why can't i love mississippi?spot, i move all this, in september ♪ ♪ black eye october, so you be thankful the party's not over ♪ ♪ we won the race because they ran a lame campaign ♪ ♪ i'm cooking victory, you want a taste ♪ >> pyinfamous is a proud son and resident of mississippi, a youth mentor in jackson's church and public school systems, owner of a marketing agency and hip-hop artist. this town it feels empty, but where is everybody? >> i think one thing is a lot of people think that you have to leave mississippi to be able to do something great, but i think a lot of it is there is so much bubbling in the undercurrent that sometimes isn't seen. and i think it takes an artist who usually takes something that's blank and creates something that's awesome to be able to see the potential in a place, in a canvas, so to speak, that has been vacated by others. >> soul wired cafe, one of the number of places where something is going on, where artists, entrepreneurs, movement workshops, performance spaces, set up somet

, and that mississippi was in play. it was a battleground state. but now, 2016, what's the trump campaign doing there? as part of his visit to the neshoba county fair this week, donald trump jr, he did speak out in favor of keeping the confederate emblem on the mississippi state flag. he told reporters who asked him about it, quote, i'm for tradition. so we're in kind of a weird place, with the official start of the general election campaign, to see who will be the next president of the united states. it starts today. both candidates have formally won and accepted their parties' nominations, as have their running mates. it's on, today's day one. but for the democratic party, we with can see pretty plainly what their campaign is doing, and we know why they're doing it. almost exactly like bill clinton and al gore did in 1992. after their successful convention in new york city, hillary clinton and her running mate tim kaine, they started a bus tour together. they'll have multiple stops over the course of today and the nex

you need mississippi?y won't need it. it would be nice to talk in those terms. it is a significant victory for our side. there is still some people who vote differently. >> all right. ok. >> they are talking about the new jersey vote now. nay. votes aye, 1 vote >> new york, 154 votes. >> madam, secretary -- new york, the great empire state, casts 20 votes yes, 134 votes no. [applause] >> there were six uncommitted votes in the new york delegation. the way that vote comes up, only one of them went to the ford position. his margin is increasing. >> madam, chairman -- north carolina, the home state of italy graham and senator jesse helms -- [laughter] >> casts 51 votes for >> north carolina, 51 yes, three no. >> half of them in for tomorrow. >> six votes yes, 12 votes no. >> north dakota, six yes, 12 no. >> reagan picked up one. >> ohio, 97 votes. >> madam, secretary -- ohio vote seven votes yes, 90 votes no. >> ohio, seven yes, 90 no. >> oklahoma, 36 votes. >> madam secretary, oklahoma probably cast 36 votes

mississippi, how come? gil: there was a vote today and it could not help the interpreted as a ford vote. it was a real desire in the delegation to be very fair. mike: the people voted 31-28. one person not there. and as a result, you invoked the unit rule. does that reflect the fact certain reagan people simply went along? explain the vote. gil: i think what happened is a decision was made. the ford strength is there and a lot of people did not believe it. there's a strong support for president ford and a strong support for governor reagan. and this brought it out. we kind of divided up in the room. and just passed our most like that. mark reid voted for 16 c but has committed himself to president ford, so that gives us 32 votes. i would say the president has 16-plus votes. mike: what you seem to be saying is the mississippi delegation could go for president ford in the nomination tomorrow night? one quick note. you remember the uncommitted delegate who said she was going to give up the news first. you have

for now, back to "caught on camera." >>> starkville, mississippi, may 12th, 2003.aron clay bursts into the sheriff's office where deputies are taping their interrogation with their 13-year-old son tyler. >> he's been in here for 45 minutes now. they've been in here talking to him for 45 minutes now. >> in the south we say don't start any and it won't be any. i don't start conflict, but i don't take anything either. i will stand up for myself and for my children. >> tyler has come to the sheriff's department voluntarily. after his sister's husband, joey, is found dead at this house just west of town. >> tyler, you're telling the truth, right? they're not making you say stuff that you don't want to say? look at me. look at me. are you having problems? well, what's wrong? >> as with james biela, the camera keeps rolling while a loved one confronts a suspect inside the box. but unlike biela, who remains evasive even with his girlfriend, tyler has spoken to investigators at length confessing to joey's murder. a costly assertion he'd spend much of the next decade denying

