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He has had a 30year emmy and peabody awardwinning career in Television News and documentaries. Jeanne ellsworth has a ph. D. In social foundations of education from the university of buffalo and has devoted her life to teaching from Elementary School to prisons, to universities. The authors live in rocksbury, new york. Please give a warm savannah welcome to kent garrett and jeannie else worth. [applause] finish jeanne ellsworth. [applause] well, thank you for enlightening us, and ill let you know the book is called the last negroes at harvard. 61 years ago harvard admitted 18 negroes, and that...

[inaudible conversations] hello, everyone. My name is anne. Welcome to the 13th annual savannah book festival. The festival is presented by georgia power, bob faircloth, david and nancy seven terror and the phillip e. And nancy b. Bigman foundation. We are especially grateful to jack and mary romano who are our sponsors for this beautiful venue. Wed also like to welcome our literati members and individual donors today. It is through your support that we are able to make todays festival events free to the public. 90 of our revenue comes from our donors and literati members, and we thank you. Be...

New york. Please give a warm savannah welcome to kent garrett and jeannie else worth. [applause] finish jeanne ellsworth. [applause] well, thank you for enlightening us, and ill let you know the book is called the last negroes at harvard. 61 years ago harvard admitted 18 negroes, and thats what we were called then, and we were the largest number at that time ever admitted to harvard. We were from all different parts of the country north, south, east and west and we came from different economic and socioeconomic backgrounds. And we, heretofore theyd been letting, admitting blacks to harvard but...

Support and sponsorship of this program as well. Of course, the library system, and we really appreciate the everson madison region ally braer. We are, of course, in sh charlottesville, which is the southern terminus of our National Scenic byway as well as National Heritage area. We are pleased that the book tonight focuses on both our northern terminus as well as our southern terminus. You will hear a little bit about gettysburg, which is our northern terminus, our most northern part of our National Heritage area, and of course you will hear a little bit about charlottesville as well. The way...

To fail. Griff good morning. Welcome back, jed. So good to have you back. Jedediah thank you so much. Thank you both. Good to see you both again. I have been watching from home. Its good to see you here. Pete its good to have you here. Jedediah and a big news day. Pete big news day in honor of you. I know you are a surfer this is my flip flop edition of fox friends. We can go if we need. To say. Griff see whats happened i have grown a billie ray sig cyr. Jedediah i have got the flat shoes on and leggings. We are all a team here and all on the same page today. Pete secrets of television. Griff,...