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
Assistant director of Curatorial Affairs and curative arts, and i would like to share with you a little bit of our native american collection and the history of native americans and the culture of native americans here in texas. Its very appropriate that we sort of begin with the contemporary. Im standing here right next to a magnificent piece of sculpture by noted artist alan hauser, who was apache. He was born in oklahoma. He was a descendent of geronimo s band, who was removed to oklahoma after the after geronimo and his band were captured. Terrificbecame a artist. As you can see here, one of the main foci of this particular piece is a native american on horseback. That is truly the story of native americans in the Southern Plains region and in the panhandle especially. Once horses became available to 1600s, particularly the comanches and some of the apache people they were able to obtain horses from the traders in santa fe stealing some of them as well. They were able to then utili
Us in person and online. Before i introduce our next speaker a shout out to folks who made today possible. Our technical director chris white, thank you so much for your work behind the camera, chris. Thank you to our symposium coordinators kevin pollack and dan welch. Unfortunately, because of the covid pandemic we had to postpone this years inperson symposium and all the work kevin and dan did to get ready for that weve postponed to next year. Tickets are available at this time but theyre the ones who stepped up to help make todays virtual symposium possible. Thank you for your work. I would like to introduce our next speaker, sarah kay bierle, the managing editor of emerging civil war, the one working behindthescenes to keep the blog up and going and make sure that all that free content is coming to you every day. Her work is absolutely invaluable to our organization. Sarah is the author of the emerging civil war series call out the cadet from the emerging civil war series, the batt
Thank you to our symposium coordinators kevin pollack and dan welch. Unfortunately, because of the covid pandemic we had to postpone this years inperson symposium and all the work kevin and dan did to get ready for that weve postponed to next year. Tickets are available at this time but theyre the ones who stepped up to help make todays virtual symposium possible. Thank you for your work. I would like to introduce our next speaker, sarah kay bierle, the managing editor of emerging civil war, the one working behindthescenes to keep the blog up and going and make sure that all that free content is coming to you every day. Her work is absolutely invaluable to our organization. Sarah is the author of the emerging civil war series call out the cadet from the emerging civil war series, the battle of new market. She is also at work on the gallant pelham and will present some of her Research Associated with that book today. Sarah kay bierle. Well, good morning, good afternoon, or good evening.
Schoolteacher and she was the family historian and my mothers family who were all in new orleans and she was the keeper of the lower among others are klansmen and she had some papers and files and she had a way of speaking about our Family History that was like this, the one to remember is are klansmen, my grandfather, he was a redeemer and the redemption returned white people to authority in new orleans after they had been Just Launched and if he had not acted in the battle of liberty we would not be here today, anyway, when she died her papers went to my mother and when my mother died, this is decades later, her files came to me, her files and this is how i rediscover the story of our klansmen and wrote about it. You remember your aunt maude, it sounds like she spoke of, say his name. Its spelled constance, he was a French Carpenter raised and spoke french. Is it fair to say in your family he was heroic. He was heroic for 100 years, as were the clans people, the klansmen for most, th