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again, we are talking about mississippi, to the poorest, most violent parts of mississippi, to start organizing black folks to vote and became sort of a legend for his prowess as an organizer but also his physical courage and his ability to stand up to the klan and go to prison and so forth, but he was also very self-effacing. you have probably heard of freedom summer, which is when sncc tried to bring more than 1000 black and white students into mississippi in the summer of 1964 to register black folks to vote, to teach young black children, eventually to help take a delegation of newly registered blacks to the democratic convention in atlantic city in 1964, to get them seated. bob moses was the mastermind of all that. and so was then very uncomfortable with being in the limelight. and so in early 1965, he stepped back. he changed his name. he said i don't want to be called bob moses anymore. his middle name was paris. he said i am now bob paris. he quit sncc. eventually he got a draft notice. he was in his 30's, so it was clearly deliberately targeted with that, and so he escaped t
again, we are talking about mississippi, to the poorest, most violent parts of mississippi, to start organizing black folks to vote and became sort of a legend for his prowess as an organizer but also his physical courage and his ability to stand up to the klan and go to prison and so forth, but he was also very self-effacing. you have probably heard of freedom summer, which is when sncc tried to bring more than 1000 black and white students into mississippi in the summer of 1964 to register...
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mississippi plan spread through the south. south carolina, and by the way joe agreed that if i did that, this lecture, he was going to buy me a house in dietrich. in buford, i think it would be fitting for fletcher university to be right about reconstruction in the new museum. i forgot where i was. in louisiana in 1898, ladies and gentlemen coming in 1898, there were registered voters in the states of louisiana. after they shook that, by 1904 that number was reduced precisely, 342. think about that, that is how devastatingly effective the rollback to reconstruction looked. one more thing. the narrative, the narrative. birth of a nation, the most racist film ever made, is not about the civil war. it is about reconstruction and it focuses on south carolina majority black legislature. they become the metaphor of the trope for incompetence, ignorance, lust. one woman in the film, in silent film, they passed the miscegenation law making it illegal for black men to marry white women. that is where the invention of the trope of gus t
mississippi plan spread through the south. south carolina, and by the way joe agreed that if i did that, this lecture, he was going to buy me a house in dietrich. in buford, i think it would be fitting for fletcher university to be right about reconstruction in the new museum. i forgot where i was. in louisiana in 1898, ladies and gentlemen coming in 1898, there were registered voters in the states of louisiana. after they shook that, by 1904 that number was reduced precisely, 342. think about...
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stanly godbold is professor emeritus of history, mississippi state university. he's the author now of two volumes of history, jimmy and rosalynn carter. the first the georgia years. 1924 through 1974. and now jimmy and rosalynn carter power and human rights. as i say, he was professor of emeritus at mississippi state. he's the author of three other books. alan gas, glasgow and the woman within and christopher gadsden and the american revolution and confederate colonel and cherokee chief. the life of william holland thomas. but it's biographies of jimmy and rosalynn that brings us here tonight. and, you know, i think there is probably better person to be in congress with stan lee than steve. steve has been to president carter since 81. he helped research and edit carter's book, keeping faith, and has really had a hand in every book too. carter has written or projects or classes at emory university, so sit back, enjoy its time to learn a lot about president and mrs. carter. steve stanley. thank you, tony. thank you, tony and it is really quite an honor for me to b
stanly godbold is professor emeritus of history, mississippi state university. he's the author now of two volumes of history, jimmy and rosalynn carter. the first the georgia years. 1924 through 1974. and now jimmy and rosalynn carter power and human rights. as i say, he was professor of emeritus at mississippi state. he's the author of three other books. alan gas, glasgow and the woman within and christopher gadsden and the american revolution and confederate colonel and cherokee chief. the...
