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FROM THE VIRGINIA FESTIVAL OF THE BOOK. AUTHOR OF YOU NEED A SCHOOLHOUSE
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AUTHOR OF THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY TALK ABOUT FIGHTING FOR CIVIL RIGHTS THROUGH EDUCATION AND WAR. >> GOOD AFTERNOON. WELCOME TO THE...
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FOR CIVIL RIGHTS THROUGH EDUCATION AND MORE. MY NAME IS CARRIED DIXON BUICK IN OF A FELLOW AT THE VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES AND EMPLOYEES...
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| 00:03:33 |
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MOVEMENT. BRINGING IT MORE INTO THE PRESENCE BECAUSE BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AND JULIUS ROSENWALD WHO WERE BOTH EXTRAORDINARILY WELL KNOWN DURING THEIR...
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| 00:14:11 |
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FUND HAD A SPONSOR, SOMEBODY WHO WAS INVOLVED WITH HELPING RAISE MONEY FOR THE FUND BUT FOR CIVILIANS TRAINING PROGRAM WHICH WAS BACK IN 1940. STARTED....
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| 00:23:57 |
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MODERATOR IS A GOOD TEST THE FIRST QUESTION. ALREADY SORT OF STARTED TO ANSWER MY QUESTION, WHICH RELATES TO SEEING BOTH OF THESE PROJECTS IN LIGHT...
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| 00:24:48 |
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WATCHING THE EYES ON THE PRICE FOR THE DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE PBS. I WAS LOOKING AT FOOTAGE OF PEOPLE WALKING TO WORK DURING THE BUS WERE CUT. AND...
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| 00:26:11 |
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A PUBLIC FACILITIES LIKE RESTAURANTS AND HOTELS AND OTHER PLACES. REALLY GET STARTED IN THE MILITARY. THE 1940'S WITH PRESIDENT GERMANS THE EXECUTIVE...
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| 00:27:58 |
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OF THAT WILL PICK UP AS WELL FOR THE BROADCAST. >> I COULD ASK MANY QUESTIONS. I WAS BORN IN ALABAMA. I LIVED IN THE CAMRY DURING
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| 00:28:20 |
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THE BOYCOTT YEARS AND PARTICIPATED IN THAT PORT AT. VERY MUCH FAMILIAR WITH THE TERRITORY, HUNTINGTON COLLEGE AND ALL THAT. AND THERE ARE MANY QUESTIONS...
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| 00:29:11 |
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ON THAT. BUT I WANT TO KNOW WHAT PART THE ROSENWALD'S PLAYED IF ANY IN THE TEACHERS, A SUPERVISOR UNDER THE WHITE SUPERVISOR. MY GRANDFATHER STARTED...
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| 00:30:56 |
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VERY PRACTICAL AND THOUGHT WHAT WAS NEEDED IN THE IMMEDIATE WAS EDUCATION. DUBIOS AGREED WITH THAT AND WAS FOCUSED ON THE NEED AS WHAT YOU KNOW IS...
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| 00:32:04 |
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WORK, GRADUATE WORK, IN PITTSBURGH AT CARNEGIE MELON. I'D LIKE TO KNOW HOW DO WE ENHANCE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY HERE IN CHARLOTTESVILLE...
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| 00:32:29 |
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SOMEONE FROM -- HAVING TROUBLE HEARING ME? >> THE QUESTION WAS HOW CAN CHARLOTTESVILLE WORK TO INCREASE COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY...
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| 00:32:41 |
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OF VIRGINIA. >> [INAUDIBLE] >> IN TALENT AND IN THE UNIVERSITY. >> I'LL TELL YOU OF AN EXPERIENCE
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I HAD A FEW WEEKS AGO THAT COULD POINT US IN A
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DIRECTION. I WAS SPEAKING IN A SCHOOL
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| 00:32:56 |
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IN NORTH CAROLINA THAT IS STILL A SCHOOL TODAY, A PUBLIC SCHOOL, AND I SPOKE AT AN ASSEMBLY, AND AFTER I SPOKE, A YOUNG AFRICAN-AMERICAN TEACHER CAME...
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| 00:33:58 |
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BUT CLEARLY, I KNOW I HAVE NOT HAD A CHANCE TO READ THEM, OBVIOUSLY, BUT WOMEN ARE A PART OF THE STORY; RIGHT? HOW WOULD YOU GIVE US A LITTLE TASTE...
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TOC --
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| 00:34:23 |
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TUSKGEEGEE AIRMEN IRN CORPORATED, AND THE LAST FIVE CONVENTIONS I ATTENDED, AND ONE OF THE ISSUES IS WHETHER THE AIRMEN PEOPLE SHOULD BE AIRMEN OR AIRMEN...
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| 00:37:03 |
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THE MOTHERS, THE WIVES, THE CHILDREN, TO GIVE MORE HOLISTIC SENSE OF WHO THE MEN WERE AND HOW THEY WERE RELATED. I'M SURE RECORDS INDICATE WRITING...
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IMAGINE ROSENWALK'S
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WIFE WAS AS WELL AND THE SISTERS. HOW DO THEY FIT INTO THAT STORY THAT WAY? >> GREAT QUESTION. WOMEN ARE ALWAYS PART OF EVERY STORY. [LAUGHTER] CERTAINLY...
