Good evening. My name is deirdre cross, director of the Public Programs at the national africanamerican s aim of history and culture and it is my pleasure to welcome all of you to this Wonderful Program and introduce these speakers in our discussion entitled historically speaking, Thurgood Marshall, a life and American History, evening with spencer crew and paul think of it. Paul finkelman. For those streaming the tag ision, our twitter historically speaking. We are also thrilled that this program will be broadcast through cspan book tv to be aired at a later date. Begin this compelling new biography, we are introduced to the constant battles for inequality faced by africanamericans through a study of Thurgood Marshalls extraordinary courage and his belief in the power of the law to change society. Thurgood marshall, a life in American History follows his career from his youth in baltimore, maryland, to his days. T Supreme Court justice his inspiring story illustrates how pervasive rac
Most of these towns would not be here if it was not for the coming of the railroad. The thing was, we realized real quick that the railroads were evolving and changing. We were seeing new locomotives coming on. We were seeing so many changes. We said we need to preserve some of that before it disappears. We incorporated the Amarillo Railroad Museum with that goal to preserve it. We bought this property here in the northeast part of amarillo, and it already at the Railroad Track on it. We have been keeping our eyes open for opportunities to acquire certain pieces of rolling stock. We were fortunate to get the cars from the formerly called white train, which was used for transporting Nuclear Weapons. At least here, we can display them so people can see these things that they would not be able to see anywhere else. Write here, this row of cars i have set up kind of in the way the white train used to operate. On the end is the escort coach with the raised car facing the cargo. Then next to
Good evening. Welcome everyone. My name is William Sturkey and im pleased to introduce our guests for tonights conversation. My immediate left Daphne Chamberlain, a native of columbus, mississippi and Daphne Chamberlain serves as Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and social justice. And she is also associate professor of history at, her alma mater, the historic Tougaloo College before the opportunity. Before returning to tougaloo as a faculty member in 2013, chamberlain was founding director of the cofa Civil Education Center at jackson state, and she is also served as a scholar consultant for numerous local, state and National Civil rights projects. Her scholarship on childrens activism in the 1960s, civil rights richard lou her left grew up in a biracial family that was spiritually and intellectually guided by parents who were both anticolonialist and culturally affirming. His artwork has been cited in over 40 scholarly books and on the cover of five different books, the most
Good evening. Welcome everyone. My name is William Sturkey and im pleased to introduce our guests for tonights conversation. My immediate left Daphne Chamberlain, a native of columbus, mississippi and Daphne Chamberlain serves as Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and social justice. And she is also associate professor of history at, her alma mater, the historic Tougaloo College before the opportunity. Before returning to tougaloo as a faculty member in 2013, chamberlain was founding director of the cofa Civil Education Center at jackson state, and she is also served as a scholar consultant for numerous local, state and National Civil rights projects. Her scholarship on childrens activism in the 1960s, civil rights richard lou her left grew up in a biracial family that was spiritually and intellectually guided by parents who were both anticolonialist and culturally affirming. His artwork has been cited in over 40 scholarly books and on the cover of five different books, the most
My name is William Sturkey and im pleased to introduce our guests for tonights conversation. My immediate left Daphne Chamberlain, a native of columbus, mississippi and Daphne Chamberlain serves as Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and social justice. And she is also associate professor of history at, her alma mater, the historic Tougaloo College before the opportunity. Before returning to tougaloo as a faculty member in 2013, chamberlain was founding director of the cofa Civil Education Center at jackson state, and she is also served as a scholar consultant for numerous local, state and National Civil rights projects. Her scholarship on childrens activism in the 1960s, civil rights richard lou her left grew up in a biracial family that was spiritually and intellectually guided by parents who were both anticolonialist and culturally affirming. His artwork has been cited in over 40 scholarly books and on the cover of five different books, the most of which chicano art a anthology