An organization founded in 1979 with four core organizational goals to establish a Network Among membership to promote black women in the profession, to disseminate information and opportunities in the field, and to suggestions concerning Research Topics and repositories we are organized and has grown from a handful of women in the 1970s to an organization that counts hundreds of members. We stand on the shoulders of our founders as we come together to share our work with one another, to fellowship, and to remind other why we have all chosen to dedicate our to correcting the narrative, to telling their stories and, to save their names. I have the honor of serving as the moderator of todays conversation. With three Living Legends jesus. Pioneering and historians of black women. Sit with us today. Our conference is shining threads and heavy loads where we and when we exhale black women making history and all attempt introduce each of these iconic who have left indelible marks on the fiel
Much. Now i know its raining outside, but when i come to the podium, i really enjoy a great round of applause. Lets try it [applause] while you all are here in the room there are a number of people watching on cspan. We want them to get the full experience of being here in miami, even in the rain we are very cheery about books but thank you for that kind introduction. Youve read it exactly the way i wrote it. Very well done. But im thrilled to be here to introduce todays author. Im going to come to the gentleman in my left in a moment but before i get there im going to start with Robert Samuels and ask him to come to the dais. He is a National Political Enterprise Reporter for the Washington Post, focusing on the intersection of politics, policy and people. He joins inthe post in 2011 after spending nearly 5 years working at the miami herald. Working at the miami herald. Now you get it. He is the coauthor of the book hihis name is george floyd one mans life and the struggle for Racial
Todays panel has to do with Harriet Tubman and Harriet Tubman, the decision of april 20, 2016, to put her on the 20 bill. It was announced at that time. As many of you know, it was met with some degree of controversy. There are those american citizens who said this was just Political Correctness and there were others who, in fact, did not even know who Harriet Tubman was, and various pictures of Harriet Tubman appeared on the internet and people, women who were not, in fact, Harriet Tubman. Harriet tubman has usually been a subject of childrens fiction and very few people really know, at least american citizens we historians know who Harriet Tubman was. But that wasnt the thats not the case with the american public. It was irony noted or the irony was noted in having tubman on the front of the 20 bill and Andrew Jackson on the back. As many of you know, Andrew Jackson was not only a slaveholder himself, but he was also he oversaw indian removal and is renowned for being really an india
Pretty much the same way only to discover that that is not true. We also, of course, have formalized this notion, and it is something called the one drop rule, which we used to distinguish Race Relations on most of mainland america, or compare race or understanding race on mainland north america from elsewhere in the world, and it of course speaks to the fact that African Americans and africans have had a common enemy and have had a shared experience, all of which complicates our understanding of the question of who is black, and those of you who were here last night, when our discussions kind of mobilized and moved notions of identity, the question of exactly what blackness means clearly grew and became on the floor. We know this from a historical perspective, we know people who were dragged across the atlantic started off not as africans but as congols, and angolans. On that trip, as sidney mintz and Richard Price tell us, there is something called shipmates that began to arise with
African descent has the same opinions, shares the same music, can play and dance pretty much the same way only to discover that that is not true. Course, have formalized this notion, and it is something called the one drop rule, which we used to distinguish Race Relations on america, orland compare race or understanding race on mainland north america from elsewhere in the world, and it of course speaks to the fact that africanamericans and africans have had a common enemy and have had a shared experience, all of which complicates our understanding of ,he question of who is black and those of you who were here last night, when our discussions kind of mobilized and moved notions of identity, the question of exactly what blackness means clearly grew and became on the floor. We know this from a historical perspective, we know people who were dragged across the atlantic started off not as africans but golans angd olans. On that trip, as sidney mintz and Richard Price tell us, there is somet