The end of reconstruction to world war ii. Im very happy to be here today. I want to be an introduction of our panel. We have a very tight timeline. I want to try to control our panelists. I want to make sure we have adequate time for everyone. When you get to five minutes left, i a fiveminute card here and i will lay it up so you can see it and you can see where you are. You have time for everyone. Catalyst introduced all at once people with their first panelist who is john f polk. He received his phd in mathematics from university of delaware. In 1979. He served three he is retired from a 45 year career as a scientist and Senior Advisor at Research Collaboration at the u. S. Army research laboratory. He is currently the clan historian for when polk international and publishes short articles on Family History and the clan newsletter. He has published two books on historical topics, beyond the polk family of the chesapeake Eastern Shore in the colonial era. That was released in 2015. W
A good way. But to make sure that we have adequate time for everyone. So when you get to five minutes left, i have a fiveminute card and i will lay it up so you can see it and then three minutes and one minute so you can see where you are. So we have time for everyone. Im going to introduce each panelist as they come forward, because i found if you introduce them all at once people forget who they are. So i will begin with our first panelist who is john f. Polk. He received his ph. D. In mathematics from the the university of delaware in 1979. He served three years in the army, including a tour in vietnam. He is retired from a 45year career as a scientist and Senior Adviser of International Research collaboration at the u. S. Army research laboratory, aberdeen proving ground, maryland. He is currently the clan historian for clan pollock international and publishes short articles on Family History in the clan news letter. He has published two backs on historical topics, beyond damned qu
Where the slaves are looking now of statute . They had to build the building had to live somewhere said they would build a shanty and this is something to interesting. There were others around the white house of love to see there was an ice house and stables and houses for the freed men and they were all the white house campus so what it looks like back then that whole area is complete the different. Back by james poole had 19 slaves . Gimmicky bought all of the slayings. But he was one of the few people that decided that he needed the extra help while here in washington. He had slaves in tennessee and needed help and washington. But as a conservative . One of the faithful slaves t6 becomes a political figure and decides he wants to run for office as a conservative be. Even today there are not as many conservatives in the Africanamerican Community running for office says there are liberals. But elias polk was one of the first and that was not very popular standing along the slave voter
Why did you lead your forward with that . Jesse part of the reason why i got into writing about africanamerican history in washington, d. C. Was because of barack obama and his campaign. There was a lot of interest in African American history, having the first africanamerican president in the white house. I was lucky enough to be assigned by the Associated Press to cover obama that weekend. I remember pulling up to the obamas townhouse in chicago thinking about what book will i write next. And right at that spot is when it hit me. I got so excited about the topic and so i immediately called my editor. She immediately tamped down my enthusiasm and told me to think about it. To make sure that i had a really good idea about what i wanted to do. Brian what was the idea . Jesse the idea was to write a story about the africanamerican slaves who lived inside the white house. Back then, the country was still talking about how great and how unique it would be if an africanamerican president liv
Adapted for young people by warren st. John. Its been written down when you doubt that its for young people. He took 100 pages out of it. So this is the shorter version. But the title rather nicely captures the spirit of this whole enterprise. The outcast united students are taught to think of themselves as outcasts. Theyre united in coming together in this oppositional enterprise in which theyre going to generate a newer who wholesome, culture, and thats a main reason why classic books written before they were born are so few. 91 of the books signed in common reading programs around the country this year were written after these children were born. 91 . So, its as though the written word hardly existed before they did. There are few sort of hints there might have been something written down in english earlier, but you have to go to some pretty faraway colleges in southern utah and places like that, i would say there is a major exception right here in new York City Columbia University