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senator durbin, in the state of mississippi, a black woman as 118 times more likely to die by carrying a pregnancy to term than by having an abortion. the state of mississippi has notoriously been a death sentence for black women dating back to the time of slavery, through jim crow into the present. if we don't thread that needle together, then there's a lot that we are missing. there's a reason why black women in mississippi have sought to be able to terminate pregnancies for their own bodily autonomy, for their own safety, for their own health. mississippi is one of the deadliest places not just in the country to be pregnant, but one of the deadliest places in all of the industrialized world to be pregnant. and right, now as our antiabortion measures being spread through what was the u.s. confederacy, what we see here the people who are most harmed where the people most harmed during american slavery and jim crow two. that happens to be black women. >> think you, professor. senator graham? >> thank you. three interesting discussion, i think we need to put it in context for the world
senator durbin, in the state of mississippi, a black woman as 118 times more likely to die by carrying a pregnancy to term than by having an abortion. the state of mississippi has notoriously been a death sentence for black women dating back to the time of slavery, through jim crow into the present. if we don't thread that needle together, then there's a lot that we are missing. there's a reason why black women in mississippi have sought to be able to terminate pregnancies for their own bodily...
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so the ap after him was a steamship, him out of saint louis, heads north on the mississippi river and promptly decides promptly, i don't know if they decided promptly crashes into the very first railroad bridge across the mississippi river. it's only been up for two weeks now. this railroad actually if you've been to rock island and it's pretty cool to go to rock island and on the on the davenport, iowa side of of there, there's a really cool statue of of lincoln. and the lincoln talking to a kid about this case. and there's really two bridges. one goes from illinois to the island and, one from the island across the rest of the place to what's now iowa. so this this this the steamship crashes into the bridge, catches fire, burns down to its hull. luckily, none of the passengers were injured, but they lost millions of dollars of cargo in the course of the ship itself. it also damaged the bridge to the point they couldn't run trains over it and they'd only just started running trains over it. so lincoln takes this case. he's working for the railroads and he did quite a lot of work for t
so the ap after him was a steamship, him out of saint louis, heads north on the mississippi river and promptly decides promptly, i don't know if they decided promptly crashes into the very first railroad bridge across the mississippi river. it's only been up for two weeks now. this railroad actually if you've been to rock island and it's pretty cool to go to rock island and on the on the davenport, iowa side of of there, there's a really cool statue of of lincoln. and the lincoln talking to a...
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invited me over for dinner twice and asked me to accompany her on a trip to the ingles shipyard in mississippi to christen the uss, ticonderoga. little did i know these outings would find their way to the metro section of the post and as such there was no more hiding from my coworkers and senator hadfield's office who i was related to. five years later on christmas night at the white house my husband of 35 years asked me to marry him. nancy the hopeless romantic could not have been happier that this occurred under her roof. nancy reagan brought grace and honor to her role as the first lady. she was fiercely loyal to her husband and her country. always placing them first. making the white house a home americans and her husband could be proud of was a priority for her. she knew she was a guest in the nation's house and as such she treated it and the people who cared for it. with the deepest respect and consideration. her quiet strength her genuine devotion to her husband and her commitment to helping and comforting others were just some of the reasons america loved her. the celebration of her mi
invited me over for dinner twice and asked me to accompany her on a trip to the ingles shipyard in mississippi to christen the uss, ticonderoga. little did i know these outings would find their way to the metro section of the post and as such there was no more hiding from my coworkers and senator hadfield's office who i was related to. five years later on christmas night at the white house my husband of 35 years asked me to marry him. nancy the hopeless romantic could not have been happier that...
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theyove from the southeastern stateso the new cotton kingdomf alabama, mississippi, louisiana and nsas they' from the upper sou into southern, ohio and i and illinois. and from newngland into new york and the upper north and diana, illinois, michigan and wisconsin. and at the heart of all of these migrations sit midwestern cities places like cincinnati saint louis chicago that form the center of these growing trade and exchange networks. but you also see growth happening on the east coast these trade and transportation transportation networks connecting east and west spur the growth of some other cities like baltimore on the coast that really comes into its own in the early national period an urban populations in the united states skyrocket between 1820 and 1850. in 10. there are just 12 cities with populations of more than 5,000 le. but by 1850 there are almost 150 ties with populations of that size. and as western settlersre traveling they're going with their families. they're bringing their ings with them that you would expect your typical household belongings things like, you know
theyove from the southeastern stateso the new cotton kingdomf alabama, mississippi, louisiana and nsas they' from the upper sou into southern, ohio and i and illinois. and from newngland into new york and the upper north and diana, illinois, michigan and wisconsin. and at the heart of all of these migrations sit midwestern cities places like cincinnati saint louis chicago that form the center of these growing trade and exchange networks. but you also see growth happening on the east coast these...
