Laughing before you said 10 years ago when you first started you had hair. Guest not a lot but i had hair. Host what started you down the road to actually put it ebony and ivy together . Guest its actually a long story that i can make short. I had just been moving from one job to another in a teaching position and i had just finished a book project and i started out on what i thought was going to be simple book, simple article actually. I was just going to explain how black abolitionist got their education given the fact that they were excluded by race from american colleges. I was just going to tell the story and some of them went to europe. Some of them went to new england and studied privately. Some of them studied privately in the atlantic and they became ministers and teachers and doctors and all sorts of things. But in fact one of the things i got more interested in if they started that project was why they were excluded from these colleges and universities. These colleges in fac
Way he was doing things the could have elevated the two chairmen or ceo but you never know. It is what it is i am happy as i look back with mostly great satisfaction. Host most i think would say you havent had a very successful career. Are you really retired . What is next . Certainly i will not be an executive and a Major Corporation but i am a contributor to force, d. C. Contributor i write a column for a magazine and a board member for a variety of companies and two consulting and i am now involved man with a partner in producing premium mens watches and one of which is right here starting a small automotive venture. I have plenty to keep me busy. Host why i dont call that retired. You have a lot of wisdom that Somebody Just starting a new one to follow in your footsteps of what was a your party words of wisdom be male or female with leadership . First of all, be passionate. If you are passionate about fashion or the furniture business go with that. If its about the hospitality go i
Just got it from charles croppedhammer, the things that matter, his new collection of essays some of which are biographical. That makes my day. Died like radio. Three hours is an abundance of time and i can do so many things. More with radio talkshow host hugh hewitt on cspans q a. You are watching cspan2 with politics and Public Affairs weekdays featuring live coverage of the u. S. Senate, weeknights watch the Public Policy events and every weekend the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv. You can see past programs and get schedules that our web site and join in the conversation on social media sites. Up next on booktv, afterwards with guest host, political activist and radio host joe madison talking with Craig Steven Wilder on his book ebony and ivy race, slavery, and the troubled history of americas universities. In the book, the mit history shared discusses how the campuses of many of the universities were not only built by slave labor but funded by profits earned from the
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Black abolitionists got their education given the fact that they were excluded by race from american colleges and universities. I was going to tell the story read some of them went to europe and some of them went to new england and studied privately. Some of them studied privately in the the atlantic and they became ministers and teachers in. Years and all the sorts of things. In fact one of the things i got more just and as i started that project was why they were excluded from these colleges and universities. These colleges in fact have a long history with black people on campus as enslaved people but not his students. They also had a long history with native americans and at the very time that students were native American Students had been on campus for years. Host native American Students have been on campus doing what . Guest as students. Host how was it that they were able to be on campuses and you write about that. Guest if you think about it the first attempt to build a colleg