To begin our program, please welcome the honorable donnie artech, mayor of the city of hampton. [applause] please take your seats. Good morning and welcome to the 400th anniversary of the first african landing commemorative ceremony. It is my honor to welcome Governor Ralph Northam and first lady pamela northam, Lieutenant Governor justin fairfax, attorney general mark herring, senator mark warner and senator tim kaine. U. S. Representative bobby scott and representative elaine luria of virginia. Representative karen bass of california, and representative william clay of missouri, speaker of the house of delegates burkland cox. Bonsaiounselor lawrence of the apathy of her wanda former Virginia Governor cheryl , liles, former Virginia Governor robert mcdonald, former missouri governor eric greitens, former representatives james moran and mf payne, chief judge Roger Gregory of the First Circuit court of appeals members of the governors , cabinet, members of the virginia General Assembly,
[applause] please take your seats. The morning and welcome to 400th anniversary commemorative ceremony. It is my honor to welcome the lady, thend the First Lieutenant governor justin fairfax, the attorney general, senator mark warner, and senator tim kaine. Scottepresentative bobby and a representative from virginia. Bass andative karen from missouri. Speaker of the house of for thes, first counsel embassy of wanda. ,he former Virginia Governor the former Virginia Governor robert mcdonald, the former missouri governor greitens, former representatives james payne, members of the governors cabinet, members of the virginia General Assembly, including senate ,ajority leader Thomas Norment portsmouth mayor john wrote, the members of the 400 years African American history federal museum, Deputy Assistant secretary of fish and wildlife parks, National Parks service officials, including daniel lla,h and david ve members of the Hampton City Council and other special guests. On behalf of the mem
Supremacy. The National Constitution Center Hosted this event. Welcome. You heard the passion of professor gates downstairs. Were going to jump into this conversation. I think you can tell it is important to bring as many school kids as possible to come see that incredible exhibit. William height stat with me and announced the School District and the Constitution Center are launching a program to bring tens of thousands of philly School Districts to the constitution School District every year. Wow. Were calling it the constitutional ambassadors program. Were going to go seek support, and those great kids are going to start these experiences in their class, come see the civil war exhibit and the Constitution Center and connect to classrooms around the country using our virtual constitutional exchanges for our long conversations about the constitution, moderated by a judge or a master teacher. Wow. Thats great. It is an amazing project and were so excited to share it with you. Professor
The day, i am a david milne i teach at the university of east anglia in the u. K. Unfortunately, a professor cannot be with us today. It goes without saying she will be greatly missed. If you lived in the u. K. Or the u. S. , it is probably fair to say that 2016 was a challenging and distracting year. In june, the u. K. Voted to leave the european union. In november, the u. S. Said hold my beer and elected donald trump to the presidency. One group in particular remained calm and productive during this tumultuous time and i refer to the historians of the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries. In 2016, a man published his first book, the computer see the contest the conspiracy of free trade. Nicholas published his third book. 2016, Danielle Holtz asked who are the true conservatives . She passed with flying colors the following year. Matt published6, his first book with Harvard University press. Books and the dissertation were met with great acclaim. 2016 was a bad year for the re
We visit the Health Office building to see artifacts that tell the story of africanamericans in congress in the 20th century. I am the curator at the u. S. House of representatives. I am the historian. We wanted to talk about the history of africanamerican representation in the 20th century. We have a lot of artifacts from house collections that has to do with that. And a lot of history to cover. The last africanamerican to be elected in the 19th century leaves in 1901. George white of north carolina. Then it is a long time before another africanamerican comes into the house and that is oscar dupree from illinois. We had a couple of rare artifacts from him from the 1920s and 1930s. Before i launch into them, matt, tell us about oscar dupree. Matt almost three decades after George Henry White leaves congress when there are no africanamerican to serve in the house or senate. That has everything to do with the jim crow laws that go on the books in the south. The way that that changes over