Archived. Thats cspan. Org history. During world war ii the United States Army Air Forces formed a group of africanamerican military pilots, they were known as the Tuskegee Airmen. Next, Jeremy Paul Amick, author of together as one legacy of James Shipley joined by the now 94yearold mr. Shipley to talk about his wartime experiences. The Kansas City Public Library hosted this event. Its just over 50 minutes. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Kansas City Public Library. Im Deputy Director carrie kucagn, were so happy youre here tonight. I want to let you know tonight is our final program for 2017. Can you believe it . Its kind of bittersweet. Anyway, if youre new here, if youve never been before, please pick up our program. And you can sign up and you can be on our list for all of the programs we have coming up in 2018. And we have programs both here and at Central Library two or three times a week and wed love to have you come and wed love to have you sign up. And wed l
Photographs in the newspapers archive. Some of these were published in a hugely popular multimedia series, unpublished black history. It explored the history behind the photos garnering 1. 7 million views and thousands of comments from readers. Were thrilled to welcome tonight two of the authors involved with creating the book inspired by their story, unseen, unpublished black history from the New York Times Photo Archives available for purchase and signing following the program. Darcy evely is a contributing photo editor at the New York Times and creator of the lively morgue. And rachel ellesworns writes about race and Race Relations as a contributing writer for the New York Times, author of american tapestry, ancestors of my shell obama published in 2012. Moderating this evening, rea el co combs. She also serves as the head of the museum earl w and ammanda Stafford Center for media arts. Please join me in welcoming them. [ applause ] i would like to echo laurens wonderful comments an
Discovered dozens of unpublished photographs. They were hugely popular, unpublished black history. The monthlong series explored the history behind the photos, garnering 1. 7 million views and thousands of comments from readers. Were thrilled to welcome tonight two of the authors who were involved with creating the book inspired by their discovery, unseen, unpublished black history from the New York Times Photo Archives, which is available for purchase and signing following the program. Darcy eveleigh is a contributing photo editor at the New York Times, and the creator and editor of the lively morgue, a times blog and tumbler series. Rachel swarns is a contributing author. She is the author of american tapestry, the story of black, white, and multiracial ancestors of michelle obama. Moderating the conversation this evening is rhea combs. The curator of film, history and culture. She serves as the head of museum africanamerican media arts. Please join me in welcoming darcy eveleigh, Ra
To a family that lived in fayetteville, arkansas in the 1850s to 1860. They were here during the civil war. They experienced the civil war. When the war came it changed everything. Headquarters house in fayetteville, arkansas. It is the home of the Washington County historical society. They purchased the house in 1967. Jonasuse was built by tebbit. He came to study law in van buren. When he was traveling the law circuit he came to fayetteville and met matilda. He and Matilda Winlock got married in 1847. The862 in february, confederates were being driven out of missouri and into arkansas. As they were being driven through arkansas, as they came through fayetteville, they decided to burn all of the confederate stores. Where all of the food and ammo was held. Basically, the soldiers ransacked the town. It is said some citizens participated also, but it was a pretty dark time for fayetteville. Headquarters house was directly threatened when the fayetteville city institute, across the stree
Booktv is on facebook. Like us to interact with booktv guests and viewers, watch videos and get uptodate information on events. Facebook. Com booktv. Military historian bill yenne recounts the career of happen arnold, commanding general of the u. S. Force during world war ii. The author reports that general arnold is often considered the father of the u. S. Air force for his expansion of the Military Branch during the war and the technological and strategic advances deployed under his command. This is about 50 minutes. [applause] thank you. Well, hey, i appreciate everybody coming out on a day like in this. I mean, what are we doing in here . [laughter] the sun in the sky and all of that great flying weather which is why california became a mecca for aviation. But here we are, and im happy, happy to have you all join me and thanks to willie for inviting me to come and talk. Well, im here today to talk about my favorite Childrens Book author. And thats a man named h. H. Arnold. Here are