He has had a 30year emmy and peabody awardwinning career in Television News and documentaries. Jeanne ellsworth has a ph. D. 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 rocksbury, new york. Please give a warm savannah welcome to kent garrett and jeannie else worth. [applause] finish jeanne ellsworth. [applause] well, thank you for enlightening us, and ill let you know the book is called the last negroes at harvard. 61 years ago harvard admitted 18 negroes, and thats what we were called 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 socioeconomic backgrounds. And we, heretofore theyd been letting, admitting blacks to harvard but only two or three at a time. And most guys would just go and do their four years and the
[inaudible conversations] hello, everyone. My name is anne. Welcome to the 13th annual savannah book festival. The festival is presented by georgia power, bob faircloth, david and nancy seven terror and the phillip e. And nancy b. Bigman foundation. We are especially grateful to jack and mary romano who are our sponsors for this beautiful venue. Wed also like to welcome our literati members and individual donors today. It is through your support that we are able to make todays festival events free to the public. 90 of our revenue comes from our donors and literati members, and we thank you. Before we get started, i have some housekeeping notes. Kent garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth will be signing festivalpurchased copies of their book at Telfair Square following their presentation. If youre planning to stay for the next author, edward j. Larson, after this presentation please move forward to fill seats as the venue empties. This will help the ushers get people seated for the next session.
New york. Please give a warm savannah welcome to kent garrett and jeannie else worth. [applause] finish jeanne ellsworth. [applause] well, thank you for enlightening us, and ill let you know the book is called the last negroes at harvard. 61 years ago harvard admitted 18 negroes, and thats what we were called 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 socioeconomic backgrounds. And we, heretofore theyd been letting, admitting blacks to harvard but only two or three at a time. And most guys would just go and do their four years and then get out of town. Finish leave cambridge. But for us it was different in the sense that we had numbers, the 18, and we could form an individual racial identity as well as a group identity. And we were able to become actually a force for change at harvard, and harvard or we changed harvard and harvard changed
Support and sponsorship of this program as well. Of course, the library system, and we really appreciate the everson madison region ally braer. We are, of course, in sh charlottesville, which is the southern terminus of our National Scenic byway as well as National Heritage area. We are pleased that the book tonight focuses on both our northern terminus as well as our southern terminus. You will hear a little bit about gettysburg, which is our northern terminus, our most northern part of our National Heritage area, and of course you will hear a little bit about charlottesville as well. The way we often talk is if you head out monticells, jeffersons highway and turn left you are heading on the National Scenic byway and you drive 180 miles north to gettysburg which is the other end of our National Heritage area. Within that 180mile swath of land we have nine president ial sites including James Monroes highland, which sarah is here as our guest as well. Of course, monticello, madisons hom
To fail. Griff good morning. Welcome back, jed. So good to have you back. Jedediah thank you so much. Thank you both. Good to see you both again. I have been watching from home. Its good to see you here. Pete its good to have you here. Jedediah and a big news day. Pete big news day in honor of you. I know you are a surfer this is my flip flop edition of fox friends. We can go if we need. To say. Griff see whats happened i have grown a billie ray sig cyr. Jedediah i have got the flat shoes on and leggings. We are all a team here and all on the same page today. Pete secrets of television. Griff, i have got to ask you are there at the swamp. I will mention it every day. And we love you for that will you talk about the biggest bill of all time . Thats a label you dont expect to hear often really or at all. Here we are massive 3 trilliondollar bill passing the house. Griff griff a reporters job is to offer some scrutiny. Let me do so now. Its not only just the largest bill. This was a bill