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on c-span2 every weekend on booktv. along with our schedule you can see our programs any time at booktv.org enjoy in our online book club as we feature a current best seller each month and get the latest updates throughout the week. follow us on facebook and twitter. >> the egyptian army wednesday overthrew the government led by president morsi. they spoke to the government outlining government and elections going forward. here is a portion of his remarks courtesy of al-jazeera tv. >> have got a statement coming from cairo from the military. let's listen in. >> turn a blind eye to the movement described by the masses of the egyptian people. to live up to its role and

responsibility. the egyptian armed forces was the first to declare and is still declaring and will always declare that it is a distance from the political process. the armed forces based on its inside progress, felt that the egyptian people calling for help, not calling get to go all the way yet it is the responsibility to answer the demand of the revolution and this is the message received by the egyptian parliament forces. including alleys, pedigrees and towns and in turn this call was heated by the egyptian armed

forces and it has understood the essence of this message, closer to the political scene. adhering to its trust and responsibility. the egyptian armed forces over the past month have exerted a concerted effort to contain the situation within, and among all including the presidency since november last, the armed forces called for a national silo for which all the political and patriotic forces responded. it was rejected by the

presidency. many followed, many initiated followed until 0 that. the egyptian armored forces similarly on more than one occasion presented as strategic assessment domestically and externally which contained eminent challenges and threats in security, economic and social and political and the vision of the egyptian armed forces as patriotic retribution to contain the vision. and confront the challenges to exit the current crisis. as we closely monitor and follow

the current crisis command of the armed forces met with the president's in the presidential palace on june 22nd where it presented the opinion of the armed forces of any assault, they let us, and also because of the masses of innocent people, national reconciliation under a road map for the future where by stability for the people living up to their aspiration of hope, yet the address of the president yesterday and before the confirmation, did not meet the

demands of the masses of the people, as a result it was for the egyptian parliament forces and their responsibility to conduct with certain political and social figures without sidelining where the meeting parties agreed upon a future roadmap plan which includes measures whereby egyptian coherence is achieved, without marginalizing any political party and putting an end to the state of division. this includes the following. the constitution provisionally, the chief justice of the court

six days before the court for the presidential election were the justice of the court will run for a term period until the president is elected, chief justice would have the power to hand power of presidential decrees. 8 technocrat national government would be formed and ratified, having full power to run current affairs and committees including those to review the proposers amend the constitution which is provisionally suspended the supreme court when addressing the draft law for the

parliamentary connection for the parliamentary connection and charter of a thick securing and guaranteeing the freedom of media giving priority to the national interests. all executives military matters taken to an power you to take part and the deep layer in the decisionmaking process and for the national reconciliation at having acceptance and representative of all parties. the egyptian armed forces, the egyptian people across all spectrums speed away from violence which will bring about tension and shedding the blood

of the innocents and armed forces, that it would stand up in cooperation with the assyrian ministry firmly to any act under the rule of law based on patriotic responsibilities. the armed forces extend full appreciation to the egyptian armed forces, police, dedicated, devoted and patriotic so the continued sacrifice for maintaining the safety, security and well-being of the egyptian people. may not bliss each of $10 a fortified people of egypt. >> what came out of those

buildings we can see humanity coming from union station and we knew it was going to be big. the people were already to mar. it is like saying there go my people, let me up with this sea pushed so we walked along and started moving toward the washington monument toward the lincoln memorial. it was a wonderful period in american history. >> today, july 4th at 2:20 eastern civil-rights pioneer congressman john lewis shares his experience on the march on washington 50 years later, and at 4:45 some of the places we visited and historians we have spoken with in the first season of our series on first ladies. little after 7:00 filter prize-winning photographer is

display their work can talk about coverage of world events. at 8:00 former president bill clinton in new jersey governor chris christie discussed pro-active steps against natural disaster and at 8:45 a panel talks about what it is to be a modern-day american citizen. >> pulitzer prize-winning author alice walker next on her collection of personal and political letters, essays and poems. this is 45 minutes. >> i am very happy to see all of you. it is a wonderful evening to be in the city which i know of unfortunate the through so many of your disasters. but i was thinking looking at the fountains there is of little when you have for the children and a bigger one for the adults, thinking water flows, so can

