Carolina. My mom and dad met while they were students at Friendship Junior College in iraq hill, South Carolina. After they both graduated from friendship, they moved permanently to great falls. Initially, they were both school teachers. You could be a schoolteacher at that time with just a Junior College education. My dad did not stay in teaching, because he discovered that what was listed on his contract as his per month payment was not the same as he was receiving. This was at a time when the boards of education for all composed of waste men, and so at the end of the year my father approached a person who was a scientist voucher for a payment. He said i noticed that there is a discrepancy here. It was a five dollar difference between what he was supposed to be paid and what he was receiving. For questioning the five dollar differential, which the School Board Member was pocketing, my father was terminated as a teacher. My mother continued to be a teacher. In fact, my first seven yea
With us on the Independence Day weekend professor what is july 4th mean to you . [laughter] it means Frederick Douglassw. You could have the general celebration we have a different perspective from the africanamerican aameri community is a long history to understand the distinction in terms of the celebration for one community and a lack of the observance on the other part and what does it mean to those who have a history of bondage of segregation and jim crow to you have to understand the sensitivity from one community to another. Obviously Start Talking about the history of this country and the roles of africanamericans to provide that celebration is a whole other question. The f we have been at the forefront of the battle of freedom for justice and liberty for erfurt fr update number one so in terms of the boston massacre since that moment across the years the matter what type of internet or turmoil or conflict order world war the people were involved didnt you find a contribution o
Nat turner, a troublesome property. It is my honor to introduce to you kenneth greenberg. [applause] mr. Greenberg well, its a great, great pleasure to be here. When i left boston this morning it was snowing. My plane had to be deiced, but i arrived in paradise. This is a lovely place. I have never been to the campus before, and you have absolutely gorgeous campus. The town is wonderful as well. My hosts have been extremely gracious, and my subject matter is about one of the most difficult subject in American History. There is controversy every step of the way and battles every step of the way in terms of all the people who have tried to natbout net turner turner. First, im going to sort of tell you about my own history with turner andut nat turner. About nat it covers a fair amount of territory. Then i want to just zero in on a few areas in more detail. Let me begin by describing a couple things. , when i was in graduate school, i first encountered nat turner because we had assigned i