dr. bynum. >> good afternoon. thank you for being here. i will give you a brief background on myself. it's an important way of coming to understand my journey with randolph as a research topic. i'm originally from louisville, kentucky and went to the university of virginia where i did my undergraduate work and graduate work. it was during those years between 19-21 when i came to an tiffany about history and my life -- epiphany about history and my life. i took a civil rights history course and we were talking about black soldiers in the war, the second world war. it got me to thinking about my own personal narrative. i went home over winter break and began quizzing older relatives about the 1940's and the war and that sort of thing and came to find out that several of my relatives, including my father -- i'm not as old as you might think, but my father fought in the second world war. the important thing here is that my father's cousin who also fought in the war was stationed in the pacific. he

dr. cornelius bynum. sandra washington, who's the associate regional director for the national parks service and my colleague, the senior outreach coordinator. what we're going to do is have presentations from each of our panelists that will run about 15 minutes or so. we'll have follow-up questions and then we'll use the last half hour of the session for interaction with the audience with questions and answers from people out there. so if you have questions, be prepared to ask them, we have got the mike right up here in front. if you don't want to move down and use the mike, use your loud outdoor voice when you shout out your questions. i would like to turn it over now to dr. bynum. >> good afternoon, thank you for being here. i will give you just a brief background on myself because i think it's an important way of coming to understand my journey with randolph as a research topic. i'm originally from louisville, kentucky and went to school at university of virginia where i did my undergraduate work and

dr. cornelius bynum. we have two great authors that have done great work on biographies. >> both are available in the vendor area. >> once again, i'm alan spears from the national parks conservation association. it will be emily, adam, and matalin. please raise your hands. if you have any questions about npca, stop by and visit us and pick up a copy of our brochure. hot off the presses. i would be remiss if i did not close by saying this ends the opening of the 99th annual association -- and we will be back next year for the 100th. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> you are watching american history tv all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. to join the conversation, like us on facebook. american history tv traveled to the library of congress in washington, d.c., established in the year 2000 and endowed by a philanthropist. to center hosts 100 sch

the history of pullman is toll as dr. bynum and sandra have talked about, is that pullman is a place that sort of exemplifies those stories so there's some convergence of the stories of labor, after the pullman strike of 1893 and the economic recession that took place 1893 and 1894. there's the formation of labor day soon after the pullman strikes. less than 40 years later you have the conversation of these 10,000 men across the country who say what about us? there are large labor groups that have been formed after the pullman strikes that are largely white. largely monolynnithic but you h thousands of former slaves across the country and george pullman and there are a lot of opinions and his role in history about whether he was a good guy or a bad guy. i don't know if we can say that he was a good guy or bad guy. we can say he's an american. he's an industrial. that's his role in history. i will circle back before i continue on the labor history part of this. george pullman in 1879 purchased about 4,000 acres of land about 14