are going mississippi. but i hate to say it but i think these kinds of things are unfortunately happening around the entire country in terms of, you know, this idea of kind of carrying, for lack of a better term at times and. was there anything else about the goon squad story that that shocked. well i mean that whole the fact that they were breaking into homes without warrants they after they did this shot this young man, they tried to cover it up. so they staged the crimes scene. they planted drugs they lied about it to investigate. they filed false reports. and that's a pattern unfortunately that we saw these cases over about a 20 year period. that this was going on and on. everybody we interviewed, no one. there was not single warrant we could find for any of these cases that we investigated and the people that we interviewed all said, no, we didn't give them that permission. come in the house. but course, they claimed in their reports a number of their reports that, oh, yeah, you know, they they they in

that's mississippi. and so i thought we'd start off by each of you kind of discussing meaning behind your book titles and just spend a of minutes giving us a synopsis of what your book is about. and we'll start with digits. sorry, everybody hear me? yes. my book title, your honor, come day comes from a -- spiritual. and i just remember listening to one of the recordings of folk singing this song in the 1930s as part of the federal writers project, which is kind of what my book is about. and it was really powerful song that they used to reach out to. so the enslaved men folks would gather around in circle and they would sing these spirituals, and they would have this worship experience called a ring shout. it's like shuffling their feet and clapping, and it's just really powerful to hear and powerful to witness. and so that's kind where the title came from. my book is a collective narrative. so it is the story of a main character who goes from childhood, adulthood to read motherhood, and she starts out in

when he got across the river, mississippi. and there's that famous scene in the autobiography, i'm happy to be here, you know, dry land, etc.. he was supposed to halt and send a corps maclaren's corps down to a little place called port hudson about 4 hours south, vicksburg. and take care of port hudson first because those were the two remain. he fresh water ports that the confederacy possessed and then the two armies. okay. would unite the operation from port hudson and the vicksburg operation. they would unite in march on vicksburg, together only problem is grant. so a couple of things really quickly. one, the commander that would come up from the south outranked grant and he would ever get bad. often they would add in the vicksburg operation. and secondly, he said, i am now between two armies. one in vicksburg and a relief army that's arriving at jackson. yes. and i'm in the pincers and i've got to move against one of the other inmates. really? yes. and i can't wait for orders because if you were at vicksburg, they'd have di

and also right here and mississippi. if you were going to make a video diagram of these two blocks, the intersection would really be the themes of fraud greed, money coupled with a set of larger than life, unforgettable characters. and then, of course, comes a day of reckoning. so we will explore are all of those areas in our discussion today? and i'm joined by coauthors and brothers here on end brody mullins and investigate. reporter most recently the wall street journal and his brother luke mullins, contributing writer at politico magazine. they have written the wolves of k street the secret history of how big money took over big government. and here in mississippi, a man who probably might really not need too much of an introduction and given the amount of attention that the story has gotten, state auditor shad white, who has written his account of the largest corruption. scandal in mississippi's history, mississippi swindle, brett farve and the welfare scandal that shocked america. so thank you all for joining me for

and mississippi is an iconic place. i also have a deep love for art and the culture that comes out of that. so i wouldn't mind spending more time there. so a little selfish, right and so i said, okay, well, i got to find somebody and that was just through friends of friends of friends, right. because i had my first book was about food, so i'd spent time up at oxford, at the southern foodways alliance and had built a network of folks. and so i knew some folks from jackson who, knew some folks who had gone to different schools, had friends. and so like this family is from hattiesburg, and they were up for talking with me, right? and then to them were folks i knew personally. so i have a a young who in 1994 decided to go to school and sell some lsd and he got caught and then he threatened violence and took money from the kid who snitched him and ended up before a judge 1994 with charges dealing drugs on school grounds and larceny. and he got given second chance. right. and so that's about very clearly about race. and he's

welcome to 10th mississippi book festival. i'm chris goodman with the mississippi department of archives and history. we're closing out our afternoon session in the c-span room with the reckoning panel featuring authors whose books confront the shadows of our past and chart a course toward a more just future. we'll hear from our authors and open the floor to questions from you all at the microphone and here in the center of the room. if you've not already done so, please silence phones. our moderator is rebecca tori, the assistant associate of the honors college and an associate professor of history at the university of southern, where she teaches classes in u.s. civil rights, african-american and women's gender history. tori, also the current president of the mississippi society. thank you, chris, and thank you to everyone here today for this amazing. i also want to take a moment to thank our sponsors before we begin sponsoring c-span coverage is barbour. hearst and sponsoring panel itself is the mississippi humana peace coun

