i got to college and i can across james goodman and a book he wrote called stories of scottsboro and i ended of taking a class with him on the american south in the 1920's and 1930's. >> had you ever visited? >> i had not. we had gone to monticello as a child but i had never thought about a completely different kind of america with completely different races and ethnic and religion and everyone i knew it was a few generations in america. very different racial politics and i spent several summers in college in the south, and i spent time after i graduated from college in the south, and i just thought that it was really a world very unlike what i have experienced all the one of the things i discovered in writing this book was that we think of jim crow as a southern experience and i don't think that is true anymore. there's a lot about jim-crow if you understand it more broadly than was true of the whole nation to reassertion the forms of the segregation march largely limited but not entirely at all. but a lot of the more economic forms of exploitation existed nationally, and part of wh

white house press conferences until very near the end of his life, took no public position on the scottsboro case, and it was his wife who took the strongest and on racial issues and famously moving a chair to sit in the middle aisle of the segregated event. roosevelt wanted african-american support. he offered unlimited support. such rhetoric and denaturalize the lower position of african-americans international hierarchy and he did very little to address or alter them. through all of this rhetoric he did stress the issue of fairness and for him fairness demanded the deferral of some demand on the system that he considered excessive or unworkable and he never consistently favor one group above others either politically or rhetorically. but instead relied on language like quote we know the human factor which interests are largely into this picture. we're trying to apply to all groups needing aid and assistance and not merely to a few scattered or favored groups. demanding more than the president was likely to give you made that he within cascade you as selfish or unwilling to share or as unf

line in the white house press covers until the very near end of his life, took no position on the scottsboro case, and it was his wife or to a strong stand on racial issues resigning from the dar and famously moving a chair to sit in the middle aisle of a segregated event. roosevelt wanted african-american support but he offered only limited -- such rhetoric tended to naturalize the organization of african-americans in the national hierarchy and he did very little to address or alter the. to all of his rhetoric he did stress the issue of fairness, and for him fairness demanded the deferral of some demand on the system that he considered excessive or unworkable, or poorly timed it and he never consistently favored one group above others either politically or rhetorically. but instead relied on language like quote, we know the human factor which enters a largely into this picture. we are trying to apply to all groups needing aid and assistance, not merely to a few scattered or favored groups. them anymore than the president was likely to give you meant that you would castigate as selfish or am