[applause] >> hello, my name is ezekiel. i have five kids that go to malcolm x and all i have to say is that for miss april not to be working here anymore, i would pull my kids out. she has been like a driving force on and off work. after work, she's still sitting here in case anyone needs help with things, with my daughter, she had leukemia, and it was a hard transition. she helped out a lot. she is like a mentor to my daughter who is not here right now, but i just feel like the hunter's view community would be losing so much, you know, and i just wanted to come and support her. [applause] >> hello, my name is evan a scott. my daughter goes to malcolm x. miss april wasn't integral part of our community and at school. we have lost so much in the past year. we have lost a lot. we have lost other staff members , we lost half hour virus school, you know. when will it stopped? she should be allowed to take the test. there was a lot of things going on in hours for, i don't have it , but we all know because we are also part of tha

samuel polk is married, his father easy you'll gifts him attractive lighting mecklenburg county, and ezekiel,is father gifts him attractive land in mecklenburg county, and when his wife's father, james knox, when he dies, in his will, two women are transferred to his daughter's husband. so, samuel polk gets those two women. now, around late 1805, early 1806, we see those two women are the only two slave women living on the property at that time. but at 1805, 1806, two enslaved men come onto the property. around 1806, elias polk is born. were not even on hundred percent sure who his parents are. elias is could say possibly a north carolina native. >> yes, and he would say he was. his birth certificate and death certificates all say he's from charlotte. he considered himself a north carolina native. but tennesseen, as well. >> thank you. >> other questions? >> question for mr. collins. >> can you please identify? >> excuse me, michael kelly. is it fair to say, or is it oversimplification to say that biddle's cover-up was worse than the actual scandal and that caused -- >> it certainly didn't m

before they gathered to remember the 12 victims on friday's mass shooting, bishop ezekiel williams knew one of the victims, ryan keith cox and calmed him a talented musician. >> he cultivated that gift and became a phenomenal singer. >> what do you tell the community like in that has been affected on so many levels? >> this causes us to really understand how quick life can be taken from you. >> reporter: police say engineer dewayne craddock opened fire on his co-workers inside this municipal building after a massive police response, he died in a gun battle with officers. christi dewar who worked in the municipal building for 13 years says craddock was an unassuming co-worker. >> he smiled when you said hi to him dirty she said she initially thought the shooting was a drill and credits her survival to colleague and friend keith cox who directed her and six others to hide inside an office. >> and we ran in there and i turned and said come on and he said i'm going to go check on other people, barricade yourself in and we did. >> those were the final words you heard from your friend? >> yes

ezekiel took the banner up and said we are going to demonstrate, we are going to march, we are to have. visitedderick douglass the state and had various meetings. -- they sawision the vision that voting empowers a man and a woman to have say in their future. the issue of suffrage for in 1857,mericans wins but people felt that the issue was not legal, it was tied up in the state of wisconsin's supreme court and it took the whole period of the civil war to be ratified. 1866, african-americans got the legal right to vote. ae turn of the century, and socialist movement brought in african-americans from the south. looking for new opportunities. those new opportunities included jobs. thestic work, work in homes, taking care of children, working in factories. to do the hardest and dirtiest work, yet we came nonetheless, because we saw that there was a socialist movement going on. education in the school systems, quality of life that they hadn't experienced in the south. after world war ii, what appeared to be a great migration began to incur -- occur in milwaukee. people from the south began