goes up to the mississippi river. he's he's thinking the country is going to expand into the northwest. he didn't like the south. he went on this southerner did not like the south. he went on as president. he did tours of the country. he thought he should show himself. his first one was 1789 to new england, and he goes to rhode island. it's after ratifies constitution of 1790 and he really likes new england. it's orderly at things put together. well, there he had learned to deal with the new england soldiers. they he understood this was already a country of cultural diversity in the revolution. and the way you dealt with virginia soldiers and the way you dealt with new england soldiers was different. and you better figure it out. he goes, he loves that part of the country. the next year, too, he goes on a trip to the south, trudging through north carolina, trying to find a decent in the ramshackle buildings. he doesn't like the south carolina coast that has 90% of the population are black slaves. he does not like that

he insisted he was miles away at home in mississippi that night.martin never puts himself at the crime scene, which seems kind of odd. so is he lying, you know, to kind of distance himself, to make himself look better? andrea canning: but jimmie did admit to helping sherra and billy clean up the crime scene two days later, before anyone realized lorenzen wright had gone missing. using his mom's metal detector, jimmy said the three of them looked for leftover evidence, including one of the two murder weapons, which went missing during the shooting. but they never found it, said jimmie. so he and billy took the handgun they still had to this little lake in mississippi. jimmie martin: we were out there at the lake, little pond. he cleaned 'em off. and he threw 'em in the water. detective: how many? jimmie martin: it was just one gun. detective: what kind? jimmie martin: a 9-millimeter. andrea canning: and that, insisted jimmie martin, was the god's truth of how memphis icon lorenzen wright was murdered and the crime covered up, all orchestrated by she

my grandmother still lives in mississippi.in, i hear about things that they are worried about. it's no different from my friends in atlanta and many families across america. they are worried about grocery prices, affording medicine and paying bills. other things that they talk about is the hope that kamala harris brings them. how they feel she cares about them in their overall well-being. how she's capped the cost of their insulin and how they know that she's going to do even more. my grandmother is right. kamala harris is fighting for all of us. from my grandparents and small town mississippi, to young families just getting started in atlanta, she is fighting for all of us. [ applause ] when she talks about building her opportunity economy, she's talking about an economy that will actually work for all americans. because kamala harris believes it's not enough to simply get by. she believes that we all must thrive. donald trump wants an economy that works for he and his billionaire friends. he doesn't want to lift us up. he wa

mississippi has been one of the states. in the southern states, 10 years ago, they passed laws that required photo i.d.. for so many, they were maybe 50, 60 miles from the closest place they could get an official government i.d. it was disenfranchising people who had been able to vote their entire lives. and these are unfortunate developments during times of hyper partisanship. it is very difficult sometimes once you create these situations to be able to undo them. it will take decades to be able to work out political shifts, given the way lines have been drawn to make them guaranteed to be republican in this case, but in some other states, guaranteed to be democrat. i can understand voters get very frustrated by it. host: i want to play a harris ad that has been playing in nevada for you, professor, and then get your comments on it. v.p. harris: this election is about two very different visions for our nation. one is focused on the future and the other is focused on the past. when the middle class is strong, america is str

and in towns like shaw, mississippi or bolton, mississippi just to give a couple of examples of these small towns. they were laying wider water mains and narrower, cheaper ones in african american neighborhoods. this cost people their lives. fires would break out in black neighborhoods and african american neighborhoods and this cost people their lives. fires would break out in black neighborhoods and there was water pressure to put out fires. these were the kind of things that often times when after the voting rights act after they began winning elective office they began to discover the extent to which these committees their communities have been underserved. this was something again that was a subtle but nevertheless very significant. the unequal development of white and black neighborhoods in cities and towns across south. >> absolutely, that is the water system what about the education system. how did you discover, what did you discover in terms of what was happening in black schools and white schools because education was segregated in the early 1900s as well. >> yes, it was not

so the appeals court that oversees the law in texas, louisiana, and mississippi, and what they say is mississippi was allowing themselves to count ballots coming in to election officials up to five days after election day. that is not what we believe the federal law across the country should allow. they write texts, press senate, and historical practice. they note that that's the civil war, its soldiers voting historical practice confirmed that this day for the election is the day by which ballots must be both cast by voters and received by state officials. they then send the case back to a lower court judge and say, we want that judge to look at me can you show the status quo in the eve of this election is preserved, meaning it might not change anything for this election, but this reasoning is now out there from a very prominent appeals court, and it could matter if there are ballots that come in in another state that has this sort of rule on the books that allows vows to be counted after election day. that could really come into play especially as republicans want to make arguments

