We return fighting is a chronicle of men and women who served the country on the battlefield as well as on the home front and their struggles for civil rights. One of the main things we will learn this evening is that while the Civil Rights Movement was decades away, world war i established important questions of citizenship that paved the way toward future progress. We are fortunate to be joined tonight by shasha conwell, the s Deputy Director and editor of we return fighting. The images are really very powerful, of americans at war and on the home front. It also gives us a different look at the life African Americans faced when they came home after the war. Let me end by welcoming you and assuring you that you are in for a wonderful evening. Thank you for joining us and im sure you will have a great evening. [applause] ladies and gentlemen please , welcome the Deputy Director of the African Museum of history and culture, kinshasha holman. Good evening. Good evening. Braving the for r
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Good evening, everyone. All right. I think our technical difficulties are finished and id like to welcome you all to the opening women. I do want to report welcome you all to the 104th meeting of the association. My name is lionel campbell. It is my honor to bring together on a, well it is my honor to convene hillary this plenary a. When i think when we were planning the conference, we always liked to bring our heavy hitters out, and i think today is one of those occasions in which we have a collection of fine scholars and activists here to address our theme, so what we decided to do is to run the plenary more as a roundtable, as a moderate did conversation about issues with the great migration, and i want to introduce our panelists and give them an opportunity to speak for a few minutes as far as their own work, and their perceptions and ideas about the great migration and then move on into our question and answer, followed by a discussion, followed by a question and answer session wi