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American racial history. Hes authored four books and coauthored one. Tonight he will be speaking on his most recent book this land is their land. Please join me in welcoming him. Good evening and thanks for coming out in the weather. The massachusetts sixstory cosociety is the first place i ever received Research Fellowship and i believe that was way back in 1998. I will never forget, coming here and the first document i looked at when i was here was the missionary journal of john cotton junior. John cotton junior was the son of the legendary minister of boston and has a big shoes to fill he didnt fill them. He wound up a missionary on Marthas Vineyard and eventually he fell out with the proprietor there and ended up in plymouth and got into some shenanigans with his female parishioners and ended up in charlestown south carolina. What i will never forget from this docu ....
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Washington journal. We are joined by joyann reid. She is the author of medgar and myrlie medgar evers and the love story that awakened america. She is also a political analyst for msnbc. Thank you. Guest host remind us about medgar evers. Guest medgar evers was the rst field secretary for the naacp in mississippi. Jordan was doing the same job in georgia. He was doing the same job in mississippi investigating the deaths and lynchings of black people and registering people to vote. Host you said you feel that medgar evers has been given a short shift in americas history. Why do you think that happened . Guest if you think about the job he was doing, he was doing the kind of activism that dr. King was doing in alabama and that johnis was doing in georgia and he is doing it in mississippi which was the most dangerous place tothe highest n, the most violent version of the clan. Agency called the Sovereignty Commission that wen ....
Thank you. Guest great to be here. Host remind us about medgar evers. Guest medgar evers was the first field secretary for the naacp in mississippi. ■w■ijordan was doing the same jn georgia. He was doing the same job in mississippi investigating the deaths and lynchings of black eople to vote. Host you said you feel that medgar evers has been given a short shift in americas history. Why do you think that happened . Guest if you think about the job he was doing, he was doing the kind of activism that dr. Dd that john lewis was doing in georgiamississippi which was tht dangerous place to be black in america. The highest number of lynchings, the most violent version of the clan. And the statewide agency called the sont into action after brow. They were under tremendous pressure even from the naacp which did not agree with activism in the streets. They wanted to fight in the courts. The amount of violence that you would face in that state was unprecedented for any civil rights activist ....
Wherever you get your podcasts. Cspan, your unfiltered view of politics. We we are back with washington journal. We are joined by joyann reid. She is the author of medgar and myrlie medgar evers and the love story that awakened america. She is also a political analyst for msnbc. Thank you. Guest great to be here. Host remind us about medgar evers. Guest medgar evers was the first field secretary for the naacp in mississippi. Jordan was doing the same job in georgia. He was doing the same job in mississippi investigating the deaths and lynchings of black people and registering people to vote. Host you said you feel that medgar evers has been given a short shift in americas history. Why do you think that happened . Guest if you think about the job he was doing, he was doing the kind of activism that dr. King was doing in alabama and that john lewis was doing in georgia and he is doing it in mississippi which was the most dangerous place to be black in america. The highest number of lynch ....