she's the one who convinced kennedy to come to mississippi.a little bit of romance in this story. marian wright and peter edelman met on that trip to the delta. they have been married for almost 40 years. marian wright edelman went on to create the children's defense fund. catherine wilson, meanwhile, did get some education and training from programs that grew out of the war on poverty. but the economy today isn't the same as then. >> what has happened over the last 40 years is that we've had a major change in our economy. good jobs have gone to technology, to globalization, and the consequence is that half of our population is not earning enough to support their families and a whole lot of them can't find jobs at all. >> reporter: catherine wilson's had a whole series of part time jobs, but she's never made much money and has survived mostly on government assistance. she's on social security now. 22% of the people in mississippi rely on food stamps. >> some things have gotten better. we've got a middle class that wasn't there. >> reporter: bu

i called my mother in mississippi. in mississippi, i said did you put that on my face? devout catholic woman said i sure did. i want to thank the organizers of this amazing book fair, truly a blessing to be here in historic harlem surrounded by lovers of books, people who revel in ideas and those committed to a just and loving world. we need this in these trying times, to take comfort in each other even as we are angry and even as we grieve that our lives are not reducible to that anger and to that grief. i want to thank rodriguez for his vision, his courage and persistence. i can only imagine what it takes to do this in making this reality. i want to thank the folks running around behind the cameras trying to manage this atrium and all the folks out there on the street. i am honored and humbled by your presence and your powerful witness. i am here to talk about my book democracy in black but my presence is not limited to that. this moment requires much more of us. we have witnessed over many dark days the senseless murder of so many of our people. alton stirling and fe

we wrote it up in a magazine article called "42 days on the mississippi" and it came out.ll the photographs and i wrote the story and i am sitting in the boston globe-- the story came out on a sunday and i'm singing in the boston globe newsroom monday afternoon and i get a call from the atlantic monthly press, which was mark twain's publishing and it's peter davison, the editor there and he said, will, just read your story. i'm in new york and i just read your story about this trip down the mississippi river and want to know if you have enough there for a book. i had lived so many years with a dream of getting an opportunity somehow, someway to write a book and that magical phone call in 1986, maybe 1987. may be-- anyway that was my first introduction to meeting a book editor and to sign to write about. that is how it happened and it was a great scary, frightening, beautiful, wonderful, unforgettable trip with my good friend stan. host: next call for will haygood comes from cindy in maryland. go ahead, cindy. caller: hello. thank you for c-span. i'm a middle-aged lay women

we voted up in the magazine article is called 42 days of the mississippi.t came out we did the photograph of course i wrote the story and i'm sitting in the boston globe. this story came out on a sunday and i'm sitting at the boston globe newsroom on monday afternoon and i get ag ib call from the atlantic monthly press which was mark twain's publisher. and it's peter davison who is the editor there and he says, well i just read your story i'm here in new york and i register about the trip to the mississippi river and i want to know if you have enough there for a book? oh i have lived so many years with the dream of getting an opportunity somehow, someway to write a book. and that magical phone call came in 1986 and that was my first introduction to meeting a book editor into signing to write aoo book. the thought happen.reat is a great, scary, frightening, beautiful, wonderful, unforgettable trip with stan. >> host: next call comes from city in maryland. please go ahead. >> caller: hello. thank you c-span. i'm a middle-aged white women who who campaign for

illinois is the free state southernmost on the mississippi. you see people taking that passage and finding land, even going to nebraska, michigan, wisconsin. thank you. that is perfect timing. much for your participation and the conversation. [applause] >> you are watching american history tv. 48 hours of american programming every weekend. follow us on twitter at c-span history. up next, history professor tammy ingram discusses her book the wickedest city in america. she chronicles the crime investigation committee chaired by tennessee senator estes kefauver. national archives center for legislative archives hosted this event. it is just under one hour. >> thank you for attending this talk. researcher talks invites scholars to tell us about their projects and have the records support them. senatehe highly visible and house investigations of the 1950's have received much research attention over the last two years, we have invited historians to speak about their work in these records. several historians of spoken to us about the senate select c