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he's back at home, 1946, to cater mississippi. he leads a group of black veterans who try to to vote, only to be turned away, a white mob with guns, he sd later i had been in omaha beach. all we black soldiers wanted w to be ordinary citizens we fought during the war. america, mississippi included. now, after the germans, japanese hadn't killed us. it looked as whe mississippians would. whatever it was fighting against us that people like james eastland weren't elected democratically. mississippi 48% black population, but only 1% of black people were registered vote because of decades of intimidation. racist tactics like the poll tax. that's what evers was fighting against. he dedicated his life to civil rights helps investigate the lynching of emmett till in the 1950s until evers is tragically in 1963. so we're thinking about what the greatest generation means. we have to include people like medgar evers, these black veterans. there were thousands of black veterans who came back to form the backbone of the civil rights movement t
he's back at home, 1946, to cater mississippi. he leads a group of black veterans who try to to vote, only to be turned away, a white mob with guns, he sd later i had been in omaha beach. all we black soldiers wanted w to be ordinary citizens we fought during the war. america, mississippi included. now, after the germans, japanese hadn't killed us. it looked as whe mississippians would. whatever it was fighting against us that people like james eastland weren't elected democratically....
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but as a young man, he traveled down the mississippi river twice to new orleans, which at that point was the the biggest slave trading market in america, and we know that he stayed just a block or two away from one of the major areas of the slave trade there a slave auction area. so we're certain he saw it then and was repelled by it. he always saw slavery as a moral evil as something running completely counter to the founding ideas of america. he also saw it in an economic point of view that it made no sense economically that people should be able to reap the benefit of what they do for their work and some speculate that early on him being farmed out to other farmers by his father. so showed him the injustice if you're working and you're you're sweating for that product you should you should benefit from that. you should profit from that and of course in slavery that was not the case at all. so a fundamental moral and philosophical repulsion to slavery, but also realizing that this was fundamentally unfair in every way and he had that all of his youth and certainly then put that int
but as a young man, he traveled down the mississippi river twice to new orleans, which at that point was the the biggest slave trading market in america, and we know that he stayed just a block or two away from one of the major areas of the slave trade there a slave auction area. so we're certain he saw it then and was repelled by it. he always saw slavery as a moral evil as something running completely counter to the founding ideas of america. he also saw it in an economic point of view that...
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but when you peel that back, if you go to mississippi, you go to alabama, it's not martin luther king day is king lee day. you go to other places around the country. there's still robert lee day. there's still confederate day. and you get this very mixed, confused message that somehow there's some equivalency or there's some kind of, you know, way in which there is these these individual sort of mesh when in fact, they don't at all. and so that's putting andrew jackson or leaving andrew jackson on in $20 bill continues this mythology that this is someone who the nation should be honoring. as will points out, he not only supervised massacre. he was involved in massacres of native americans for both personal greed purposes, lands that were taken from some of the native americans. he and friends of his were able to get, but also his due to added to that some people's lives are worthy. in some people's lives are were not. and so and he's also seen as kind of the father of democracy in the sense that he was one of the founders of the democratic party. he lost the 1824 election. he won the
but when you peel that back, if you go to mississippi, you go to alabama, it's not martin luther king day is king lee day. you go to other places around the country. there's still robert lee day. there's still confederate day. and you get this very mixed, confused message that somehow there's some equivalency or there's some kind of, you know, way in which there is these these individual sort of mesh when in fact, they don't at all. and so that's putting andrew jackson or leaving andrew jackson...
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christians were erecting gothic cathedrals in the 12th and 13th century europe indian people in the mississippi river basin were constructing temple mounds creating ritual spaces and demonstrating their power through building. and we know that indians continued to visit cities in america and in europe well into the 18th and 19th centuries, they went as diplomats invited guests and of course curious travelers. but with the rise of british imperial power in the 18th century, we see a series of anglo-american cities emerging to the forefront of the north american landscape. by 1775 boston, newport, new york, philadelphia and charleston where the largest urban centers in british north america, and they had populations ranging anywhere from 12,000 people to 20,000 people. and you're probably starting to see this by looking at these statistics that those cities are forming an important part of the colonial economic experience. there's certainly not the norm for ordinary folks only about one in 20 people actually lived in cities in the colonial period so these were small places compared to the large-s
christians were erecting gothic cathedrals in the 12th and 13th century europe indian people in the mississippi river basin were constructing temple mounds creating ritual spaces and demonstrating their power through building. and we know that indians continued to visit cities in america and in europe well into the 18th and 19th centuries, they went as diplomats invited guests and of course curious travelers. but with the rise of british imperial power in the 18th century, we see a series of...
