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♪ >> welcome to st. louis on booktv. located on the west bank of the mississippi river, it was the starting point for the lewis and clark expedition in 1804, and the city where the historic dred scott trial began. ..

i spent five years researching the people of the cemetery but my research was based upon 60 years of research, they had ten statistics with primary sources. even though i worked on it 8, 10 hours a day i could never have completed this without their wonderful work, the gatekeeper and superintendent, so appreciative of them. the book contains sections which tell the history of the city of st. louis. each section contains biographies. altogether there are 80 biographies. i wrote biographies of people buried in this cemetery. some of my favorites are people in changed the world such as william clark of the lewis and clark expedition the changed the way we live because without the work of louis and clark lee

westwood have not -- it would have taken much longer to settle it. they made it possible. another very important influence on the history of the united states as superintendent of indian affairs that is not so well known, they called him the red-haired chief because he was the master negotiator, he bought 419,000 acres of indian lands into the territory of the united states without raising a musket. it was all negotiations. he got along so well with the indian that when we read dedicated, many of the indians -- one of them said there were many red-haired indians along the trail. he left a legacy. on his deathbed he said if i ever dammed in the hereafter it

will be for the treaty that he made, he talked them into moving farther west, gave them $1,800, of plow and a promise the u.s. government would protect them from hostile indians and he sent them to oklahoma which is a desert, not a good thing. however there is karma because they later discovered oil and they're just fine now. also a great manufacturer and one of the fun ones is a dolphin is bush who came from germany. he came from wealthy family but he was the 21st of 22 children. he started out as the mud clerk on the river just taking down notes of what came off of the boats and realized the germans in the city had a thirst for beer so he started a brewery supply co. then, it they really

liked beer, then took the time-honored way of getting to the top, married the boss's daughter, whose father owned a silk factory and ever hart had taken back a brewery of bad debt and then he did the smartest thing he ever did, he gave that brewery to his son-in-law to manage, he renamed it the anheuser brewery and a dolphins did such a good jobs that the next year he changed the name to anheuser-busch. he died in his castle in 1913 and the whole city went into mourning. his body was shift back to be buried--buried and there was a parade from the brewery up broadway, he was buried on this spot but not in this mausoleum. you was buried in the anheuser

mausoleum. two years after his death his bride lilley decided that mausoleum was not grand enough for her prince so she had it for in down and moved to her parents's out back, hello, dr. freud, what do you make of that and had this commission. was not completed until 1921. and then scalawags, the horse people, have the best to accumulate a pile of cash so one of the wainwright tombs is known by art historians as one of the most beautiful pieces of tomb architecture in america. it was designed by louis sullivan and frank lloyd wright was a draftsman in his office and frank lloyd wright said that he often said that he was the one who actually designed it and frank lloyd wright had no small

ego so he said he really likes that too. the actual building itself, the structure reminds me of him. it almost looks -- all these ornamentations are pure sullivan. what is interesting is if you go around it, this is the east side, so that represents the fall. on the south side are holly berries. that is the winter. on the west side are spring flowers, on the north side are:. that is the summer so you have four seasons all around. the outside is gorgeous but the inside is full of mosaics that takes your breath away their so gorgeous. one of my very favorites is a piece of women's history, women's history is often lost so that took a lot of digging to figure out her story.

she was the biggest madame in st. louis during the civil war but because there were so many troops stationed here business boomed. she became one of the wealthiest people in st. louis but was all so very kind and generous. she had been destitute herself when she started out and that is how she got into her line of business and she never turn anyone away. she gave handouts of clothing to all widows and orphans who came her way. they lined the streets of the city for her funeral. she knew she was going to die. he had cirrhosis of the liver which is an occupational hazard in her line of work and she came to the cemetery, she wanted to be buried where her most prominent clients were buried but the trustees at the cemetery said oh no, we don't want people like you and you could tell she was a good business woman because she said i will have to speak to your wife. they changed their minds. she is buried in an unmarked

grave because she couldn't have a monument or there would be all kinds of people coming to her grave. one of the most important graves here, a simple monument for william eliot who founded washington university. he came to the missionary for that unitarian church, this was a wild west, this was a place where they needed help and when he came he said i come -- of a come i shall remain until they lay my ashes down, very public way to put it and perhaps foreshadowing fact that his grandson was t.s. eliot who said my grandfather had a powerful image on his sons and grandsons. his words were like those of moses. he brought the law down and we could not the fight it. the cities on the east coast were farmed for political or religious reasons, nothing else