, and mississippi was then the most difficult state.morations of the 50th anniversary of the freedom rights, somebody said to me, who would have thought that, when we were in mississippi, we would have had a black president. i said, when i was in mississippi in 1961, i would have settled for a black policeman. >> trevor: a beautiful collection of stories. i recommend everyone to read it. i wasn't there, but i say thank you for being there so i could travel there. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> trevor: "jackson, 1964" is thaibl available now. i suggest you read it. calvin trillin, everybody. we'll be right back. (cheers and applause) wrrchg i just saved thousands on my loan at lendingtree.com. in less than a minute, i found out how much home i can afford. i like how you shop for loans the same way you shop for flights online. i didn't realize that at lendingtree you can save ney on almost any sort of loan. i consolidated my credit card debt with a personal loan. i found a new credit card with 0% interest for 15 months. you just shop

. >> reporter: a relentless reporter from mississippi. >> this is my lair. this is where i work on my computer and work on cold cases. >> reporter: and a grieving mother who got a crazy idea and just could not let it go. >> it just feels like this is my duty to make this happen. >> the very first thing she asked me was, would you be interested in writing about a serial killer living in mississippi and i was kind of like, "yeah." >> reporter: lake charles, louisiana, down by the gulf of a tale tangled as old fishing line. best unraveled by boat. cruising through a ship graveyard. >> it's right up here on the right. >> reporter: our guide, investigative reporter jerry mitchell, he's already had a long career uncovering old testament evil in the deep south. stories like the mississippi burning murders that led to the conviction of klansmen. >> there it is. this is it. >> reporter: his latest work appear in the usa today network documentary series called "gone." the case of mary horton vail, haunting the louisiana delta since 1962. ? i can't stop loving you ? >>

i'm from mississippi. at a time when people in mississippi voted democratic. >> how would you define your ideology or where you are on the spectrum? >> oh, on the left, on the left. >> always been there? >> yes, i think. i went to princeton as an under graduate in '50 to '54. paul spellings is classmate of mine. don rumsfeld is, too. he's a princeton graduate. yes. >> the best i could find i read in the back where you say where you got your material in the notes is that you had three four, five interviews, two of them seemed to be the most important were don't rumsfeld and dick cheney. given what you said about herbert walker bush, why would dick cheney see you? how did you work that up? >> don rumsfeld set it up for me. >> why would he set it up for you? >> we were classmates. we lived in the same dorm freshman year. we've known each other since 1950. >> at what school? >> princeton. and we lived in the same dormitory and don is a very popular member of the class of 1954. >> how often did you talk to him

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i am from mississippi. at a time when mississippi voters voted democratic.rian: how would you define your ideology? jean edward: on the left. i have always been there i think. i went to princeton as an undergraduate. in 1950-1954. pulsar veins is a classmate of mine. don rumsfeld was as well. we are democratic. adlai stevenson ran for president in 1952 and in 1956. he was a princeton graduate. --an: the best i could find i read in the back where you say where you got your material. you had 3-5 interviews. donald rumsfeld and dick cheney were important interviews. given what you said about george herbert walker bush, why would dick cheney see you? it was set up for me. donald rumsfeld and i are classmates. we have known each other since 1950. we lived in the same dormitory freshman year. we have known each other since 1950. at princeton. we lived in the same dormitory and don was a very popular member of the class of 1954. brian: how often did you talk to him for the book? jean edward: maybe 20 times. brian: what did you learn from him? i have seen a lot of s

