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Ill win. Well, good afternoon. Thank you all for your patience. As weve been trying to get some of these kinks worked out. Um, welcome to the rosa parks. My name is donna beisel. I am the interim director of the museum and we are honored to have all of you here today as we the 67th anniversary of mrs. Parks arrest on the evening of december 1st, 1955, her brave act of that quiet, deliberate, defiant, no in the face of the unfair and unjust practice of jim crow segregation sparked what would become the montgomery bus boycott and the civil rights. As we commemorate courage of mrs. Parks and so m...

Adjustment, understandably. I am really happy to be here today, because this is a culmination of about three years of really wonderful work with my author, harry katz. I want to talk a little about what we will do today. Usually when we do a slideshow with these kinds of presentations, we are timing talk or talking directly to the slide, to the content, but there are so many today, we decided to do Something Different and use the slides as wallpaper and will run a slide show, and presumably we are going to run 30 seconds for each slide, there are about 70 slides. We may be referencing the slid...

Adjustment, understandably. I am really happy to be here today, because this is a culmination of about three years of really wonderful work with my author, harry katz. I want to talk a little about what we will do today. Usually when we do a slideshow with these kinds of presentations, we are timing talk or talking directly to the slide, to the content, but there are so many today, we decided to do Something Different and use the slides as wallpaper and will run a slide show, and presumably we are going to run 30 seconds for each slide, there are about 70 slides. We may be referencing the slid...

Announcer 1 and you are watching live coverage of a symposium all day on Abraham Lincolns life, career, and legacy here on American History tv. It is being held at ford theater. The next speaker will be Douglas Wilson, who is the coeditor of herndon on lincoln. William herndon was lincolns law but law partner and biographer. After this will be a Speakers Panel featuring the presenters responding to questions from the audience and from one another. They had been indicating a fair amount of interest in each others books and writings as the day has gone on. We are live at ford theater in washingt...

Amazing collection of Cultural Heritage in the form of books, paper, photographs, matts, letters, drawings, audiovisual materials and regularly used by researchers who come from another part of the country to work on a book and Research Projects and we always make them available in the reading room so we have to have all the collection is ready for researh at any given time. Given the care and handling that can sometimes inflict damage, they needed a conservation staff to keep the books in working order so this is one of the current projects and the book Conservation Lab. It is from 1475, and ...