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and as i said, eight out of ten americans still lived east of the mississippi. but there were immigrants coming in by the tens of thousands who wanted cheap land. and there were people that want americans who were already here that wanted to go with them and so the idea of the frontier was was wide open and we've always been a restless people since we since we got here is european-american anyway. and i think that's still true today. i think that we do innovation maybe instead of moving to idaho, but that restlessness and that desire to to on and do something else, whatever we're doing, i think that's still with us. and clearly, the political divide goes up and down in 1876, it happened to be just as bad as it is now in terms of the the dichotomy ten years from now, maybe it'll be like it was in 1904 where things were pretty stable. but i also think that we're not americans in in throughout our history. we're not great thinkers. we haven't put you know, we don't have a lot of philosophers. we don't have a lot of artists that are recognized the world round as and
and as i said, eight out of ten americans still lived east of the mississippi. but there were immigrants coming in by the tens of thousands who wanted cheap land. and there were people that want americans who were already here that wanted to go with them and so the idea of the frontier was was wide open and we've always been a restless people since we since we got here is european-american anyway. and i think that's still true today. i think that we do innovation maybe instead of moving to...
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what wiley found out was a few of the head officers had got too much mississippi run, and they didn't. what they were doing. other soldiers talk about problem of being subjected double quicks and extra drilling for the pleasure of drunken officers who are abusing them for their own amusement. so enlisted men believe that these useless drills are wasting their wasting their manpower, manhood and hurting the war effort. and a confederate soldier, robert watson, went so far as to threaten to desert, to go to some other command because his commanding officer was so drunk he didn't want to abandon his duty completely. but i think as watson saw it, these drunken officers were misusing him. and also, his fellow his fellow soldiers, when the confederacy didn't really manpower to waste. so it was only by a certain deserting and joining another outfit that watson could escape abuse and fulfill his patriotic obligations as a soldier and a man. and this potential for disorder caused by drunken soldiers officers. it left civil u.n. observers horrified as. well, although they might not have been su
what wiley found out was a few of the head officers had got too much mississippi run, and they didn't. what they were doing. other soldiers talk about problem of being subjected double quicks and extra drilling for the pleasure of drunken officers who are abusing them for their own amusement. so enlisted men believe that these useless drills are wasting their wasting their manpower, manhood and hurting the war effort. and a confederate soldier, robert watson, went so far as to threaten to...
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supposed to be thanksgiving dinner for the house she was sent form the previous thanksgiving for, uh, from mississippi to be made into food. but she was tame. s. coolidge completely fell in love with her, wore like a shawl, and she was very much involved in the easter egg rolls, too. so the presidents would bring the pets and the pets mix with the children? oh, absolutely. and the whole thing just kind of continued to jell is a great event for the public. was were the newspapers always interested in this? this always a media event? oh, absolutely. so it helps with the president's image. oh, totally. and then later on, there was the first radio broadcast. when did that happen? well, the first radio broadcast was done by the hoovers, but it wasn't the neither the president nor the first lady actually spoke. the marine band played their music. so that would have been 28. 29. yes. and what would a radio broadcast of an easter egg roll really be like? well, it again, it was mostly the marine bands, music and probably a lot of laughing kids in the background. one of thomas edison's early videos, actually, i
supposed to be thanksgiving dinner for the house she was sent form the previous thanksgiving for, uh, from mississippi to be made into food. but she was tame. s. coolidge completely fell in love with her, wore like a shawl, and she was very much involved in the easter egg rolls, too. so the presidents would bring the pets and the pets mix with the children? oh, absolutely. and the whole thing just kind of continued to jell is a great event for the public. was were the newspapers always...
