interpreter catherine harris. can t garrett and gene ellsworth are with us today courtesy of tom and margaret morse. mr. garrett graduated from harvard in 1963 he has had a 30-year emmy and peabody award-winning career in television news and documentaries. jean ellsworth has a phd in social foundations of education from the university of buffalo and has devoted her life to teaching from elementary school to prisons to universities. the authors live in roxbury, new york please give a warm savannah. welcome to kent garrett and jean ellsworth. well, thank you for inviting us and well, as you know, the book is called the last negroes at harvard and 61 years ago harvard admitted 18 negroses, and that s what we recall then and we were the largest number at that time ever admitted to harvard. we were from all different parts of the country north south east and west and we came from different economic and socio-economic backgrounds and we here before they had been letting admitting b
our program tonight is very much directly related to our online exhibition. who counts. i hope you ll all check it out if you have not done so already it s a great show and somehow incredibly relevant these days the show was originally planned to be a physical show at the mass historical society and as a part of that physical show, we had intended to dedicate one room to thomas nast the father of american political cartoon. obviously that didn t happen, but we did build an online exhibition as a companion website that explores the the life of thomas nast. this is a really fun project all the illustrations in it were done by local independent artists. so i hope that you will check that out if you have if you re interested in this program. that brings us to this evening s program which will include fiona deen tolerant and pat bagley. will be speaking on the life of thomas next was a pioneer in american political cartoons. he created or popularized the republican elephant the de
kennedy and the john f. kennedy and the myths that surround him. [video clip] al gore: i say to president-elect bush that rancor must be put aside and may god bless his stewardship of this country. neither he nor i anticipated this long and difficult road. certainly, neither of us wanted it to happen. yet it came, and now it has ended. resolved, as it must be resolved, through the honored institutions of our democracy. over the library of one of our great law schools is inscribed the motto not under man, but under god and law. i have tried to make it my guide throughout this contest as it has guided america s deliberations of all the complex issues of the past five weeks. now, the u.s. supreme court has spoken. let there be no doubt. while i strongly disagree with the court s decision, i accept it. i accept the finality of the outcome which will be ratified next monday in the electoral college. and tonight, for the sake of our unity as a people and the strength of our dem
welcome us into this glorious space. and for any of those in the audience who may not yet be familiar with the american constitution society. we are nationwide network of lawyers, law students judges policy makers and scholars, who believe that the law should be a force to improve the lives of all people. we work for positive change, by shaping the debate and vitally important legal and constitutional issues, through the development and promotion of high impact ideas to opinion leaders and the media. and by building networks of lawyers, law students judges and policy makers, dedicated to those ideas and by countering the activist conservative illegal movement, that has sought to erode injuring the constitutional values. and while we cover a wide range of issues in our work today s program focuses on two of the most essential. voting, and judicial integrity. today, we revisit the supreme court decision that just 15 years ago halted the counting of ballots in florida, and effec
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