Africanamerican to be elected in the 19th century please in 1901. George white of north carolina. Before is a long time another africanamerican comes into the house and that is oscar dupree from illinois. We had a couple of rare artifacts from him from the 1920s and 30s. Before i launch into them, matt, tell us about oscar dupree. Almost three decades after George Henry White leaves congress when there are no africanamerican to serve in the house or senate. That has everything to do with the jim crow laws that go on the books in the south. The way that that changes over time during those decades and that there is a critical thing going on in the south where african begin to leave the south and move northward as part of a multidecade movement that would later be called the great migration. On which to store and you talk to and 1890s and runs through world war ii. It takes up momentum around world war i as there is a need in the north to fill industrial jobs and jobs that have been occup
The joke is that the motion is hot. I guess it is appropriate. The Brooklyn Historical society, the Old Stone House and greenwood cemetery. I appreciate it. I thought i would start by asking, how many of you have heard of the age of reason . Good. A lot of people. When you think of the enlightenment, you probably think about the rise of rational thought versus religious superstition. Did you know that People Living in the age of reason were actually just as obsessed with emotion . Think about it. The market revolution was fought on the basis of the idea that certainis endowed with inalienable rights. Thats among them are life, liberty, and the pursuits of happiness. Happiness, what is an emotion doing and that rift of political talk . This is a question that many ago set me off on the research that i would like to share little bit with you tonight. I wanted to know why is there a motion in the declaration of independence . What work is it doing . I quickly discovered that although the
So i guess it is appropriate. Thanks so much to the Brooklyn Historical society, the old stone house, and Greenwood Cemetery for this opportunity, and especially to Meredith Duncan and marshall for their great organizational work. Ok, i thought i would start by just asking, how many of you have heard of the age of reason . All right, cool a lot of people. When you think of the enlightenment, you probably think about the rise of rational thought versus religious superstition. But did you know that People Living in the age of reason were actually just as obsessed with emotion . Think about it. The American Revolution was fought on the basis of the idea that all mankind is in doubt with certain inalienable rights. That among them are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Happiness. What is that emotion doing in the list of Political Rights . This is a question that many years ago now, set me off on the research that i would like to share a little bit of with you tonight. I wanted t
Laid the Foundation Black women laid the foundation for the work we will emphasize. Black female physicians in philadelphia in a postworld war ii context. We will lay some of the groundwork first giving you greater context in the ways in which black women in the 19th century had a significant contribution to the development of you lived in medicine. Of the practice of health and healing and medicine more broadly. Most Cancer Prevention programs that were funded, operated and run by black women physicians, largely in philadelphia. One of the first black woman we have to discuss his dr. Rebecca crumpler. In the mid19th century africanamerican women used medical training as a form of racial uplift. We talked about the limitations of racial uplift. In 1864, Rebecca Crumpler was the first africanamerican woman to graduate from the new england medical female college. Crumpler practiced medicine in Richmond Virginia after the civil war, focusing on issues of tuberculosis. Working extensively
Century washe 19th george white of North Carolina in 1901. It is a long time before another African American comes into the house. That is oscar dupree from illinois. We have a couple of really rare artifacts from him from the 1920s and 30s. Before i launch into them, matt, tell us about oscar dupree. And how he got into congress. Decades is almost three after George Henry White leaves congress when there are no African Americans who served in the house or senate to that has everything to do with the jim crow laws that go on the books in the south. The way that that changes over time during those decades, there is a critical thing going on in the south were African Americans begin to leave the south and move northward as part of a multidecade movement that would later be called the great migration. That begins, depending on which historian you talk to, the 1890s and runs through world war ii. It picks up momentum around world war i as there is a need in the north to fill industrial job