Taylor Branch is the author of a highly-regarded trilogy of the American civil rights movement. He and others spoke at a seminar sponsored by Washington Monthly magazine on January 25. The January/February issue of Washington Monthly focuses on the issue of race.
The Washington Monthly was founded in 1969 by Charles Peters, a "John Kennedy Democrat." (On other occasions, he said "New Deal Democrat.") Many of the nation's reporters and commentators have spent some time under his tutelage at the Monthly. Paul Glastris, a former speechwriter for Bill Clinton, is the current editor.
Full video is here--and here is an interesting interview with Branch conducted by Haley Sweetland Edwards about Martin Luther King’s failed effort to convince John F. Kennedy to issue a Second Emancipation Proclamation.
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