Historically black sites helped to tell the story of africanamerican migration. They argue for additional efforts and resources to preserve such places for current and future generations. This discussion was part of the association for the study of africanamerican life in history annual meeting. Hello, and welcome. Hello and welcome to the association for the study of africanamerican life and histories 104th annual conference. How the National Park service tells the story of black migrations. My name is madeleine, and im the Senior Executive assistant at the National Parks Conservation Association. Is this better . Sorr sorry about that. On behalf of theresa and the president and ceo, thank you for taking the time to join us and welcome. For those of you not familiar with the National Parks Conservation Association, weve been a powerful, independent voice working to strengthen and protect americas National Parks for 100 years. Through our nationwide network of offices and with our more
Total cash prizes. The winners will be announced on march 11. Historians and scholars explored africanamerican history from 1776 to the present day at an event host bid the Woodson Center in washington, d. C. This is just over an hour. Ok. I want to welcome everybody to this press conference. Im bob woodson, the president and founder of the Woodson Center. Were sponsoring the 1776 gathering today. We also want to welcome our new partners, the Washington Examiner. They will be publishing our es says on their website. One a day for the next 12 days. They have run an editorial today. Also all of our essays are 1776unitedur website states. Com. You can read the essays. I also want to thanks thank our sponsors. The reason that we are gathered to address the 1619 project, the good news is that it has stimulated a much needed debate in the black community. The quality of life in the black kmoount has been served over the past two centuries with the quality of the debate within. During the 19t
half a century of writing in 14 books in print and no one had ever written a biography. i wanted to find out who was kurt vonnegut the author of these books that suddenly became so popular, so suddenly. you know, he was out of print, as i say in the prologue in the mid-60s. by 1970 he had a body of work that had been resuscitated from the ash heap of literature. god bless you missed mr. rosewater, sirens of titan, mother night, cat s cradle, works before he had been just somebody who wrote paperback books that ended up in drugstores and bus stations next to mr. lefty and conan the barbarian. no suddenly the next great literary thing. you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. and now our final panel from the virginia festival of the book. author of you need a schoolhouse author of the tuskegee airmen an illustrated history talk about fighting for civil rights through education and war. good afternoon. welcome to the viejo festival of the book sponsore