but to make money. they didn't even have a church and 11 years after the founding of the city and the fur trade so he felt he was offering up an alternative which he did indeed do good work through charity, education. he is primarily known to us as an educator. he believed that women should be educated to the same degree as men. they should be educated as far as they were capable. so in addition to washington university, he found the girl's secondary school so that women could be educated enough that they would be able to go to university and mary institute. right next to him is the grave of william beaumont, the first great american medical researcher and he has a wonderful story. he was trained as a doctor, in those days that meant you were

sleeping at the doctor's offices, two medical schools in the united states, he was an army doctor, stationed in an island in the michigan territory near the canadian border and two days before his first child was born, his wife went into labor. and american trapper was shot at point blank range in the summit and he thought for sure he would die. in the description he goes into all the details. the pressure of his long was hanging out of the hole so all he could do was keep it clean. in those days treatment -- he never thought that he would survive, but he did, miraculously enough but when he feels there was a hole from his stomach to the surface -- to the

atmosphere. this is known as -- for nine years he took a piece of silk and fred, attached a piece of food to and lowered food into the trapper's stomach through the hole and pull that out and it broke down the activation on what happened and he published his book in 1834 called observations and experiments on the gas to juices and the physiology of digestion and it revolutionized medicine. was instantly translated into french, german and italian and passed all over the world. the cemetery was founded in 1849 as part of their roles cemetery movement. it was the most progressive cemetery of the day. before that people had been buried on family landor in churchyards but they wanted a better way of memorializing their debt. they wanted to remove them from the city and set apart to honor

them. they became the first public parks. it was 314 acres. there are 87 people buried there. it is a beautiful limestone cliff in the mississippi river. there are even indian mounds so that for thousands of years people realized this beautiful site is a place to honor your dad. >> on our recent visit to st. louis, missouri booktv took a tour of west bank books, an independently owned bookstore in the area. >> west bank books is an independently owned bookstore where we are located in the central west end neighborhood of st. louis, missouri. of the store was started on july 11th, 1969, by an group of graduate students at washington university. they were all social activists,

especially active in the civil rights movement and at that time there was no internet, getting information out to people was not as easy as it is today so they wanted to have a bookstore where they could offer books, magazines and periodicals and ideas, access to ideas and information that was hard to find in st. louis. there was a lot of stuff that just wasn't available anywhere. at the time even carrying your own phone was considered controversial. this was the only place you could buy the rolling stones. definitely there was the progress of bend to the political focus of the store. it wasn't just of politics and history, it has always been about larger cultural you of the time. we carry the full line of children's books and always looking for books representing minorities.

that is an issue that has come back into the news recently, complete lack of color in children's books but it has been very important to us, children's books were part of our mix and they told everyone's story. the store also does a lot of author events. we do 300 year at this point and many of them are in the store. they may be attractive to only 15 or 20 people at a time but the huge offsite events that can draw as many as 1,042,000 people. we hosted in the store president jimmy carter twice, we had hillary clinton and other various important dignitaries. we worked with president jimmy carter twice. the most recent one was we can have peace in the whole land.

he is an extraordinary man, i am so impressed with his sense of mission and social responsibility. he didn't give a talk. he just came and autographed books. there was a big line of folks who got their books signed and he managed to sign a thousand books and our legibly and actually look out and speak to people at the same time. an independent bookstore has never been easy. in west bank when it started with donated books, it is completely undercapitalize from the get go. there were different ownerships. i have been with the store for 40 years and my partner who is my husband had been hit ten. all the time we have been in business it has been a struggle. for us, not having the big capital to begin with requires

that we are clever about what we do. always talking about how we have it zero budget, zero budget this and that because that is what we have to do. however it is a larger context of bookstores. if we are not hostile environment these days. quite a while now, the major way independent bookstores have been fighting amazon is around the sale tax collection issue. i abide by the sales tax laws of our states and if i should two or three people in our community and does not collect sales tax, does not pay sales tax, what happens is as we all know the budget of these municipalities are in terrible shape and the tax base is part of the problem. it is something you legitimately could have. is out there, not being collected, hundreds of millions of dollars so in missouri,

medicaid, they cut services, education budget. the other aspect of what they do that is not as obvious to the public is the way they believe publishers to giving them just outrageous terms which are not offered to the other bookstores. that is questionably a violation of at least the robinson had been act. the worst thing about it is not just the we are not getting the terms they get better at this point they are starting to strangle hold publishers so much that it is not a sustainable model so what happens is the price overall goes up for books because it has to to cover these extraordinary demands amazon is getting away with. one of the things west bank book started doing about five years ago is we incorporated a

