connection to how primitive poverty or prosperity affects your sense of well-being and the ability to route participate of civic discourse with the interesting point of what it takes to be a part of civil society economically speaking. do you have any response? >> this id if i have the dollar is it more effective to spend it somewhere else? i see if that is a false choice. first of all, talking about the government itself, one of the great misperceptions as americans routinely the increase spend more on foreign aid than redo.

put as a country we give relatively little of overseas aid if you put all that in domestically and probably could not be enough to make a huge debt. if you tackle poverty you have to think about domestic tax is. if you want money for the anti-poverty program you cannot have a situation where corporations like general electric had huge abilities to avoid the tax bill. or were a real companies are dramatically better to have a discussion of the more progressive tax system but

it seems to me these that if you proceed emphasis of for sees by it actually has the potential to accentuate. if you focus on bangladesh or india or wherever it might be, why not also focus domestically? it is healthy to say this is a global issue. but there is a level of the necessary poverty that also dates to be discussed because it is the equity issue. >> we will have the of book signings of the last two questions help us out to keep it tight senate can remake it three questions because my brother-in-law has been sitting very

patiently. [laughter] >> quick comments i appreciate the is a you bring forth so you can cited because it is digital and i prefer that. [laughter] but the idea is are interesting because my family has a lot of options every cent they have the bank account of us to be separated but there is such stephen security and to if there is the year that means a lack of information so to bring up that city in california to renegotiate we talk about the local bank again it is hard. i am ashamed to tell you who

i have my mortgage with. but this is new ideas as to how secure you could be i appreciate the conversation and i want to sink my mentor who invited me because he gave his name but i encourage you to bring somebody. [laughter] >> this is the line i heard from the ceo that if you want to get of which sell to the pork. what it speaks to me is the of levels of what's exist against the pork. mortgages cost more, a food

cost more at the grocer's store, baking cost more a and we have been talking about public policy but i do know that this is the you have report to don for many years coming how do we address the elements of the society bear the most vulnerable people are victimized by the biggest element of truth can to make their money. your right to. you get the you see a tremendous amount of pay day those servers. there's is dishonest forms of loans in this country. there is a limit to what you can accomplish but parts of

it is choice you have to have creative networks some of the most creative work goes on by the nonprofit groups that put its tremendous effort to do kif errors and to accept food stamps and things can be done you cannot legislate people cannot do it but you cannot have a viable alternatives people don't go to pale loans because they like paying that interest but they don't have options but what if you expand the micro credit systems rory get federal systems but can be used to tie aid to somebody over?

there are ways to use those institutions saying government many to create more choice in four neighborhoods. that is part of the problem. that is the worst kind of exploitation. >> congratulations on the block. talking about government as part of the solution i work with the legal aid society get my clients to complain about the government for the city with the housing authority because of the

agency's they have to rely on to get by they are union members but to me the idea say at talk about the city agencies know what are the thoughts? and are those that benefit handsomely. >> it is a great question because you are right for people have deeply and present -- unpleasant interactions with agencies.

they have been set up to provide that disincentive. not all institutions but in the recent past one of the purposes has been to work out who was ineligible for welfare. for those that try to get access if you give people mediocre conservativism 54 are legitimately very dissatisfied. i think it is worth asking the question if you go to other contries the level of dissatisfaction is there. go to a scandinavian country a end of the way the board

deal with and are dealt with is see him leave share in. researching the book i was driving around the country to see university lecturers in santa of this into roman history. all whole section of roman non-citizens they had no rights but they were allowed to be treated awfully by mistake to this person they could not and hope that those members were crucified. as a way to show a cast system? the'' we were saying is our

creation the word humiliate comes from that. we think it is okay to humiliate to interview people who seek it is okay to use the power of government to humiliate would ask to interactive and to see that with a housing authority did you are dealt with as a criminal people our hungry but cannot give food stamps. it is an awful way to do with politics that is a powerful way to wrap this up that societies should not create the case but that is what we have done at tremendous levels of vigor and distrust. >> faq so much. [applause]

to the audience it was terrific. figure very much we will buy books and sasha he is left-handed and where his arm out. have fun. this is terrific. i love it. thank you. [inaudible conversations]

>> i was shaved by the goldwater thought of a conservative the way he began to talk about a different way to solve problems that was different from the dome added to the send senior colleague size of ronald breaking give his nationwide address it in many ways there permanently in the stand of what we were capable of. watching read for governor and you saw the rise of the intelligent populist conservatism that nobody would use the word intelligent to apply to

ronald reagan but tutus record we know that he wrote over 600 essays on government and the late '70s that became his radio show but they were his own handwriting and he thought that a great deal about how washington works a and government works and was prepared to leave in ways that were quite extraordinary. i saw what we did with a contract of america is to stand on ronald reagan's shoulders we had worked them with the administration in the '80s and at 1.in time with hard-line activist we complained in 1987 he was not doing enough. i would never forget after an hour as we were walking and he put his hand over a shoulder within the president does that gets your attention that you really feel something the.

