Relationship with booker t. Washington that in fact ends with a woman he was in love with throwing herself off the top of a building and killing herself. Well, our time is a lot shorter and im a lot more proposed that, i mean, to be, but i should tell you that if you think carver had one of these ideal lives, besides fighting and making booker t. Washington and himself wretched for the 19 years they were together, finally booker t finishes and dies. Carvers career is allowed to take off. When he is 60, and his famous everywhere in the world, everyone knew his face, everyone knew his name and he was somehow exempted from all the racial hatred that all other blacks suffered. He fell head over heels in love with a 23year old white man. That affair lasted for 10 years and in the course of that carver was thought to have among his products come up with a cure for the after effects of polio. So, he was also masashi people with his oil 12 hours a day. People who lined up in front of begged him for help. Of one to tell you before i close because this is very important, carver never accepted a fee for lecturing and refused to take out patents. He gave away every product he develops. 500 products from barnyard feathers, for heaven sakes. Thousands of the products youre gave them away to corporations saying i went up to be used. I want people to develop them. I dont want a company to make my from them. And want them to go to people. He became the free consulting, the unpaid consultant to those companies, so they could develop these products. Thomas edison offered him over 100,000 a year to work for him and carver refused and stayed where he was a salary of 1000 a year because he said whatever i do here will everyone will know that black people are capable of anything. If i go into edison laboratories they wont know that. So, i have a whole lot more to tell you about carver, but i wont to be able to. When to thank you so much for braving the wind and water and coming. You have been a great audience. Keep George Washington carver in mind. Thank you so much. [applause]. Thank you. That was fascinating presentation. Do you all have any questions . Any questions . I want to open the floor, for maybe one question. [inaudible] say it a little louder, please. That is something i did go into. Booker was mesmerizing and no one was more mesmerizing and carver. I think that he had a father complex. Booker was like demanding father he could never satisfy. He always accepted his criticisms and believed the trash that booker would tell him. He would always try to please him and he could not separate from him. It was his weakness, really. Thank god booker died in 1950, and carver lived until 1943, so he had long time to be able to develop his products. If the booker t had been alive all of that time we probably would not even know who George Washington carver was. Yes . [inaudible] we see all these tremendous products he produced, but [inaudible] he didnt even have a bunsen burner. When he would request Something Like a grinder for rocks to pulverize them to see their components, a little 9dollar measly grinder, they would refuse it. They counted the stamps he used and limited him to a number of postage stamps. It was the lab that he made up from going to dump heaps and getting glass, broken glass and making Different Things out of it that he could use for test tubes. It was the most primitive lab that you can imagine, naive and 80 Grammar School lab that was better than this one. Is that it . Thats good because im always someone is going to asked me a question i dont know the answer to. Thank you again. [applause]. Does a fascinating presentation. Fabulous job of depicting how he represents the american dream. I know that you are interested in asking more questions and you can see her at the Barnes Noble Book signing tent from 11 30 a. M. Until 12 15 p. M. She will sign her book and thank you all for the oppressed of it presentation. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] now keep weldon medley provides a history of africanamerican culture and community in new orleans. From this years liana book festival. For presentation today we have mr. Keith weldon medley and he will be presenting his work black life in old new orleans. Now, mr. Medley is the author of , pressey versus ferguson and blackold new orleans, and new orleans native his photograph the writings have appeared in the smithsonian, american legacy magazine and louisiana cultural business. He also has been featured in documentary such as [inaudible] beyond urban street and bbcs mixed race britain, how the world got mixed up. , we would like to present mr. Keith weldon medley. [applause]. Thank you. They give are coming out. This is my work. I went to talk about this one also because its very entwined with the other one. This is something i have worked on for a long time. That case of plessy versus ferguson, which everyone has read about, but you dont remember when. Its all in line with this and with blacknew orleans, new orleans is one of north americas most intriguing and beloved city and from the air you can see the winding mississippi river. And the buyers and marshlands. Claimed by the french and 7018, as a strategic outpost near the mouth of the mississippi river, this city endured nearly three centuries of the floods, plagues, fires and hurricanes. Old of trees, 19th century buildings, riverbanks, narrow streets and hot sultry summers all have tales to tell her you can walk the same streets that new orleanians have walked for nearly three centuries. I grew up on but gundry street in the 1950s and 1960s. It was during the civil rights movement. My father was a plaster who was raised to the trade as they say new orleans. Begin his fellow