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thank you so much for joining us. i'm marcia ely from the brooklyn public library center for brooklyn history. and the arts and culture team, be p l presents. this year, brooklyn public library celebrates its 125th anniversary. our birthday is a chance to talk about all the library does and one important part of that work is steward in the extraordinary special collections at the center for brooklyn history. these archives are the combined materials from the brooklyn public library's special collections and those of the former brooklyn historical society. they are literally the most ...

Father was an educator and when i was born, he was president of ford Valley State College in southern georgia. My mother had been a classroom teacher and then went back to that and stopped again over the course of my early life. But they were the prime influences as parents are with all children. They set very high standards for their children but had a soft hand. It wasnt that you must do this but we expect you to do this. And my father, who had spent a great deal of his career researching the development of leadership figures, had always argued that, if you had an advantage over the massive ...

And then beyond that, there are themes that emerge about the importance of National Causes that catalyze people to see themselves as leaders. Catalysts like the brown decision itself, which black leaders were so heavily involved. And then of course the Civil Rights Movement that generated grassroots leaders who came about and then became leaders for the rest of their lives. So the book has those major themes and i think thats exactly what emerges from the interviews and thats why i wrote the book, to call attention to these themes. But you can also just go to the website and find what you want...

Politics. That year was marked by the of robert f. Kennedy and Martin Luther king jr. Methodistthe Southern University center for history, this event is about 50 minutes. The first thing a speaker wants to know when theyre speak to smu is whos going be in the audience . The 20yearolds for whom 1968 election is as remote an event as the 1920 election was a college i was student . Or is it go doing be people with a living memory of that election . Its not anyone at all. It allows me to pitch this talk, if you will. Hats to make some general remarks about the election and specific remarks about t...