not-for-profit foundation and did it for two reasons. one was all of the other events that we do are important to the community and the public conversation. they are not necessarily sustainable. we can't always break-even. we rarely break-even on these events the we do in the store. but we want to keep doing those. that gave as the vehicle to raise money to do cultural events built around authors and offset some of the costs involved and keep doing it. but the biggest thing is the program called river city readers which is a program to get books in the hands of st. louis public school children. st. louis city is like many cities, the colored school system is grossly underresources, a very

impoverished, predominately african-american population. the second to come to school with huge reading deficits. they have not had books in their homes, no traditional reading for pleasure. they start with a distinct disadvantage for middle-class kids. they play catch up their whole life. we started asking our customers to give us money. we sponsored a classroom and time and at the end of the month, we get a book that we select, we put a name plate in the front with their name in it so it is clear that you get to keep this and set it up with office to come to the classroom as often as we can. we are collecting the writing of this book, this object they're holding. we are finding it is really having a great affect with kids we have been able to work with. they are learning reading is something they can enjoy. they're getting confident and

wanting to read and showing a desire to read and the teachers we work with us so thrilled when we sponsor their classrooms. we think the program started great as a grassroots program just asking customers for money but we wanted to build it and do more with it so the foundation is the way we are able to do that. the founders took the name in the spirit of cultural and political fact going on in paris in the late 60s and when this war started in 1969, they were inspired by that and the west bank is the west bank of the river that runs through paris and there are some great bookstores and stories on the west bank so that is why they took the name. then, in 1980, the eleventh anniversary, we inherited, rescued a tiny can in the park, he was here for 12 years,

captain nemo, we named him captain nemo because he was in the pond. we rescued him out of the water and he passed away and we had a second generation cat, a stray off of the street. we named her jamaica and she was with us until nine years ago and while we were still missing her, yet a third one, another black pussycat showed up, he is totally lost, what does or doesn't happen here and how, that is a whole customer base of his own. there are many people especially children who come here specifically to see spike. he is often somewhere napping. they never stop until we find him because children will leave in tears if they can't see spike. he is very popular.

his best selling staff pick is how to tell if your cat is plotting to kill you. is an actual book and is also, anyone else at staff pick, all of them. when you first coming and encounter this i hope people who haven't been here before can see an amazing display of books they didn't know existed. that happens a lot. lately, people talk about booksellers curating their collections. is a fancy word but it is true. they will see a lot of fresh and unusual stuff. then they're going to interact with booksellers who read those books, and can steer you to something maybe you haven't known about before.

>> booktv took a trip to st. louis, missouri to explore the literary sites of the city with the help of our local cable partner charter. during our visit we met with nini harris who discovered several accounts of the civil war for her book unsettled state: first person accounts of st. louis during the civil war". >> in this book, i began in college back in 1973 and i took a trip to visit a classmate in the deep south. i took the greyhound bus and at that point the greyhound bus stopped in every little town. it would go around the town square and the roof first wind east and every little town square had a statue of a union soldier. then i dozed off and we were stopping in another little town, i realize the town square had a confederate soldier and from

then on every town had a confederate soldier's statute in the center of the town and it was so well defined. people's allegiances, their history was so perfectly clear. i thought how different was from st. louis. this city was so instrumental to the prosecution of the civil war from either side, this city was disputed territory and it truly was a city where it was a neighbor against neighbor, vehemently opposing philosophies and beliefs. so i wanted to look at what it was like to live in a city like this when there was such hostility between people and yet somehow they persisted in being neighbors. how do you survive that kind of

environment? i chose to pursue it by letting the people of that time talk for themselves. let them speak through their letters, their journals, their speeches. let them tell us what it felt like in this city. st. louis was almost 100 years old when war broke out. it was truly a gateway. every military expedition, every expedition, exploration, settlement, commercial enterprise, funneled through st. louis's riverfront. it could almost be considered a foreign city in that the majority of the people were foreign born. there were 60,000 people born in germany, 39,000 born in ireland, there were 2,000 who were born

in bohemia, there were communities, polish people, swiss dairy farmers and each of these groups brought different feelings about the union and about slavery. there was the remarkable black population in st. louis at that time. one of the things that amazed me the most was the level of patriotism demonstrated by american-born citizens and foreign-born citizens. james east talked about that, an engineer, a great engineer. when the civil war was looming he became its spokesman for the union cause in st. louis. in st. louis there were meetings being held in every little political entity.