carpenters laid bricklayers and other tradesmen provided the grit and muscle that were instrumental in the citys survival. Growing up every day i walked past stork and architectural treasures with many of these buildings built by people of color before the civil war and they still stand today as functional residences and businesses. The now bygone era of separate but equal was a 60year old elephant in the neighborhood. Where one attended schools and churches and was based on race if settable patient. I was well into high school before i was free to walk into Washington Square around the corner from my house. When i watch baseball games there it was always through the fence. When evening in the mid 1960s, after the civil right act became law, i saw a black friend i knew only as text. He waited for me to come and join him. After two generation family lifetime of jim crow i went in and washed a softball encounter without incident. Following 60 years of racial segregation, there was after all only a game. I believe that those who study new orleans without seeking an africanamerican influences and barely miss what it means to know new orleans. Enslaved as free people of african dissent have been here since this earliest days theater between the year 1718 and 1722, boatloads of africans from the region of western africa and outcast from French Society arrived in new orleans. We drained swamps, constructed buildings and levees and dug canals. For the french indentures, the term of their forced labor was three years. For most of the enslaved africans new orleans represented a lifetime of bondage. New orleans also contain the virus by rick tweeted if free people, who possess property rights, but could not vote or establish organizations without permission. This cast distinguish themselves as sculptors, builders, writers, soldiers, florence chris, scientist, inventors, and musicians. Despite an 80 Literacy Rate in precivil war new orleans, louisianas system free people of color in the boat establish organizations without permission or patronize the city stores restaurants. The african dissent Community Contributed to the growth and survival of theres what is in the architecture, handcrafted ornaments adorn the buildings, their Rhythms Movement with music and their creativity and flair for excitement spices its cuisine. The more i delve into the history and culture of black northlands from the more i discovered touchstones of my family history. While writing about the historic junto Mentor School in the new orleans, i came across a Group Photograph of its proud Teaching Staff that included my mother, my godmother and many of their teacher friends. My mother also appeared in the yearbook for mcdonnell number 35 that was the first black high school in new orleans and also the Teacher Training School that was in the city. While researching the 1913 Business Directory of africanamerican i saw advertisements or my grandfathers ice cream factory, might cousin Business College and photographs of my great grand, charles medley who managed funeral home that is [inaudible] i attended Elementary School around the corner from my house that had been educated children of african descent since 1848. There are semi stories and semi places. Of the city has marked and unmarked sites of National Importance for africanamericans. And all americans. The train tracks at the citys press Street Railroad yard at present charter street in the bywater district of new orleans, was the location of their arrest of homer that led to the United StatesSupreme Court civil rights case of plessy versus ferguson three november of 1960, a six road 46 rolled girls four, six rolled girls became the first black students attending a previously allwhite Elementary School since reconstruction. Then they entered williams ran school and mcdonald number 19 school. New orleans was also the side of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in the south, building 1840, the st. James church at 222 north roman street is still a functioning institution. The Louisiana State museum in that French Quarter offered a window into the cities black history for people to go and visit. Informational panels depicted his life instruction. Slave auctions, and politics. This section highlighting the 1815 battle of new orleans featured a snare drum used by jargon noble, a 14yearold german boy who kept up with the drum beat and hellfire as it was reported. The reconstruction exhibit the slaves of new orleans with tribune, the first white newspaper of the south and the first daily newspaper in the United States respectively. On the third floor, the new orleans scientists of color who we revolutionize sugar cane processing in the 1840s, with the stagnant and processing method. The mint is another museum in new orleans, they provide great art affects, walking six flags down colleen street from the back of st. Louis cathedral, we arrived at Louis Armstrong park, this is the site where slaves gathered in antebellum times to relive african homeland rituals with a dance, drum and psalm. As early as 1786 the clergyman noticed the custom of the negro who had assembled in a green expanse to dance the bamboo line. After the civil war, like new orleans celebrated the emancipation proclamation, more and the death of abraham lincoln, staged 1860s 7 civil disobedience sit in demonstrations that led to a transportation until 1902 in new orleans. Today the statue of Louis Armstrong gazes benignly toward composts square as light from the center for the performing arts glitter over land and that once heard the voodoo chant of west african women. New orleans heritage festival began in Conoco Square and in 1993 joined other new orleans landmarks on the National Register of historic places. Taking a trip into new orleans can be as easy to venture into the fringe area or take a streetcar ride uptown or take an afternoon to study architecture or search your own neighborhoods with the halls of dance musicians, civil rights leaders and other notables in years past. The more you learn about the ancestor new orleans neighborhood the more you realize new orleans is a city that deserves to be preserved. This is a place that received a lot of attention from those who watched the miniseries. By the 1890s, the conference, congo square, newspaper in the 1890s from those times, the community being a wash and political civil rights, cultural and musical expression. At neighborhood halls, fell 0. 