Preserve such places for current and future generations. This discussion was part of the association for the study of africanamerican life and history annual meeting. Hello, and welcome. Hello and welcome to the association for the study of africanamerican life and historys 104th annual conference. We have of people moving, how the National Park service and preservation is how the story of black migration. My name is madeline, and the Senior Executive assistant at the National Parks conservation association. Louder . Is that better . Sorry about that. Im so proud to be with you this afternoon. On behalf of teresa and the president and ceo, thank you for taking the time to join us and welcome. For those of you not familiar with the National Parks conservation association, we have been a powerful independent voice working to strengthen and protect americas National Parks for 100 years. Through a nationwide network of offices, and with more than 1. 3 million members and supporters, npca s
Conference. Have of people moving, how the National Park service and preservation is how the story of black migration. My name is madeline, and the Senior Executive assistant at the National Parks conservation association. Lowder . Is that better . Sorry about that. Im so proud to be with you this afternoon. On behalf of teresa and the president and ceo, thank you for taking the time to join us and welcome. For those of you not familiar with the National Parks conservation association, we have been a powerful independent voice working to strengthen and protect americas National Parks for 100 years. Through a nationwide network of offices, and with more than 1. 3 million members and supporters, npca speaks up for our parks, all on capitole, hill. Our advocacy work cannot be done without partners. Forave partnered together decades to make sure the National Park system tells the story of all americans, from preserving a critical chapter in the Civil Rights Movement with the designation of
In debt. They started off incredibly well. They published grants memoirs, enormous success, and huckleberry finn. And twain expected to pay himself fat royalties. He wound up receiving no royalties. This is their final list of titles, and i dont know if you can see from there, but any publisher thats going to go out with stories from the rabbis [laughter] is probably going to be in a little trouble. [laughter] so headlines, and it was deeply humiliating, headlines in the newspaper said mark twain fails. I mean, it was brutal. Failure of mark twain, failure of humanist. And hes humorist. And hes this literary superstar, deeply embarrassed, and he gets two main advisers. One of the wealthiest men in america, the righthand man to john k. Rockefeller, standard oil. His nickname was hell hound, and this robberbaron wants to play hardball with the creditors. He wants to offer ten cents on the dollar. Twains other adviser is his wife, libby. She has absolutely no business experience. She writ
To say since im not a can you synopsize your life in two sentences . I wanted you to just in some very brief way tell the audience what this book covers, and then i will delve in and well start through going into specifics, and then build from there. Well, thank you very much. First of all, its a great pleasure to be here with you, and to be here at the public library. So thank you very much. Youre welcome. I guess what i would say, my autobiography is really the strand of my life story because i was born in 1933 in the depression. My father was a Life Insurance salesman with i was the second of two boys in atlanta, but nobody was buying Life Insurance. So my father left atlanta, went to southwest georgia, and established the first black funeral home in blakely, georgia. But beyond that my father was the social activist because this is during the period of legally enforced segregation. And in southwest georgia in those years for blacks was not a very happy place, but my father was an a
Health advocate, an author, a physician, an educator. He serves as secretary of the u. S. Department of health and Human Services under george bush and was founding dean of the Morehouse School of medicine, and today dr. Sullivan will be discussing his recent memoir, breaking ground my life in medicine, so welcome. Were very happy to have you. Thank you. [applause] this is a bit different because often i do fiction books, occasionally memoirs. But your story, theres a lot to talk about here. And i wanted to just begin, i mean, its a hard thing to say to somebody, you know, hi, can you synopsize your life in all of two sentences. But i wanted you to just in some just very brief way tell the audience what this book covers. And then i will delve in, and well start true going into start going into specifics, and then well build from there. Well, thanks very much. First of all, its a great pleasure to be here with you and to be here at the public library, so thank you very much. Youre welco