Welcome, everyone. Thanks for joining us. Im a tv critic for the National Public radio come and we are going to tackle a small topic, race in america and sold it in about a half an hour. [laughter] one thing i do want to point out we are going to take questions at the end of this, so i will ask and let you know and you can start lining up over here so while we are talking start thinking of what you might want to ask these wonderful men and yes we do want questions and not speeches we have the distinguished Henry Louis Gates junior next to him steve luxembourg the story of plessy versus ferguson. [applause] next to them the blinding of isaac would [applause] they talk about the progress and backlash against progress on the civil rights in america. First we want to show a little clip that will tell you a little bit about the reconstruction documentary that was spearhead spearheaded. This will give you a sense of some of the stuff we are going to talk about. This will be cool, lets check
Talking about, really i dont. Also i want to thank a couple. I could be here all night thanking people but there are a couple of people i want to mention. The most important one is kelly, kelly bird. Thank you for organizing all of this, bringing me here, getting us through the whole process of organizing the symposium itself as well as having me speak. And where is paul and nancy . Paul is over there. Paul, thank you for taking me to the best steak place in kansas city. Okay. Thank you. Now paul has been very helpful in other ways as well. Now diane has mentioned that my passion and ill admit this, i will admit to this, my passion is blackpast. Org. Now a 15,000 page website. Essentially a work thats based on volunteers. You can see some of it being skrold. Im not touching on it. You can see the scrolling. It started as kind of a project for our students at the university of washington and we forgot to gate it and as a consequence somebody wrote from new zealand and said, you know, sh
Them in here and hopefully they fit. First of all, dianne, thank you for the introduction. That was amazing. I was thinking, i dont know who she is talking about here. Really dont. And i also want to thank a couple i could here all night thanking people. There are a couple of people i want to meng. Most important is kelly burns. Thank you for organizing all of this, bringing me here. [ applause ] getting us through the whole process of organizing the symposium itself as well as having me speak. And where is paul and nancy winsky . Paul is over there. Paul thank you for taking me to the best steak place in kansas city. Okay . Thank you. Paul has been very helpful in other ways as well. Now dianne has mentioned that my passion and i will admit this. I will knit to this. My passion is black past. Org. She said its now a 15thousand page website. Its a work based on volunteers. And you can see some of it. Yeah its being scrolled. Im not touching it you can see the scrolling. It started as k
This audience really merits it. I thought maybe one day if i write this book and people notice it maybe one day the mayor of charleston will be holding it in front of an audience, a packed house. This is what happened one week after the book was released. Its truly beyond my wildest dreams. The book tells the story of reconstruction and im going to read some passages from it some of which you will see from the Police Department some that deal with the mayor and the current mayor here. The point is we are all heirs to something. We have no say. We are born where we are and we have no say in what we inherit and all we have control of his will he do with it. We can recount some of the triumphs and some of the greatest tragedies but i think moving on from the tragedy of 2015 you created this group. You decided intentionally to create the space word difficult issues in the community could be discussed. It would have been easy and very human to say the murder was not from charleston, you hav
Continues with other Patrick Breen on his book the land shall be deluged in blood a new history of the nat turner revolt a new history of the nat turner revolt. This was part of the Gettysburg College Civil War Institutes annual summer conference. It is about one hour. Good morning. I am Peter Carmichael a member of the history department. Im the director of the Civil War Institute. It is my pleasure this morning to introduce to you Patrick Breen who is an associate professor in history and classics at providence college. I should note he is also the father of one of our High School Scholarship recipients from last year. Patrick is the author of the land shall be dilution blood. I can say to you it is one of the finest books that i have read in southern history in a very long time. Its a book that i have assigned to my undergraduates this spring. As we all know undergraduates are tough customers when it comes to books. They absolutely enjoyed his writing. It is a bold book, it is an im