Back in the 1980s from the original founders of the descendents association, and i guess it stopped for a while, so i decided to start it up again. And i was reading the book, the slaveship clotilda and the makers of africa town. That is how i came up with the title. I was looking for a title, but you know, a lot of things were not ringing a bell. When i was reading her book, i was like oh wow, our ancestors just jumped at me. You greeted everyone and there was a point where you had descendents speak. How did you come up with your program . Well, growing up here in africa town and attending the missionary baptist church, there was a bust of cudgel lewis in front of our church all of my life, and back in 2002 that bust was destroyed by some kids acting up, and they decided to vandalize, and later, they put up a Historical Marker, and this Historical Marker had the founders of Union Baptist church, and there were several names on there, and growing up, i always heard about cudgel lewis,
Gained about africa tan. She has the pleasure also, of introducing our speaker for the hour. So let us welcome, her. Thank you very much. Good morning africatown. The spirit of our festival has been a seated by our ancestors its taking root like the baobab tree, under whom we are imparting knowledge about africatown to the world. I am proud to have served as the festivals inaugural speaker, and im equally proud to introduce my successor, doctor deborah, the story of the last black cargo. Doctor deborah plant is a African American literature scholar and literary critic, whose special interest is in the life and works of Zora Neale Hurston, the story of the last black cargo, she created what the New York Times says was a profound impact on Zora Neale Hurstons Literary History in publishing Zora Neale Hurstons account of the life story of clotilda survivor, an african town cofounder. Farrakhan one New York Times bestseller, time magazines best nonfiction look of 2018. And new york Public
Arianna we are very excited about the authors who will be speaking here. Started, please silence your cell phones. We are filming and recording today and we prefer not to have any interruptions. We sure to use a microphone at the end of the event to ask questions. If you have not purchased a book and would like to do so, they are available at the register. After the event is over, there will be a signing line to the right of this table here. If you have been here before, you know we ask everyone to fold up their chairs after the event. Here with us tonight is dr. Damaris hill. Dr. Hill is an accomplished explores the work digital humanities. She has written the fluid boundaries of suffrage and jim crow. Dr. Hill is an assistant professor of africanamerican studies at the university of kentucky but she is here to talk to us about her most recent work , a bound woman is a dangerous thing. Dr. Hill honors the lives and suffering of africanamerican women heroes throughout history while pro
Gerald ford in the context of the 1970s, served as minority leader, vicepresident and president. And find a full schedule on your Program Guide or wch online anytime at cspan. Org history. Im happy to now introduce our final panel today which brings together highly Impressive Group of scholars and practitioners dedicated to the preservation of the white house. Something near and dear to us here at the White House Organization. And dr. Matthew cost sell low, David Rubenstein center for white house history and Senior Historian at the White House Historical association will moderate. The our first panelist is leslie green bauman from the jefferson that operates monticello and serves under president s joe biden, donald trump, barack obama, george w. Bush and bill clinton. Stewart is president of the White House Organization leading the nonprofit to restore preservation. And john oversees the National Park services, responsibilities for the care of the white house and its grounds as well as
We will break and have lunch. We will regather at 12 20. [indistinct conversations] dr. Hertzfeld so this one will not have as many sort of virtual folks. It is all in person. Soho karen has readily managed her risks by not having any virtual dispense on her panel. Not sure how she did that. It is all of this year. We talked about the task and experienced before, and this is more future looking and where are we going now . Karen com over to you. U. Karen thank you, scott, and actually, we are all holograms. No one is actually here. [laughter] i was not speaking into it. I was speaking into this volunteer im not sure why it is there. That is for cspan. [laughter] dr. Pace an advertisement for cspan, im watching their feet, the recording, it looks excellent. Whenever it is available, i urge you to take a look at that. That probably be the reporting of record for this event. Thanks. Karen ok. Welcome to panel 2. Well be talking about future strategies for Publicprivate Partnership. I thin