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Good evening, everyone and welcome. Thank you for joining us tonight. My name is hilary carr and on behalf of Harvard Bookstore im pleased to introduce this event with professor martha jones presented her brandnew book vanguard how black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all joining conversation by nikole hannahjones. Thank you for joining us virtually tonight. Events like to our books are confused to bring authors and their work to our community and her new Digital Community through these unprecedented times. We will be hosting are on our account or our event schedule. On a website harbor. Com events we can sign up for our email newsletter. This discussion will conclude with time for your questions. You have a question if you have questions adding time during the talk dick on the q a button at the bottom of the screen and will get to as m ....
Have advised us in the opening of our new gallery, civil war and reconstruction the battle for freedom and equality. [applause] who has seen the new gallery . And everyone who has not can vibe about vision 2020, which is really important and is cosponsoring our event this evening. Isnt it wonderful . Its so inspiring and so meaningful to tell the story of how the equality promised in jeffersons declaration was thwarted in the original constitution, resurrected by lincoln at gettysburg, and Frederick Douglass, and enshrined in post civil war amendments, thwarted again, and then resurrected by king. And Thavolia Glymph and kate masur are two of the scholars who were on our scholarly advisory panel. Youll hear from them as well as Catherine Clinton tonight in a conversation moderated my colleague lana ulrich, our he ....
For freedom and equality. [applause] ho has seen the new gallery . D everyone who has not can see vision 2020, very important and is cosponsoring. Its so inspiring and so meaningful to tell the story of how the equality promised in jeffersons declaration was thwarted, resurrected by lincoln and Frederick Douglas and enshrined in post civil war amendments, thwarted again, and hen resurrected by king. And theyre two of the scholars who were on our advisory panel. Youll hear from them as well as katherine tonight in a conversation moderate bid my colleague lana, our head of constitutional content who worked with the Incredible Team to create that exhibit. If you havent seen it, i want you to go down as soon as possible and see it and tell me what you think. Now please join me in greeting lana and our panelists. [applause] good evening. Welcome to the center. Thank you, for t ....