To introduce our next speaker, i will like to bring and the editor of our journal, wendy swanson. Wendy swanson i am very honored to stand at this pulpit and very honored to be introducing our next speaker, Edna Greene Medford who many of you know. She is a very treasured friend of the Lincoln Group and one of our members. She always provides us with wellcrafted, meaningful remarks. She is an author, much published. The chair of the History Department at howard and coauthor of the publication the emancipation proclamation review. And editor of the price of freedom series, slavery and the civil war. We also have if you have not seen the series by Southern Illinois university press, she is the author of lincoln and emancipation. If you do not know the series, you should become acquainted with it. A series of articles, publications, small books really good Stocking Stuffers about lincoln, a variety of topics. Let me read you a little review from this publication. This is by john martz lac
Coming up next Howard University history professor discusses the experiences of free to slaves following the civil war. She discusses education and Political Rights. She talks about their struggle to achieve them. This program was part of a symposium of the Lincoln Group of the district of columbia. You may wonder why we have this pulpit here. This pulpit is one that the pastor would have used when preaching and lincoln would have seen the pastor from this hope it. It was in the old era. That is when you have this heirloom. I would like to bring up the editor of our lincolnian journal lindy swanson. Having heard that, i am very honored to be standing at this pulpit and to introduce our next speaker, edna greene medford, who many of you know. She is a very treasured friend of the Lincoln Group and one of our members. She always provides us with wellcrafted, meaningful remarks. She is an author, much published. The chair of the History Department at howard and coauthor of the publication
This program was part of the symposium hosted by the Lincoln Group. And you may wonder why we have this old podium. This pulpit is the one in the old church that pastor gurley would have used during the premartial era while the old church was in action. To introduce our next speaker, i will like to bring and the editor of our lincolnian journal, wendy swanson. Wendy swanson i am very honored to be standing at this pulpit and very honored to be introducing our next speaker, edna greene medford, who many of you know. Shoes are very treasured friend of the lincoln. She is a very treasured friend over the Lincoln Group she is a very treasured friend of the Lincoln Group. And one of our members. She always provides us with wellcrafted, meaningful remarks. She is an author, much published. The chair of the History Department at howard and coauthor of the publication the emancipation proclamation review. And editor of the price of freedom series, slavery and the civil war. We also have if you
I think you all know that and get it because what undermines the whole progressive effort to reconstruction is the lack of Voting Rights for those freed men and women. We will expand this beyond voting. We just could not get there is a nation with the 13th amendment, with the Civil Rights Act of 1866. It did not give Voting Rights to the africanamericans. And neither did the 14th amendment with its equal protection and due process. It took the 15th amendment. And of course that is not work either because of every effort by some to deny africanamericans this great franchise of voting. Why do you think people come to this country . One of the things is the ability to choose their own representatives. We have a great panel. I dont say that every time we have a panel. [laughter] we have a great one today. Joan waugh, a professor of history at ucla. What is so important impressing me is the groundbreaking work you do with the u. S. Grant american hero, american myth. As i told her more than
Prime minister spoke today. They discussed irelands relationship with the u. S. And the 2016 president ial race. This is half an hour. Thank you all very much. I want to welcome everyone to the capitol today. Ive been going to the lunch for many years. Thank you for honoring us with your presence. Ive always been very proud of our own familys irish roots. My family comes from a town there. My wife and i, we took our kids there last year to show them our irish hillael heritage and our. We went to a homestead which is still being farmed by our cousins today. We looked into all of our roots. We even looked into my wifes irish roots. My wife comes from the Butler Family. The Butler Family lived in a castle. My family were the ryans were the who served the people in the castle. Its kind of funny how history repeats itself. I told my wife that. She said, yes, it is, and i dont mind repeating it. Im also glad to welcome these two special guests. Thank you for being with us today. One of these