2009. Conducted by Smithsonian National museum of africanAmerican History and culture. The American Folk Life Center at the library of congress and the Southern Oral History Program at the university of North Carolina chapel hill. My parents were walter b. Ghaiaither and fannie b. Little gaither. Gray fall was my fathers home. My mother, fannie mae, was originally from anderson, South Carolina. And my mom and dad met while they were students at Friendship Junior College in rock hill, South Carolina. After they both graduated from friendship, they of course moved permanent ly to great falls. And initially, they were both school teachers. You could be a schoolteacher at that time with just a Junior College education. My dad did not stay in teaching. Because he discovered that what was listen on his contract as his per month payment for teaching was not the same as he was receiving. And this was at a time when the board of education were all composed of white men. So at the end of the yea
He really knows biography. So when i heard that shelby was establishing a biography center in leons honor i thought perfect. So its a great thought pleasure to be here giving a lecture on him this evening. I have to share this pleasure with a team of researchers who have helpedme on all my books. Thereare rather small team actually. In fact, it consists of only one person. She writes her own books of course but she always finds time to help me with mine. Id like to say thank you to the only person ive everbeen able to trust with my research , the whole team, my wife. [applause] the aspect of biography i want to talk about this evening is something that in my opinion is seldom talked about when we talk about biography. Giving the reader a sense of place. By a sense of place i mean letting the reader see in his minds eye the physical setting in which a books action is occurring. Letting the reader see clearly enough so he feels as if he was there in that place while the action is occurri
They say the proposed rules wont allow any new testimony or evidence while we have 2 reporters covering this historic day in washington d. C. Can be how could our White House Correspondent is standing by to tell us about the president s legal strategy and who his defense team is and well be speaking to her in just a moment but 1st we go to heidi. On capitol hill heidi all right so talk us through what is going to be happening in this next hour we heard the Senate Majority leader there lay the groundwork basically tell us whats going to be happening break it down for us. Thats right and you know were actually going to be hearing likely more of the same but the official version in a few minutes time thats because what we heard just now was their regular call the order for Senate Business at exactly 800. 00 g. M. T. Is when we expect the Supreme Court chief Justice John Roberts to then call the Impeachment Court which is the other persona the senate will be adopting throughout this trial
Killed as israel launches for the astronauts on gaza more than 200 rockets are fired from gaza in response. And venices mess says the city is on its knees as the highest tide in 50 years floods its historic katzs. Iowa began in the United States where the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump and to a vital new phase the 1st public televised taring has seen 2 senior u. S. Diplomats take center stage on capitol hill for cross examination by the house of Representatives Intelligence Committee its been a day of competing narratives from the opposition democrats and republicans as hunter castro reports from washington d. C. The whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god William Taylor and george kent took the stand together at the 1st public hearing in the impeachment inquiry career foreign officers called by democrats to tell a compelling story to the American Public taylor is the acting u. S. Ambassador to ukraine who upon assuming the post in june found himself drop
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