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well, there a ulysses s grant presidential library which is at mississippi state university, which is a fascinating story. i'm on the board of that and they have become, amazingly enough, mississippi state university has become one of the centers of civil war studies and politics of the second half of the 19th century because of that interest. and it's drawing young scholars, male and female, the new executive director, a woman professor at msu. and so that didn't exist before there, was a huge collection of papers that were sort of being privately published over the last 50 years. and now this public institution, supported by a school by the way, tweed in a huge way that has really made a lot of it possible. so that's that's one way and it's become an enormous for people who want to sort of find the truth in the archives as to listening to what people say on, social media. so thanks for bringing that up as a question. anyone else on that? so i the way we got we got somebody from pennsylvania week looking at that my. so so i'm bertram taylor i'm a great grandson of rutherford b hayes
well, there a ulysses s grant presidential library which is at mississippi state university, which is a fascinating story. i'm on the board of that and they have become, amazingly enough, mississippi state university has become one of the centers of civil war studies and politics of the second half of the 19th century because of that interest. and it's drawing young scholars, male and female, the new executive director, a woman professor at msu. and so that didn't exist before there, was a huge...
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and so this is the mississippi ordinance of secession and you can see right from this part here. our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery the gradious greatest material interest of the world. they're not messing around they're telling you exactly why they are leaving and again, they say that they are going to dissolve the union. this is not just about leaving the union. this is about dissolving the compact. so once these seven states have seceded they determined to create their new nation and they meet in montgomery in march 1861 to draft a new constitution for their new nation and to put a provisional government in place. now again, the confederate constitution indicates exactly what this conflict is all about because these men set up a confederate constitution very closely modeled on the us constitution, which you read for today, and it's a subject that we're going to be discussing more on thursday, but some key provisions here. it explicitly protected the institution of slavery, right so it comes right out and says it this is a country dedicated to
and so this is the mississippi ordinance of secession and you can see right from this part here. our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery the gradious greatest material interest of the world. they're not messing around they're telling you exactly why they are leaving and again, they say that they are going to dissolve the union. this is not just about leaving the union. this is about dissolving the compact. so once these seven states have seceded they determined to...
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now, the fires are warning people in alabama and mississippi, in georgia that slavery is in danger. but what's fascinating is in the 1830s, most southerners and other states aren't buying that argument. and in fact, many states, north and south, passed resolution bans condemning nullification and and let's see, alabama, i believe they warn that nullification is going to, quote, make a shipwreck of the best hope of mankind, by which they mean the union. so southerners in, you know, in alabama, mississippi, georgia, florida aren't aren't buying this this argument. they are very much kind of remaining loyal to the union and andrew jackson receives letters from across the country, people volunteering to fight to preserve the union if it comes to violence. and jackson estimates that he has somewhere between 150,000 and 200,000 volunteers. so if war breaks out, that's the force that he has to bring to bear on south carolina. and war comes closer to breaking out than most people appreciate. there's a great deal of political violence. that's a theme, a theme for for for both of you and and
now, the fires are warning people in alabama and mississippi, in georgia that slavery is in danger. but what's fascinating is in the 1830s, most southerners and other states aren't buying that argument. and in fact, many states, north and south, passed resolution bans condemning nullification and and let's see, alabama, i believe they warn that nullification is going to, quote, make a shipwreck of the best hope of mankind, by which they mean the union. so southerners in, you know, in alabama,...
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among of a policy in the general and in the atlantic unfriendly to their interests in regard to the mississippi they have been witnesses to the formation of two treaties that with great and that with spain with secure to them everything could desire in respect to our foreign relations towards confer in their prosperity. will it not be their wisdom to rely for the preservation of these advantages on the union by which they were procured. will they not henceforth be deaf to those advisers? if such there are, who would sever them from their brethren and connect them with aliens to the efficacy and permanency of your union. a government for the whole is indispensable. no alliances, however strict between the parts, can be an adequate substitute. they must inevitably experience the infractions and the interruptions which alliances in all times have experienced. sensible of this truth, you have upon your first essay by the adoption of a constant of government. better than your former for an intimate union and for the effective efficacy is management of your common concerns. this government the offspr
among of a policy in the general and in the atlantic unfriendly to their interests in regard to the mississippi they have been witnesses to the formation of two treaties that with great and that with spain with secure to them everything could desire in respect to our foreign relations towards confer in their prosperity. will it not be their wisdom to rely for the preservation of these advantages on the union by which they were procured. will they not henceforth be deaf to those advisers? if...