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Then finally, when i was 25, i took my fathers name. Cspan where did you get the name skippy . Guest from the time i was born the day i was born, my uncle raymond called me skipper, and then it became skippy. We were piedmonts on the river piedmont, West Virginia, is on the Potomac River, two hours west of washington, so theres a whole marine mentality there, and so i became the skipper. Cspan before we go back and talk about the past, what are you doing now . Guest im the chairman of afroamerican studies at harvard and a professor of english. Cspan and how long have you been doing that . Guest this is the beginning of my fourth year. Cspan you write to your daughters in the beginning and you suggest that, eventually, after going through all the different names, they may get back someday to calling people of africanamerican descent or whatever colored. Do you really think so . Guest yeah, it could well be. I mean, Stranger Things have happened. You see, most people dont realize that we
This is the description of de l la idiotidiots. These were rebound, published later in the nineteenth century. But what they document is Napoleons Campaign in egypt and artists rendering of the landscape of egypt, pyramids, architecture, architectural elements, elements of the hieroglyphs, egyptian pottery, maps, diagrams of the layouts of pyramids, different historical sites around egypt. This is an era where there was no photography. This was a way to document and detailed the things napoleon and his army were capturing and a way to account for the riches of egypt that napoleon was hoping to bring back into france to the empire and also used as points of study for french architects and artists. This piece was another in a set from 1792 published during the french republic. About the history of louis the sixteenth. This is talking about the history of king louis and the start of the revolution. This kind of material gives us a perspective how the contemporaries, people who lived durin
Happened with the lovings. Have you seen the documentary about the lovings . It just follows them almost like a series like a modern series and their story is amazing. This is about civil rights, equality. Human rights. It doesnt always come easy and fast as the president would like to say. We have always struggled. This is always been an experiment. What we have been trying to do here is always hard. The founder knew it would be hard. They were here running for their lives. Different issues. Same idea of letting minority be able to live out on its own terms. And were still fighting for it. But it is not easy. I dont think anybody can really imagine how hard it is. Yeah. The weird thing is that people say i look at interviews and things that happened. I was talking to your wife today. We have had a long conversation. Things from the 60s during the Civil Rights Movement the artists who were out front of the marlen brand o. And sammy davis jr. She said the same conversations these very s