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Historically black sites helped to tell the story of africanamerican migration. They argue for additional efforts and resources to preserve such places for current and future generations. This discussion was part of the association for the study of africanamerican life in history annual meeting. Hello, and welcome. Hello and welcome to the association for the study of africanamerican life and histories 104th annual conference. How the National Park service tells the story of black migrations. My name is madeleine, and im the Senior Executive assistant at the National Parks Conservation Association. Is this better . Sorr sorry about that. On behalf of theresa and the president and ceo, thank you for taking the time to join us and welcome. For those of you n ....
Are you prepared to make your presentation . Sorry. I want to share my screen with your power point presentation. Youll have five minutes. Ill let you know when your presentation is up. Can everybody see this . Unfortunately, we cant, stephanie. Okay. If there are members of the public who are interest logos ed inspeaking on this matter s star three. Thank you, stephanie. The slides are up. Im an architect with the department of public works. Weve had had five approvals to date. Specific Design Review concepts through phase three. A review committee back in april. We have a lot of slides. Im going to go fast. This is the original building exterior. A site entry to the left. Next slide. The original reading room is shown here. Thats the main stair that was demolishedemolished. Showing architectural elements for the main stair and main entrance. This is the 1997 floorplan that shows the loss of the features. Buildings on bar bartlett ....
But think about to when johnson pivska visited the class and we talked about the Jackson Magnolia. Who remembers the story . Andrew jacksons wife died right before he went to office so he planted this tree because it was her favorite tree. And he brought the seeds from the hermitage in tennessee and do you remember what jonathan told us . He said there isnt any contemporary evidence, Andrew Jackson never mentions planting a tree, theres nothing in newspapers so it seems like this is a story that has these romantic origins and its continued to grow from that ever since. So this is actually first known exterior photograph of the white house taken by a welsh born photographer named john plume jr. In january 1846. So if youre looking at the white house, this is 1846, so in theory jackson planted his tree already, right . But i dont see a magnolia anywhere. So this also bolsters ....