15, danced away saturday nights to the music of the festival at the spring and. The architecture talked about how roster of the names of musicians who played there, dixieland, brass and jazz bands from 1880 to 1960 indicated well over half lived in the creel suburbs. It still provides an inspirational ambiance be writers, artists, musicians and other professionals, it is not uncommon to see young boys walking these streets capping their drums. Walking down river from, goes square, turn left into st. Philip, governor nichols or barretts 3, most of the house as you see were built in the eighteenth century, when you walk down the street you walk past houses that were built over 180 years ago. The architecture consists of ten styles of cottages, two story townhouses, and shotgun houses. They can be identified by roosts looking for the streets, vertical boards shutters and protect against storms. Before the civil war people of color, 80 of the properties at one time or another walking down st. Paul which is another street, you are introduced to homes and businesses but witness the toughest times. The family of and dhahran, woman of color from kingston, jamaica lives in a cottage that stands today at 1014 st. Clot. The cottage at 11 31 governor nichols received his from a free man of color named ross who built the cottage in approximately 1837. A freak negress bought the property at 1135 st. Claude, sold it, but built a cottage around 1817. At the corner of st. Clot and governor nichols street, st. Augustine Catholic Church built in 1842, women of killer, juliet and Josephine Charles took their vows and became sisters of the holy family in 1862. This order of black nuns minister to the 4 enslaved but on a more secular note, the candlelight lounge on robertson street offered new orleans brass band music in native habitat. Back street Cultural Museum at 1116 claude st. Showcases indian suits, funeral information, at second line photographs and other memorabilia. And neighborhood down river from the French Quarter, was established in 1805 as new orleans, one of new orleanss first suburbs, it is noted for its architecture, free people of color own 70 of the houses there at one time or another in its development with the owners and residents. Julian and france what were among the biggest developers, the Grocery Store was located at 504 frenchman street, the brothers also loaned 700 frenchmen, 2 and 29 decatur, 50 one frenchman, 215 delphian in 1903. In 1848 and 1941 dauphine street, the Catholic School was founded at the behest of an African Native who died in 1837. Her last will and testament read i bequeath in order that my land upon adopting, be used in perpetuity for the establishment of a preschool for the district of merrin. Also i declare said lands and buildings shall never be sold under any pretext whatsoever. This will open the 1848, over 250 years, educated primarily africanamerican students, the Catholic School for indigent office, st. Louis school for the redeemer, and now the site of the out reach center. In more modern times the building invited the spirit of africanamericans to the 1900s. Now located at 34 loyola in guillotine 1900s in the era of separate but equal is demonstrated what a dedicated group of students can accomplish when given the will and opportunity, just as the custom house became the symbol of commerce in new orleans, but direction of the Pythian Temple became a crowning achievement for and by africanamericans 1909. Constructed at a cost of 200,000 the temple was fireproof, majestic and built by people of color. In 1909, the temples, the biggest Business Enterprise ever attempted by the colored race in the United States. New orleanss negros lead their race in enterprise the newspaper declared, on the dedication of the building, the six story structure, a modern fireproof building devoted principally for the purposes of the colored 50. A roof boring structure, the primary venue for parties and office structures, musician Louis Armstrong, manuel perez and other musicians played at the roof garden. Likewise new orleans gives a substantive tour through the world like new orleans. This was to explore different errors of black new orleans by focusing on specific institutions, social movements and individuals. It was read individually, the book takes you on the guided tour into the city from the 1790s to the 1960s and beyond. Along the way, it exploits cherished neighborhoods like central city, you also meet allen would during the 1912 to establish a directory for black workers flourished in new orleans in 1912, take a long, look at Louis Armstrong to sustain them and brought joy not only to their neighborhood but the music around the world so stay with me as we travel with Louis Armstrong, he lunged and commiserated with climbing puma, the black leader of the independent state of ghana in 1956. When he arrived, i know when i was growing up, it would be what we thought, more like that tarzan movie between africa and people in new orleans. When he arrived there, it was somewh