We return fighting is a chronicle of men and women who served the country on the battlefield as well as on the home front and their struggles for civil rights. One of the main things we will learn this evening is that while the Civil Rights Movement was decades away, world war i established important questions of citizenship that paved the way toward future progress. We are fortunate to be joined tonight by shasha conwell, the s Deputy Director and editor of we return fighting. The images are really very powerful, of americans at war and on the home front. It also gives us a different look at the life African Americans faced when they came home after the war. Let me end by welcoming you and assuring you that you are in for a wonderful evening. Thank you for joining us and im sure you will have a great evening. [applause] ladies and gentlemen please , welcome the Deputy Director of the African Museum of history and culture, kinshasha holman. Good evening. Good evening. Braving the for r
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Who was your predecessor on the bench. As the dean mentioned, is i know that this this lecture is actually named after Justice John Paul stevens, who was your predecessor on the bench. In fact, he gave the first inaugural lecture in 2011, and ive heard you speak eloquently at his Funeral Service and elsewhere about how you filled his seat on the bench, but you cant fill his shoes. Too large. Can you tell us a little bit about his influence on you and what its like to Carry Forward his legacy . Yeah, i mean, it was it was so sad for me and for all my colleagues this summer when he passed away. He was a great, great man, and i never had the chance to serve with him, so unlike many of my colleagues, i cant tell stories about what it was like to be on the bench with him or in conference with him, but he is and long has been a hero of mine. He has a passage in one of his books about how he was honored to take the place of Louis Brandeis on the court. There are particular seats, and Everybod
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