Okay, everyone. So good evening, everyone. Good evening. Welcome to health center. I only hospital and the annual benjamin drive emancipation day celebration. My name is Sharita Thompson and i work with marion brown. For the last eight. Heres hoping to organize an annual to celebrate and recognize d. C. Emancipation act becoming law on april 16th of 1862 and a free of a little over 3000 slave persons held in the district along in the series was named in honor of Benjamin Drummond, who was born around 1843 in nassau, new york. Drummond, a 24 year old black slave owner, was the first patient admitted to naval hospital, now known as the old vic. The hospital, when it opened on october 1st in 1866. Drummond was initially in assassins while serving on the u. S. Morning light. He was actually shot in the leg. He would receive care for that in. A naval hospital, orleans, on december six, 1864, joining in the navy and came to be a patient in this building on october first of 1866, when he when
Which gave africanamericans the right to vote. This event was held at the university of the south in suwanee, tennessee. Good morning, everyone. My names john mccartle. Im the vice chancellor and president of the university of the south here at suwanee, tennessee. Also im proud to say a member of the history department. And in those several capacities its a pleasure for me to welcome all of you attending this symposium in person. As well as our audience on cspan to this Second Annual symposium on constitutional issues. This year we examine the 15th amendment and invite a conversation as our Program States on suffrage in light of the hopes and realities of american identity and governance. In many ways this university is the ideal venue for such a conversation. Envisioned as a Great National episcopal institution by a group of founding bishops in the 1850s, the university of the south by 1860 possessed more than 6,000 acres of land on the Cumberland Plateau in tennessee. Had an endowmen
Constitutional issues. On separate inlet of the hopes and realities of american identity and governance, this university is the ideal venue for such a conversation. Envisioned as a Great National of visible institution by a group of founding ships in the 1850s, university of the south by 1860 possesses more than 6000 is about half the size of harvard. I often think with my regions about what that would mean for us today. We would be lamenting and 8 return. It was in that vision with colleges of different sizes, schools of law and medicine and business and theology. The large crowd gathered for the university cornerstone. This was in october of 1860. Envisioners possessed something they utterly lacked in time. Within a month, Abraham Lincoln was elected president. Every building was destroyed. Reality, describe the the stone was left on stone, all the nations pride or thrown went down to dust. Founderseration of chased by war, cleansed from the stain of pride knowing firsthand how origi
Welcome all of you attending this symposium in person. As well as our audience on cspan to this Second Annual symposium on constitutional issues. This year, we examine the 15th amendment and invite a conversation as our Program States on suffrage in light of the hopes and realities of american identity and governance. In many ways, this university is the ideal venue for such a conversation. Envisioned as a Great National episcopal institution by a group of founding bishops in the 1850s, the university of the south by 1860 possessed more than 6,000 acres of land on the Cumberland Plateau in tennessee. It had an endowment half the size of harvards. I often think with my regents about what that would mean for us today. We wouldnt be lamenting an 8 return. And saw itself, in that vision, with colleges of different sizes, schools of law and medicine and business and theology. Saw itself indeed as americas first truly comprehensive private university a half generation ahead of Johns Hopkins
Our privilege to host conversations like this that bring remarkable people who do remarkable things and sometimes are Difficult Conversations to this stage. Tonight what youll hear is as i said that front row seat on history. Being a woman of color at this time and in this place is something that is too rare and that we need to be thinking about on a lot of different levels. So i know your thoughts will be challenged with that and probably in places you be regaled by some of the stories along the way. It is a pleasure and a privilege for me as well to introduce to you a very special student who is going to introduce professor thompson and bring out the panel. She is a a junior. She is our journalism major. She is done remarkable things here at gw and beyond, and schepens be president of the Gw Association of black journalists. Lauryn hill is in her prime of her life i would like to say here at gw. Shes a assistant editor of the ace multicultural magazine. She interned last summer and s