scott fitzgerald. a year later "the sun also rises," ernest hemingway's book, was published. it was a golden era for american literature, and it was also the age of the harlem renaissance. most writers, musicians, artists who we know today from the harlem renaissance were not from new york. but harlem became the center of this renaissance. and the center of the center was the home of the daughter of madam cj walker. i wonder if you remember madam cj walker. she was the only woman millionaire, not to inherit her wealth in an earlier era? not so much earlier, and she had a daughter. and the daughter's brownstone on 136th street in harlem was the center of the center. when she died in 1931, the writer langston hughes said the arlem renaissance is over. i have a painting up there by my favorite artist of the harlem renaissance. you can take a closer look when you leave. and of course it was the age of jazz, cab calloway, uv blake, louis armstrong, duke ellington and so many, and so many others. it was a very rich period. and there was a sexual revolution in the 1920's. i think so

scott fitzgerald's masterpiece.one of its characters, tom buchanan talks about a fine book titled "the rise of the colored empires." >> have you read "the rise of the colored empires"? everybody ought to read it. >> the idea, tom explains, if we don't look out, the white race will be utterly submerged. >> the idea is that it's up to us, the dominant race to watch out or these other races -- >> it's all scientific stuff. it's been proved, he says. fitzgerald might not have been endorsing these sentiments, the character who mouths them, tom buchanan, is one of the least admirable characters in the book, representing a certain kind of unthinking, vulgar rich man. and yet in 1921, just a few years before he wrote "the great gatsby," fitzgerald wrote a letter to a critic explaining his own views. the negroids sneak through. raise the bars of immigration and permit only scandinavians, anglo-saxons and celts to enter. fitzgerald seems aware his views were not politically correct. he adds in the letter, my reactions were al

it was f scott fitzgerald who said, "the sign of an integrity us mind is to see both sides of an issuestill maintain one's integrity". i have friends on this board, and it had a conversation with the president. i have no friends nor enemies to punish on this issue. i just came tonight to be the truth giver. [inaudible] one of the blacks to finish harvard university, a degree in sociology, and history. share this, and i quote him; " either the united states will destroy ignorance, or ignorance will destroy the united states". [applause] i do not use the word "ignorance" as a negative. we were talking about, not to be aware, not to be enlightened, not to be a friend of truth. the first thing i want to do, before i sit down, is recommend that every member of the board get a copy of this book entitled "stamped from the beginning". but abraham asked kennedy. the most definitive history racist ideas, in these united states of america. board members, mr. chairman, it pains me that we have become complicit in a move to do a reduction of history. history is history. someone said, if you're goin

he was also reportedly an inspiration for jay gatsby and at scott fitzgerald's novel. his wife imaging with whom he threw gatsby-esque parties and it up falling in love with the very prohibition agent who put him in jail. and this is all true, so that's darted a very sordid love triangle. there was a murderer and a sensational trial and i'll say this, in my book jay and herhoover is one of the good guys . >> i just want to say thank you to curtis and the festival for having me and curtis in me the favor of not reading the subtitle of my book which is murder, fraud and the last trial of harper lee and i was reluctant on the first two of those nouns but into the last one. so i grew up loving mockingbird like a lot of you all did and i had always been interested in harper lee's life and i went down in 2015 for the new yorker to write a story about go set a watchman, the surprising announcement that harper lee would be publishing a new book and when i was recording on that i learned about this other book she tried to write and it was a true crime project about a series of