so the mississippi delta. yeah maybe. and co direct tour of the dale center for the study of war and society. she is the author of four books employ. 21 days to baghdad. general buford blunt and the third infantry division in the iraq war, her first book, beyond combat women and in the vietnam war era, was published by cambridge university press and. 2011 and 20 1314. dr. storr was a fulbright scholar. vietnam, where she was a visiting professor in the faculty of international locations at the university of social sciences and humanities in ho chi minh city. let's welcome former. thank so much for that and welcome. thank you so much for being here this morning. before we begin, i want to take a minute and recognize the donor who made this day possible in part by helping to keep the festival free and open to the public, sponsoring c-span's coverage of the book festival throughout day is barbara hurst. while the of this panel are the university southern mississippi dale center for the study in society and candice and john f

so the mississippi delta. yeah maybe. and co direct tour of the dale center for the study of war and society. she is the author of four books employ. 21 days to baghdad. general buford blunt and the third infantry division in the iraq war, her first book, beyond combat women and in the vietnam war era, was published by cambridge university press and. 2011 and 20 1314. dr. storr was a fulbright scholar. vietnam, where she was a visiting professor in the faculty of international locations at the university of social sciences and humanities in ho chi minh city. let's welcome former. thank so much for that and welcome. thank you so much for being here this morning. before we begin, i want to take a minute and recognize the donor who made this day possible in part by helping to keep the festival free and open to the public, sponsoring c-span's coverage of the book festival throughout day is barbara hurst. while the of this panel are the university southern mississippi dale center for the study in society and candice and john f

it originally is responsible for this in mississippi and destruction across the middle east for using use. the issues on the running people unit. the issue is the more of a human tail on the, to a dream has to be significantly restrained to the point even hopefully we'd be eliminated because we see very clearly day in the, out, the lowest damage. and so we have to do this with jim present not only to, to people, not only to the region, not only for the state of use, but also to the world. and it has to be at least fits with in the middle. i'm at strategic intelligence. and list of you. thank you so much for your time today. we really appreciate it. of course, thank you for having a good day off to announcing it was conducting raids inside level known as rail is reporting its 1st combat desta has bla, millicent. say they have clashed with is ready troops who infiltrated a board, a village. israel says it is now sending in regular infantry and homage units as it expands its efforts to stop has the laws cross border attacks. israel also carried out new strikes in southern lebanon and in

to the west of the mississippi river. remember, we had that proclamation line of 1763, and the americans, very quickly, had been like, yeah, we are going past that. by this point, they had reached the mississippi. st. louis is becoming a prominent rivertown. remember that at the end of the revolution, the british and the americans agreed to unimpeded commerce of the mississippi river, they would share that river. well, france is on the other side and france is in possession of this territory of louisiana, which basically hugs the mississippi river from its headwaters in minnesota to where it discharges in the gulf of mexico at the city of new orleans. and france wants to get rid of it. it is bogged down in a series of wars on the european continent. france doesn't have the military or bureaucratic capacity to continue to administer louisiana. so, they say to thomas jefferson, you want some land? and jefferson says, absolutely, i would love some land. there could be a lot of really good stuff out there that this new countr

and in towns like shaw, mississippi or bolton, mississippi, to give a couple of examples of these small that they were openly they were laying you know, wider water mains and the white side of town and much narrower cheaper ones on an african-american neighborhoods. and this actually know cost people their lives i mean fires would break out in black neighborhoods and there was not water pressure to actually put out fires. i mean, these were the these were the kind of things that oftentimes african-americans, you know, after the voting rights act, after they began winning elective, they began to discover that the extent to which these communities their communities had been underserved. i yeah. so this was something again that had, you know, was a kind of a subtle nevertheless a very significant force in the kind unequal development of white and black in cities and towns across the south. absolutely. so, i mean, that's the water system. what about the education system. how did you how did you discover what did you discover in terms of what was happening in black schools and white schools

eastern book tv presents coverage of this year's mississippi book festival.mandy france during world war ii at 3:00 p.m. eastern. loop former nfl quarterback brett favre in the mississippi welfare scandal at 4:00 p.m. eastern. followed by jonathan and robert samuel on the pulitzer prize winning biographies of martin luther king jr. at 5:45 p.m. and at 9:00 p.m. eastern presidential story teddy troy talks with their relationships and power dynamics between titans of industry and u.s. presidents. going back to the late 19th century in his book the power of money. and then at 10:00 p.m. eastern on after words, yale university professor timothy snyder author of on freedom argus freedom is often misinterpreted and offers hi thoughts on what freedom is and isn't. he is interviewed by george washington political science professor and author elisabeth anker. watch book tv every sunday on cspan2. and a full schedule on your program guide or watch online anyte apple tv.org. ♪ the house will be in order. cook this year's he spent five years of covering congress like no

