This morning i got a call from a reporter who wanted to know, why would the museum at a time when it was focused on opening the building, why would they even helped organize such a conference . The simple answer is that we are crazy, but at the smithsonian and at this busy him, scholarship is the engine and research is the lifeblood of the institution. Without the decades of research and academic scholarship, there would be no museum of African American history and culture. We know that we are tied to so much of the work that many of you do. So much of the work of the museum has been shaped by the work of many participating in this conference. Amazing rate of scholarship, the museum has been able to position itself as an institution that will help all whom visit to find it rich and theced vision of africanamerican community. Thanks to your work, this will recenter the africanamerican a lensnce and use it as to understand what it means to be africanamerican. So many themes. It was impos
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Take this to the country and run on this and litigate this. We want to defend it so that if and when we win, we can do it. [ applause ] guess what . Guess what . Hillary clinton isnt going to do one of these things. Not going to do a darn thing. Shes against all of these things, these principles we believe in. This is a binary choice. It is either donald trump or Hillary Clinton. If youre not for donald trump and not voting and not showing up, youre helping Hillary Clinton. [ applause ] pretty much that clear. I want to close with this. I mentioned how texans really understand freedom, but i dont think you fully realized until a few years ago. Where my wife is it from, the north side of lake texoma, for decades and decades you could go hill billy catfishing with your own bare hands. Its an exhilarating sport. I encourage it. It wasnt legalized until two years, you can noodle catfish on both sides. Thank you for fully realizing your freedoms. Remember, we have to unify. Remember what th
Field of africanamerican history and culture has expanded and morphed so many times. As such, theres so many issues, so many topics, so many themes that it was impossible to do everything in this conference. And theres so many gifted scholars whose voices should be heard but cant for this particular conference. It says, i think, so much about the vibrancy, the importance, the expansive nature of the field of africanamerican history, that no single conference can hold it all. But we are so excited about this conference because were excited about the array of scholars who are gathered here. And in some ways as i see my staff saying okay, lonnie, top talking, let me begin the conference by introducing the moderator of tonights roundtable, a long struggle for civil rights and black freedom, barbara ransby. Barbara is a dear friend whos a professor of history and africanamerican studies as well as undgender and womens studiet the university of illinois. A student of the black Freedom Moveme
Figured out before other people had. I within a day or so said i can kill two words with one stone. I can go to newark, do a little bit of law school that summer im sorry, after that summer. If i did not like newark, i would go on my way. If i did like that, i would call that my home and the law degree would be applied there. As a workout, i did like newark. Thats how i came to go there. At the end of the semester and graduated. My parents wanted a formal graduation. , and went their sake home and came back up on the bus to newark. You just mentioned that was already looking past through all the work in the south to a new type of phase or movement. Respects, newark would be a place where the movement came and found an urban context. Did you explicitly understand that was your project when you came . The movement had already come north. I just did not think about it as being the movement. What i was doing in harlem, trying to build a playground in 1964, that was part of the movement. Th