There was difficulty with literacy. I dont know or maybe it is my block but there is a very good book called voices of the emancipation specifically that looks at the pension and what every feels about the experience as well as during slavery and the construction. I has been to the National Archives to research all of the soldiers i was familiar of the records for the National Archives but are the pension records that you speak of for the colored troops located in the same repository . Yes exactly the same severe intermingles of the process to get those records are the same . All the Union Pension records of our one regardless of race. If you recall can you give is a chronology of the pension filing said when they first began to occur in the political aspect . I came across a president ial election topic a lot of people for it and against it in these days of disagreement of washington financing. [laughter] i will do my best i dont surer and not sure if i can do that off the top of my h
Taking a pulse the pitfalls of modern medicine. Some of the top tracks that take place of this festival will be held in this room so i do have these brochures if youre interested in the other speakers of related topics with the situation of modern medicine and in the political and personal situation because we have had such a Great Partnership to put together this program and went to think that she vanities at vanderbilt and also received support so we thank them as well. The author of todays session is katy butler author of knocking on heavens door the path to a better way of death. Before she wrote the book but she will be discussing her words already reached many people in the work had also been published in such diverse outlets as the new yorker in the best buda writing. Many suspect we heard her voice to the essay web broke with fathers heart. She described i remember a the day i read it cover the story of her aging parents and how and when and why the doctors put a pacemaker in h
Was not what woodson in tended. And so, we obviously owe the peopleof our higher to and so we obviously of the who d those who are descended from those people who worked for 246 years for nothing. We owed them something for that, but we owe them the story of themselves. We have been asked to expect that people can survive in good, sound psychological health, on ashes and obliterated history. When i was a child in richmond, virginia, weiss to have this phrase that we used all the time. From here to timbuktu. But, nobody knew what timbucktoo was. Nobody knew the meaning of the word. Didnt know where it was and didnt even know it was a place. Timbucktoo of course was a crossroads of commerce but it was also a site the site of one of the worlds first universities of san kora which was built before the blackmores ilk the First University in spain at sala make a and 7eleven a. D. And so still in timbuktu you have all of these manuscripts written between five a. D. And 15 a. D. , literature a
If you are telling the story of a population, of the american population, until the story of poverty from appellation to other kinds of poverty, tell it all. If we are talking about less present expressions from the american cultural range, lets cover the whole range from top to bottom comedies to west, north to south, lets cover everything, lets see the whole picture. That is not what is happening the way i see it particularly in the black community. That is not what is happening. I am just saying we have to have better representation in the realm in which decisions are made about what to cover and how to do it and how to apportion time and resources to each piece of that. We are not going in the right direction there, we are going away from that direction as far as i can see publishing, in the print industry, television, all whole thing, about some facility to get people to know what they need to know, not just in america but in the entire world, we need to know more about the world.
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