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2005-12-19T00:58:16-05:00https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvNzM2XC8xODk2MTktMTAtbS5qcGciLCJlZGl0cyI6eyJyZXNpemUiOnsiZml0IjoiY292ZXIiLCJoZWlnaHQiOjUwNn19fQ==Ms. Davis moderated a panel discussion on the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Authors who had written books about the civil rights movement discussed the administration of former President Lyndon B. Johnson, the work of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and individual examples of discrimination. Following their discussion, the panelists responded to questions and comments from members of the audience.
Nick Kotz is the author of Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America, published by Houghton Mifflin. Margaret Erhart is the author of a novel about the death of a plantation owner in the 1960s, Crossing Bully Creek, published by Milkweed Editions. Robert J. Robertson is the author of Fair Ways: How Six Black Golfers Won Civil Rights In Beaumont, Texas, published by Texas A and M University Press.
Nick Kotz is the author of Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America, published by Houghton Mifflin. Margaret Erhart is the author of a novel about the death of a plantation owner in the 1960s, Crossing Bully Creek, published by Milkweed Editions. Robert J. Robertson is the author of Fair Ways: How Six Black Golfers Won Civil Rights In Beaumont, Texas, published by Texas A and M University Press.
Ms. Davis moderated a panel discussion on the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Authors who had written books about the civil rights movem… read more
Ms. Davis moderated a panel discussion on the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Authors who had written books about the civil rights movement discussed the administration of former President Lyndon B. Johnson, the work of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and individual examples of discrimination. Following their discussion, the panelists responded to questions and comments from members of the audience.
Nick Kotz is the author of Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America, published by Houghton Mifflin. Margaret Erhart is the author of a novel about the death of a plantation owner in the 1960s, Crossing Bully Creek, published by Milkweed Editions. Robert J. Robertson is the author of Fair Ways: How Six Black Golfers Won Civil Rights In Beaumont, Texas, published by Texas A and M University Press. close
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