in the second ward at a farmer's market, forces supporting the union showed up and who got up to speak that james eads, who we know later on from building the ironclads ulysses s. grant used in the mississippi and building the bridge, he got up and spoke to the crowd and said when i kept my eyes on my countrymen and see among them so many of our adoptive citizens rallying to the standard of the public. when i reflect that among those who are now plotting their country's ruin, there's not one of foreign birth involved in their ranks. i feel alternating motions of gratitude and shame, gratitude to them for their devotion to the flag of their country, trained to think to none but

americans, native-born americans, the long as the dishonor of humiliating that emblem of our nation's glory. i thank god our adopted citizens have by unanimous sentiment of devotion to the union's been able to lead minister by their example of something so severe and merited to those ungrateful men on laboring to defile their banner under his protecting shade they first inherited this a prettier of liberty and the immediate effects of war were very scary. because as much as there was all this union support there were a lot of secessionists. one lady wrote about an incident that happened the day after fort sumter was fired on. her name is sarah hill and her husband who she calls e m. would join the union ranks.

she described their depression and upset in the journal, hearing the news that war had begun and she wrote in her journal about an incident that occurred the day after. the following day, there was a narrow escape, mother was sending a small basket of harm booked -- pharma booked cooking, after leaving the streetcar it was quite a distance to walk before reaching our house. part of the way across the deserted brickyard, across a couple of men stepped out from behind and attacked him saying now, you bloody union man we are going to clean you out and all the others like you. e n did not stand on the order but sprinted away, the two men in pursuit. finally they fired on him two with three times and he thought

he was hit. he soon reached the street where there were houses and they did not follow. he reached home breathless and we found in the basket where a bullet had gone through it and threw a package of cookies in side. that was the first phase of the work in st. louis and then the economy was shut down. this economy was based on the river and the union shut down the river to protect the union cause. in the summer of 1861, john fremont was appointed as head of the western department of the union army based in st. louis. ..

>> she later tells us about kindness that she experiences in spite of a hostile environment.

though the old kind feeling crept out and sideways -- >> st. louis is economy change. it became the staging area for the union efforts. and it became a giant hospital. a baptist minister who settled in st. louis prior to the civil war, he wrote about slavery.

he wrote about visiting the slave tends. and then he wrote about the hospital votes, and he described the scene on the st. louis riverfront after the battle of shiloh.

>> dan lewis lived in what is now the southern edge of downtown, and she was a secessionist. she owned to slaves. she was able to keep precise because the emancipation proclamation did not apply to missouri because missouri was not in rebellion against the united states. so she had slaves. our neighbor had slaves, and yet just down the street from them was the barracks for union soldiers of color. so you think on this one block, free african-americans fighting in the union army, and african-americans living in slavery. they wrote about the address here after the victory in vicksburg for the union, and she wrote --

>> when lincoln is assassinated, the joy expressed in this city immediately turned to mourning. and there was one minister at second presbyterian church in downtown st. louis who tried to help the people digest what had happened with that assassination. he was not perfect.

but great and good in the face of his imperfections.

>> the people in the city had a courageous time digesting what had happened to their sons and brothers and husbands. there was tremendous anxiety, but what is perhaps the most amazing thing is somehow these people who expressed such vehemently opposed ideas and put their lives at risk to pursue those ideas, somehow they came together, and they built what was a fabulous school system, a fabulous park system, a booming economy. it is an inspiration to us all today. >> up next in st. louis, missouri, we take a look at the personal papers of william greenleaf eliot, cofounder of washington university.

>> i am the archivist here in st. louis. we are an independent university or the world's leaders in academic research. we have 14,000 students, undergraduate and graduate. seven schools including arts and sciences, architecture, business, engineering, law, medicine and social work and public health. we are in the new library on campus. there are also nine other wipers on campus and two at two additional campus at two additional campuses to universal hybrids are a great resource for the faculty and students. we have literally over a million books and electronic books and drones that are accessed on a daily basis. for instant washington university has the third largest collection of books previously owned by thomas jefferson. university archives houses over 300 collections that document the history of universities as well as st. louis from 1853 until today. the collections we have included

faculty papers, photographs of campus, publications, student material and also st. louis material including politics, social welfare, business and architecture. the collection is the william greenleaf eliot personal papers, the cofounder of the university and we have rich materials we would like to show you. to start out with we have in the collection photographs of his house and his office. this is located at 2660 washington avenue and this is where he lived most of his life. he was born in massachusetts, came to st. louis from eastern united states in 1834. he was not only a minister

preserve as washington minister for 1870-18 cents a barrel served on the board of trustees for a number of years. he helped found the western mission which was the relief effort during the civil war. he worked for abolition, education for public schools and higher education, involved in working for women's rights of education, voting and equality. he worked for prison reform. this is one of the 10 diaries we have and this page presents a day in the life of mr. elliott. my present course of life must be any special morning work at home or abroad that needs to be done before nine. nine to 10 am come university and medicine. 10 to 1030 time the commission house which comes under my care again. 1030 time that the want, hospital work in general.

