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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 ....
He has had a 30year emmy and peabody awardwinning career in Television News and documentaries. Jeanne ellsworth has a ph. D. In social foundations of education from the university of buffalo and has devoted her life to teaching from Elementary School to prisons, to universities. The authors live in rocksbury, new york. Please give a warm savannah welcome to kent garrett and jeannie else worth. [applause] finish jeanne ellsworth. [applause] well, thank you for enlightening us, and ill let you know the book is called the last negroes at harvard. 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 to harvard. We were from all different parts of the country north, south, east and west and we came from different economic and socioeconomic backgrounds. And we, heretofore theyd been letting, admi ....
[inaudible conversations] hello, everyone. My name is anne. Welcome to the 13th annual savannah book festival. The festival is presented by georgia power, bob faircloth, david and nancy seven terror and the phillip e. And nancy b. Bigman foundation. We are especially grateful to jack and mary romano who are our sponsors for this beautiful venue. Wed also like to welcome our literati members and individual donors today. It is through your support that we are able to make todays festival events free to the public. 90 of our revenue comes from our donors and literati members, and we thank you. Before we get started, i have some housekeeping notes. Kent garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth will be signing festivalpurchased copies of their book at Telfair Square following their presentation. If youre planning to stay for the next author, edward j. Larson, after this presentation please ....
New york. Please give a warm savannah welcome to kent garrett and jeannie else worth. [applause] finish jeanne ellsworth. [applause] well, thank you for enlightening us, and ill let you know the book is called the last negroes at harvard. 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 to harvard. We were from all different parts of the country north, south, east and west and we came from different economic and socioeconomic backgrounds. And we, heretofore theyd been letting, admitting blacks to harvard but only two or three at a time. And most guys would just go and do their four years and then get out of town. Finish leave cambridge. But for us it was different in the sense that we had numbers, the 18, and we could form an individual racial identity as well as a group identity. And we were able to become actually a force for change at harvard, and harvard or we changed harvard and harvard changed ....