Our birthday is a chance to talk about all that the library does, and one important part of that work is due wording the extraordinary special collections of the Brooklyn Center for history. These archives are the combined materials for the brooklyn public librarys special collections at those of the former Brooklyn Historical society, and they are literally the most comprehensive collection of brooklyn related materials in the world. So, we are celebrating these amazing collections in a 125th Anniversary Series titled out of the box. Five programs that put just a few of the most important or most frequently used or beloved Materials Center stage. Clearly, the dodgers and Jackie Robinson have to be part of that lineup. So, tonight, we are bringing together a really fantastic panel of experts to dip into just some of what the center for brooklyn history has. Especially as it relates to the groundbreaking player, Jackie Robinson. Were going to kick off with an overview of our dodgers hol
Thank you everybody for tuning in tonight. Hello everyone. Thank you so much for joining us. Im marcia eli from the Brooklyn Public Librarys center for brooklyn history and the arts and culture team bpl presents. This year Brooklyn Public Library celebrates, its 125th anniversary. Our birthday is a chance to talk about all the library does and one important part of that work is stewarding the extraordinary special collections at the center for brooklyn history. These are archives are the combined materials from the brooklyn Public Libraries special collections. And those of the former Brooklyn Historical society, and they are literally the most comprehensive collection of brooklyn related materials in the world. So we are celebrating these amazing collections and a 125th Anniversary Series titled out of the box. Five programs that put just few of the most important or most frequently used or beloved Materials Center stage clearly the dodgers and robinson have to be part of that lineup
Look for more booktv on line error write us on facebook. Next in this booknotes from 1999, Randall Kenan discusses his book walking on water black american lives at the turn of the twentyfirst century. In preparing the book mr. Sapi travel the country for period of six years and interviewed nearly 200 africanamericans. This encore presentation is about an hour. Cspan Randall Kenan, author of walking on water, whats your book about . Guest well, its a travel narrative about what it means to be black in america. I sort of set out to travel all over north america, traveling on a theme. And the theme was to ask the question what does it mean at the end of the Twentieth Century to be black . Cspan wheres this cover picture taken . Guest i dont know thats one of the reasons we chose it, it sort of looks like everytown, america. Cspan when did you start to travel . Guest i started in 1991, beginning in new england and traveling north and west, going to places like alaska, coming back around d
Fill with fluid. You would have a young person who would start to fill sick and within hours or a day or so they would be gasping for breath, their skin would be turning dark was their blood wasnt getting enough oxygen. One person described it asthma hogny spots on the cheek mahogany spots on the cheekbones. We dont see that today. Today what you see is you feel very ill, and some people are dying, but nobodys getting the sort of instant death that they were getting then. Cspan are you vised about what you got in this book based on what you started with . Guest yeah. That was part of the reason i really enjoyed working on this book, because the more i worked on it, it was like story just kept Getting Better and better and growing and growing. Scientists and historians were extraordinarily generous with me too. I mean, people were amazing. Ed kill gore, whos one of the people that i reference in this book a lot whos a flu expert, he was there in 1976. I was calling and emailing him cop
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