Different approaches to segregation. When we react, does a fiend, you are talking about significant as tlc. Different approaches to reach the same goal. Sometimes it will work, depending on who you are and what the situation is. We need to take time to look at how all those things come together at how all of those things come together, not condemn one way or another way. You have to take in the full context to understand what was happening. So these stories will help us see when we are in our own situation today, it is all right to take different approaches, depending on what was happening at the time. Thank you for that. I wanted to follow up with another question. Can you talk about who Maggie Walker was . She was one of the first africanamerican women to register to vote after the 19th amendment was ratified. Tell us a little bit about who she was and is there anything in her personal papers, anything she wrote or said that gives us insight into how she felt . Clearly she thought it
Exemplified the activist businessman that often stood at the center of the freedom struggle. A figure that is really frequently under analyzed and continues to be under analyzed i would add. He was often overlooked due to an emphasis on the more incendiary elements of the movement. Protests, mobilizations and other dramatic events. I should add that im on this panel because i in a previous life, i studied North Carolina civil rights history. And so, again, i can speak to the ways in which brandons book is making a really significant intervention here in the history, not only in the civil rights period and the writ at large, but also the Civil Rights Movement and struggle and the black struggle in North Carolina and particular. From winners perch at mechanics and farmers bank in durham, he occupied a critical space. He was a consummate insider and power player and understood the calculus of social change dictated various gated approaches to the pursuit of freedom. This is certainly some
60s. This event was part of the association of the study for africanAmerican Life and conference, and they provided the video. So glad to be here, and so very excited to chop it up a little bit about brother winfords excellent book. Let me jump into my comments. It chronicles the life of the civil rights period. This is a trench at work in this work he replaces wheeler in the center of a compelling civil rights narrative there by casting a new light on the role this banker played in the middle of the century. I can speak to the way his book is making history, and also the Civil Rights Movement, the black peoples struggle in North Carolina in particular. So from wheelers bank in d durham, he was a insider and power player that understood the calculous of social change dictated approaches to the pursuit of freedom. This is going to be one of the questions i certainly want to knock around with dr. Winford in terms of the dynamic enter play that we see with wheeler and the ways in which he
Onely to see you all today this day. My name is donnas the dark, chair of the History Department here at salem state university. Thank you all for coming today. We are all here, obviously, the of Bridget Bishop long hot summer and thaw of 1962. This is the 325th anniversary of those events. As a history professor, i am sometimes reticent to indulge in what i called anniversary history, because i like my students to think every single day is historic. Take adoes feel right to moment, take a day, and really think about what happened during that year. So that is what we are doing today. That is what the city of salem is going to be doing probably all summer long. Before i introduce our distinguished guest, who will open up our symposium, the mayor of salem, kimberly jusco driscoll, i want to say thanks. At the end of the day, i will think all of the presenters, but right now, i want to thank my little committee, because we have been working on this for a year. And that would include the t
I thank you all for coming today. We are all here, obviously, because of rigid ship. The long hot summer and early fall of 1692. As a history professor, i am inetimes reticent to indulge anniversary history because i like my students to think that every single day is historic. To take as feel right moment, take it day and really think about what happened. That is what we are doing today. That is with the city of salem is going to be doing all summer long. Before i introduce our distinguished guest who will , i want to symposium say thanks before i forget to thank everybody. While we are wrapping up this day am going to think all of the presenters contributions. Right now i want to thank my Little Committee because we have been working on this for a year. And that would include the two women downstairs who are not going to hear my thanks. Also from the Salem Award Foundation we have shelby, who has a brief announcement to make about our special feature. [indiscernible] and would like to