Here before, welcome back. I would like to say hello to those who are watching this through live stream and through cspan2. This is a great day to have a great conversation about Higher Education, particularly the role of historically lack colleges and universities. In 1997 i have the opportunity to work on a project with a gentleman named Samuel Dewitt proctor. Many of you know him as a former president , some of you know him from virginia university. He actually spent time here in washington d. C. As a kennedy appointee to the peace corps, but a number of you know him through his work as the pastor at the baptist church. In 1997 we had opportunity to sit in a very lovely room with a donor who owns a very large and Famous Family foundation. The head of that walked into the room and we exchanged niceties and she said can i ask one question and he said yes. Is there a need for black colleges today . He leaned back in his seat, having heard this question for most of his life and he said
Or cspan 2. This is a great day to have a conversation about Higher Education and typically the role of black universities and colleges in it. In 1997 i had an opportunity to work on educational project with dr. Samuel dewitt proctor. Many of you know him as president of north carolina. Some of you know him as president of university. He spent time in washington, d. C. As a kennedy appointee to the peace corps but a number of you know him as pastor of an stenian church. We had an opportunity to sit in a lovely room similar to this with a donor its a donor who owns a large and Famous Family sfwrags. The head of that walked into the rooms. We exchanged niceties. She said can i ask you one question . He said yes. Is there a need for black colleges today . And dr. Proctor leaned back in his chair, having heard this question for his life. The question not whether there is a need for h fwrvegs cus today. The question is where would america be today without the hbcus. She nodded. He returned
Thank you so much for joining my class today at Saint Josephs university today. Were going to explore five women who use their writing and singing to create a Better Future for black people in our country polymari Billie Holiday Lorraine Hansberry, nina simone and anne moody. Why choose these five women you may ask as writers their work highlights a significant element of the civil rights movement, and it also broadens the more wellknown narrative on the key participants from this time. Some of these women participated in sitins and other actions to be sure but even when their own work was very visible such as holidays and simone songs hansburys plays and moodys encounter at woolworths as we talked about last time. There are full contribution to the civil rights struggle is not always widely appreciated as those who have used the power of words. They are also a time together the expanding protest of our time and of their era interestingly too all of them spent some time in new york cit
Thank you so much for joining my class today at Saint Josephs university today. Were going to explore five women who use their writing and singing to create a Better Future for black people in our country polymari Billie Holiday Lorraine Hansberry, nina simone and anne moody. Why choose these five women you may ask as writers their work highlights a significant element of the civil rights movement, and it also broadens the more wellknown narrative on the key participants from this time. Some of these women participated in sitins and other actions to be sure but even when their own work was very visible such as holidays and simone songs hansburys plays and moodys encounter at woolworths as we talked about last time. There are full contribution to the civil rights struggle is not always widely appreciated as those who have used the power of words. They are also a time together the expanding protest of our time and of their era interestingly too all of them spent some time in new york cit
A bill introduce in May by legislators from two different states seeks to award a congressional gold medal honoring the lifelong work of Joan Trumpauer Mulholland.