Race hustlers. Why you wrote this and why you should want it. We wrote this in response of a New York publication, 1619, by black journalests and others, it redefined Americas Birthday from 1776 to 1619 at the time when slaves, 20 slaves first arrived on the shores of virginia and it goes on to say that the revolutionary war was more to defend slavery. It also made other false claims, but it also tried to redefine america as systematically racist and that all whites are villains to and that all blacks are victims and it offers a very dire picture of the country. It also makes the false claims that the current challenges facing many in the black community, crime, are a direct legacy of the shadow of slavery and Jim Crowe. And since the messenger here was black and we thought the Counter Narrative should also be authored by blacks. But we did not want to author a point by Point Debate or rebuttal. We wanted to offer an inspirational and aspirational alternative narrative that acknowledge
Historian for the Illinois State society, having put on programs in the capitol building, Arlington Cemetery, hillwood, union station, the national cathedral, and the lithuanian embassy. This past year, rod has been a mainstay for the societys webinars. He facilitated a program on julius rosenwald, and efforts to establish a national Park Complex focusing on the establishment of the rosenwald schools in the american south. Then, he turned his attention to addressing concerns of a commission established by Chicagos Mayor Lightfoot on statues deemed problematic. These included statues honoring Abraham Lincoln, John Logan, and ulysses s. Grant. The initial webinar in the series was entitled why we , honor lincoln. For his Talk Today, Gary Ecelbarger will take a different approach. Rather than attempting to address the concerns of the chicago monuments commission, he well let his presentation speak for itself. With that, here is rod. Rod thank you, howard. I am privileged today to introduc
House. Congress will be sitting at one oclock to count the electoral votes mean while election returns are still rolling in from the state of georgia where it appears that the pastor of Martin Luther kings old church has just won election to the united States Senate and and democrats up here poised to with 50 sheets control the senate going forward. These are historic times and were not quite sure what history will make of them, but its a good time for all of us to meet today and think about what we make of history there is anger in the streets here in dc and there is Passion And Excitement and engagement among the many questions that we asked today are what does this mean for the education of america students particularly around history and the foundational principles of our democracy . Over the past year the president has pushed an effort around patriotic education and american ideals in part in the pushback to the New York times of 1619 project. But also well beyond that. He launche
historically black sites helped to tell the story of african-american migration. they argue for additional efforts and resources to preserve such places for current and future generations. this discussion was part of the association for the study of african-american life in history annual meeting. hello, and welcome. hello and welcome to the association for the study of african-american life and histories 104th annual conference. how the national park service tells the story of black migrations. my name is madeleine, and i m the senior executive assistant at the national parks conservation association. is this better? sorr sorry about that. on behalf of theresa and the president and ceo, thank you for taking the time to join us and welcome. for those of you not familiar with the national parks conservation association, we ve been a powerful, independent voice working to strengthen and protect america s national parks for 100 years. through our nationwide network of offices
woodson center in washington, d.c. this is just over one hour. i want to welcome everybody to this press conference. i m bob woodson, resident and found of the woodson center. we re sponsoring the 1776 gathering today. we also want to welcome our new partners, the washington examiner. they will be publishing rsas on their website starting today, one a day for the next 12 days, and they have an editorial today. also all of the hour essays are listed on their website, 1776 unites.com. you can read the essays. also want to thank our sponsors, greg coons who couldn t be your but has a representative and also jim forrest who is one of our great supporters to enable us to do this. the reason that we are gathered to address the 1619 project, the good news is that it has stimulated and much-needed debate within the black community. the quality of life in the black community has been served over the past two centuries but the quality of the debate within. during the 19th century,