format. mayor reilly and secretary lonnie bunch will engage in a fireside chat9-style conversation after which we ll open it up for questions. we can ask that you put your questions in the chat function, and and i ll relay those to secretary bunch. so with that, i ll turn it over to my colleagues, mayor joseph reilly. thank you, professor taylor and secretary bunch. [inaudible] the secretary of [inaudible] the director of the national african-american museum of national history [inaudible] secretary bunch is the director of the chicago [audio difficulty] his connection [inaudible] [inaudible] mr. secretary, describe [inaudible] in many ways, i am so honored to be with you because of my profound respect for the mayor, for what you re doing. in some ways the museum s created manufactured reality. you ve got sacred ground, sacred space. so the opportunity to tell important stories in a space where they actually happened is very powerful. so i ve always felt anythin
wanted to briefly explain the format. mayor reilly and secretary lonnie bunch will engage in a fireside chat9-style conversation after which we ll open it up for questions. we can ask that you put your questions in the chat function, and and i ll relay those to secretary bunch. so with that, i ll turn it over to my colleagues, mayor joseph reilly. thank you, professor taylor and secretary bunch. [inaudible] the secretary of [inaudible] the director of the national african-american museum of national history [inaudible] secretary bunch is the director of the chicago [audio difficulty] his connection [inaudible] [inaudible] mr. secretary, describe [inaudible] in many ways, i am so honored to be with you because of my profound respect for the mayor, for what you re doing. in some ways the museum s created manufactured reality. you ve got sacred ground, sacred space. so the opportunity to tell important stories in a space where they actually happened is very powerfu
african-american museum. i m carey taylor, associate professor or this history at the citadel, and joseph is reilly s co-teacher for this semester s exciting course. we will introduce our special guest this weekend, but first i wanted to briefly explain the format. mayor reilly and secretary lonnie bunch will engage in a fireside chat9-style conversation after which we ll open it up for questions. we can ask that you put your questions in the chat function, and and i ll relay those to secretary bunch. so with that, i ll turn it over to my colleagues, mayor joseph reilly. thank you, professor taylor and secretary bunch. [inaudible] the secretary of [inaudible] the director of the national african-american museum of national history [inaudible] secretary bunch is the director of the chicago [audio difficulty] his connection [inaudible] [inaudible] mr. secretary, describe [inaudible] in many ways, i am so honored to be with you because of my profound respect for th
welcome to the how and why, the making of the international african-american museum. i m carey taylor, associate professor or this history at the citadel, and joseph is reilly s co-teacher for this semester s exciting course. we will introduce our special guest this weekend, but first i wanted to briefly explain the format. mayor reilly and secretary lonnie bunch will engage in a fireside chat9-style conversation after which we ll open it up for questions. we can ask that you put your questions in the chat function, and and i ll relay those to secretary bunch. so with that, i ll turn it over to my colleagues, mayor joseph reilly. thank you, professor taylor and secretary bunch. [inaudible] the secretary of [inaudible] the director of the national african-american museum of national history [inaudible] secretary bunch is the director of the chicago [audio difficulty] his connection [inaudible] [inaudible] mr. secretary, describe [inaudible] in many ways, i am so
[inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. and racial congress. he is one of the most revered members of the congress. about 20 years ago, we were working to develop the idea of an international african american museum. congressman club learned was as busy as anyone in the congress. if you have been to his office on capitol hill in grand central station, people are coming and going. they went to ask the congressman if he would consider being chair of the african american museum. he was so busy that i was timid to ask. he said, let me ask emily. he was the congressman s dear wife who we lost, sadly, a few years ago. adam great respect for his wife, because he was busy moving into washington and south carolina. two weeks later, he called me back and said, joe, emily said yes and i will. jim clyde never missed a meeting at the museum. those meetings were in charleston. as busy as he was, not only did he not miss the meetings but he was prepared and ran everything to the board memb