Center and the Southern Oral History Program at the university of North Carolina chapel hill. Dr. Terry, i think i know that your parents drove you to the college here in fall of 1957 . Esther yes, they did. What did you discover, arriving at Bennett College . Day. Erry it was a big i came from someplace, did not show up. I came from being supported by the whole community. They pray for me at church. We did not have a lot of money. Had a little scholarship. I hadtaken the sats, so havewell enough to scholarship money. And i was going to work a little bit. But there was always that i came, being born, by the good wishes of the community. An awfully came to Bennett College. I had never been to Bennett College before. To reimser been borough before. Justd here to have sort of solid up, my parents and me, and all of us, by a lot of parents and a lot of students come all being deposited by parents, and it was a lonely feeling when they said goodbye and left. It was very lonely. Tell me abou
The Recordings Program. It is quite wonderful actually to be here with everybody. It is something of a reunion in fact since kent was with us for years and years and spending his time at university of South Carolina. For the next 75 minutes, well share with you insights from the secret white house tapes. And well look to explore the dynamics therein and to relate them to see what kind of questions they prompt us to ask about contemporary dynamics about the history they contain, about parallels to todays events, about the practice of democracy itself. Just a word about the Recordings Program, we were established in 1998. And our goal, we are the only institution of its kind doing it, is to analyze and transcribe the secret president ial tapes that president s made from 1940 through 1973. That is from Franklin Roosevelt through Richard Nixon. We do this work at the Miller Center. We actually do it off site as well because so much of the work these days is browserbased. But we publish our
I imagine for me this will be an emotional panel. We are taught in this country to honor our soldiers. Country toht in this protect our soldiers. I want to remind the audience that these are our soldiers. [applause] while i grew up reading about each and every one of these movements, be it the black Panther Party, the black arts movement, i would never have imagined that i would be pointed on a movement such as mine that would call us terrorists. That would make us enemies of the state. Nobody, unless you have had that experience, understands what that does to your spirit, to your body, to the people around you. I have taken the last six years of this iteration of our black Liberation Movement to go back and either read, listen to yalls talks, it is more than an honor. It is a historical moment to be on stage with you. Im going to start with you. Mr. Sanchez. [applause] oftentimes, people try to put us in a box. You are only black, you are only woman, you are only artist, you are only
How Lessons Learned in the 1960s might be applied today. The discussion was part of association of africanamerican museums annual conference. [applause] it is a rare occasion where you get to be in the presence of the people who have sat you on the shoulders of. Yous a rare occasion when get to praise and give honor to the people that have literally created a path so you can be on that path. Me, this will be an emotional panel. I will try to get through these questions without bawling my eyes out. Toare taught in this country honor our soldiers. Taught to protect our soldiers. I want to remind the audience that these are our soldiers. [applause] while i grew up reading about each and every one of these panthers, the lack party, the black arts movement, thatld never have imagined i would be pointed on a movement such as mine that would call us terrorists. That would make us enemies of the state. Nobody, unless you have had that experience, understands what that does to your spirit, to y
University of South Carolina. For the next 75 minutes, well share insights from the secret white house tapes, and well look to explore the dynamics therein, but also to relate them to contemporary developments, to see what kinds of questions they prompt us to ask about contemporary dynamics, about the history they contain, about parallels to todays events, about the practice of democracy itself. Just a word about the recordings program, we were established in 1998, and our goal, we are the only institution of this kind doing it, is to analyze and transcribe the secret president ial tapes that president s made from 1940 through 1973, thats from Franklin Roosevelt through Richard Nixon. We do this work at the Miller Center. We do it offsite as well, because so much of our work these days is browserbased. But we publish work through the university of Virginia Press and its electronic imprint, rotunda. The president ial recordings digital initiative, digital edition, is our publication. We