he said it took us half a century to get into this mess i am the first seven years. maybe you'll have to do heavy lifting on your own leader. he smiled and wandered off. i never forgot that. >> date you all for being here tonight i am so thrilled to have so many here tonight to hear this

wonderful speaker. we have met several years ago and as we began to talk can she was telling me about her research we realized we had so many connections in ways that we could not imagine. one being that the council member did not mention what our civil war site is we are a union soldier graffiti site with a lot of names on the wall am pleased to into the gallery to see the replica attic that has many signatures. there is a connection between london doesn't walls of the house and one the dead and her story and also the region of pennsylvania

so we just felt that we were meant to be with each other amir so thrilled to have her here juanita is the daughter of the late ed your patience and a retired high school biology teacher she said she did not need a microphone to die in we will hold to that and a product of the public-school system and attended bennett college and received her degree and then her m.a. degree from rutherford pitcher is a. the last time i read that was before this letter came to juanita patience moss from king's college in

pennsylvania and in 2011 she received the honorary doctorate of committees from the college. how wonderful and how proud you are. [applause] since your retirement due 1982 as a biology teacher she developed the increased interest of genealogy resulting it by 18 several books which is a historical novel fed is darr run away but to provide the opportunity to go to the national archives. during the past 10 years she collected the names of 2,000 black soldiers whose

participation had been forgotten by historians. and there is quite a story because she was told they did on the excess. she showed them what a lot of research could do she has written for nonfiction books the last confederate it a victory, and to memoirs that has been put together from though women in alumni for north carolina. we are here to have her has been here after buried 61 years. that is great. [applause]

they are parents of two and one of their grandson's is here tonight. i present to you dr. juanita patience moss. [applause] >> that was a wonderful introduction. they q for coming tonight did especially on trade it to share my research with all the view. i am a woman of color in the living bridge between my grandchild matt you and our slave ancestors my paternal great-grandfather in because of his story i have spent the past 50 years black

soldiers in the civil war. isotopic little discussed when the movie glory hit the big screen and indeed i did not learn anything about the black civil war soldiers with those history class is in high school or college. how about you? indeed i never learned anything about black history or soldiers. but from experience i knew about them. might knowledge was limited to decorating grandpa's grave after the way to the local cemetery can ince and the taps were sounded. the major wrist is not developed until 1998 when i read in the "washington

post" of a new monument to be unveiled to honor the black soldiers and sailors. i was quite excited thinking i would see his name on the wall of honor. however with his name in the national parks database at were shocked to read the following words, no, no, no soldier. what? i stepped back. i do a lot of talking to myself. [laughter] what i said to myself? i know where his grave is also the american flag. but i would discover the names on the ball over only of those from segregated run long regiments and joe made those other but concerning some of black man i was told

there had been an end. but as a biology teacher i said he was not the only black soldier to serve in the white brett to manage and i was determined to find that if i was correct. i was after having collected over 2500 games. my pass presentations have focused slowly on that effort can -- for about a black soldier but tonight i will the which ones do you already know and which ones need more time?

>> as a civil war erupted the navy day militias protect washington d.c. to be rejected to a federal law forbidding colored man to bear arms even though with the revolutionary war in the war of 1,812th. despite the law patriot's managed to serve the union without right and what could be called a first category of civil war soldiers. william henry john sanborn in virginia. as he attends to join with the regiment he was refused

because of his race. but he was accepted into the second infantry as the independent. after ec completed duration to participate of july july 21st with the first battle of bull run of manassas several months later william henry johnson participated in the capture ought roanoke a end in the autobiography. >> but it's those who served this to you and is. >> a second to category existed.

>> because there were black soldiers such as a private james from the infantry he fought at bull run. again not knowing how many soldiers were with that war southern territory with the employment in freedom and softy -- safety alone or with family is benjamin brother introduced the term contraband rationalizing favors sees to just like other goods due to the rapidly growing it number 8261 to authorize for some

that had included slaves. and that means the river rebellion in against the united states and at the same time a military act was passed empowering the president to use those free slaved in any capacity such as for the purpose of construction of the entrenchment or camp duties or any labor or any military or naval service. despite the pleas from the northern abolitionist abolitionist, president abraham lincoln and continuous. breaker of this but speaking of free persons of color color, organized to serve

the confederacy never accepted after the occupation in 8262 with the first or second or third native guard to have the distinction to have the first three units into the union army. four months later another unofficial regiment and try to help dispel the notion that the blacks were unable or unwilling to fight later it would be called the official black regiment.

also still without presidential or congressional authorization. >> david hunter he became the official but they make a third category of black civil war soldiers. this summer of 1862 arrived with lincoln adamantly refuse to the black man of the regular army even though the abolitionist they continued to exceed with the president they viewed military service as to fall one to two issa huge victory

with their rights as citizens by his prophetic work was or if he did but in the voice similar to one that is familiar today. may be morgan freeman or james earl jones. and as you listen to the words of frederick douglass imagine what the black mont man has upon his person and let him get to it eagle on his buttons or a musket on his soldier -- shoulder and bullets in his pocket there is no power on earth that could deny he hazards our bright as citizenship in the united states. who did you hear?

[laughter] but after the word drug on over two years with desertion and said casualty's with the unsuccessful draft with the president to prevent. he must sign the formal "emancipation proclamation" that was finally issued january 1st committee to 63. it reads -- dip free allstate's with the exception of those already under union control but it did tempering the slaves of maryland, delaware, a kansas and missouri because the president was fearful to lose those slave holding border states. and also declared the black man could be received into the army. many took advantage with the

mixed race regiment thereby creating the fourth category of black soldiers. again the number is hard to determine because their racial identification is set on the military record. they just care for eye and skin the color. a member of the one hedger 42nd infantry. to be buried in the green hills cemetery in new york. this category has the light skinned kellerman -- following the injury

organize near his home town where his family was well go. . .