Thank you for coming. And thank you to all of you for being here, and thank you to our speaker for making it here. We had planned for him to come to a Different Event some time ago and the weather got in the way. This time, the weather did not prevent him from arriving and we are so excited to have Steve Woodworth. He taught for eight years at toccoa, so he has some good georgia roots in that area, and he went on to texas christian university, where he is the powerhouse. The people who say, who should i study with . He is one of the first names to come up for them and for me. One of my first books of steves was Jefferson Davis as general. It was an area that did not have his name associated with it. I picked of volume that had a thomas connection, the chickamauga campaign. Steve has coedited many more than that. I asked him, i said have you continued to produce looks at the same level that you produce children, as he has a huge family. The absolute nicest people in the world, just a ge
Worked with marion in the movement is much too long to call, my friends. But among them are and were john lewis, frank smith, bob ruby ray robinson, diana nash, james gorman almost carmichael, james forman, stokley carmichael, ivanhoe, donaldson richardson, lafayette and the reverend Jesse Jackson who will deliver the eulogy here today. All of us knew marion barry when he was being formed as a man by the Civil Rights Movement. Years later, here in washington when marion and i had different roles, i used to tease him on the dance floor about bringing those cotton chopping moves to the big city as marion did what he called dancing. He laughed, knowing that this was my way as a d. C. Girl of from soup south of saying to my old friend from the southern movement, you have come a long way from picking cotton in mississippi to running the missions capital Nations Capital go. [applause] but those cotton picking roots served marion barry, jr. , well. He challenged poverty by working himself out