presents the history of african-american men and women who were employed at the white house in the 20th century. this talk from the harlem library in new york city is about an hour and a half. came out because this is really a good opportunity for me to have a chance to not only present my ideas and to talk about the book, but also to have exchange and get ideas from people. and as i ve been doing these book talks about the black history of the white house, one of the things that i m discovering is that there s more and more that people are able to contribute. and particularly being down in washington, d.c., i m getting more responses of not what s in the book, but what s not in the book. because people are saying, oh, you know my grandfather used to cut grass at the white house, my uncle used to work there as a butler. so there s a follow-up to the book that i m going to try to do to really capture a lot of these stories that the book, i think, has helped to let people kno