piece. and so the history that is so vivid for me of the bombing of the people, the imprisonment of mumia, that history is not will story. and it is good to remember it that and to see so we make our way everyday, every single step can be a different direction. so as i was thinking about what i wanted to talk about and read about and i don't have a whole lot of time but i wanted to start by mentioning something i find very disturbing which is that our country, and we're not alone, this is not the only country making a lot of war in the world but we're making some terrible big ones and we bomb

and shoot these people over generations, star of them, have blockades, cuba, for instance, iran, other places in the world and then when we have someone in, quote, leadership. says we will start a slow withdrawal and we start thinking the war is over. maybe i heard this somewhere, this is just something for us to meditates about, that the children in el salvador where the war went on forever and will never end really, the children have been left so impoverished that they can no longer each without having pain in their teeth because what has the war left from with? the war has left them with to take forever. this is what war does. it isn't just stop shooting

people, bombing warehouses, destroying everything, that somehow they're going to be ok, they are not. so i wanted to start their and also to go on to these two new books. i have been trying digest for the last 20 something years to stop writing books. and i keep -- i totally get it that i work -- sometimes i will feel very free when i finish something. i remember finishing "the color purple" 30 years ago and just everything in july, okay, i am done! and i have had that scenario with myself many times, thinking guy and done, but anyhow, so this book, i will read first from "a cushion in the road" and i want to read a little bit

about how that came about, how did i come to think of the life that i lead which is very -- when i'm not on the road somewhere, is so quiet, so meditative, so happy with me and my sweetheart who is the musician. one of the ironies of life is i love quiet so much, when i fell in love with a person who plays the trumpet. so life, and i am sure, life is always just telling us who do you think is in charge? did you have some dream that you imagine that you are in charge? i will just show you. this is the very short introduction to this book "a cushion in the road".

i have learned much from dallas fought. it has been a comfort to me since i read my first ballasts column which was sitting quietly doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself. to me this is a perfect poem. but there's also from that tradition this thought. wanderer's home is in the road. wanderer's home is in the road. this is proved very true in my own life, much to my surprise because i have such a homebody. i love being home with my plants, animals, sunrises and sunsets, the moon, it is all glorious to me so when i turned 60, i was prepared to sit on my

cushion in the meditation room i had prepared long ago and never get up. it so happened that i was in south korea's that year and south koreans agreed with me. in that culture it is understood that when we turn 60, when we turn 60 we become ay. this is not how koreans spell that and this means we are free to become once again like a child. we are to rid ourselves of our cares, especially those we have collected in the world, and to turn inward to a life of ease, of leisure, of joy. i loved hearing this. what an affirmation of a feeling. i was already beginning to have. enough of the world's.

where is the grandchild, where is the cushion? so i began to prepare myself to withdraw from worldly for a. i sat on a cushion in mexico with a splendid view of a homemade stone fountain with softly falling water, perfect soothing backdrop to what i thought would be the next and perhaps final 20 years of my life. unlike my great, great grandmother who live to be 125, i figure 80 is doing really well. and then a miracle seemed to be happening. america, america, was about to elect or not elect a person of color as its president. my cushion shifted minutely. then too, an unsuspecting guests

left radio on and i've learned bombs were falling on the people of gaza. a mother, unconscious herself, had lost five of her daughter's. did and i have a daughter? what i have wanted to lose her in this way? wasn't i a mother even if reported the imperfect in that role? my cushion began to wobble. i had friends who managed to stay ay. i envied them. for me the years following last 60th birth day seemed to be about teaching me something else, that yes, i could become like a child again and enjoy all the pleasures and wonder a child experiences but i would have to attempt to maintain this joy in the vicissitudes of the actual world as opposed to the meditated universe i had created

with its calling ever flowing fountain. my travels would take me to celebrations in washington d.c. where i knew president barack obama would be inaugurated. they would carry the morning after those activities to far away burma, me and mark wishy would lead to much writing, they would take me to thailand for a lovely trip up the long river where i could wait happily at people who smiled back when smiled upon. they would take me to gaza and much writing about the palestine/israel impasse. to the west bank, to india, to all kinds of amazing places, like for instance in jordan. who knew? i would find myself raising a nation of chickens in between travels and business to holy people in oakland, would acre,

