They are doing. I want to thank my publisher and my editor is here. [applause] now, what i want to mainly talk about today is some of the stories that are in the book. , and arizona, a new law came into effect that banned ethnic studies. The conservatives took over the review of the board of the estate board of change the rules so that and they change the curriculum, so slaver is no longer mentioned. They changed it so no longer would there be references to the of the Civil Rights Movement read the tea party at a meeting with the governor of tennessee where they wanted to change the curriculum. These questions that we think are just questions of history really are debate. They are about different perspectives on how we understand how this country has evolved, and who has been on what side of particular kinds of questions. Usually with historical debate often they are about contemporary issues. The civiltalk about, rights was really about states rights, which is not true, they are talki
presents the history of african-american men and women who were employed at the white house in the 20th century. this talk from the harlem library in new york city is about an hour and a half. came out because this is really a good opportunity for me to have a chance to not only present my ideas and to talk about the book, but also to have exchange and get ideas from people. and as i ve been doing these book talks about the black history of the white house, one of the things that i m discovering is that there s more and more that people are able to contribute. and particularly being down in washington, d.c., i m getting more responses of not what s in the book, but what s not in the book. because people are saying, oh, you know my grandfather used to cut grass at the white house, my uncle used to work there as a butler. so there s a follow-up to the book that i m going to try to do to really capture a lot of these stories that the book, i think, has helped to let people kno