2:00-6:00 p.m. parochial care and hospital work. seven to 8 p.m., read to tom. eight to 11 p.m. from letters and other writings. and also preparation for sunday's sermon at the other aspect we can talk about from this collection is something related to the university. this item is from the inauguration of the university from april 1857. the inoculation happened in 1857. this is the inauguration program and includes interject remarks by mr. elliott an was the presit of the board at that time. introductory marks the start fellow citizens, it is a degree of pleasure which i cannot express without his --

[inaudible] to take part in the inaugural exercises of washington university. the work is indeed only begun but a few steps of a short progress already taken justify us in large hopes for the future. so that's just the beginning of his introductory remarks. another item from the university is a draft of his commencement speech in 1862 which was actually the first graduating class. for the handwritten draft by jim, commencement 1862, indian harry talks about the work of kant. [inaudible] he doesn't mention the war at all.

it's a number of pages, and various edits. and on the back page it lists the class members that graduated that year. and thomas eliot was one of his sons. we will move on and look at eliot's work with women and education. he not only worked for higher education but also the general education of women. he gave a series of lectures about women in his church services and they were later published in this book. it's called lectures two young women. he gave the lectures in 1852-53 and then it was published in 1854. a look at the table of contents and talks about the home,

education. i'd like to look at the chapter on education. and read just a few months. i subjects and i -- [inaudible] the influence she unavoidably exerts. or influence increased and the question becomes more important, how shall the education be so conducted as to make a good? he goes on to explore that. later, they republished the book and added a few changes especially to the beginning of the. it is now called home life and influence but it had a great impact so they were able to reprint it later. moving on we will look at eliot and the civil war. so this is a box of correspondence and none of the letters that he wrote -- this is

from august 27, 1862. he was writing about general matters and he goes on, there was a big meeting last night with big talk. and perhaps something will come of it. nothing but victory in virginia will help us here. and it is signed father. so not a lot of correspondence in the collection. he also -- one of them was with a copy of it here. it's called a higher law draw turn -- doctrine, north and south. he goes to and talks about how he feels like the union is right and we should preserve that at all costs. because of the civil war and he

saw the conditions of the soldiers and the health care, he worked to help found the western division of the western sanitary commission. again this is one of his diaries and it talks here about a draft of a letter. it's to the department of the west and it spells out a letter that he wrote asking the military commission to send an individual unit out to the west so there could be more resources so the soldiers would have better care, especially when they were wounded. this goes on for several pages. there's also a present copy of the item that made this happen. so it did go through and then eliot was very involved in that western sanitary commission to t another thing which is a subordinate eliot did was related to slavery, and so even very early on he thought that

the slave should be free. when he went about doing this with paying for slaves and then setting them free. so we have a bond of indemnity or from 1860, which he purchased a slave for $600 this is april 15, 1860, signed by eliot. to whom it may concern, that the transfer -- shall become my property. that a dubai to declare free from all bondage and i desire my executives to protect your freedom by paying all money to whomever it may concern with my estate. so that was just one example. then going back to one of his diaries this is may 22, 1860. having spent a great time -- [inaudible] had kept her for six weeks. paid him $950 sent home to her

father and mother. what a blessing slavery is, he writes. eliot also had a slave ended up working for him. he didn't know that he was still bound to another slaveowner. he worked for only for a while and then had to go back to his master but eventually he was set free. eliot wrote a book about this life. so we have the book here, the story by eliot published in 1885. and on this page and this is a statue, a memorial to president lincoln, and a free dislike at the bottom. the artist uses pictures to create the image of the slave.

eliot had gone to see thomas, the artist of this monument, and had another space in the. he knew his story so well that he convinced the artist to put archers face on the statue. this is a picture of it also. the art museum here at the university has a marble small statue that has the other slave ended as one of the originals. so this is a great collection that we have in archives. american history, african-american history, even politics, women and gender studies. so it's a nice bridge for the few areas that would have been university archives with university history. >> as part of the pieces it to st. louis with the help of our local cable partner charter we talk with tim o'neil, author of