this state of mississippi finally got around to ratifying the 13th amendment that involve the slavery in 2013 and they said it was an oversight. [laughter] >> sold those are difficult pieces in here and take you for telling the story i had only recently learned about but i think being a witness is so important and powerful so i read the books of the ferguson readings and i learned so much i was diligent about reading it and i had to put it down sometimes and it was difficult and painful so my question is wasn't like that for you to write it? and had to be so much more difficult to research? >> it was tough. but i have been through this before in the first book i had to deal with a lot of the lynchings that happened after the second world war so i am dealing with the blowtorch lynching and talking about his eyeballs popping out of his head and by reading those records so i have been in the bowels in that is how it felt in those moments going through this i do have the very term lynching is tough and a woman protested because her husband was lynched she is angry and eight months pregnan

you couldn't really see mississippi in 1980 as a solidly

we're tracking moisture over the ohio screal and the mississippi -- valley, and the mississippi valleyhis will move southeast to northeast direction on monday partly cloudy, comfortable in the city. 60 in the suburbs for the overnight low. 66 degrees in philadelphia. so here is future tracker 6 as we go throughout the morning hours on monday 4th of july, lots of clouds around for philadelphia and points south and east. you can see the showers in dover at that time. even as we go throughout the rest of the afternoon hours, i would allow for showers across the region scattered about the region. as we go throughout rest of the night into monday night, i should say, 11:00 p.m., you notice the showers across south jersey which could heavy at times. there will be a period overnight monday into tuesday where we track a wave of energy moving on threw that could enhance the rainfall across the region. we'll talk about what to expect. it's a cloudy start for the 4th of july on monday. the models have been somewhat all over the place as far as the arrival time of the precipitation, with the moist

mississippi. mississippi, you have 41 votes. how do you cast your votes? >> madam secretary, on behalf of the great state of mississippi, home of the blues, b.b. king, elvis presley and so on, let me say on behalf of fannie lou hamer who made this delegation look like the rainbow tonight because of her activities in atlantic city in 1964, we cast 33 votes for hillary rodham clinton and seven for bernie sanders. >> mississippi, you have cast 33 votes for senator clinton and seven votes for senator sanders. missouri. you have 84 votes. how do you cast your votes? >> the great show-me state, the home of harry truman and the proud alma mater of tim kaine, the university of missouri, and where world series champions hang out, a state that while closely decided in our primary now is united in our determination to change this country, we proudly cast 35 votes for bernie sanders and 49 votes, including the youngest hillary delegate, 17-year-old rachel gonzalez, for the first woman president in the united states of america, hillary clinton. >> missouri senator clai

late last night a federal judge blocked mississippi's religious objection law.it would have let merchants and government employees deny or delay services to same-sex couples by citing their religious beliefs. state attorneys are objected to repeal. mississippi is one of 20 states to pass religious objections bills since the supreme court legalized same-sex marriage last year. >>> the obama administration yesterday asked a federal court to delay the release of 14,000 pages of e-mails from aides to former secretary of state hillary clinton until at least october, 2018. in a court filing administration lawyers said the state department miscalculated the amount of material it would need to process the documents. the e-mails were originally due out on july 21st. >>> donald trump says those who previously signed the rnc pledge to support the eventual republican nominee should come forward and endorse, or never run for office again. >> in my opinion, they should never be allowed to run for public office again, because what they did is disgraceful. >> trump also bashed

another important cartoon was the shame of mississippi the september 1955 and is a little graphic but he wanted to shock the readers to pay attention you have three men the reverend and and it the three black men murdered in the south through the lynchings the mississippi you can see them hanging from the tree and then coming up behind them the calvary civil rights activists dr. howard we have his papers here as well he was such a working in the south on and as casey invited journalists to come down about people they should interview and this was published one week before the trial started from the men who killed and at. >> host: this immediately went through my head but the last line it says he was never awarded a pulitzer prize. >> he was nominated twice in the 1870's we actually have both of the proposals he put together for the pulitzer prize but unfortunately and i think unfairly he lost both times but i may be biased. >> what was the defender to black journalism? >> what is important is it had two printings in national and local. the local you can see on microfilm it was importa

