cultural impact internationally you talk about much earlier on the ira celebrating him you talk about paul robeson celebrating. the tour in the context of the vietnamese war why is it toussaint louverture was a raise from my history book and yet it was in irish books and books in vietnam well i think that part in a sense of a slightly bigger conversation which is how how do we remember the colonial period and for a long time those stories were written by and in a sort of way that celebrated the circle achievements of empire and and this is. also true of the french. the french french a secondary school children are found to my astonishment i do not learn something here but the point that i make in the book is that as a survivor and what i would call popular memory he survived in the minds of the slaves who were fighting to free themselves in the 19th century and he survived in the minds of all the peoples who were fighting against colonialism and imperialism in the 20th century he really has this iconic figure even under british broadcasting rules today i have to say to our viewers we do not back d

paul robeson is providing the music. you've got a couple of delegates there who become united states senators, one of which is george mcgovern. and they kind of go off on to their own, but their campaign is downward, downward, downward with the progressives. the dixiecrats meet again. they dominate strom thurmond. all the while, things are going on in the world and in the country. as the conventions are meeting, country joe stalin decides to block berlin. so, what do you do? start a world war? do you send the convoys in or do you do an airlift? do you figure out how to do an airlift to supply the people of west berlin before they riot and demand communism? and america figures out how to do that. and that's one of the things going on. you've got the return of the peacetime draft. now, world war ii, there was a segregated army. the blacks are saying, okay, we put up with that during the war. we're not putting up with that again. and a. philip randolph says to harry truman, you do this again, i'm going to have a march on wa