Carrie taylor coteach a class about the new africanamerican history museum. Their joined by Lonnie Bunch who shares his experiences as the Founding Director of the national museum of africanamerican history and culture. Good afternoon. Welcome to the how and why, the making of the international Africanamerican Museum. Im carey taylor, associate professor or this history at the citadel, and joseph is reillys coteacher for this semesters exciting course. We will introduce our special guest this weekend, but first i wanted to briefly explain the format. Mayor reilly and secretary Lonnie Bunch will engage in a Fireside Chat9style Conversation after which well open it up for questions. We can ask that you put your questions in the chat function, and and ill relay those to Secretary Bunch. So with that, ill turn it over to my colleagues, mayor joseph reilly. Thank you, Professor Taylor and Secretary Bunch. [inaudible] the secretary of [inaudible] the director of the national Africanamerican
a very complicated thing. yes, just two quick questions. i was wondering if the panel was familiar with the work of the late dr. reuben westin. he passed, i think, last year. he was the author of racism and u.s. imperialism. he taught at central state. he was a chairman of the history department at one point. we talked about how the u.s. government squashed the revolts of antonio meseo in cuba. the second part is i had an uncle named richard kidd who fought in world war i and came back, quote, unquote, shell shocked, and he spent some time in a hospital in danville, illinois, and i don t know could you speak to how black soldiers were treated upon their return to the united states? i know going to a bad army hospital was not the worst thing that could happen to you, but i don t know if these hospitals were segregated or there s because having a crazy uncle somewhere in your house is a trope in fiction from that period of time. the crazy uncle probably also had a c
it was a group of alabama state troopers who beat him bloody as bob was just telling us in 1965. he couldn t even remember what had happened. he thought he had died because of the injuries he sustained that day. and, yet, today, it is alabama state troopers who will be helping to memorialize him. it s incredible. reporter: yes, and an honor guard taking him from the base of the bridge on the other side being passed to that honor guard, and then moving forward on to montgomery, where he will lie in state at the state capitol. i mean, the progress is incredible to think about. you know, as i was listening to you and nancy, i keep going back to that point of humility. it made him so approachable. and as i walk through the streets or i talk to people, each one of them has a slice of history that they can talk about, specifically, with john lewis. i think about cheyenne webb criseburg, who was on this bridge as an eight-year-old with john lewis and so many other, those 600 prote
good evening, good evening. first of all thank you for coming out on this rainy evening, i know it s a challenge but i think it will be well worth your time to be here this evening for this discussion. it is my pleasure to welcome you to our program entitled historically speaking, we return fading, world war one and the shaping of the modern black identity. published by story in books, this is a collection of essays that chronicles the experiences 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 learned this evening is that while the civil rights movement is decades away, world war i established important questions about citizenship that paved the way towards future progress. we are fortunate to be joined tonight by kinshasha holman, the images are very powerful. they are of americans on the home front. it also gives us a different look at african americans when they retur
years experience doctor gretchen sorin has consulted for more than two and 50 institutions include the smithsonian, the jewish museum, and the new york state historical association. she is the director of the cooperstown graduate program of the state university of new york, and the author of in the spirit of margins. the living legacy of doctor martin luther king junior. and through the eyes of others, african americans identity in american art. in her new book, driving while black, just out today, professor gretchen sorin talks about the indispensable which reshape the african-american traveling experience throughout our segregated land and helped drive the nation civil rights movement. please welcome gretchen sorin to the free library of philadelphia. [applause] guest: good evening s wonderful to be in this great city of philadelphia i apologize that rick was not able to join us this evening he had a little bit of an emergency and he is in italy. i hope that you will enjo