Conference quick welcome to new perspectives and sources, this is a panel to devoted to understanding a horrific series events that started just over id years ago where African Americans were hunted down by an raged crowd of whites in arkansas, i want to recognize the work lancaster did in helping to organize this panel, in unfortunately he had to change his plans to join us, and participate all three of our scholars, here on this panel are contributors to a book edited, we are shamelessly plugging that right here, the elaine mascara in arkansas, a century of atrocity and resistance, 1819 to 1919, full disclosure i read it to, this is not about me, i want to introduced all three of our panelists first, though each present for about 20 to 25 minutes, and after that i will spend just a few minutes offering some thoughts, designed to generate discussion and then we will enjoy a question, answer i will get out of the, way we will go in the order of the Program First matthew hills who, is a
Up next, a discussion about the racially motivated 1919 elaine, arkansas massacre. Panelists contributed to the book. Part of the 2000 19 Southern Historical Associations Annual conference. 2019 welcome to new perspectives and sources on the elaine massacre of 1919. This is devoted to advancing our understanding of a horrific series of events that began just over 100 years ago in which africanamericans were hunted by a paranoid and enraged crowd of whites in the arkansas delta. I want to recognize the work of guy lancaster and helping to organize this panel. Unfortunately, he had to change his plans to join us and participate. All three of our scholars on this panel are contributors to a book edited by guy lanchester. We are shamelessly plugging that here. A century of atrocity and resistance, 18191919. Full disclosure. I am in there but this is not about me. I want to introduce our panelists. They will each present for 25 minutes. After that, i will spend a few minutes offering though
Good afternoon here at the National Archives the archivist of the United States its a pleasure to have you with us or joining us through facebook or Youtube Channels into the cspan audience. We like to tell you about a few other programs coming up next month on tuesday septembe september 10th Sidney Blumenthal will talk about the recently released volume about Abraham Lincoln 1856 and at seven the associate Justice Gorsuch will tell us about his new book a republic if you can keep it with the importance of Civic Education and discourse and mutual respect. Check out the website to get email updates you will find other information to other archives and activities another way is to become a member of the National Archives foundation and check out their website to learn more about the organization. Those murals commemorate two founding documents of the nation of the declaration of independence and the Central Group represents those who play key roles in the creation of that document along
Good afternoon here at the National Archives the archivist of the United States its a pleasure to have you with us or joining us through facebook or Youtube Channels into the cspan audience. We like to tell you about a few other programs coming up next month on tuesday septembe september 10th Sidney Blumenthal will talk about the recently released volume about Abraham Lincoln 1856 and at seven the associate Justice Gorsuch will tell us about his new book a republic if you can keep it with the importance of Civic Education and discourse and mutual respect. Check out the website to get email updates you will find other information to other archives and activities another way is to become a member of the National Archives foundation and check out their website to learn more about the organization. Those murals commemorate two founding documents of the nation of the declaration of independence and the Central Group represents those who play key roles in the creation of that document along
States was at war in vietnam, and this veterans day weekend, lets get ready for this next panel which im really excited about. First i want to introduce our next speaker and my good friend to the stage. I have known her for almost 20 years now. Whether fighting for the defense fund to fighting for immigrant rights ending mass incarceration [ applause ] hi. Good morning everyone. She is one of my closest and dearest friends. She is also someone i look up to and consider a hero. Im so very very proud of her and id love for her to join me on the stage now. Thank you. [ applause ] hi. Good morning everyone. That is a warm welcome from my dear friend nick. I am so glad to see everyone here. The panelists are joining us on the stage right now. I wanted to open up with a few remarks about the incredibly extraordinary time that we are in. I dont mean that in a great way. I think its so important that all of you are gathered here this morning. This is an extraordinary time in our country. It is