Years ago. It was then that Irena Webster and Barbara Spencer dunn joined with the woman who became my first boss at the aspca. They had the vision to get right to support the works the Parks Service was doing to protect the africanamerican experience. Sadly, irena passed away at the start of this year, and i wanted to take a moment to talk about the preservation of the history to achieve black Voting Rights to remember my boss, my friend, and the true pioneer in the long and ongoing process to make conservation and preservation organizations like npca more inclusive. For our panel today, people will understand that it is wideranging, multifaceted and current. Its still going on. What we want to do with this panel of experts and people who are my friends, folks that i admire, is to get their insights on this issue, but maybe in more specific and direct ways. We have one person, Josephine Bolling mccall, who actually lived through the struggle for Voting Rights. Well hear from josephine
Rifle and the bullet hit him in the back, crashed to his body into the window in a house. He died in an hour at a jacksonville hospital. You in the former home of medgar evers and marlee edgars and our address is 2322 Margaret Walker drive. He was born and raised in decatur, mississippi and he talked about when you read about him and in listening to him talk he knew the difference of how the races that were made between the races and he said he never could understand why. He talked about having white playmates and had friends and was only after that they would hunt and fish together and was only about when his friends got to the beat the age of 16 that they were separated and went different ways. He talked about seeing his friends and he was going downtown and he saw his friends standing on the corner with other whites and he said of course, they called him [inaudible] and they noticed his friend dropped his head when he said it. And so that is what situation he grew up in. Then he tal
Television Companies Support cspan2 as a public service. Moderator for today dr. Stephanie w mcdaniels is a longtime friend of the festival having served on the board of directors for many years she is a professor of english and dean of the graduate school at the jackson state university. Dr. Mcdaniels. [applause] its all yours. Of course, i cant sit down yet. I just want to remind yall whenever if you want to ask questions you will need to come to the microphone at the podium right there and no matter how loud your teacher voice is, try not we dont want you to shout itou from your seat, okay, because as we said we are filming this. Now. Great, thank you, thank you guys for coming. [applause] thank you for joining was the autobiography panel and at this time i have the pleasure of introducing our 3 distinguished panelists and their great work. First we have miariam, native of augusta, georgia, University Distinguished professor of english at the university of cay aand founding director
Jackson state university, doctor mcdaniels and all yours. [applause] of course i cant sit down that. I want to remind you if you want to ask questions will need to come to the microphone at the podium no matter how loud your teacher voice is, we dont want you to shout it from your seat because weth are filming this. Thank you. Thank you guys for coming. [applause] thank you for joining us with the autobiography panel. I have the pleasure of producing our distinguished panel of their great work. First we have marion graham, a native of georgia, the University Distinguished professor ofhe english at the university of kansas and founding director of the history of black writing which she established at the university of mississippi and 1983. The history of black writing has led national and International Initiatives to promote research, teaching and Public Engagement with literary studies with the National Endowment for humanity. The author of 12 books that redefined the field especially
Our moderator for today is a long time friend of the festival having served on the board of directors for many years. She is a professor of english and the graduate school at the jackson state university. Dr. Mcdaniels. Its all yours. [applause]co a course i cant sit down yet. I want to remind you all that whenever if you want to ask questions you will need to come to the microphone and the podium and no matter how loud your Teacher Voices we dont want you to shout it from your seat because thank you. And thank you guys for coming. Mi [applause] thank you for joining us. At this time i had the pleasure of introducing or three distinguished panelists and their great works. First we have miriam graham, founding director of the history of riders which he established at the university of mississippi in 1993. The history of writing his lead National International initiative to promote Research Teaching and Public Engagement with black literary studies in the National Endowment for the human