Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Live at America’s Town Hall

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🗓️ 9 May 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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On May 7, host Jeffrey Rosen sat down with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to celebrate the opening of the National Constitution Center’s new permanent exhibit – ‘Civil War and Reconstruction: The Battle for Freedom and Equality.’ The exhibit is America’s first devoted to exploring how constitutional clashes over slavery set the stage for the Civil War, and how the nation transformed the Constitution after the war with the addition of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. Professor Gates discussed the new exhibit in addition to his PBS series about Reconstruction and two new books—"Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow" and a young adult book "Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow." Gates told the story of the advancements of Reconstruction and the Reconstruction Amendments, how those advancements were thwarted by Jim Crow laws like poll taxes, vagrancy laws, and the rise of hate groups, how the Civil Rights Movement fought against that backlash, and how we are still dealing with many of these issues and challenges today. If you enjoyed this constitutional conversation, please listen and subscribe to our companion podcast, Live at America's Town Hall, on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. Questions or comments about the show? Email us at podcast@constitutioncenter.org.

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0:00.0	Hi We the People listeners, I'm Jackie McDermott, the producer of We The People.
0:05.9	Today we're giving you a sneak peek of next week's episode of our Companion Podcast
0:10.6	live at America's Town Hall.
0:12.6	Live constitutional conversations
0:14.9	held here at the National Constitution Center
0:17.1	in Philadelphia and across America.
0:20.4	On Tuesday, we the people host Jeffrey Rosen sat down with Professor Henry Lewis Gates for a conversation about his new series and two new books about Reconstruction.
0:31.0	They also celebrated the opening of the National Constitution Center's new exhibit, Civil War and
0:36.6	Reconstruction, the Battle for Freedom and Equality.
0:40.7	If you enjoyed this conversation, please listen and subscribe to Live at America's Town Hall on
0:46.0	Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:49.1	And join us back here next week for our regular weekly show of constitutional debate here on We the People.
0:55.0	Enjoy the show.
0:57.0	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to
1:06.0	We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
1:09.7	The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress. Constitutional Constitution
1:18.0	among the American people.
1:20.0	Dear We The People Friends, this week, which is the week of May 6th, the National Constitution
1:25.8	Center opened the first permanent gallery in America, devoted to exploring the constitutional
1:31.7	legacy of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
1:34.8	It's called Civil War and Reconstruction the Battle for Freedom and Equality, and it tells the story
1:40.8	of how the equality promised in Jefferson's Declaration of Independence was thwarted
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