Schwartz, for his generosity and making this event and many of our programs possible. [applause] i would also like to recognize and thank one of our trustees who has joined us today, david light david light. David blight. Laura to recognize washington and Mercedes Franklin , who are cochairs of our frankly Frederick Douglas counsel. Members who all have joined us today. I want to recognize a longstanding and special friend of New York Historical who has joined us this morning. Enke for everything that you and your family have done for this institution. Thank you. Will lastngs program about an hour and a half and it will include austin and answer session. You should have received a note card and a pencil as you entered this morning. If not, my colleagues are going up and down the aisles no cards and pencils. The notecards will be collected later on in the program. Signingll be a book following the program this morning. It will take place right outside these central doors in the smith ga
Pete it is the 8 a. M. Eastern time of fox friends weekend. Starting with this. The rematch is officially on as you know, as joe biden and donald trump hold dualing rallies in georgia. Joe biden is no remorse hes got no regret no empathy. Unlike donald trump on my first day in office as president i introduced a comprehensive plan to fix plus stangtding up for patriotism a High School Student refuses to back down when his school asks him to remove an American Flag from his truck. What . Will and a reminder check your clocks this morning. Two hours late, it is impossible. I set my watch back for saving time. Saving set the wrong way. Not plural or possessive. Spring forward. You go off the wall to take a deeper look at why we still observe Daylight Saving time. Very important. Third hour of fox friends fox weekend starts right now. Will good morning welcome to fox friends on this Sunday Morning 8 a. M. Not 7, 8 a. M. Hour because it is dailgtd savings time. Were all going to appreciate i
[inaudible question] boston and charleston might be seen as opposite but we are talking about two of the oldest cities in america, visual cities, and sections in history. Why do we care about charleston in the year 1860 . Well, we know here why we care. This is my starting point for the book. Charleston was really the vanguard and it was written the last day of 1860s to a colleague, a fellow man of the church in the north, he shed light on this. People are living in these times and that matter actually helped me make up his mind because there has to be story there. Five phases of what might be thought of as madness, public issues. First is fear. The story begins in the fall of 1859, really. John brown, the militants, and the range there was tremendous alarm and the beginning of the broad scale uprising. The hometown paper said your negroes are constantly wanting to cut our throats. They are forming Vigilance Committee and calling for attention to the Abolition Party of the north. Lets
Africanamerican religion. African americans beene of the value had extracted. Unlike livestock, this particular brand of this peculiar brand of property fought to preserve their humanity in their relationships with each other, in the establishment and operation of social institutions, and especially in their sacred beliefs. Peoples of african descent adopted a belief system that reflected their diverse ethnicities and the systems that shaped their lives and labor. The descendents of these men and adopted new ways of looking at the world and their place and it. But like those before them, they adopted religion as means to challenge as well as cope with the realities of their life in america. Institutionalized religion constituted the core of the Africanamerican Community and freedom. It was the center of training for black leadership, the blackin that connected people in common cause, including in protest of their oppression. Growing up in rural virginia in the six these, i could scarce
American history. The opening session is on africanamericans and religion. While we wait for the conference to begin, a look at a 2011 trip to a storage site in a washington, d. C. Suburb with the director of the Smithsonian National museum of African American history and culture. He showed us some of the artifacts that will be on display in the new museum, opening on the national mall, september 24, 2016. Right now, we are in the Storage Units of the National Museum of African American history and culture. In essence, this is the heart of the museum of. Because whats behind me, and what we will see today are many of the objects that are going to be the soul of this museum. This is an opportunity to sort of preview some of the material that the public will see when the museum opens in stores. The story of the africanamerican experience is both a story of resiliency at achievement, but its also a story of struggle. Parts ofe hard exploring this history is that were athe people who the w