Archived. Thats cspan. Org history. During world war ii the United States Army Air Forces formed a group of africanamerican military pilots, they were known as the Tuskegee Airmen. Next, Jeremy Paul Amick, author of together as one legacy of James Shipley joined by the now 94yearold mr. Shipley to talk about his wartime experiences. The Kansas City Public Library hosted this event. Its just over 50 minutes. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Kansas City Public Library. Im Deputy Director carrie kucagn, were so happy youre here tonight. I want to let you know tonight is our final program for 2017. Can you believe it . Its kind of bittersweet. Anyway, if youre new here, if youve never been before, please pick up our program. And you can sign up and you can be on our list for all of the programs we have coming up in 2018. And we have programs both here and at Central Library two or three times a week and wed love to have you come and wed love to have you sign up. And wed l
Photographs in the newspapers archive. Some of these were published in a hugely popular multimedia series, unpublished black history. It explored the history behind the photos garnering 1. 7 million views and thousands of comments from readers. Were thrilled to welcome tonight two of the authors involved with creating the book inspired by their story, unseen, unpublished black history from the New York Times Photo Archives available for purchase and signing following the program. Darcy evely is a contributing photo editor at the New York Times and creator of the lively morgue. And rachel ellesworns writes about race and Race Relations as a contributing writer for the New York Times, author of american tapestry, ancestors of my shell obama published in 2012. Moderating this evening, rea el co combs. She also serves as the head of the museum earl w and ammanda Stafford Center for media arts. Please join me in welcoming them. [ applause ] i would like to echo laurens wonderful comments an
Pick up our program. And you can sign up and you can be on our list for all of the programs we have coming up in 2018. And we have programs both here and at Central Library two or three times a week and wed love to have you come and wed love to have you sign up. And wed love to have you bring your friends. So please sign up. Tonight were so honored to have James Shipley with us. Mr. Shipley enlisted at just 19 years old and would become a member of the 332nd Fighter Group in one of the original Tuskegee Airmen. [ applause ] i want to especially thank the heart of america chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen for making this program possible tonight. And thank you for all of your service all of these years. We really appreciate you as well. Thank you. [ applause ] tonight with mr. Shipley is author Jeremy Paul Amick and they will be discussing a new biography about shipley and the book is available here tonight right outside and both gentlemen will be signing after the program right up here on
2017. Can you believe it . Its kind of bitter sweet. Anyway, if youre new here and youve never been before, please pick up our program. Can you sign up and be on our list for all of the programs we have coming up in 2018. We have programs both here and at central library, two or three times a week and we would love to have you come and sign up and we would love to have you bring your friends. Please sign up. Tonight were so honored to have James Shipley with us. Mr. Shipley enlisted at just 19 years old. We are so honored to have one of the original Tuskegee Airmen. [ cheers and applause ] i want to especially thank the heart of the america chapter of tuskegee airman for making this possible tonight and all of your service all of these years. We appreciate you as well. Thank you. [ applause ] tonight with mr. Shipley is jeremy amick. The book is available outside the library and both of the gentlemen will sign the book right up here on stage. Now to introduce our guest is someone you p
And wed love to have you bring your friends. So, please sign up. Tonight, were so honored to have James Shipley with us. Mr. Shipley enlisted at just 19yearsold and would become a member of the 332nd Fighter Group and one of the original Tuskegee Airmen. [applause] i want to especially thank the heart of america chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen for making this program possible tonight. Thank you for all of your service all of these years. We really appreciate you as well. Thank you. [applause] tonight, with mr. Shipley is author jeremy paul amick, and they will be discussing a new biography about shipley. And the book is available here tonight right outside, and both gentlemen will be signing after the program right up here on stage. Now, to introduce our guest, someone you probably already know, kansas city councilman quinton lucas. He serves on committees overseeing the citys planning and Economic Development priorities and transportation, as well as infrastructure and investment prior