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welcome to the how and why, the making of the international african-american museum. i m carey taylor, associate professor or this history at the citadel, and joseph is reilly s co-teacher for this semester s 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 chat9-style conversation after which we ll open it up for questions. we can ask that you put your questions in the chat function, and and i ll relay those to secretary bunch. so with that, i ll 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 african-american museum of national history [inaudible] secretary bunch is the director of the chicago [audio difficulty] his connection [inaudible] [inaudible] mr. secretary, describe [inaudible] in many ways, i am so
[inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. and racial congress. he is one of the most revered members of the congress. about 20 years ago, we were working to develop the idea of an international african american museum. congressman club learned was as busy as anyone in the congress. if you have been to his office on capitol hill in grand central station, people are coming and going. they went to ask the congressman if he would consider being chair of the african american museum. he was so busy that i was timid to ask. he said, let me ask emily. he was the congressman s dear wife who we lost, sadly, a few years ago. adam great respect for his wife, because he was busy moving into washington and south carolina. two weeks later, he called me back and said, joe, emily said yes and i will. jim clyde never missed a meeting at the museum. those meetings were in charleston. as busy as he was, not only did he not miss the meetings but he was prepared and ran everything to the board memb
and it belongs to all of the family learn more about first ladies online at c-span.org slash history. african-american museu m. good afternoon, welcome to the how and why, the making of the international african american museum. i m carrie taylor, an associate professor of history at the citadel. mayor joseph riley is co-teacher for the semesters exciting course. mayor riley will introduce our special guest for this weekend, but first i wanted to briefly explain today s format. mayor riley and secretary lonnie bunch will engage in a fireside chat style conversation, after which will open it up for questions. we ask that you put your questions in the chat function, and all relay those to secretary bunch. with that, i ll turn it over to my colleague, mayor joseph riley. thank you very much, professor taylor, doctor bunch. ladies and gentlemen, is a huge honor for me to introduce to you a great american, lonnie bunch, the second in the founding director of the national
Culture. We look at exhibits and artifacts chronicling the africanamerican story from slavery through the inauguration of the first africanamerican president. And we talk to Museum Specialists. This is American History tv, only on cspan3. You are looking at the National Museum of africanAmerican History and culture on the mall in washington, d. C. It is the newest Smithsonian Museum opening back in september. And this week it welcomed its 1 millionth visitor through these doors. Tonight we will take you through the doors of this museum that for artifacts that chronicled the africanamerican experience and also telling a shared american story. Well be live for the next 2. 5 hours. In about 40 minutes well be taking your calls, tweets, facebook posts for curators. Were joined inside with Robert Wilkins to talk about how this museum came about. He is the author of the book long road to hard truth. 100 year mission to create the National Museum of africanAmerican History and culture. Thanks