dr. conyers what is with this man george washington williams, who is he? he said i didn't know him personally but he rode a very wonderful book and he said why don't you write a paper on him and if you do we will help you read it and the association of october and that threw me off once more because i was anxious -- it almost took me off the track of writing about african-americans in general because i became so curious about this man. i couldn't have written about him in one year or two years. it took me 40 years to do the research of the riding on this man but in 1985 by published a life of george washington williams which if i may let you in on a secret is my favorite book. of all of the books that is my favorite. but would take more than a morning to talk about him. it would take several mornings. but as i turn once more to the problem at hand meanly the riding of the history of african-americans i begin to do a systematic research in the library is where i was looking at the time of the college for negros and of deutsch university and at chapel hill a

dr. anthony to speak pointedly to that issue. >> thank you professor dyson. let me welcome everybody here to the chapel. i want to thank congressman john conyers for his leadership and initiating this most important discussion. the dean of the congressional black caucus and the one who brought for 15 years straight the notion that the nation needed to recognize dr. martin luther king jr. and through his efforts he supported everybody, women and men every race every issue. let's give a hand to congressman john conyers. thank you congressman for the work that you do. [applause] professor dyson we are unequivocally and unapologetically opposed to the emergency manager. we have said that for many many months. simply because one is an economic distress does not mean we have to be -- by the imposition of a one-man rule. unfortunately 50% of the african-american population in the state of michigan resides under an emergency manager. that is in our view on constitutional, undemocratic and goes against the grains of what america supposed to be about. we believe the position of the emergency manager and the bankruptcy that has subsequently been filed si

dr. dies in and thank you to congressman john conyers for having this forum. i'm going to stick to what i know which is being a lawyer and analyzing this from a legal perspective. we need to slow down. we need to make sure that this process on the front and is legal and there is very little concentration being devoted to that. public act 72 is emergency financial manager at the cabin was appointed under. the problem is it did not exist at the time of this his appointment. michigan law is clear. michigan compiled laws says that i'm going to read this verbatim because it's very important. whenever a statute or any part thereof shall be repealed by a subsequent statute such statute or any part thereof shall not be revived, shall not be revived at the repeal of such subsequent repealing statute. the fallacy that we are all operating under is that kevyn orr was -- public act 72 was repealed by public act for. when we went to the ballot box and we voted to repeal public act for, public act 72 did not spring back to life. the governor gave them a contract under 72 an