they reached the mississippi saint louis is becoming a prominent river town. remember that at end of the revolution, the british and, the americans agreed to unimpeded of the mississippi. they would share that river. well, france is on the other side and france is in possession. this territory of louisiana, which basically hugs the mississippi from its headwaters in minnesota to where it discharges in the gulf of mexico, at the city of, new orleans and france wants to get rid of it. it is bogged down in a series of wars. the european continent. france doesn't have the or bureaucratic capacity to continue to administer. louisiana. and so they say to thomas, you want some land? and jefferson says, absolutely, i would love some land. there could be a lot of good stuff out there that this new country could use. there could be a lot of really interesting to be gained from going and exploring this place. all louisiana territory, you, napoleon and all ad 828,000 square miles of territory to the united states doubling in effect in one sort of purchase the entire exten

it's changes to the course of the mississippi river. is climate change. an intense storm that, that of a road in the area a dan, look this can you take of, you can see those canals the those long straight lines. those are canals that were caught in the marsh. those are, yeah, those are canals that have been cut in the march for oil and gas exploration. the state is lost over nearly 5000 square kilometers worth of land over over the last 100 years. even under the more optimistic scenario that will well over a 1000 square kilometers worth of land over the next 50 years. so we're looking at a landscape that is going to remain risking and is going to probably become riskier as a place to live in the me got you to see the cadillac i am from watkins parents, louisiana. been there all my life. it's a beautiful place to live, but it's a community that struggle and hold on to its roots because of sea level rise. cool us by, you know, the climate change and different things, but mostly we're going out to see like to type panic. it's really down. we go from you're l

and if we happen, be down there in alabama or mississippi or louisiana, then suddenly racism is something that happened here as opposed to understand the white supremacy has not being more than just a regional phenomenon, but a national phenomenon, something that touches all corners of the country. the second thing that limiting the civil rights to the south in our teaching, the second thing that it does is it distorts what racism was and not only regionalized was racism saying it just happens down there, but it actually distorts what it was. so we begin to think of these race segregation. what does your discrimination discrimination law as being only as something that only happens down there that's the only place in the south and in georgia mississippi where there were explicit laws that desegregated everything else was just by act, by accident, by happenstance, the segregation that occurs the south was what was just by accident. white folk just happened to live together. they just and black folk just happened to live together in these dilapidated, decaying neighborhoods in inner cities.

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preelection lawsuits making their way to supreme court docket from pennsylvania to arizona to mississippinevada and illinois. david spunt has more. what are big ones before supreme court right now? >> several and it is only tuesday. start in pennsylvania, huge one, late yesterday afternoon state republicans asked to block lower court ruling allowing voter provisional to be countied like arrivin in mandatory secrecy envelopes. in virginia, justice department has 55 minutes left to submit reasons why supreme court should allow 1600 virginia voters on the roll. the beginner says if you say you are not an american citizen on state form, you should not be able to vote. in early august, glenn youngkin signed order that resulted in frequent checks that removed 1600 voters. it was argue said this violated federal law. a panel of appellate judges claimed lawful citizens were taken off because they did not fill out a box on a dmv form. north carolina argued before appeals court challenging 225,000 voter registration in the election battleground, the state gop wanted it to remain in state court, fed

the plan's uneven acting in this mississippi until the early 1960s. we do that because that allows us not to look at the border and broader society and black folk most places in the south, in particular not worried about the humor worried about the white neighbors. when you look back at those lynching postcards, postcards of actualal lynchings in the turn f the 20th century this beginning of mass protection of photography and healing those images, and forget about it the body that had been a human being, that had been murdered the crowds, nobody is wearing a mask. nobody is wearing a wooden these folks are not enrolled from there in their everyday clothing. white supremacy and racial terrorism. the principal purveyors of it. during this era, in the south, every day white folk. as a nation, we have to own that. we get out of owning death by saying that it was a clan is the racial terror groups and we all used to all relief like the clan. and outside of the self, black folks are worried about the clan, is a principal purveyors of the racial terrorism of

host: judy in mississippi on the line for independents. good morning. caller: i voted against donald but i'm on the republican side this time. i don't understand why people blame biden for the inflation and do not realize that on december 19, when covid came out, trump told us it was not real, it was a hoax and it would go away and continued to have rallies during the whole time. he said he knew it would be bad but it was -- but was afraid it would cost him the election. steve bannon sold money. -- stole money from the wall. it was called rebuild the wall. bannon is supposed to be sentenced in december. host: judy, talk to me about who you are voting for for your member of congress. caller: i voted for -- pickens i think his name is. i voted for anyone running against trent haley. i voted democrat all the way. host: audrey in blue hill, kentucky. caller: hello. we are very fortunate to have morgan mccarthy. previously, we had john yarmuth. we are very happy to have morgan . he has done a lot for us here. host: so you are voting to reelect him? caller: y