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
Winford places John Hervey Wheeler in the center of the civil rights narrative, casting new light on the role this banker, activist and humanitarian played. The central argument of this work is that wheeler exemplified the activist business demand that often stood at the center of the freedom struggle, a figure that continues to be under analyzed. He was often overlooked due to emphasis on the more incendiary elements of the movement, protests and mobilizations and other dramatic events. I am on this panel because i studied North Carolina civil rights history. Again i can speak to the ways in , which brendans book is making a really significant intervention in the history, not only of civil rights writ large, but the Civil Rights Movement and the black struggling North Carolina in particular. So from wheelers perch at mechanics and farmers bank and dunn, he was a consummate insider and powerplay or who understood the calculus of social change dictated variegated approaches and the purs
Wanted to start out by sharing with you the partnership between the National Parks conservatives association, and the association of study of life and history began more than 28 years ago. It was then at that irena webster, and govern spencer dug, joined with the woman who would become my first boss at ncaa, i had to get right. Had the vision to join forces to support an enhanced the work that the National Parks service is doing in order to protect the African American experience. Sadly, i had to give passed away earlier this year. I want to take a moment at the start of this conversation about the preservation of the history of the struggle to achieve black Voting Rights, to remember my boss, my friend and a true pioneer in the long and ongoing process to make congress this survey shun and preservation organizations like and pca, more just, equitable, diverse and inclusive. Thank you diana. Now, for our panel today, folks are going to be aware of the history of the struggle of Voting
60s. This event was part of the association of the study for africanAmerican Life and conference, and they provided the video. So glad to be here, and so very excited to chop it up a little bit about brother winfords excellent book. Let me jump into my comments. It chronicles the life of the civil rights period. This is a trench at work in this work he replaces wheeler in the center of a compelling civil rights narrative there by casting a new light on the role this banker played in the middle of the century. I can speak to the way his book is making history, and also the Civil Rights Movement, the black peoples struggle in North Carolina in particular. So from wheelers bank in d durham, he was a insider and power player that understood the calculous of social change dictated approaches to the pursuit of freedom. This is going to be one of the questions i certainly want to knock around with dr. Winford in terms of the dynamic enter play that we see with wheeler and the ways in which he
Kalangi walton. Panelist isrent dr. David goldberg who is associate professor at Wayne State University. Who is the detroit president president of the detroit chapter and tour leader and historian of all things africanamerican detroit. Communityincredible scholar out of detroit. A wonderful set of folks who will help us think about think about politics in detroit and michigan. I am going to throw it over to the panel. Thank you for being here. Thank you. Chair. E i have a couple of remarks really quick. I want to thank everybody for detroitnd hearing about politics in particular is radical. I think my panelists for being here. About theking the20th century up until beginning of the 21st century there is a span of influence of rosa parks, john conyers, and mayor Coleman Young. The radical black politics began in the 1800s. A couple of things that happened that really sets the stage for detroit being this hotbed of radical black politics is the uprising in 1833. 400 black people lead an