those words were written by james weldon johnson in the early 20th century, and it was part of the national negro anthem, but they speak poignantly to what was going on in the civil war, after the civil war, to what is going on now. often times, when we think about war, we think about those who are fighting, the adults. but what about the children? we do know that it is very difficult to talk about children and to think about then existing during the time when so much is going on, when tumult is everywhere. i encourage you to really look in their eyes. look at them. it is easy, and our lives, to bypass anything that is difficult, hard, tragic. we go on, we're busy, we have things to do. but what about the children? when i was called and asked to be a part of the symposium, i realized quickly that it is children that i really wanted to focus on, so, as a virginian, our history means so very much to us, as dr. robinson has said. but it means so much more to those of us who have gone through something. african-americans, women, children are often left out of the narratives we hear about, so wh

then i would recite the apostles creed because we were methodist and then james weldon johnson lift everyvoice and sing as reminder of where i was coming from. and for two years these retired teachers put nothing except love in their hearts and beauty in the minds and wisdom, social security, mathematics, history and the basic precepts of american had. i tell you that story because it underscores the basic essence of this memoir, that we're all a part of of that inescapable network of mutuality and in madison park we were tied with a single garment of destiny people is a place evidenced by by those wet dreams and aspirations to make america work and who believed that making individual sacrifices, one sacrifice at a time for the good of entire community, was far better than individualism. i tell you this story because there are a lot of little eric monthlies in the world. little eric turned your desire to grow into the own personhood to realize their own aspirations and it's only through community that we can experience the fullness of who we are collectively. we live in a very politically

they had written the rails, the james weldon johnson black manhattan never to look back. labels they gave themselves spoke volume negro the lost generation but dear doctor worried about what he saw as a the inherent susceptibility of an artistic and literary enterprise in momentum away from what he deemed to be central purpose. locks and propaganda, ubiquity and law of the deck cant karl -- the growing resistance to advice from seniors of the young arer writers and poets cocktail parties downtown and nightclubs up town that is substituted for the manhattan restaurants and hotels motor kaidz and hudson river excursion to walkers villa sex and three jeaned rs and demeaning wirism all of this began to grate on boyce civil rights never when is the acpp met for annual convention in chicago in late june, 1926, he took the podium his drive to insist that all art is propaganda and ever must be despite boiling of the purest as for art and for our say about this was a concept that is close to blays for this for boyce and who could -- who they city function of the arts was what matt