Laughing before you said 10 years ago when you first started you had hair. Guest not a lot but i had hair. Host what started you down the road to actually put it ebony and ivy together . Guest its actually a long story that i can make short. I had just been moving from one job to another in a teaching position and i had just finished a book project and i started out on what i thought was going to be simple book, simple article actually. I was just going to explain how black abolitionist got their education given the fact that they were excluded by race from american colleges. I was just going to tell the story and some of them went to europe. Some of them went to new england and studied privately. Some of them studied privately in the atlantic and they became ministers and teachers and doctors and all sorts of things. But in fact one of the things i got more interested in if they started that project was why they were excluded from these colleges and universities. These colleges in fac
Best interview ive had on the book tour. That makes my day. I like radio three hours is an abundance of time. And i can do so many different things. More with radio talk host. Youre watching cspan2 with politicses and Public Affairs weekdays. Up next on booktv after words with guest host, political activist, and radio host joe madison talking with craig wilder on ebony and ivory. In the book, the myth history chair discusses how the campus of many elite university were not only built by slave labor but funded by from the practice of slavery. This program is about an hour. Host ebony and i i have, a professor wilder, i guess the first question is, how did you start down the road . We were laughing before you said ten years ago when you started you had hair. [laughter] guest i had hair. Not a lot but i had hair. Host what started you down the road to actually put ebony and i had been moving from one job to another. I finished a book project and started out on what i thought was going to
Give the fact they were excluded i was going tell the story where some of them went to europe, some went to new england and studied privately. Some studied privately in the atlantic and became teachers and doctors and all sorts of in fact, actually, one of the things i got more interested in as i started the project was why they were excluded from the colleges and universities. These colleges in fact had a long history with black people on campus, and slaves but not as students. They a long history with native americans and native American Students were on campus for 200 years. Host they were doing what . Guest as students for almost 200 years. Host how is it they were able to be on campuses . You write about that. Guest its the beginning of the book. If you think about it, the first attempt to build a college for native American Students is 20 20210 years. The first native minister probably 150 years before the first black minister. That sounds like native americans are privileged, in
Black abolitionists got their education given the fact that they were excluded by race from american colleges and universities. I was going to tell the story read some of them went to europe and some of them went to new england and studied privately. Some of them studied privately in the the atlantic and they became ministers and teachers in. Years and all the sorts of things. In fact one of the things i got more just and as i started that project was why they were excluded from these colleges and universities. These colleges in fact have a long history with black people on campus as enslaved people but not his students. They also had a long history with native americans and at the very time that students were native American Students had been on campus for years. Host native American Students have been on campus doing what . Guest as students. Host how was it that they were able to be on campuses and you write about that. Guest if you think about it the first attempt to build a colleg
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