You can also follow the cspan city to her on twitter for behindthescenes images and video from our visits. It is my pleasure to welcome you all to the special event with an allstar cast of some really amazing brainpower in one of my favorite people and authors in the world. The sourcebooks and the my honor and privilege to welcome you to the in addition of the incredible the bestselling book hacking darwin. The future of humanity. A hundred people made a few more. Some bad wine perhaps. You can use it. From the beverage of your choice. This is a lot better. This is also being carried by cspan welcome everybody from cspan they are unprecedented and unsettling times. There is some promise in these times. As cosponsors of this great event. This is a time that you can move things. A classic moment in history for ill or for good. We are focused on the good. We had found in our four weeks of teleworking now. Does that really social distance. We have actually galvanized our global community.
Kent garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth are here with us today courtesy of tom and margaret mr. Garrett graduated from harvard in 1963. He has had a 30 year emmy and peabody awardwinning career in Television News and documentaries. Jeanne ellsworth has a nephd in social foundations of education from the university of buffalo and has devoted her life to teaching from Elementary School to prisms, to universities. The authors live in roxbury new york. Please give a warm savannah welcome avto kent garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth. [applause] thank you for inviting us. The book is called the last negroes at harvard, 61 years ago harvard admitted 18 negroes, thats what we were called then, we were the largest number at that time ever admitted to harvard. We were from all different parts of the country, north, south, east, west, we came e fr different economic and socioeconomic grounds and they had been admitting blacks to harvard but only two or three at a time, most guys would go do their four years
I am joe and the executive director. The institute here has been here for over three years now. An important member of the institute, things are since our founding, hes been our media fellow and help coordinate some of our events. So far more pretentious event you may have seen, ross was involved in. [laughter]. But anyway we are super pleased that ross is joining us today anything of the day of the really of his latest book. All of you know ross is one of the most important commentators American Culture today the rights of course the New York Times opinion page is written more than a few bucks at this point and they seem to all at least a couple of them is how we became something right. [laughter]. Ross you might want to steer clear that racing is on point. Host anyway today in the format will be i will engage ross in conversation about the book prayed and i had the pleasure of reading it and it really is an interesting book. In my judgment not the sort of typical conservative bring o
He has had a 30year emmy and peabody awardwinning career in Television News and documentaries. Jeanne ellsworth has a ph. D. In social foundations of education from the university of buffalo and has devoted her life to teaching from Elementary School to prisons, to universities. The authors live in rocksbury, new york. Please give a warm savannah welcome to kent garrett and jeannie else worth. [applause] finish jeanne ellsworth. [applause] well, thank you for enlightening us, and ill let you know the book is called the last negroes at harvard. 61 years ago harvard admitted 18 negroes, and thats what we were called then, and we were the largest number at that time ever admitted to harvard. We were from all different parts of the country north, south, east and west and we came from different economic and socioeconomic backgrounds. And we, heretofore theyd been letting, admitting blacks to harvard but only two or three at a time. And most guys would just go and do their four years and the
[inaudible conversations] hello, everyone. My name is anne. Welcome to the 13th annual savannah book festival. The festival is presented by georgia power, bob faircloth, david and nancy seven terror and the phillip e. And nancy b. Bigman foundation. We are especially grateful to jack and mary romano who are our sponsors for this beautiful venue. Wed also like to welcome our literati members and individual donors today. It is through your support that we are able to make todays festival events free to the public. 90 of our revenue comes from our donors and literati members, and we thank you. Before we get started, i have some housekeeping notes. Kent garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth will be signing festivalpurchased copies of their book at Telfair Square following their presentation. If youre planning to stay for the next author, edward j. Larson, after this presentation please move forward to fill seats as the venue empties. This will help the ushers get people seated for the next session.