fredrick douglas and booker t washington spoke here. something else we like to talk about at this point in the tour t is one of my favorite playrights. william richardson was born in wilmington in the 1800s is his family left suddenly in the fall of 1828 moving to washington d.c. we went on to be the first african-american to have a hit show on broadway called the chip woman's fortune opening in may 1923. he also put together this book. the plays and pageants in the life of a negro. it was a textbook in segregated schools for theater students and begins with age-approach plays for kindergarten and goes through high school. mr. richardson lived until the late 1970s and during his lifetime in wilmington, a theater company was founded in hes honor. they are predominantly african-american theater company performing his work and the work och other minority playwrights and put on two shows a year. we are grateful they keep his legacy a live. what is sad is we did not have the entirety of his lifetime here with his work. the next stop is the 1

i want her name to become one of those sort of household names like a fredrick douglas, like a heriot tubman because she runs away decades before they do. so the title, i will give you a sort of quick story about the title "never caught". this was my first choice for the title of the book and presented it to people at the publishers and they hated it. they said it gives away the story, erica. i said, yeah, but so does "12 years a slave." .... >> [inaudible conversations] good morning everybody it got really quiet really fast.