didn't ratify the 13th amendment until 2013. >> yes, the state of mississippi finally got around to ratifying the 13th amendment which abolished slavery in 2013. they they said it was an oversight. >> there are really difficult pieces in here and i wanted to thank you for telling the story. i had only recently learned about it but being a witness to her story is so important and so powerful. i read the book for the ferguson readings on race book club. it's such a great book club. i learned so much. i was really diligent about reading it and i had to put it down sometimes. it was so difficult and painful. my question for you is was it like that for you writing it? it had to be so much more difficult to write it and research it. >> it was tough. one of the things, but i've been through this before in the first book, eyes off the prize, i had to deal with a lot of the lynchings that happened after the second world war. i'm dealing with a blowtorch lynching and they're talking about his blood boiling so hard that his eyeballs popped out of his head. i'm in those records, i'm reading thr

costly siege of a town called vicksburg, one of the last out posts on the mississippi. there's a bloody battle in tennessee which accomplishes nothing in 1862. there are major confederate victories in virginia in december of 1862 and into the spring of 1863. one string of successive confederate victories with staggering human costs. now, this is interrupted temporarily july of 1863 is a hugely significant moment in the civil war because in the span of 24 hours there's a major union victory at gettysburg blunting a confederate invasion of pennsylvania. you see gettysburg at the top of the map. and the very next day vicksburg which was the last stronghold on the mississippi river of the confederacy surrenders to union forces. the rest of 1863 it appears that union military momentum is building on that. by the end of that year tennessee has been completely rid of confederate forces. union armies are now in northern georgia. union armies are threatening within 30 miles or so of the confederate capital. everything seems to be pointing toward a regain of union momentum and th

he had been very successful in fighting in mississippi. and now he has brought to command ultimately all union armies in all theaters of war. lincoln and grant talk a lot during the winter of 1863, 1864. lincoln is convinced that grant has the plan to end the war as soon as the weather improves enough to resume campaigning in the spring of that year. the story of 1864 in terms of the civil war is a story of the way in which that expectation ultimately comes crashing down. in the spring of 1864, there's going to be significant fighting in two areas. i don't care that you remember these specific details. but i want you to try to put yourself in the perception -- or in the perspective of northern civilians who are already in the throes of a war that's vastly longer, vastly more expensive than anyone had ever anticipated when the war broke out, and ask yourself how it would inform your anticipation of the future. two areas of fighting primarily. it is more complicated than this but we can focus on these two areas. one is in the area of virgini

more concerned of the state flags recently hung on south broad and calling on leaders to remove mississippig with the stars and bars. >> they could hang a united states or pennsylvania flag there, it would be a statement to the city to mississippi. >> reporter: jeff jericho, channel six action news. >>> delegates protesters and police will be dealing with some pretty tough conditions, the heat is oppressive even dangerous action news reporter trish continues the coverage with that part of the story. >> reporter: as walls went up in north philadelphia so did the temperatures. >> guys are here early to beat the heat and what we do throughout the day we take extra breaks and plenty of fluids. >> reporter: habitat for humidity have to keep an eye on each other. one of our guys and we told them to go under the first deck to sit and relax. >> reporter: they are still on track to frame four homes in two days their way of welcoming the dnc to philadelphia. >> remember back in the days when conventions were in philadelphia there was no air conditioning this is the true philadelphia experience. >> re

it was a press conference in mississippi. jacket and tie were gone, and my father is in a white t-shirt, looking far older than he did just two years prior. he was serious, he was stern, even angry. this was just days after the attempted murder of james meredith. the march against fear, the student nonviolent coordinating committee, the mississippi freedom democratic party, the congress of racial equality, my father -- and who was at the microphone but dr. martin luther king himself. and they all put their lives on the line so today, this day would come to pass. , it is easy for us to go back through the fog of history with the benefit of hindsight and believe that somehow, this was all inevitable. that somehow, this was destined or preordained. the civil rights act and the voting rights act, briggs versus elliott, brown versus the board of education, edwards versus south carolina, desegregation, integration, the end of jim crow -- it's tempting to imagine history brought us here. but the truth is, history stands still unless

