darlene clark -- darlene clark hine is a past president of the organization of american historians. the next speaker that i want to mention is christopher reeve. christopher reeve also earned his ph.d. from kent state. he is the author of a series of books, three of which i have mentioned. the naacp and the rise of black professional leadership, black chicago's first century, metro history students have kind of got your number of copies here because if you want to write about early black chicago history of the nineteenth century, you have to start with this book and will be all the original sources beyond it. a wonderful book and the rise of chicago's black metropolis which i believe is dr. reid's most recent book phot it is hard to keep up. the rise of chicago's black metropolis traces the period of the 1920s, and leads us to the birth of the chicago black renaissance. claims to have retired in 2009 but i suspect like me chris reed's retirement is more alleged than actual. and finally the youngest of the people on this panel and i don't know exactly how old he was when he started d