About how the end of the civil war led to that amendment and eventually the 15th amendment that gave africanamerican males the right to vote. The africanamerican civil war and museum hosted this 35 minute event. Frank my name is frank smith and i am the director of the museum. For this purpose this weekend i am the host of the grand review committee, welcoming thousands of marchers and reenactors and descendents to washington, d. C. To talk about the close of the american civil war. At the end of the war, the government celebrated by bringing 200,000 soldiers to washington, d. C. To acknowledge the fact that after four years of a bloody war, it was finally over, the nation had been saved as one nation under god, and the legacy of slavery had ended forever because the union now includes africanamerican soldiers who helped win this war and change the direction of this nation. This afternoon at the museum we are going to have a Panel Discussion including three knowledgeable, informed pers
About africanamerican fatherhood have been used in this conversation that we seem to be having about race for really hundreds of years. Well, i almost dont even know where to begin. Answering that question, though the topic of my talk invites the question. Part of what i think, what i find striking about baldwins mention there is just that part of the reference where he says the past has disappeared which is to say baldwin is saying black men have never really been able to have the experience of having fathers in the United States. And that is not, and that legacy and heritage is nothing new. And its really in some ways not a choice. Its an a tradition that had been imposed firstly by outside that created a kind of reality. That we still see today. That reality is the same reality. So much of what i see baldwin doing and why i want to keep coming back to that i picked the cotton line is that baldwin really insists if we want to take race seriously we have to collapse our sense of racia
About africanamerican fatherhood have been used in this conversation that we seem to be having about race for really hundreds of years. Well, i almost dont even know where to begin. Answering that question, though the topic of my talk invites the question. Part of what i think, what i find striking about baldwins mention there is just that part of the reference where he says the past has disappeared which is to say baldwin is saying black men have never really been able to have the experience of having fathers in the United States. And that is not, and that legacy and heritage is nothing new. And its really in some ways not a choice. Its an a tradition that had been imposed firstly by outside that created a kind of reality. That we still see today. That reality is the same reality. So much of what i see baldwin doing and why i want to keep coming back to that i picked the cotton line is that baldwin really insists if we want to take race seriously we have to collapse our sense of racia
In the 1950s in Omaha, Neb., the multi-racial DePorres Club realized it needed to escalate its tactics from uplifting the Black community to confronting white discrimination.