That professor aaron mason recently informed me that he will not be here and making a presentation, and, therefore, you should expect to hear three presentations instead of four. I trust that this may make sure that we have enough time for audience questions and participation at the end, which is a minor benefit from not getting to hear professor masons presentation. So well still try to use our 90 minutes effectively. All of the presenters have had to cut their presentations in order to fit our session. All of the presentations represent work in progress, which is exciting. Our speakers will present in the order in which they appear on your program, beginning with Michael Gunther. Professor Michael Gunther hails from historic lake george, new york. He earned his ph. D. In history in 2010. He is current professor of history at georgia gwinnett college, a fouryear institution in the suburbs of atlanta. Dr. Gunther recently published a journal article on the bordering of quebec in the 17
There was said just dean baker was living in europe and she read a letter faxed. Host does exist anywhere from start to finish . The Public Television station in boston you have to watch in parts. Someone whod talked about but did not speak everybody was fairly controversial. But he was a communist and a member of the Young Communist League that he was also a homosexual. And he was arrested is under homosexual sex in by far was widely known the principal architect and was a tremendous grassroots organizer and then to make a tremendous statement facility a Philip Randolph to organize the march the first person in he called was rustin and they put together a plan but when randolph led to get support from the major civilrights organizers the principal objections came he is a former communist and was arrested for homosexual sex he cannot be the principal for this march. And a. Philip randolph initially conceited and said okay. And everybody said of course, the nobody could of the object to
Bit, reflect his evolving views, is it fair to think of him still as the father of the constitution . I dont know that he was the father of the constitution, but the thing i came away with was how terribly important the document is. Not as an object of record but for as a way for us to understand how difficult that task was that they face. I came away from the whole project with enormous respect for how close the country was too falling apart, and a much different people with different opinions struggle to try and hold it together, how remarkable the document was that was written in philadelphia, but how different it looked to them that it looks to us. As i say, this is not the document base of what theyre writing. The fact end up on playing cards would be a great surprise to all of them. Let me make it a couple things about the building. We have a place where you will see a lifesize models of the framers. So you will see how short James Madison was, which may be a real victory for sho
This is the speech he pioneered several years before with the outline when he spoke initially with the refrain of the i have the dream before the aflcio Labor Movement almost two years before the march on washington in the speech he has perfected over time by the time it came around to his advisers told him not to give that speech. And if you watch him there are recordings he begins not with that i have the dream of refrained but a check written by the government and the declaration of independence. And then it is marked insufficient funds. The promise of american democracy. But he gets halfway but then he pushes aside. With very effectively in detroit. There were rumors the famous gospel singer just before he came on stage to say tell him about the dream. Then his speech really wasnt getting a. So he went back to their refrained that gave this speech is now one of the most famous speeches in american history. End if she was reminding him of that but that is the refrain that we all kno