"mobs, mayhem and murder: tales from the st. louis police beat." >> 2008 which wasn't a very good time for the nation or journalism, newspaper work, and the paper was looking for things to do and we were publishing some books, and somebody or got the bright idea, let's do a book about big crimes over the years. and st. louis is 250 years old this year. they asked me to do it. i mean, i did this for the newspaper. it's not like i bravely come you know, took a sabbatical and eight run windows hoping someone would love my book. i did this for the newspaper. it was my assignment, and so for eight, nine months i did the research, wrote the stories. other people in the photo department and i found the photos. i'm proud of my writing. i love my little words like most

people in newspaper but the truth is, what really makes this book are the nearly 200 photographs. newspaper photo files are as good as you going to get in terms of a local record. and the dispatch files here both good things and photos are good about the late 1920s. each one of the articles is newspaper feature length, and each article has whatever photographer we would find to go with it. and then at the end of the book i've got about 26 pages of an essay type chronology of mobs in st. louis. one of the pieces i did was about the origin of the old folk song, frankie and johnny. she sought -- she shot her man because he done her wrong. a lot of people remember that old song. the inspiration for that was an actual killing here in st. louis.

this lady was tired of her man running around on her and he comes bursting in to the apartment one night in 1899, and she said he had a night and she had a 32 and uses it. so somebody in old st. louis thought up a song, and so we are the frankie and johnny song which has been brought back by numerous groups over the last 110 years. that started here. another one was gruesome but it was an international sensation. it was called patrol to murder. it was in 1885. there were two englishmen who came to america. they were traveling salesman and they meet on the mode. they decide to go across america and they wind up together a nice tale here in st. louis called the summer. one of them was richer than the other, and the poor guy suddenly has a lot of money sloshing around. he does everybody that his buddy went out of town.

and the hotel room starts smelling, and the chambermaids go in and winds up his buddy is in the trunk dead, several days. the police tried to start chasing him but he is taking the ship from san francisco already. this becomes a big international case because you two guys from england. you have st. louis. you have a manhunt to the other end of the world. and the new zealand police stopped him. two officers from st. louis actually went to get them, took them 10 weeks for the round-trip. and when they come back to the train station downtown, half of st. louis is there to see this guy. and interviews galore, and he winds up being hanged. we used to have a gallows at the police headquarters like a lot of towns did. another one, during world war i

there was a lot of hysteria about the germans. is it was we used to have a berlin avenue. it was renamed persia. the wilson administration was pretty blunt about demanding loyalty. and st. louis has a very, very big german population. in fact, the german lasting is the most common for this area here. there was this poor guy who is a coal miner over on the east side which is what the coal mines were, and he was from germany and he was a good guy, and he filed his ailing reports and even tried to join the u.s. navy. but a couple of the guys at the minds decided that they found a spy for the kaiser. and it just gets worse, and this mob goes after prager. a policeman grandson and squirrels them into the city

jail, but a mock just gets worse and worse and actually drag him out of the jail and march him to the west end of town. this is in collinsville, illinois, a town of about nine miles from downtown st. louis. and they hang him. they lynch them. 11 guys i believe wind up being charged. the defense tries to turn it entirely into a matter of these were just patriots trying to do the best they could for the good old u.s.a. they wind up getting equated. -- acquitted. the prager lynchings is one of the ugly spots here in town. my personal favorite is the case of a woman named nellie munsch. nelly was a party girl. she married a doctor. they lived in a nice part of town. she had this fancy dress shop that is what she played it. and welcome address shop went bankrupt in 1931.

and she and some of her kind of shady late-night buddies up a kidnapping of a doctor, doctor kelly, lived in one of the very fancy private drives here in st. louis. so doctor kelly gets kidnapped. a reporter from here, the post-dispatch, is writing about it. and for whatever reason the bad guys give up dr. kelly to john rogers, the reporter. john rogers takes kelly to get his apartment and gets exclusive before is allowed to tak take ah and going to summit with those are the good old days. nothing comes of this for several years until this guy who runs a pool hall beer joint starts saying, i know the solution to the dr. kelley case. and so nellie muench winds up being charged, but the story gets a little trickier because she'd meanwhile, has a boyfriend

who is another doctor, and she tells the boyfriend that the golly, i'm pregnant. well, she wasn't but she starts this ruse about being pregnant. she i feel where's the close in shore before she's supposed going trough of the kidnapping, there's an announcement that she has given birth. well, okay, people can have babies. there's, babies come when they will. it a try before the trial, that's how things are, and they managed to get the trial moved to central missouri where her family has a lot of ties. this is a huge -- everything in the county and the county surroundings are going to this topic they just want to see. everybody wants to see if the baby but she doesn't show up with the baby. and she winds up being acquitted, and mainly she was acquitted because her lawyers

