my honor the convene this plenary, and when we were planning the conference, we always liked to bring our heavy hitters out. and i think that today is one of those occasions, in which we have a collection of fine scholars and activists here to address the theme. so what we are, and what we have decided to do is to run the plenary more as a round table, and the moderated conversation about the issues with the great migration, and i wanted to introduce our panelists, and give them an opportunity to speak for a few minutes as far as their own work and perceptions and ideas about the great migration, and then move on to the question and answer followed by a discussion with us, and followed by a question and answer session with the audience. so i wanted to introduce our panelists. the first panelist is joe trotter who is a giant history professor and prior with the carnegie mellon center in pittsburgh, and previously the president of the african-american studies in the urban life
plannerry. i think when we were planning the conference, we always like to bring our heavy hitters out. and i think today is one of those occasions in which we have a collection of fine scholars and activists here to address our theme. so what we decided to do is run the plannerry more as a roundtable, as a moderated conversation about issue with the great migration. and i wanted to introduce our panelists and give them an opportunity to speak for a few minutes as far as their own work and their perceptions and ideas about the great migration and then move on into a question and answer followed by a discussion with us and followed by a question answer session with the audience. so i want to introduce our panelists. our first pannestist is joe trotter who is a giant eagle professor of history in social justice and past history department chair at cornegy university in pittsburgh. he is also the director and founder of the cornegy center for african-american urban studies in ec
good evening, everyone. all right. i think our technical difficulties are finished and i d like to welcome you all to the opening women. i do want to report welcome you all to the 104th meeting of the association. my name is lionel campbell. it is my honor to bring together on a, well it is my honor to convene hillary this plenary a. when i think when we were planning the conference, we always liked to bring our heavy hitters out, and i think today is one of those occasions in which we have a collection of fine scholars and activists here to address our theme, so what we decided to do is to run the plenary more as a roundtable, as a moderate did conversation about issues with the great migration, and i want to introduce our panelists and give them an opportunity to speak for a few minutes as far as their own work, and their perceptions and ideas about the great migration and then move on into our question and answer, followed by a discussion, followed by a question and answer