my question, the fountain of peace, because of my intentions for deep suffering in the world sometimes seemed far away. i felt torn, a condition i do not like and do not recommend. and then in a dream it came to me. there was a long asphalt highway like the one that passed by my grandparents's place when i lived with them as a 9-year-old. my grandfather and i would says on the porch in the still georgia heat and found the cars as they went by. he would choose red cars, i would choose blue or black. it was the sitting on cushions of sorts for the two of us because ours could go by and we were perfectly content. perhaps that is why in the dream

the solution to my quandary was available. in the middle of a long perfectly straight highway with slightly faded yellow line that i had known and loved as a child, by rose colored meditation cushion, directly on the yellow line, right in the middle of the road. so what do i believe? that i was born to wander and i was born to sit. to love home with a sometimes almost unbearable affection but to be lured out into the world's, to see how it is doing as my beloved larger home, and

paradise. [applause] [applause] >> so in my kitchen for many years i have been supported by all the photographs and sayings of poetry with people and recently i decided to take down most of it because it had been there so long the edges were curling and paper was turning yellow but when i came to this close by walt whitman i could not remove it so i will read it to you because one of the things that is so lovely about having a history, a place is to have poets who have gone before and left these wonderful guides to us. you probably know this quote. this is what you shall do. love the earth and the sun and the animals, love the earth and the sun and the animals, despise riches, there i disagree with

him. i think it should be shared riches. give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy. i love that part. stand up for the stupid and crazy. really. this will test us. it has to be done. you have to stand up for them and to them. [applause] >> devotes your income and labor to others and to yourself, you are deserving. 8 tyrants. you know, the tyrants, i don't know if hating them is going to change them. it has not worked very well. anyway, you can hate care any.

not concerning god, that is an argument you have to agree is futile. really. looking deeply, and closely, have patience and indulgence to the people. that is also a tall order especially in hot weather. have patience and indulgence, take off your hats and let nothing be known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful, go freely with powerful, uneducated people, and with the young end the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season and every year of your life. reexamine all you have been

told, and reexamine it. and this would never insult your own sul, dismisses ensure very flesh shall be a great poem. hallelujah. [applause] >> i want to read you something calling the ending the age of waste. in this time, we always wonder about what is the most crucial thing to do and one of these essays i say that to me the most crucial thing we can do is regain our health and the second most crucial thing to do is help other people to gain there's. if we are a healthy people we are less easily lead in destructive waves and so much less billable land so much more

clear headed and awake and in fact we revisiting last night a friend who has the little dog named duke and every time we visit these friends old duke, not sleeping but meditating, sleeping and fat and lazy. and duke's people put him on a diet and the entire time we saw duke last evening this was bouncing all over the place, bright night, happy, full of himself, and anyway, in this particular piece i am saying something else. the most important thing humanity can do is believe in itself and i do believe this is true. and we are in danger of not believing in ourselves because we have gone so far. we have lost so much of what we

thought was good, what we thought was possible, what we thought was right. the most important thing humanity can do is believe in itself, that we can grow, that we >> translator: that we can rouse ourselves to exhibit gratitudes. gratitude is what makes us well 3. by respecting her limits to the only planet mother we have ever known, gratitudes to the only planet mother we have ever known. until i was a teenager i had no experience of waste. everything we use was used until it was used up. there was no extra. and no such thing as litter. my parents were puzzled when they perceived the beginning in their community among their relatives and friends, among

their children, quote, the age of waste. neither of them knew what to do for example with styrofoam containers or plastic cups. they fought items so wondrously made, light weight and 30 should certainly be prized. they carefully washed and reused them until their replacements began to appear at an alarming rate. for a long time -- isn't that sweet? don't you just love my parents? just such a dear understanding of what would become the problem. anyway, for a long time they collected and carefully stanch these new inventions in the kitchen pantry be leaving i suppose at some point as they would come in handy. isn't that -- oh.

