I wanted to welcome you and say, listen, what we want to do today is give you an opportunity to see basically the museum as a work in progress. There are about 40 of all the exhibitions are now complete, and were working to make sure that we will be very ready on september 24th. The reality of this is pretty simple, 11 years ago we began with a staff of two. We had no idea where the building would be, no sense at all of any of the collections, unlike almost any other museum, not a single object in the collection. We really knew we had to raise a lot of money, we had no money in the bank, and now as a result of some of the gift of staff youre going to meet and a result of thousands of people, we have raised enough money to complete the building. In fact, by september well be over our target number. We have collected over nearly 40,000 artifacts, of which 4,000 will be in this museum, and instead of two people, there are 200 people who are working to build this museum. And let me ask my
Captioning performed by vitac so one of the joys is to be able to collect africanamerican film. Its one of my areas of interest. We were able to get an amazing collection of movie posters such as the ones behind you. That is an early oscar movie poster from the 1920s. And then part of our job is to help people relearn history they think they know. That movie poster is from spencer williams, known by most people as playing in amos and andy, one of the most important black film directors in the late 30s and 40s. We have Amazing Things in here. The beautiful green gown, that was lena horn in stormy weather. Those that watched bad black exploitation movies, thats from the mac. This is eddie murphy from Beverly Hills cop. In essence, again, trying to show both what the movies were but what they were really about, the struggle again to define and control ones identity. Take a quick peek and well go to the last stop. We want to reintroduce people to people like moms megly and dick gregory, so
Books in the rack outside the pump. , found crosbys motel in pensacola, florida. My parents owned the first fully accredited africanamerican owned travel agency in the united states. They were able to convince people over time. It took many groups and eventually thousands of people. Between the fighting, the dogs, the people that had died for the right for us to stay anywhere. [applause] is my pleasure to introduce Calvin Ramsey. An author, photographer, and playwright whose works has been shown around the country, showing the light on missing pages of africanAmerican History. His plays bring the audience closer to truth. ,is first play the green book had its premiere. It then one recognition as a finalist in the last frontier contest in alaska where it was critiqued by playwrights and directors. The success was well above other critically acclaimed work, of theng his exploration career of an africanamerican actor and civil rights activist. He has been on the collection of thelibrary i
[video clip] where are you from . New york city, manhattan. My parents lived in our home when i was born. Lived in harlem when i was born. I lived and moved in queens. Your parents met here . They met in kansas, where my mother lived, and my mother grew the up. During world war ii, my father was stationed there. That is when they met. Then my father was sent to france, and when the war was over they got married and moved to new york. And that is where i was born. At the Womans Hospital . The Womans Hospital, which is no longer there, near columbia university. And your family would go back south for holidays and summer vacations, weddings and funerals, things like that . You go south to her three times a year. We would go for thanksgiving, holidays mainly. Christmas, and we would visit my mothers family in kansas. This was before interstate highways as well. To lane, blacktop highway spread exactly. Mountains of west virginia. What about food . Issue spend a lot of time cooking . Yes, w
Of todays Older Americans seem to just say yes . A question for Barry Petersen to examine in our sunday morning cover story. Some of the very people who grew up opposed to pot you store it in the fridge. Finding it handy to have around as they age. I have gummy care. It has the consistency of a gummy. I use it for sleep and pain when i need to. Pots newest enthusiasts could be your grandparents. Pauley we think of borderline as something which divides one country from another. Then there is the borderline that lee cowan has been to visit. Follow the u. S. Border from the pacific out to the east until it reaches minnesota, where theres an odd little bump. Do you sometimes feel more canadian than u. S. Citizen . Aye . We are a little bit canadian. The remote minnesota answer surrounded on almost all sides by our maple leave friends later on sunday morning. Pauley for the record marc anthony is a singer with hit songs in two languages. He talks about a that and lot more with tracy smith.