was great in school. she went on to be a ph.d. historian. she wrote the hemmings of monticello for which she won the pulitzer prize in history. she's a university professor at harvard. when you hear someone say a university professor, that is a big deal she is a pulitzer prize winner she is a texan and she is the author most recently of the book "on juneteenth." joining us now, annett gordon reed i'm really grateful you were able to join us tonight. >> thank you for i...

Gordon reed elementary school in texas. she is a texan and the author most recently on the book "on juneteenth." joining us now is annette gordon reed. i'm really grateful you're able to join us tonight. thank you so much. >> thank you for inviting me. i'm glad to be here. >> let me ask you first, i feel like you've done so much in your scholarship and in your writing to explain and sort of paint a portrait of juneteenth in texas and in texas history and texas communities. i want to t ask you how you fee we're doing as a country celebrating juneteenth as a federal holiday now for the second ye...

That's what we've done since 1865 is keep going in the case of a lot of recalcitrance, unnecessary and unfortunate recaltrance. >> the author most recently of "on juneteenth," pulitzer prizewinningul historian. and as i said the namesake of annette gordon reed elementary school in texas. >> thank you for inviting me. >> i appreciate it. we've got much more ahead tonight. do stay with us. do stay with us. d tonight. do stay with us.

The idea that this is settled as a matter of something where we all agree as a country that this is something we will celebrate and commemorate. there is a story i saw in the mississippi free press that in mississippi, state offices were open today a couple months ago, when mississippi celebrates the state holiday of confederate memorial day, they closed so state offices closed for confederate day but open for junteenth. >> it's not surprising but it is disheartening. you have to keep going in the face of all that that's what we've done since 1865 keep going in the face of a lot of recalitranc...

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