Thank you for joining us this late on a saturday afternoon. Of the executive director us icomos. Panel, us today on the we will be doing brief introductions. Glenn eskew from Georgia State university who is coordinating the civil rights World Heritage nomination. Rant leggs brent leggs. , and patricia sullivan. First, a little bit about us icomos and why i am listed as session, glennis eskew is the architect of this session. I am here to provide context for the significance of the investments of Energy Taking place. Dates back to 1965. We are one of the 110 or so National Committees of the International Committee of sites. Ts and it is most notable for being the scientificthe u. N. And cultural committee. Im sure you are all roughly familiar with the u. S. Heritage list. Cultural sites, as opposed to national sites, comprise more than 70 of the more than 1000 sites on the World Heritage list. 23 of those are in the u. S. The vast majority of our National Heritage sitess. Stephen morris
Next, we continue our coverage of this weekends meeting in washington, d. C. You are watching American History tv on cspan3. Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us this late on a saturday afternoon. I am the executive director of us icomos. I will describe who we are and set a little context. Welcome to the session on World Heritage and the New Birmingham National Civil rights monument. Joining us today on the panel, we will be doing brief introductions. Glenn eskew from Georgia State university who is coordinating the civil rights World Heritage nomination. Brent leggs, stephen morris, and patricia sullivan. First, a little bit about us icomos and why i am here. While i am listed as the chair of this session, glenn eskew is the architect of this session. I am here to provide context for the significance of the investments of Energy Taking place. Us icomos dates back to 1965. We are one of the 110 or so National Committees of the International Council of monuments and sites. It is an
Afternoon to go against conventional etiquette. I want you to take out your phones yes, really do. Put them on vibrate. I want you to tweet, facebook, post, take instagram photos, share this speech with your social network. My daughter tells me this is called live tweeting. [laughter] social change, revolutions have been brought on by tweets or facebook posts. As agents of change i want you to inspire your network of friends. When you feel inspired and moved by anything that happened today. I want to thank the organization ethnic fairness in the courts, for the 25th anniversary. This is work thats going on for a long while. Four years ago i was invited as a vip guest to sit on the steps of the capitol. As many of you did here to witness the first swearing in of president obama. Any of you who are not from washington, i have seen so many old friends, we could possibly have a lunch at a time in the supermarket where we lived, and be able to stay close to one another. Day, four years ago,
And share this speech with your social network. My daughter tells me this is something called live tweeting. [laughter] i know social change and revolutions have been brought on by tweets or facebook posts. As agents of change, i want you to inspire your network of friends. And when you feel inspired and moved by anything that happened today. I want to thank the organization ethnic fairness in the courts for the 25th anniversary. This is work that has been going on for a long while. Four years ago, i was invited as a brp guest four years ago i was invited as a be i. P. To sit on the steps of the capitol and witness the first swearing in of president obama. Any of you who are not from washington, i have seen so many old friends, we could possibly have the next lunch in the supermarket and be able to stay close to one another. On that day four years ago, my mind drifted back to a hot august afternoon in i, as a 1963. Recent College Graduate from michigan state, was here with thousands of
[ applause ] thank you. Thank you so much. Good morning everybody. Thank you to entire cap team for putting together this ideas conference. Thank you to the staff here at the four seasons for looking after us so well. Im glad we could bring a little bit of l. A. Weather here for at least a couple of days in washington. Enjoy it while it lasts i hear. Thanks to all of you mostly for coming here and being a part of this most urgent and important conversation. For the last few months commentators have been calling this a big moment for the Democratic Party. And they are right. I believe this is an even bigger moment for the American People, a bigger moment for our country. For practically my entire lifetime and maybe yours we have heard politicians at events like this talking about how we are on the cusp of a technological revolution, one that will forever alter the way we work, the way we learn, the way that we communicate, flying cars, solar energy, robots that will make us breakfast. T