played big city versus rural, and they appealed to the jury about, you know, fancy boys and girls from the city, you know, concocting this thing on for nellie who comes from people like us. she gets acquitted but the baby thing falls apart pretty quickly because the young teenaged lady who have given birth and to a given up her baby starts figuring out, oh, that's what happened to my little son. and anna goes to court and tells the judge that's my baby. and so the whole baby adoption thing falls apart, and her husband, you know, name is on a phony birth certificate in office. and she does wind up getting convicted for the fraud related to the baby case. and then she does her time, her

husband divorces her. she goes to live quietly in kansas city and she lives until 91. i would go back and i would read these articles, and you know, its 2014, everybody knows about the troubles of newspapers, but in the '20s and '30s and '50s, in 1890, newspapers were the source of information. and it's the survey and a step through bad things that happened in st. louis over the years. >> next from st. louis harper barnes discusses the 19th 17 race riots that sparked the civil rights movement. >> never been a time, my book about 1970 east st. louis race riots had its start really in the early 90s when i was working at the "st. louis post-dispatch" and i was writing an obituary of miles davis, a trumpet player who is from the

st. louis which is a smaller city across the river from st. louis. stories of the race riot had spilled his heirs when is a child who sent. he talked about how horrible it was to learn that white people had massacred black people in the white city -- small city in alone. he thought it affected him for the rest of his life. ..

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late latter years of the 20th 20th century, and the very beginning of the 21st century. people in their 90s, and i interviewed some people and discovered their enemy riz were nose at good as i thought they might be. not particularly their age but the distance from the events. people tell to embellish their memories as they go along so i decided to go with the written record. w. e. due dubois. marcus garvey. and front page of every paper in the country for a week or so. 1917 is not that long ago. the fact that whites were massacring blacks in the streets of a middle sized american city is just horrific. in the early years of world war i, america just entered world war i; the factories across

america geared up and there were many jobs available, and blacks from the south, at the same time the bowl weevil was destroying the cotton jobs and farm jobs were disappearing and blacks were moving north to industrial cities, and east st. louis whereas an industrial -- was an industry city, and there were inevitable clashes between blacks and whites over the jobs, and is just devolved into a riot that took place in july of that year. july of 1917. >> the night of july 1st, the model t ford, black model t ford, drove through a black neighborhood, people shooting out their windows. an hour later a black model t ford moved through a black neighborhood with people shooting out of the windows. no one was killed. the third time a black model t ford went through a black neighborhood with people

shooting out of the windows, blacks had assembled -- young black men assembled with guns and shot back, and two police detectives were killed, and that triggered the riot, and then all chaos broke out the next morning. it started out as riots often do, with fistfights in the streets and so forth but they quickly a escalated, and one of the reasons they escalated is that there was a central mouth of men who probably had been in the bars drinking all night, and soon there were terrible atrocities. black men were hung from telephone poles in streets, one man razz scalp was writtenned loose. a mother and her baby were shot that's temperature trying to escape from a burning building. much of the downtown area was burned down, and as i believe i

said, 48 people were killed, 39 of them black, and at least three of the white people that were killed were killed accidently by other white people. it finally the national guard came in and restored peace, but by that time the city -- much of the city was just devastated. the mayor instructed -- did not want a record of this and did not want east st. louis to be known as the place of this terrible riot, and the mayor instructed the police to confiscate cameras and destroy film, and very few photographs actually emerged from the riot, and some of those that did -- in fact all of those that did as far as i was able to determine were thrown away when one of the newspapers cleaned out its reference library in the '20s. so, the imagery comes mainly

from drawings and newspapers, which there were several of those. i suppose the thing i learned that was -- that stuck with me most strongly in writing the book was the fact that the civil rights movement did not begin in the 1950s with the decision in the topeka school system case. that it began the day after slavery ended, and per siss until this day -- persists until this day, and that in the period of world war i, i don't think i was aware and i know most people i talk to were not aware -- i'm talking about the educated people -- that --mer erupted in race riots across the country in 1918, 1919, and it was the red

summer. the chicago race riot was the worst of many that took place that summer. what made the riot different is that it was the first and probably the deadliest of 2,000 riots that took place in world war one, and set the pattern. whites attacking blacks, accusing them of taking their jobs. in some cases white industrialists were in part guilty with flooding the market with blacks. they were advertising in southern newspapers of job -- help wanted, when there were no jobs as all so they would have a large pool of workers to draw from. so the unions could not organize against them. and i -- but i think it was the first and set the pattern and it was followed by what i consider to be the first major civil