perhaps -- i just want to hug them. i just want to hug them. and carry food to picnics, they would be useful to share food if people came to dinner and wanted to take food home. that makes so much sense. how could they know this plastic like almost all plastics would end up in the oceans, killing turtles, dolphins, whales and fish and presenting major health challenges to humans, all because it was used once and for away. my parents heeded their homes, never more than small free rooms with would make it and carried inside themselves until they moved to a town where everyone use the electric heaters and in the chilly concrete rooms of the projects ran them in winter almost all the time, rarely

feeling warm even so. my grandparents were more frugal than my parents and lacked for a longer time than my parents both electricity and refrigeration. all food was eaten fresh, canned in jars for winter, in summer watermelon was kept cool by placing mellons under the bed. a magical place. to me as a child for the dark green treasure. i recommend by watermelons, especially these deep green ones, if they put the melon from the bed for children to find. and they had kerosene lamps they lit as darkness fell until in nearly 60s they also moved to

town. they grow everything they ate it said citrus fruit, sugar, salt and coffee which they bought in town of few times a year. like my parents also they raised steaks and chickens and grew gardens of healthy produce that made them the best people on earth. they knew nothing of artificial fertilizer, nothing. nothing of pesticides. there was as i recall one major infestation of their garden among the tomatoes, giant tomato worms that readily picked by hand. as children we chased each other around the yard with these worms, huge and scary to see, like many of true green dragon, the largest of them even had warns. i was not afraid of them. my sister was terrified of them, which was really unfortunate for her. i have learned from these

countryfolk and from my own life that is not necessary to be rich or even well-off to be happy. what is essential, what is essential is to have enough. much energy might go into educating human beings about just what enough is. as a culture we in america have rarely seemed to know. part of this ignorance is because we inherited the consumer driven capitalist system and paid no attention to the people of indigenous cultures already here who were more like my parents and grandparents, extremely careful not to waste any thing. if my parents and grandparents had had health care that included even a yearly visit to the dentist and a school that was well equipped with teachers and materials and if work had

provided a decent wage our family would have been content with a happiness that went beyond the mainly peaceful existence we managed to make out of what we had. will we need to endure another war on american soil of the many wars that have been fought here, it is the civil war most think of. the, quote, indian wars, genocidal wars against the indigenous population are largely forgotten. but are we to have to have another war on our soil before we learn what is precious in life? goddess forbid. and yet i think of the story of being in nicaragua during the culture war, you will recall the united states backed the contras alas. she said one day she watched a member of the embattled

government stupid down to pick up a paper clip that had dropped onto the floor. nicaragua had been so impoverished by the war they could not consider office supplies. she could tell by the look in his eyes that the paper clip was cherished. this was the most movement -- moving moment in her time there. this may well be how it is for us. so wasteful of so much for so long. but maybe not. nostra dollars's prophecy of all-out nuclear war during this very period, notwithstanding. perhaps we can learn how to change our course in a way that means we and all of birth's resources will not be consumed in war. war which is perhaps the most blatantly unintelligent and

unproductive activity that humans are engaged in. of course there are others. general waste of birth's resources constituting a major and unwinnable war, not only against our common motherboard against ourselves. the planet is fed up. the planet is tired of us. my friend from lakota ancestry used to come to my house exhausted from speaking up for mother earth and would collapse on a bed in my guest studio, always sprinkling tobacco in honor of her and saying to us another earth is so tired, so weary, so disrespected and ravage i can hardly bear her suffering. some times in his sorrow he would beat. always felt as if he w .

always felt as if he wasweep . always felt as if he was. always felt as if he was talking about his best friend in she died prayers to her on top of mesa's 4 corporations were strip mining coal or chanting beside pristine rivers soon to be polluted from every conceivable contamination caused by drilling, mining, fracking and other grotesque forms of ecological rape. he was always thinking of her, always in prayer for alignment. he was her son. he did not forget this for a moment. we must all learn to know her as he did, to feel with her, to know she is alive, that she is alive and needing affection, caring, love, who are we to give her nothing but basically grief?

massive amounts of faith will be required that we can change enough to be worthy of her caring for us all these millions of years, all these millions of years caring for us. there is a bit of comfort in knowing that having done all we can, all that we can, we must go down, we will go down together in heartfelt alignment. earth mother and her earthling children, hand in hand, doing our best to save each other from a fate that unfortunately for us humans is all too easily, without a drastic change of course foreseen and already in so many parts of the world's a parent. [applause]

>> i want -- i understand -- i don't have all the time in the world. i wanted to read you a poem, if i can find it, just came to me. called what do i get for getting old? and wait, here is. what do i get for getting old? send me two. i really like this poem because one of the problems with so many things, plug it in any where. the whole idea of being afraid of getting old even though you don't want to die is so bizarre. would you rather just die and not get holeold?