it must have been an odd sight to see that tall, lanky, boy sailing down the mississippi river in 1829 with his companions looking wide eyed and in awe of everything that he saw. just 22 years old and finally freed of the obligations to his father and his farm, lincoln set off from illinois on a flat boat journey with his stepbrother, cousin and employer. sailing on what must have been an amusing sight, a log cabin on a raft with barrels and logs and hogs. lincoln, john johnston, john hanks, and dennis offette set off on adventure of a lifetime. for the first time in his young life, abraham lincoln was traveling afar and while he could not know it, what he would see would shape his thoughts for the remainder of his life. during this trip, lincoln would first come in contact with foreigners in the exotic city of new orleans. and although he probably couldn't and didn't distinguish swedes from dutchman from italians from spaniards, norwegi norwegians, russians, he encount a encounterred them all. he realized for the first time in his young life that immigrants from many lands formed a si

[applause] one day, mississippi, which has an affinity for the bottom, will be mississippi which has ffinity for the top. alabama will be the heart of democracy. one day, south carolina will be a better state. on day, georgia will be a better state. why is this true? because mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord. glory. [applause] and all over the south and nation we can sing, glory hallelujah, glory hallelujah, our god is marching on. and so i say, walk together, children. don't you get weary. [applause] there's a great meeting in the promised land. [applause] >> wow. it was pouring cats and dogs that day. the sun is hot today. but the atmosphere is still the same, filled with electricity from that stage! how many of you all were looking for yourselves in the video? i saw you. i saw you. thank you for being there then. thank you for being here today. let's give dr. king a round of applause. [applause] and we thank him so much for considering king street, the small town of king street, worthy of his time when he was saying indicted to the white -- when he was being

this is about a trip down the mississippi river. king of the cats, came out in 1993. the haygoods of columbus, ohio, love story, 1997. in black and white, the life of sammy davis, jr., 2003. sweet thunder, the life and times of sugar ray robinson, and the butler, and his recent book, "showdown: thurgood marshall and the supreme court nomination that changed america." this your chance to participate. we have been talking for an hour and would like too hear from you. we have gone threw couple of the books so far and will get through a couple of the others this afternoon. 202-748-8200 in the east and central time zone. 202-748-8201 you live in the mountain and pacific time zone. you can contact us electronic, book which of@chance.org and via social media,@booktv is our twitter handle, and you make make a comment on facebook, facebook.com/booktv, you can make a comment in that section. we'll begin taking calls in a few minutes. 1967, thurgood marshall is nominated. where were you, how old were you, and do you remembered? >> guest: i was in columbus, ohio. is was the summe

one mississippi. two mississippi. party's over, party's over! kurt small, that's five days of iss.ight days for you. my wine sack, who did this? who drank my shall chablis? >> no one drank it, we poured it out. >> what wine pairs with ten days iss? zinfandel? sirah? >> jimmy: vice principals" hbo sunday nights. so danny, go back to your real high school experience. >> okay. >> jimmy: we have four people up on the screen. let's put them up on the screen now. i'm not sure if you've figured it out yet. but the woman on the bottom corner we can't see. there appears to be a man lurking behind her. so one of these people is someone from your high school who i presume you know. and do you want to take a guess as to what number that person might somebody. >> well, i know it's not 1 or 4. >> jimmy: okay. >> they don't look like any teachers i ever have had before. >> jimmy: okay. >> i can't see 3's face so i'm not sure. >> jimmy: so maybe we should question number 2? >> yeah, number 2. >> jimmy: please put number 2 on the screen. number 2, what is your first name? >> lynn. >> jimmy: lynn. d

referring to judiciary committee chair james eastland who is a democrat from mississippi. mississippi is left him because he was doing exactly what they sent him to the u.s. senate to do. to maintain those caught in prices and keep the negro down. >> guest: yes. i went to mississippi to do research on james eastlandd legacy and look through his papers and found a lot a very harsh statements he had made about blacks in world war ii he called them cowards. he -- marshall really hadl beca upended the ways of southern senators who were on the committee who are going to be judging him, senator mckellen of arkansas, senator from south carolina, sam urban of north carolina and james eastland mississippi. these were the men who had signed the southern manifesto which the manifesto would keep the democratic party white. these were southern democrats. an so eastland was very perturbed that president johnson given the warning about this nomination because eastland now had a strategy g very quickly to afford to stop marshall's nomination. so he would tell the white house about the hea

