[applause] mayor coleman let me just say one quick thing about thurgood, how important he was to our country, for africanamericans, for those who wanted to go to law school africanamericans who wanted to go to law school, i was a part of that generation who looked up to him, believed in him, who was inspired by him. That i too someday could go to law school and i could someday become a lawyer. There is a whole generation of people just like me who have gone on to do that because of the bravery and the courage of Thurgood Marshall. So tonight, we are here gathered here this evening and i have view this really has the intersection of history and the future. What to i mean by that . The intersection of history and the future . Well, we are in Lincoln Theater. In this theater, this was the only place where black folks could come and get entertained in a theater because they couldnt go downtown. They would come right here. And this theater was nearly demolished. A wrecking ball almost tore
How important he was to our country, for africanamericans, for those who wanted to go to law school africanamericans who wanted to go to law school, i was a part of that generation who looked up to him, believed in him, who was inspired by him. That i too someday could go to law school and i could someday become a lawyer. There is a whole generation of people just like me who have gone on to do that because of the bravery and the courage of Thurgood Marshall. So tonight, we are here gathered here this evening and i have view this really has the intersection of history and the future. What to i mean by that . The intersection of history and the future . Well, we are in Lincoln Theater. In this theater, this was the only place where black folks could come and get entertained in a theater because they couldnt go downtown. They would come right here. And this theater was nearly demolished. Almost tore it down. And we saved it, renovated it and it is now one of the jewels of the city of col
Carmichael, a history professor here at gettysburg college. Im also the director of the civil war institute, and it is my privilege and pleasure to introduce the speakers for our conversation or panel on the return of the confederate veteran. For those of you in the audience, and also for those of you who are part of our live cspan audience, you can actually be part of this conversation, twitter, get your ens ready, it is cwi2016. Let me go ahead and introduce our panelists, first, to my far right, david who is currently a lecturer in American History, at the university of edinburgh in scotland. He teaches range of courses on civil war and southern history, reconstruction and civil war memory, and his first book, it is an excellent one, published by the university of North Carolina press, and entitled moment of despair, suicide, divorce, and debt in civil war era North Carolina. Next to david is james brumar. He recently assumed the directorship of shepherd universitys george tyler cen
[please stand by] [please stand by] [please stand by] 3372 children. 57 children. Unlike most wars in this case, refugees are running towards the. Ine they were giving birth out of slavery because it was meaningful, even though it was even birth in a war zone. It was often ugly, against fence posts, women finding whatever they could to cut on the local court straight cut umbilical cords. They need to bury the placenta, so they looking for places to do that and they are determined to do that even if they are in a place of deprivation. This is a reconstruction from the point of view of midwives of invention. This was ingenuity in the face of great crisis. Midwiferygraph is in school at penn school at saint helena island, where a. Uccessful refugee camp is your is picture of refugees in the rain. Shoes and water. These are not familiar scenes in the same way we see the gero type. But shoes and water are all over the record. You cant get through a page another plea, another action motivate
In 1861. It started in these refugee camps. Im going to start with two stories. The first one might be familiar. The story of how the contraband decision got handed down. It happened Important Role virginia. Baker,ownsend, James Shepherd mallory get a boat where the union just arrived. There are confederates all around and these gentlemen had been building confederate fortifications for their master. They knew they were about to go to North Carolina and would be leaving their families and they decided to chance it. Next morning, a confederate soldier comes under flag of truce and says, please return the slaves. Were rebels really entitled . Werent they foreign country . You say you are a foreign country. Said, im confiscating these three men as contraband property of war. He even gave the confederate soldier a receipt. This spreads incredibly quickly. It is an in between status. Property likee of smuggled goods but you are a person. But whatever the ambiguities of contraband, it defini