World war i and the shaping of modern black identity. Is a chronicle of men and women who served the country on the battlefield as well as on the home front and their struggles for cell rights. One of the main things we will learn this evening is that while the Civil Rights Movement was dedicated was decades away, world war i established important questions of citizenship that paved the way toward future progress. We are fortunate to be joined tonight by shasha conwell, the museums equity director Deputy Director and editor of we return fighting. The images are really very powerful, of americans at war and on the home front. It also gives us a different look at the life African Americans face when they came home after the war. Let me end by welcoming you and assuring you that you are in for a wonderful evening. Thank you for joining us and im sure you will have a great evening. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the Deputy Director of the African Museum of history and cult
Good evening. First of all, thank you, all, for coming out on this rainy evening. I know its a little bit of a channel. I think its going to be well worth your time to be here this evening for this discussion. Its my pleasure to welcome you to tonights program entitled historically speaking we return fighting world war i and the shaping of the modern black identity. Published by smithsonian books, we return fighting is a collection of essays that chronicle the experiences of men and women who serve the country on the battlefield as well as on the home front and their struggles for civil rights. One of the many things we will learn this evening is that while the Civil Rights Movement was decades away, world war i established important questions of citizenship that paied the way toward future progress. We are fortunate to be joined tonight by uty director and editor of we return fighting which includes outstanding scholarship and images and the images are really very powerful of american
History of globalization. She is a coeditor of one of the most important journals in the field, dip diplomatic history. Her publications include gis and germans, culture, gender and foreign relations, 19451949. And now, the politics of peace a global cold war history. She had it published by oxford this year. It is based on this book that she will be speaking to us today. She has also coedited two books, the human rights revolution, oxford 2012. And the oxford handbook of the cold war, published in 2013. Today, she will be speaking with us on if you want peace, or william detours on the politics of peace in the early cold war. Thank you to everyone who makes this possible for inviting me. It is a great honor to be here. I was embarrassed to admit that i had never been here and im going to try to make an effort because i realized philadelphias not that far from washington at least by train. I can do this in one day back and forth. So, writing a book as i am sure some of you in this audi
War. Good morning. Fork you all for joining todays session. Its going to be really informative. So glad youre all here with this very distinguished panel. Leadership, ethics and Practice Initiative here at the elliott school. The goal of this initiative sponsored by our dean is to give ofater profile to the topics leadership, ethics and their Practical Application in the education of our students graduate and undergraduate. This initiative brings practitioners to the school to learn about ethical and leadership challenges those practitioners face and how they address them. The same bringing scholars to the school to address these very same topics. I would also like to mention this morning that we are being filmed by cspan history. So we are fortunate to have these proceedings recorded. Young people both in and out of faced huge questions during the vietnam war. Would they take a stand. How would they put their values into practice. How would they come together to make a difference . An
Fighting. World war i and the shaping of modern black identity. Published by this is sony and, is a chronicle of men and women who served the country on the battlefield as well as on the home front and their struggles for cell rights. One of the main things we will learn this evening is that while the Civil Rights Movement was away,ted was decades world war i established important questions of citizenship that paved the way toward future progress. We are fortunate to be joined conwell, theasha museums equity director Deputy Director and editor of we return fighting. The images are really very powerful, of americans at war and on the home front. It also gives us a different look at the life African Americans face when they came home after the war. Let me end by welcoming you and assuring you that you are in for a wonderful evening. Thank you for joining us and im sure you will have a great evening. [applause] men, pleasetel welcome the Deputy Director of museum of history can shasha hol