picture story for the curious. how much more time? okay. in that case i will read some short ones. oh. oh. oh. oh. wait, wait, wait, wait, okay, okay. okay, thank you. what do i get for getting old? a picture story for the curious. i get to meditates in a chair. how many meditators out there? you know in the ideal scenario you sit on a cushion, cross your legs and do the whole thing and have to be really correct. you know you can meditate in a chair.

i get to meditate in a chair or against the wall with my legs stretched out. that is really bad news if you go to a meditation center. or even in bad. they really don't think that is good. i get to see half of what i am looking past. is changes everything. i get to a dance like the tipsy old man i adored as an infant, they never dropped me. i get to spend time with myself whenever i want. i get to ride a bicycle with tall handlebars. my posture improved. i get to give up learning to fail. i get to know i will never speak german. i get to snuggle all morning with my smuggler of choice, counting the hours by how many times we get up to key.

i get to spend time with myself whenever i want. i get to eat chocolate with my salad or even as a first course. i get to forget. i get to paint with colors i mixed myself, colors i have never seen before, i get to sleep with my dog and for a never to outlive my cash. i get to play music without reading the note. i get to spend time with myself whenever i want. i get to sleep in a hammock under the same stars wherever i am. i get to spend time with myself whenever i want. i get to laugh at all the things i don't know and cannot find. i get to greet people i don't remember as if i know them very well.

after all, how different can they be? i get to grow my entire garden in a few pots. i get to spend time with myself whenever i want. i get to see and feel the suffering of the whole world and to take a nap when i feel like it anyway. i get to spend time with myself whenever i want. i get to feel more loved than i ever thought existed. everything appears to be made of the stuff. i feel this especially for you as though i may not remember exactly which you you are. how cool is of this? still like get to spend time with myself whenever i want. and that is just the taste as the old people use to say in georgia when i was a child, of what you get for getting old. reminding us as they witness our

curiosity about them that no matter the losses there's something fabulous going on at every stage of life, something to let go of maybe but for sure something to get. [applause] >> okay. the last one. this is about recognizing that sin is actually a part of the discipline that makes us who we become, there is no such thing as living without it. and we might as well accept that and work with it. and by doing that, we can grow a lot so this is called quote in

in the service of waking up. hope never to believe is your duty or your right to harm another simply because you mistakenly believe they are not you. cote to understand suffering as the heart assignment even in school, even in school you wish to avoid but could not. hope to be imperfect. hope to be imperfect in all ways that keep you growing. hope never to see another, even a blade of grass, that is beyond your july. hope not to be a snob on the very day love shows up in law's work clothes. hope to see your own skin in the

would reins of your house. hope to talk to trees and at last tell them everything you have always thought. hope that the end, at the end, to enter the unknown knowing yourself. forgetting yourself also. hope to be consumed, hope to be consumed, to disappear into your own love. hope to know where you are, a paradise, if nobody else does. hope that every fell year, every failure is an arrow pointing toward enlightenment and hope to sin only in the service of

waking up. [applause] >> okay. >> ladies and gentlemen, my name is andy, the designated bad back this evening. we have 10 or 15 minutes to take questions. if you have a question please raise your hand and we will get a microphone to you. there is a gentleman in the back on the left with his hand up. yes, sir.

>> i recently read a book one day in december by nancy stout who wrote the introduction for the book. it is a biography of sanchez and in reading the book, i felt the biography has a special relevance, at the specially to women in this country, and briefly just to say her life shows it is possible for women to become leaders. and everyone has top quality medical care as well as education as well as an attempt suit eliminate poverty. and given a few words why you

decided to write the introduction to this book. >> i would be happy to. sanchez was really the equal partner with fidel castro in forming the cuban revolution but nobody in this country has hardly heard of her. i get a lot of manuscripts people asking me, introductions, and i started reading 400 pages, so astonishing, the life of this women made the revolution with fidel and camille lowe and the people many of you in this audience are familiar with, and her father was a doctor and i think it was because he was a doctor she got to see some of

what is going on to the people in her country, for instance cuba was a place for pedophilia, brought in the people, brought in from the united states were members of the mob and they come to cuba and gamble and avail themselves of prostitutes and small children, very young children and one of these was a child celiac had known because of her work with her doctor/father and the child was raped to death and this was a turning point for her and for many of the women like heidi maria and these women who took up arms and were instigators of the cuban revolution to get rid of battista at who was the dictator who was in the pocket

