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Dr. Gregory d. Smithers, an associate professor of history at virginia commonwealth university, specializes in native American History. Else the author of several books including an indigenous history of migration, resettlement and identity about which greg spoke here a few years ago. And his newest book and the subject of todays lecture native southerners indigenous history from origins of removal. Please give a warm welcome to our guest speaker, greg smithers. [ applause ] let me first begin by acknowledging the traditional landowners of this region, members of the powatan chiefdom and the c...

>> anthony: some time ago something crawled, or slithered, or grew like a fungus. something that started small, got bigger, lurched like a swamp thing out of the mud and moist earth and humid nights of the delta. then, it took over the world. so next time some smart ass foreigner, horrified by our latest ham-fisted foreign policy blunder wonders out loud, "what good is america?" well, you can always pipe up that the blues, rock 'n' roll, r&b, and soul all came out of this place -- one state -- mississippi. ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on m...

This place one state mississippi. I took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la geno right now were in the middle of downtown jackson. Farish street. Anthony it is a street with a lot of history. What did it used to be like back in the day . Geno the street was packed with folks. Folks all over, they had their own restaurants, grocery stores, juke joints. I mean everything happened on farish street that happened in j...

S he has told the story of nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson marching through the fetid streets of …

Right. if you don't like my rules, don't come. >> anthony: what are the rules here? no rap music. >> william "po' monkey" seaberry: no. nobody likes that "bumpa bumpa bump". i don't like that. it gives me a headache in the brain. i love all blues. all of it's good to me as long as it's blues. >> anthony: good r&b? >> william "po' monkey" seaberry: that's right, that's right. >> anthony: but no rap. >> william "po' monkey" seaberry: no, no. >> anthony: never, even if i have -- kanye west wants to rent out the place, are you gonna rent it to him? >> william "po' monkey" seaberry: yeah, i'd rent ...