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WASHINGTON AND ROSENWALD AND WITH THE SCHOOLS. I'LL START WITH THE TWO MEN. WASHINGTON, YOU KNOW, HAD A VERY TRAGIC PRIVATE LIFE IN THE SENSE HE MARRIED...
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| 00:40:00 |
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IN THE BOOK OF HERBERT STANDING NEXT TO HIS PLANE, HIS P-40, I THINK, AT THE TIME, AND HE'S STANDING NEXT TO IT, AND IT SAYS MIKE ON THE PLANE. MIKE...
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| 00:41:13 |
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THE SERVICE, WERE THEY ABLE TO GET JOBS WITH AIRLINES? >> A VERY GOOD QUESTION. THEY DIDN'T HAVE MUCH
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SUCCESS AT FIRST GETTING JOBS WITH AIRLINES. A LOT OF THEM WERE
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| 00:41:25 |
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TRAINED PILOTS. ALL OF THEM WERE WHO FLEW OVERSEAS, AND SOME WHO HAD NOT FLOWN OVERSEAS WITH THE FOURTH 77TH BOMBARDMENT GROUP, AND MANY OF THEM WERE...
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| 00:44:15 |
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INSTITUTE AND SCHOOLS AND MILITARY. CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT TUSKEGEE FOR THOSE OF US NOT FROM ALABAMA OR HAVE NOT BEEN TO THE AREA....
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| 00:44:38 |
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TOWN. THERE WAS NOTHING THERE. HE CREATED THE PAM PUS THAT'S THERE NOW OF TUSKEGEE, AND ONE OF THE THINGS HE DID WAS TUSKEGEE WAS A TRAINING SCHOOL...
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| 00:46:33 |
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FAMILIAR WITH TUSKEGEE THAN I AM AS A CIVILIAN COMMUNITY, BUT TUSKEGEE AIRMEN WERE VERY FAMILIAR WITH TUSKEGEE, AND YOU KNOW, THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN CAME...
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| 00:49:25 |
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I WOULD JUST LIKE TO ADD ABOUT TUSKEGEE THAT THE OTHER THING WE ASSOCIATE IN OUR MINDS WITH TUSKEGEE IS THE SYPHILIS STUDY THAT HAS TO DO WITH NEITHER...
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AND VISIT TUSKEGEE AIRMEN HISTORIC SITE HAVE THE WRONG IMPRESSION THAT THAT'S WHERE ALL THE PILOT TRAINING TOOK PLACE THERE, AND REALLY IT WAS ONLY...
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| 00:51:44 |
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THE BUILDINGS OF
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SCHOOLS LARGELY IN RURAL AREAS OF THE SOUTH, AND I KNOW HE ALSO GAVE PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT TO THE BUILDING OF OTHERS BEYOND SCHOOLS, LIKE LIBRARIES...
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MANY SMALL RURAL SCHOOLHOUSES. HE ALSO, TOWARDS THE END OF THE PROGRAM, THEY DID FUND HIGH HIGH SCHOOLS IN SEVERAL PLACES. THE HIGH SCHOOL THAT SOME...
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| 00:54:35 |
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WONDERING ABOUT HOW THE INTEREST
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IN PHILANTHROPY OF EDUCATION OF BLACKS IN THE SOUTH, AND HOW THAT SPREAD FROM ROSENWALD AND ROCKEFELLER AND TO OTHERS, HOW THAT EXAMPLE MIGHT HAVE SPREAD...
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| 00:55:05 |
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AT WEALTHY PEOPLE TODAY, EDUCATION IS CERTAINLY ONE OF THE FIELDS THEY FOCUS ON. LOOK AT BILL GATES, PROBABLY OUR WEALTHIEST PHILANTHROPIST AT THE...
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| 00:56:38 |
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WHOM LUCKY ENOUGH TO GET HERE, EVEN OUTSIDE OF THE QUOTA. WAS THERE ANY CONNECTION HERE BETWEEN THOSE GERMAN-JEWISH PROFESSORS WHO COULD NOT BASICALLY...
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| 00:57:11 |
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IT'S A FASCINATING STORY. JEWISH INTELLECTUALS AND PROFESSORS WERE ABLE TO LEAVE GERMANY AND FIND WORK TEACHING AT AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORICALLY BLACK...
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| 00:57:41 |
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BEEN RENOVATED, AND IT SEEMED SPACIOUS, LIGHT-FILLED, ATTRACTIVE. I THINK SO THAT A LOT OF THE SCHOOLS ARE BUILT ON THAT MODEL. I WONDER WHO DESIGNED...
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| 00:58:23 |
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TUSKEGEE, AND REPORT TAYLOR, WHO I MENTIONED WHO DESIGNED SOME OF THE BUILDINGS AT TUSKEGEE, WAS ONE OF THE PEOPLE INVOLVED IN DESIGNING THEM. ANOTHER...
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| 00:59:28 |
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FOR COMING. I WELCOME YOU TO MEET THE AUTHORS, PURCHASE BOOKS, HAVE THEM SIGN, AND CONTINUE THE DISCUSSION. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> THAT CONCLUDES...
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VISIT VABOOK.ORG. >> WE
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NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.