rights demonstration there was a march two weeks after the riot in mid-july of 1917. there was 8,000 to 10,000 people marching down fifth avenue from harlem to the middle of new york, to protest the east st. louis race riot and protest racism across america but the east st. louis race riot was the spark for the first civil rights march. i want people to take away from the book, its ain't over and we need to be conscious -- very conscious and not forget that this was our racial history and all grew out of slavery. because the deadly legacy of slavery, and we still see its results around us. >> to find out more about booktv's visit to st. louis, missouri are or the other cities

visited by our local content vehicles, visit c-span2.org/local content. booktv asked, what are you reading this summer? >> well, i'm looking ahead because we have the iowa first in the nation caucus, and iowa made a recommendation to new hampshire, south carolina, and i've been involved in that process for a number of these cycles as a presidential candidates come to iowa, i want to make sure that i have the considered judgment of a couple of scholars that have written on the topic, and one of them is grassroots rules, written by dr. kris hull, who appears to be my chief of staff, and i wont to poke through that carefully and analyze the intense stewed studies he was done and challenging about any of the conclusions he has drawn and see how that fits with my experience from working with the caucus, and caucus chaos, written by

dave price. dave is a journalist and reporter for the television nation des moines and has really paid lot of focus to thiss' interviewed a lot of the players involved in the iowa caucus. it's new. i want to read both of those. and then this is the first year that we have been able to celebrate the placement of dr. norman barlog's statue in statuary hall in the capitol building, and he was born 100 years ago, on march 25th, and it happens that there is a book that is sitting on my table called, our daily bread, that writes his story. what he did in his life was he saw poverty, saw poverty during the great depression of the '30s, wanted to do something about that, and so he went to work, was actually sent down to mexico, and started working with different weed strains, and those weed strains that he selected, he selected it for

their vigor, disease resistance, rust resiststance and blight resistance, and through his work mexico couldn't raise enough food to feed themselves and in a matter of 13 years he reversed that to where mexico had a surplus of food they were raising, and then also another book on his life, who i had the privilege to know, and it is an illustrated story about the life of norman borlog who is credited with saving the lives of a billion people with his research on food, and after his success in mexico, he went to asia, places like pakistan, and india, and then on into different countries in africa, and began and continued to develop and improve the production of wheat, rice, and other products in a matter of 30 years within his lifetime, his work more than doubled the grain production in

the world, and because of that, and the people that were saved from starvation, over a billion people and says so on this statue in statuary hall which we placed 100 years to the day from his birth, and happened to place it within ten feet where the author of the book, on norman borlog was standing with congressman laytham when we presented the congressional gold medal to dr. borlog and i was standing ten feet from ambassador quinn, talking to doctors borlog, and i got the idea we should place his statue there. i don't know what dr.bborlog thought but we thought what does it take to get a statue built and placed in the united states capitol, and when i walked away from this circle of inspiration, learned on the morning that we placed his statue, that

congressman laytham and ambassador quinn were having a discussion about placing the statue of the doctor there. so, whether it was providence, whether it was happenstance, or serendipity, we are got the same signal and the same place and were standing withins ten feet of where his statue stands today. so i want to get up on two things, dr. norman borlog to celebrate the second century of his birth, and also up to speed on the caucus rules and the caucus chaos, and i imagine we'll have a little caucus chaos going forward in the next two years in iowa. >> what are you reading this summer? tell us. tweet us@booktv, post to our facebook beige, or -- facebook beige, or send us an e-mail. >> here's a look at upcoming book fairs and festivals around the country. this weekend, the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library

will hold the roosevelt reading festival. from july 9th to the 12th, the 30th annual freedom fest in las vegas, offering discussions and debates on a wide variety of political topics. on july 12th book tv will be live from the harlem book fair in new york city. on august 30th, booktv will be live at the library of congress' national book festival at the washington convention center. and let us know about book fairs and festivals happen thing your area and we'll be happy to add the emto our list. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2, with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. >> here are a few programs to watch for on booktv this weekend. rick santorum sits down with

tucker carlson of the daily cal iron after words to discuss the former republican senator's argument that the working class has been abandoned by both parties and solutions to their problems are largely conserve enough nature. and retired neurosurgeon ben carson, the author of "one nation by "talks about hi formative years and political belief out, and book of the goes to missouri. also this weekend, sports and politics author attach zirin on the politics of hosting the world cup. matthew carnig warns about iran's nuclear potential. and senator elizabeth warren caulk necks. for -- talk economics. for more information visit us online at booktv.org. >> next on booktv, dare zirin talks about the politics and economic between brazil hosting the 2014 world up and