bears a slight resemblance, but is not eric coughlin for legal reasons. but we thought that captured the spirit of the book, showing that american popular culture has its roots in 1776. >> host: and paul cantor is the author of this book, "the invisible hand in popular culture: liberty versus authority in american film and tv." thank you for joining us. >>ing -- >> guest: well, thank you for having me here. it was a great pleasure. >> this was a town with slavery throughout the colonial period and up until emancipation. but i didn't want realize how bad the jim crow movement had been after the war in the early 1900s. and that i found a real shock. annapolis was one of the two cases decided by the supreme court of the united states in 1915 for the grandfather clause. if you, if you've googled grandfather clause, you get grimm v. oklahoma. and be this is an oklahoma case that deals with some restrictions on voting. in that case as well was a case involving a law passed in 1908 by the maryland legislature changing a charter of the city of annapolis to restri