it's all mississippi night. ( cheers and applause ) they said, "how come you don't talk about mississippi?" i said, "what should we talk about?" "ooh." okay, yesterday was the north american summit, a meeting between president obama, canada's justin trudeau and mexico's enrique peÑa nieto. let's see how it went. >> all right. so what do you think, wave? >> yeah, wave. >> waves are always good handshake? ( laughter ) >> larry: look at obama's face. brothers don't like to butcher handshakes. this would have never happened at the pan-african summit. i'm just sayin'. ( applause ) nobody blew it up. i'm just sayin'. but this meeting was not about handshakes. it was about climate change, international trade policy, and global security. all right, media. give us your professional analysis. >> well, it could be the most awkward handshake in history. >> the most awkward handshake ever? >> the whole thing got a little bit awkward. >> how does this work? >> things got kind of awkward. >> i would shake hands. this is the kind of thing-- >> larry: oh, "fox and friends." even your demonstration of awkw

atlantic city the dimension, we look today at the voice of sanity live hamer who said on behalf of mississippi freedom democratic party, we did not come all this way for two seats when the races of the regular mississippi party was to retain all of their dozens of seats. very few of our delegates have thatred the terrible abuse sandy live hamer did at the time of the civil rights activists in the deep south. but there's an understanding that you have to sacrifice and sometimes when the top of the party tells you to be quiet, it's important to let your light shine. it's important to speak up and speak out and in the light of history that is upheld. the question is are we also considering floor fights in terms of rules to the platform. >> late yesterday the rules committee after a wild of deliberation seems to have come up with a quote unquote compromise which might remove the need for a fight that remains to be seen her around superdelegates. in terms of platform, there is no minority report as far as i'm aware that has been formally put forward. at the same time, there are efforts under way. i

mississippi, he asked hayes to come along. so he was unable to do that at that time. so while they weren't together, they had very common experiences and when hay wrote his early poems, clemens was the first out to congratulate him on those poems. he was the first to recognize that hey was in the front, these people had written in the in that way before. he was always quick to credit hay ahead of him as the man who popularized the western. he was happy to give him a little nudge anytime he could. so while clemens, we have the civil war and that's going to change everything for both men, he has out west seeking his fortune in mining but he cultivates a writing career there. maybe you can talk a little bit more about what takes him out of his home town and eventually they both converge and meet each other in new york city, post- civil war new york city, the media capital of the print revolution in america. if you could just flush out a little bit about those young bachelor journalists enjoying their days together in new york and

about new orleans, about immigrants, about slavery, life on the mississippi river. he was catholic, french, african, haitian, american. and he became lincoln's friend. their conversations were many times of substance and certainly the foundations of a genuine friendship. late in 1863, floorville wrote him a warm letter of gratitude for the emancipation proclamation that had gone into effect the year before. i thought it might not be improper for one so humble in high of and occupation to address the president of the united states, wrote floridaville. yet do i so thinking fits received by you, it will be received with pleasure as a communication from your dear friend, billy barber. in all likelihood, lincoln first learned of the situation in haiti, heck, he probably first learned about haiti through billy the barber. and the conditions that billy had told him when the men first met in 1831. coincidentally maybe, ironically maybe, three decades later, president abraham lincoln established diplomatic relations with the independent caribbean nation of haiti. thanks to b

