Author, Sana Butler Sugar of the Crop in Memphis Tennessee with C-Span.

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(Free-Press-Release.com) February 8, 2009 --

Sana Butler is a special correspondent at Newsweek International. She started her journalism career as a news assistant at the Wall Street Journal, where she learned how to be a reporter, and she previously worked as a writer at CNBC and as associate producer od Person of the Week at World News with Peter Jennings. Sana Butler tells the story of an unprecedented quest to find the last surviving children of slaves. In a revealing journey that takes her from Los Angeles to Louisana, from a Harlem church to a Virginia nursing home,Sana Butler paints a fascinating picture of freed slavesas husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, and tells the story of how they raised children after the Civil War.

Drawing on a decade of interviews with centenarians whose parents were slaves, Butler reveals how African Americans emerged from slavery with a powerful drive to put the past behind and a deep commitment to make the most of their opportunities, large and small. Like immigrants, freed slaves faced a new America with hopes and dreams for their children and the nation's future. Impelled by a generation that exercised political power at a rate never again seen in this country, the sons ans daughters were raised to be independent ans oftern fearless thinkers, laying the groundwork for what would later become the Civil Rights Movement.

Sana Butler stopped in Memphis, Tennessee for a booksigning and live taping with C-Span Booktalk at the National Civil Rights Museum. Sana was interview by Christie Taylor, Co-Screenwriter of N-Secure and Facilitator of Living LIFE Seminars.

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