Kent garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth are here with us today courtesy of tom and margaret mr. Garrett graduated from harvard in 1963. He has had a 30 year emmy and peabody awardwinning career in Television News and documentaries. Jeanne ellsworth has a nephd in social foundations of education from the university of buffalo and has devoted her life to teaching from Elementary School to prisms, to universities. The authors live in roxbury new york. Please give a warm savannah welcome avto kent garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth. [applause] thank you for inviting us. The book is called the last negroes at harvard, 61 years ago harvard admitted 18 negroes, thats what we were called then, we were the largest number at that time ever admitted to harvard. We were from all different parts of the country, north, south, east, west, we came e fr different economic and socioeconomic grounds and they had been admitting blacks to harvard but only two or three at a time, most guys would go do their four years
Theauthors live in roxbury new york. Please give a warm savanna welcome to and jean ellsworth. [applause] thank you for inviting us and the focus for the last negroes at harvard and 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 harvard. We were from all different parts of the country. North, south, east and west and we came from economic and socioeconomic backgrounds. And we heretofore they had been letting, admitting blacks to harvard but only two or three at a time most guys would just go and do their four years and get out of town. We leave cameras but was different in the sense that we had numbers. 18 and we could form an individual racial identity as well as a group identity. We were able to become actually a force for change at harvard and harvard, we changed harvard and harvard changed us and that essentially what the book is about, its about our four years here and what happened before and
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In l. A. Sports director don bellies with eagles fans there hoff made the trip out west to see todays match up with the rams. Today is sunday december 10th, good morning everyone im jan carabao but first lets start with the weather. Heres meteorologist Chelsea Ingram with the forecast, good sunday morning, very cold, slick spots too. Very cold, slick spots after record snowfall from yesterday in philadelphia, i am seeing a lot of pictures that look like Winter Wonder landing out there let me show you reading area look at how beautiful, on our live neighborhood network, lieutenant of untouched beautiful fresh fallen white snow, and then we have, things moving well on the roadway out there, and, far off distance in the background. Keep in mind there could be slick spots out traveling this morning or out walking. Snowfall totals speaking of reading just under 7 inches when that one report came in, five in west cape may, 4. 2 in wilmington at river front yesterday just looked stunning hock