barnardo had traveled with ulysses grant's army of the mississippi, but he was back now. for what purposes, i'm not sure in south carolina. it seems as though the composition of this single file possession of a tragic cup 27 people -- at least four of whom are adults, probably reflects input from both the subjects themselves and from the photographer. on the one hand -- do you know or have ideas about what you might be seeing in this photograph? hand, students have asked me what of these bags on people's heads. saw aess when i first much greater your photograph, i thought everyone was wearing hats because the cotton i know about is from the southwest. that is carried in bags. event, what they are carrying on top of their heads, bags with the harvested cotton crop. , they areying it departing from the intended lessons of plantation rituals that have been developed under slavery. under slavery, plantation rituals had ceremonial eyes the power of antebellum christian masters, often by idealizing masters of old as the provider in the dispensing of plantation allowances for as

i taught in mississippi in the first are they totally integrated the schools in the south and one of my classes we did mcbeth and we actually, we read mcbeth and then we had the students perform different things from mcbeth. it was really interesting to see them interpret what they were reading and to get it as part of being able to actually play out the scenes from mcbeth. of of course the witches are everybody's favorite, double bubble tumble trouble and toil. >> guest: is it relevant today? spee2 absolutely absolutely it's relevant. mcbeth, you see what happens to lady macbeth, she cannot wash the blood from her hands because she still feels that guilt and look at some of our situations today were people have done things that are wrong and unfortunately not everybody feels that guilt but there are people who still do. hamlet, the indecision of hamlet trying to figure out what is the right thing to do. it's very relevant today. >> host: if you had to recommend a book or two books on the u.s. senate, on u.s. history and somebody said how can i learn more about what you do appear, is

. >> mississippi -- barber. missouri -- tricia tomlis. montana anita. nebraska troy simmons. nevada dana orrick. jordan russ. >> present. >> thank you, sir. steve dupree. louisiana christine scirano. new mexico rosie -- new york jennifer rich. north carolina -- thomas stock. north dakota. >> here. ohio. jo ann davidson. oklahoma gary jones. megan widmer. oregon. solomon -- chris beretta. pennsylvania joyce haas. lawrence -- puerto rico. rhode island steve farris. elaine grossman. south carolina cindy costa. south dakota david wheeler. and sandy katie. thank you. tennessee john rider. beth cannon. texas steve. utah mike leigh. vermont jason -- >> here. >> thank you. susan hudson. >> here. >> virgin island -- >> here. >> robert max. >> here. virginia ian gentry. washington graham hunt. >> present. >> gina blanchett reid. west virginia betsy -- >> we're going recess until 10:00 a.m. at which point i promise you we'll move forward expeditious. we'll stand in recess until 10:00 a.m. >> thank you, ron. now let me just go through a quick process review for those who are not able to

it must have been an odd sight to see that tall, lanky, boy sailing down the mississippi river in 1829 with his companions looking wide eyed and in awe of everything that he saw. just 22 years old and finally freed of the obligations to his father and his farm, lincoln set off from illinois on a flat boat journey with his stepbrother, cousin and employer. sailing on what must have been an amusing sight, a log cabin on a raft with barrels and logs and hogs. lincoln, john johnston, john hanks, and dennis set off on an adventure of a lifetime. for the first time in his young life, abraham lincoln was traveling afar and while he could not know it, what he would see would shape his thoughts for the remainder of his life. during this trip, lincoln would first come in contact with foreigners in the exotic city of new orleans. and although he probably couldn't and didn't distinguish swedes from dutchman from italians from spaniards, norwegians, russians, he encountered them all. he realized for the first time in his young life that immigrants from many lands formed a significant part of the am

the one before that deals with the set of twin boys also in mississippi and just the different paths that are on offer for young black men coming out in the rural south living through poverty and one gets caught up with selling drugs because he's a depressed and that the other was able to get a job. all of those emotions wrapped up in her room memoir which deals with her own experience of four black men in her life who died and have a big impact on her one of them being her brother in the context for things that happened. i think she's probably the best writer working right now. they are interviewed with so much funk in the beautiful and it's no accident that they are both black southern writers who love that tradition and are proud of it both from mississippi i think it is the best essayist working right now. and situating that in the history of the blues tradition and the essay about that. she wrote about beyoncÉ and the beehive. she really tackles a lot. she takes the big pop culture pop-culture moments and provides incredible context for them. how did you had time to read all of