Speakers. They are both exceptional people. Our first speaker will be professor gary gallagher. Who is the john l . No, is that the way its pronounced nau now . A Professor Emeritus in the history of the American Civil War and director of the center for Civil War History at the university of virginia. Hes the author coauthor and editor of numerous civil war era works. He has served as president of the society of civil war historians and received the Tom Watson Brown book prize from the society in 2012 for his the union war. Prior to that honor his the confederate war was a finalist for the 1998 lincoln prize copies of his books including this one causes one lost and forgotten how hollywood and popular art shape what we know about the civil war. This one is there and i got this one because i hadnt read it yet, but there are several others that are available in the symposium bookstore. Please help me to welcome our professor gallagher whos topic this morning . Is going to be how should a
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complement of these immigrants who were just wonderful people. they were well-educated. this was at lincoln university. after that, morehouse, spellman, clark. and where i lived as well. populated by jews who had found a refuge on american soil. these were the first people i knew to be jews. when my family moved to atlanta, we got to know this rich heritage of jewish atlantans. the leo frank story was not prominent in my life, but i knew about it. i had a friend that used to work for the washington post who told me that his grandfather was shipped out of atlanta after the leo frank lynching. i just found out recently. the idea of sending your children away for fear that a terrible thing would happen to them is so disturbing to hear. i knew jews from the time i was a kid and i got to be an older person like i am now. i was always grateful for the commitment they have to justice and fair play and the way they expressed it and carried it out. when the refugees came into new
house as a speech writer to president lyndon johnson. he has been with the carnegie corporation of new york and served as the first president of the charles h. repson organization. he is in much demands as a speaker. he is the editor of numerous books, articles, and essays. three of his books have received an exceptional acclaim and remain classes in the field. please welcome the panel. [applause] cynthia, its all yours. welcome to what i think will be a lively and entertaining evening. our panelists have knowledge of southern history and our wonderful story tellers. eli reminded me that the south is no one place. it abbas, from a slightly different south. i will start by telling you briefly that i grew up in a small town you never heard of. in alabama, it has a population of about 70,000. it is known as the setting for to kill a mockingbird because harper lee grew up there. i grew up in atlanta, georgia. i was the fourth generation of jews born there. my family came from