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This festival is a a nonprofit that is funded exclusively through donations. One of the ways to help us through this kind of programming is through the friends of fall for the book. To learn more please visit that website again. We ask that you please remember to silence your cell phone and thank you in advance of filling out a survey which will help fall for the book improve the festival in the future. Thank you to our main sponsor, african and africanamerican studies. So we are pleased to have fear Marylouise Patterson and Jeffrey Stewart, two writers who examine key figures of the harlem renaissance, Langston Hughes and alan locke, respectively. In letters from langston dr. Patterson explores relationship that her family but particularly her mother had with ....
On booktv we are live from jackson, mississippi, the home of the first annual mississippi book festival. All day long bringing events from the Mississippi State capitol including otter panels, civil rights, the civil war and more. First up today is of panel on harper lee whose book go set a watchman written and 1915s was released this past july. This is live coverage of the inaugural mississippi book festival in jackson, mississippi. [inaudible conversations] good morning, ladies and gentlemen. We welcome you to the mississippi book festival, to our harper lee panel. The rules the we have up in here, there will be no beverages allowed in here. If you have beverages we ask you to go to a garbage can and placed in the garbage can. Second thing, please silence yourself phones. We need everyone to please silence yourself funds. Again we would like to thank you and i would like to introduce the moderator, amanda nelson, editor of th ....
Groveland four. One was killed by a mob of 1000 men. It was led by the local sheriff. The others were tortured in jail and then wrongly imprisoned. Florida lawmakers have just apologized for this grave injustice. We will speak with the pulitztzr prize winning writer gilbert king. He wrote devil in the grove Thurgood Marshall, the groveland boys, and the dawn o of a new america. Then to a modern day case of Racial Injustice in the florida legal system. We will speak to Marissa Alexander here in florida. She was jailed for three years after firing a warning shot into a wall near her abusive husband. Thihink of the people who o e in my situation whose case might not have made the news, who dont have the support, and how difficult it is to come up with the money for probationon or to find a job or anything like that. ....
She will be introducing one of our favorite lecturers from the university of wisconsin, press minor who is actually a georgetown at the moment. I will let her discuss what he will be speaking about. Justice ginsburg has been a great friend to the society and has been a storm narrowly generous in giving her time. No one in the society can call a time when she declined other than when she has been out of the country when we requested for assistance. We thank her again this evening. [applause] but we have just a moment. Let me have just a moment. I know. Give me a moment because Justice Ginsburgs special, as we all know right now. Justice ginsburg was born in brooklyn on the ides of march in 1933. She graduated with a great distinction from cornell and she was doing superbly at harvard for the first two years when she moved to new york and finished at columbia. Workingt two years for a federal judge in new york. She learned swedis ....