of the united states. i read this rule. it is amazing, nancy stout, the writer had access to the archives and all the letters between celia and fidel and his eye opening, we are kept in the dark about cuba but one of the big things we had no idea about was how strong the women component was in that revolution and so we were always shown just these men basically had to be eradicated and celia herself lived to be 60 and she died of lung cancer. she was a terrible smoker. her father before her was a

smoker who battled lung cancer. i think she was always stressed, she was trying to project fidel, they tried to assassinate fidel 648 times. in the course of all those attempts it is amazing, and they adopted children or people who were killed and raised them even though half the time they were trying to find a place to hide him so that hoover, whoever was looking, couldn't find him. one of the other fascinating aspect was they were a revolutionary partnership. they never married. cuban society at that time, i don't know about now but culturally about things like

matrimony, supposed to be merry. if you are living with the man you have to be married so they were like when a you getting married so eventually fidel got around to feeling the heat and said you want to get married? and he did this at least twice that we know of and each time she said no. and what they ended up doing basically was everytime he proposed marriage she would build another ring around her house and fix it up really beautifully and she did this from the very beginning when they were -- she was the person who made sure that up in the mountains he was comfortable and he had his own room and she had her space. it is a really interesting piece of medicine. it definitely is. so i read through this 400 pages and it was so astonishing i went back to the beginning and read it right through a second time

because this is how information is kept from us. they put up an embargo, they tell you people are evil, they tell you about killing them and you just have to find out for yourself. i have been there four times and always had a wonderful time even in the period when there was practically no food, no gas, no nothing. i still felt these were great people and i am very happy that they had so many people in leadership who truly love them, who truly love them. one day we will have somebody who truly loves us. [applause] >> right here in the fifth row. >> hello, how are you?

i am carla widely. i am kind of close to the ground. i wanted to thank you for writing everything, your short story i use in the recovery community when i teach parenting about valuing our everyday things and valuing ourselves and how parents can say no to their children in loving and life concerning ways. i want to thank you for that. >> you are welcome. [applause] >> the gentleman right behind. >> thank you very much, you are a wonderful poems and inspiration. i love the cereus stance. i love the lessons you teach,

such as one about lesson go represents, that is a lesson that i really need to learn. i will admit -- just say i highly recommend. that is all. >> thank you. [applause] >> we have time for one more question or testimony. lady all the way in the back. keep your hand out. >> i thank you for the paper cuts, i will never look at a paper clip again and not value. thank you. >> we say thank you to alice walker, thank you for coming.

[applause] >> coming up friday at 8:00 eastern booktv in prime-time features wendy lour come author of his other's theory is, german women in the nazi killing fields. at 8:20 p.m. eastern booktv's in-depth features of three our conversation with author and war historian rick atkinson. booktv in prime time friday at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. >> with gene out of those buildings we can see a sea of humanity coming from union station and we knew it was going to be big. supposed to be leaving the march and over the margin. it was like saying there go my people, let me catch up with

them. this sea of humanity just pushed us so we just walked on and started moving toward the washington monument, toward the lincoln memorial. it was a wonderful period in american history. >> today, july 4th, at 2:20 p.m. eastern civil-rights pioneer congressman john lewis shares his experience on the march on washington 50 years later and at 4:45 some of the places we visited and historians we have spoken with in the first season of our series on first ladies. little after 7:00 deal to rise winning photographers display their work and talk about coverage, former president bill clinton and new jersey governor chris christie discuss pro-active steps against natural disaster and at 8:45 a panel talks about what it is to be a modern-day american citizen. >> start coming west, they would

leave behind the raises. the son did shine more benignly on them here but i remember none of them telling me it was even a more cool kind of racism, a smile on the face but a dagger behind the back is how they describe calif.. they were not allowed to live in any of the cities, even small towns, they were locked out so the only land available to them were patches, literally when you ride up on the land and look at it it looks so salty it looks as if it snowed and this is a land that was available to them and they build their wooden shacks here, no water, had to go into town to fetch water, no city sewers, they had outhouses, no police roamed this area. it was a no man's land. >> more on the black vote keys,

african-american who migrated from the south as we explore the history and literary life of bakersfield this weekend on c-span2's booktv and american history tv on c-span2. .. >> i'm john geoghegan, author of "operation storm," and i'd like to start this evening's presen