Every product he developed, he gave them away to corporations to say i want them to be used in one them to go to people. In the unpaid consultant Thomas Edison offered over 100,000 a year and car refused at a salary of 1,000 per year whatever i do here everybody will know if i go to edison laboratories they beaumont. I have all whole lot more detail by would not be able to. Thanks for braving the water and the wind. You have been a great audience. [applause] a very fascinating and informative presentation. Do you have any questions . He was mesmerizing and he would do is try to please him if he could not separate from a ham. They got booker died in carver lived until the 1943 so he had a long time. If he had been alive that whole time we probably wouldnt even know who George Washington carver was. He had all these products that he produced. He did not even have a bunsen burner. When he would request Something Like to pulverize the compounds it was 9 they refused. And a limited to the postage stamps. With broken glass it was the most primitive be you could imagine thanks again. [applause] a fast 18 presentation depicting i represent the american dream. I notice you are interested you can get her at the books lining tent she will be citing her book and they give for the presentation i hope you enjoy the rest of the festival. [inaudible conversations] for our presentation today we have keith weldon medley who will be presented his work black life in new orleans. The author in the new orleans native he has appeared in american legacy magazine in the we see in a cultural business. He has been featured in documentarys. It had the world got mixed up. Keith weldon medley. [applause] thanks for coming now. This is my work. This is something i have worked on for a long time that everybody has read about with plessey verses ferguson but it is like life in new orleans. New orleans is one of the most intriguingly in a beloved city cities you can see the Mississippi River and lake pontchartrain claimed by the french in 1718 the city endured three centuries of floods and hurricanes. The 19th century buildings and they all have tales to tell. I europe in the 50s and 60s it was raised to the trade those bellow carpenters and others provided the grit and the muscle. Growing up every day with many of these buildings built by people of color they still have a functional residents now the bygone era of the elephant that is a neighborhood. I was well into high school around the corner from my house but was always to defense. Then in the mid60s after became all i saw it. He waited for me to come to join them. Without incident. With African American tastes but between the years 1718 boatloads of africans with levees with the forced labor to enslave africa. For those very people of cover they would distinguish themselves philanthropist or ordure procurers and positions. In under the caste system to patronize those city stores to the growth and survival but the more i delved into the history the more i discovered my Family History by a cable across a photograph that included my mother and godmother is she also appeared in the year book from the first black highschool in new orleans also the teacher trading of research i saw advertisements for the Ice Cream Factory in the Business College i attended the Elementary School ther atted the Elementary School there are so many stories in so many places. And all americans. The trade tracks it was the location and that led to a dead state Supreme Court civilrights case of plessey verses ferguson. To become the first black student in the previous week all white school since reconstruction and. North with his loss of the site of the Episcopal Church with the state james church is still a functioning institution. But that is right by the cathedral but then he received a contract in the 70 90s she also houses a bus who was a man of color as an activist philanthropist. And that the diversity of life for the insurrection plantation and politics it highlighted the battle of new orleans with the snare drum with the black drummer boy as it was recorded. The first black newspaper in the south end on the third floor her bend on the third floor her bed new orleans to look that sugar cane processing and well they had a great artifacts was a Living Museum walking down the street from the back of the cathedral we arrived at Louis Armstrong park. Were they relived the african homeland. It is soon as 7086 in dissembled and a experience to celebrate the emancipation and proclamation and actually staged a demonstration with the city tens rotation in new orleans that once and for the voodoo chance of the west african women. In the congo square of the National Register taking a trip in to new orleans to study the architecture the civil rights leaders from years past. The more you learn about the ancestral neighborhood that berlins is the city to be preserved for go the neighborhood received a lot of attention and by the 1890s it absorbed the spirit to be a wash of civil rights and then danced away to the of but best of all to a the festival. The roster of uh musicians of the jazz band that well over half that provides the ambiance for musicians and other professionals is not that uncommon to see young boy is on the streets but then you walk past houses 180 years ago. Those are different styles of cottages they can be identified of the french doors and shudders to protect him from the storm. Is that one time al or another introduced to homes in the businesses but the family lives in a cottage but the other pc its name from a man of color who built it in the 1830s seven. And then he sold it but at the corner the st. Augustines Catholic Church became the sisters of the holy family. Of the por a. Unit the enslaved the candlelight lounge offered music and the native habitat. Touche showcase the mardi gras and other memorabilia. The neighborhood downriver established 18 05 in one of the first suburbs noted for its architecture with 70 percent of the house is there. But then those that were some of the Biggest Developers and their brothers also earned 700 frenchmen 21 05 and did 1848 the Catholic School was founded at the behest with those indicted 1837 in perpetuity and also i declare the building is show never be sold what so ever. Educated primarily africanamerican students this daylewis school it is now the center of the outreach center. To a body this spirit of African Americans this is the custom house direction of the temple was a crowning achievement of other americans of 1909. Then they called the temple the biggest enterprise ever accepted described as a six story structure it was of all four parties in orchestras Louis Armstrong and other musicians played the purpose of this work was to explore the different areas and the individuals. And then read cover to cover going through the sixties and beyond. The we also meet toward its 1912 so with those everyday black workers and take a look at Louis Armstrong and how the culture they created brought joy not only to the neighborhood better around the world. Then we traveled on the gold coast of africa where he ate lunch and commiserated when he arrived there when i was growing up we thought of africans at that time because there wasnt that much. The lady with the british accent introduced herself. And then to do the of level best for the rest of their lives. We were taking the advantage of this occasion a cultural the handshake to the United States of america those people that they look upon as their own we feel that deep down in their own hearts they must realize a change from this part of the world. With that hair was some we meet rienzi who had the Defense League before the modern gay Civilrights Movement to honor that old mitt courage to augur the girls who challenged White Supremacy in the 60s that brought justice to the freedom writers. Looking into the times and accomplishments who fought for decades to bring policy education to black children it had a lot of serious time but my parents coming home