dr. booker t. washington in 1900.st chairman of the district of columbia chamber of commerce, largest business membership organization in the metropolitan washington area. it is my privilege this morning to introduce to you dr. malcolm beech sr. >> thank you very much. dinlt realize i was that long and been around that long. you start to do these reenactments and you start thinking about the 1800s. maybe i have been around for a while. good morning to all of you and i really wanted to thank you all for coming out. this stamp and the ceremony surrounding it means a lot to us. we are re-enactors. we are commemorators of the thousands of african-americans who fought for their freedom during the american civil war. we go all over the country not only doing reenactments but we do living history demonstrations. what we find is the impact on our audience, especially the young audience, is our superintendent said earlier, they can see themselves in histo history. when they see us, they see people that look like them and they

dr. booker t. washington in 1900.o he is the past chairman of the district of columbia chamber of commerce, largest business membership organization in the metropolitan washington area. it is my privilege this morning to introduce to you dr. malcolm beech sr. >> thank you very much. dinlt realize i was that long and been around that long. you start to do these reenactments and you start thinking about the 1800s. maybe i have been around for a while. good morning to all of you and i really wanted to thank you all for coming out. this stamp and the ceremony surrounding it means a lot to us. we are re-enactors. we are commemorators of the thousands of african-americans who fought for their freedom during the american civil war. we go all over the country not only doing reenactments but we do living history demonstrations. what we find is the impact on our audience, especially the young audience, is our superintendent said earlier, they can see themselves in history. when they see us, they see people that look like them a

dr. booker t. washington in 1900. he is the past chairman of the district of columbia chamber of commerce, largest business membership organization in the metropolitan washington area. it is my privilege this morning to introduce to you dr. malcolm beech sr. >> thank you very much. dinlt realize i was that long and been around that long. you start to do these reenactments and you start thinking about the 1800s. maybe i have been around for a while. good morning to all of you and i really wanted to thank you all for coming out. this stamp and the ceremony surrounding it means a lot to us. we are re-enactors. we are commemorators of the thousands of african-americans who fought for their freedom during the american civil war. we go all over the country not only doing reenactments but we do living history demonstrations. what we find is the impact on our audience, especially the young audience, is our superintendent said earlier, they can see themselves in histo history. when they see us, they see people that look like t

dr. booker t. washington in 1900. also, he is the past chairman of the district of columbia chamber of commerce, the largest business membership organization in the washington metropolitan area. it is my pleasure to introduce to you -- [applause] >> thank you. i didn't realize i was that old and had been around that long. [laughter] you start to do these reenactments and think about the 1800s and say maybe i have been around for a while. good morning to all of you. i wanted to thank you for coming out. this stamp in the ceremonies -- this stamp and the ceremony surrounding it means a lot to us. we are reenactors. we are commemoraters of the thousands of african-americans who fought for their freedom during the american civil war. we go all of the country not only doing reenactments, but we do living history demonstrations. what we find is that the impact on our audience, especially the young audience,, they can see -- especially the young audience, as our superintendent said earlier, they can see themselves in history