This morning i got a call from a reporter who wanted to know, why would the museum at a time when it was focused on opening the building, why would they even helped organize such a conference . The simple answer is that we are crazy, but at the smithsonian and at this busy him, scholarship is the engine and research is the lifeblood of the institution. Without the decades of research and academic scholarship, there would be no museum of African American history and culture. We know that we are tied to so much of the work that many of you do. So much of the work of the museum has been shaped by the work of many participating in this conference. Amazing rate of scholarship, the museum has been able to position itself as an institution that will help all whom visit to find it rich and theced vision of africanamerican community. Thanks to your work, this will recenter the africanamerican a lensnce and use it as to understand what it means to be africanamerican. So many themes. It was impos
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This is how we tell the history, but my goal is to silence less and less people and thats what i would hope were doing in history. Which is not necessarily creating im not trying to create a new narrative. Im not trying to say if we do that now, well come to another narrative that were all going to agree on. I guess what i hope for the museum is that there is a lot of things that we have been silent about that show up in the museum in some kind of in some kind of way and now spaces for people to add other things that they think are silent because were all going to create something that has silences in it. But to have a lot of things that have been silent and not to worry about whether im not running a museum, i can say not worry, not to worry about the things that are going to be upset about that, are in there or included, et cetera. Yeah. [ applause ] my name is Junior Williams from newark, new jersey. The sum that is i think some of us make is that being black was only a protected de
Because youre engaging and organizing which is capacity building, which is building peoples ability to have those conversations. And also to figure out how to act together, how to make each other strong instead of feeling isolated. And, you know, it is certainly true that when that legal structure fell down a lot of people sort of thought, well, thats taken care of. And it was only the beginning of a beginning. Well, two words. I mean, one is when clay said struggle, theres struggle in the macro sense and then theres struggle within movements to find a Common Ground that we can stand on together, right . Right. And thats critically important and it involves dealing with all the complexities that jessica just laid out there. Can i Say Something . Yeah. I think we have to remember the young people who are coming up, like through elementary school. Im not talking about teenagers. And the way they perceive not only children of color, but children who are white as well. Especially since we
Will be a Home Field Advantage one way and he sat in office 22 years bottles so steeped in the civilrights story that epitomizes that former civil rights lawyer and they decided early on to make reconciliation their mission was because of the scar tissue of richmond to but he probably will try to sketch to that importance of the civilrights struggle to relate the story of Barbara Johns africanamerican girl who was in high school the to 51 protests ebs substandard facilities which helped to underscore the separate but he call that was not equal the naacp to complicates took on the case to make a Landmark Supreme Court case. So that is that coveted spot it part because of the surrounding area and the civilrights story. And named a the running mate what will love basketball redo look like and how will University Officials including the president preparing the students quick. Students will be off but they have a big hall set up to accommodate their mobile lot of invited guests. A big Filin