ms. anderson. i have a question, i am studying from the early 1900s to the 70s, are you familiar with harrison and the new movement in his work? your book about radicals, i felt the naacp dropped the bomb in their work but when you explain the work they have done and people of color inside the u.s., it gave me another perspective on themiv but i think currentlyn right opinion they have dropped the bomb in their efforts being able to affect real change for people of color in c america. >> we are going to leave it there but i did want to ask you, is your research personal or professional? >> personal right now. i wish i had a teacher like her. i went to morgan state and i wish i had a teacher like her at the time when i went. >> thank you for calling in. >> kind of sort of, to beg for me to be specific because i really focused in on the 1940s and taking it through the 1960s so where the focus of my work look that, naacp, civil rights congress, national negro congress, counsel in african affairs, thos

ms. anderson. i have a question. i am from the virgin islands. i am studying the 1900s, from the early 1900s to the 1970s. are you familiar with harrison and the new negro movement and his work and when your book of abu's log radicals, i thought that the naacp had dropped the ball in their work but when you explained the work that they have done for people of color and oppressed people outside the us and inside the us it gave me another perspective on them but i think currently they are in my opinion dropped the ball in their efforts in being able to i affect real change for people of color in america. >> darrell, we're going to bu leave it there but i wanted to ask you is your research personal or is it professional? >> personal right now. i wish i had a teacher like her. i went to morgan state and i wish i had a teacher like her in morgan at the time i went. >> thank you darrell for calling in. hubert harrison. >> kind of sort of, to be for me to be specific. because i really focused in on the 1940s and taking it through to the 1960s. so the fo

ms. anderson for the book she has written. did not realize i did not know much about black history in america until i started reading your book white rage. i was just shocked. thank you so much. i'm going to buy the other three books that you have out there. because i had decided i want to invest in myself to learn critical race theory after 2019 when black lives matter movement went on. and i just did not realize how much i did not know. i just want to thank you for that. cant you tell us a little bit about yourself? >> guest: yes i will be 65 this year. i live in jacksonville, florida. i became interested in politics when i started learning corporate finance at the university for my undergrad degree. when he started looking at politics and seeing all of the different things that were going on and could not really relate to it or really could not give us an educated conversation with that is when i really started investing in myself to learn these things. i was just shocked i never knew about a black coat after the emancipati

ms. anderson, i enjoy seeing your lectures on c-span when you speak to college students. but my question is, stacey abrams changed her position. she used to be against the idea of requiring people, when they vote, to present ids. i heard recently she changed her position. could you explain why? prof. anderson: thank you for that question. part of what you are seeing has been basically the work of the sense that voter ids are reasonable. voter ids, everybody has an id, and that we have voter fraud, voter fraud, voter fraud. so it is not too much to ask for people to show an id in order to protect democracy, in order to protect our elections. they have looked at polls and ascent to something -- and it is something like 70% of americans believe voter fraud happens on a regular basis, and 50% believe it happens regularly. so coming up against that tide, it allows for the discussion about we've got to have laws that protect our voting rights. when the soul it runs up against is voter id and you've got most americans believing that voter ids are fine, again, because it plays to