Eric they originally opened in 1880s. They built this building in the 1900. Story a misses alan mrs. Allen. She started a private school directly behind us in the 1880s. Allen called the institute. Before the emancipation proclamation, it was against the law for africanamericans to be educated. After the emancipation proclamation, still schools started opening everywhere. She opened one to educate young africanamerican. Came toily actually mobile, virginia. Home near Dolphin Island and they had a big home in the city. 1890s, that and was the way it was. They had a lot of friends. A lot of friends were people like booker t. Washington. Of ellensle they would go fishing. Because of that relationship, a lot of her students got to go to tuskegee institute. That meant that when they graduated, they became entrepreneurs. They became teachers, business people, doctors and very successful, throughout the country. Greatelationship was a bonding that they had during that time. Closed a fewome ye
The country. Since 2011 weve been than 200 communities across the nation. Like many americans, our staff is staying close to home due of the coronavirus. Next, a look at one of our citys tour visits. In 2019, the george h. W. Bush president ial Library Museum received film footage of the president and barbaras honeymoon. Donate by another couple honeymooning there. This is the first time the footage had been seen by the public. So they honeymooned at the cloister. This is george and barbara bush. And this is emlin and her husband. Im guessing they shared the camera back and forth together. But they were both on their honeymoon. Looks like somebodys trying to get perfume on somebody right now. But theres, you know, diving, bachi guessing this is ball. Theyre playing some kind of ball. The e intently measuring ball. There seems to be a lot of measuring. Whats amazing is how young both couples are. President bush already served in the navy. Been shot down. But still looks like hes a young
Our last speaker is well known to all of you, Gary Gallagher is the third professor in the history of the American Civil War americas at the university of virginia and the founding director of our core sponsor, center for civil war studies at the university of virginia. Knowing that gary was about to retire a number of years ago and move west, i have been writing just about every introduction for him the last few years as if tomorrow the last time we would see him in richmond. I want to apologize to gary for trying to show him the door and kick him out of the state every time he speaks here. Im happy to have been wrong in my assumption that garys retirement would mean farewell and im pleased that hes still a fixture in the commonwealth. Garys contributions to the field of civil war studies are many and varied beyond his own scholarship, writing and ing editing more than 30 books, hes been a frequent contributor and columnist for civil war magazines, battlefield guide, and Founding Edit
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