his name is william monroe trotter, the prominent african-american civil rights activist, boston-based, editor of "the boston guardian," also known not just for his contra temps with wilson in 1914, but for a lifetime of unbelievably constructive work to advance the civil rights of african-americans as well as to advance the rights and living conditions and political freedoms of people of color all across the world. so i ask that everyone keep their attention open to announcements about what for thousand i'll call the william monroe trotter award, and i am as eager as i hope many of you are to see how that shapes up. so thank you very much. i know there's been some, already some, how shall i say, animated discussion in the chat, and i'm eager to get to some of those questions. first, i could ask a question that is a little bit, a little bit more directed toward the work of our two guests. i wonder if i could put each of you on the spot to give a concrete example of an experience with a particular set of visitors or a really tough problem that you recall working through with your staff

so, much like there was really no doubt that he would attend william and mary like his father, like jefferson, like james monroe, he was one of three presidents to have attended william and mary, it became pretty apparent that he was going to pursue a legal career. shortly after he graduated from the college of william and mary, his father and another tyler relative took him on as a legal apprentice. a little bit later when judge tyler was elected governor of virginia, it could no longer supervise his sons legal studies, edmund randolph stepped in. randolph had been attorney general under george washington, and really presented young tyler with a very challenging way to approach the law. tyler passed the bar in 1809 at the age of 19. now this is interesting because in virginia the law at the time said they had to be at least 21 years of age to pass the bar exam. to even sit for the bar exam. but apparently the examiner did not ask tyler how old he was. perhaps as fathers connections allowed them to look the other way. but in any event he was 19. tyler passed the bar exam -- did not set a practice right away. ki

a guest house and was ordered built by monroe and based on this very letter we are able to say that it was built by enslaved men. peter mallory and george williams, and we're able to follow that story through the documents. and so this is the new interpretation. next line, please, that we have in the standing guest house this the new exhibition is opened lastepmber with news stories as the two original rooms of the guest house are period rooms. this ot you see displaying as though a travel h just arrivewing the guest activities and talking about political professionals who would have been the guests of that guest house. next slide, please. and an adjacent room we are showing in preparion as though it is being readied for the arrival of the presidentnd his guests. so that we're putting front and center the work that occurred there at that moment and also the work that occurred there throughout on the landscape, during the time even that the monroe's were not there. and, of course, enslaved men and women and children were there during and for for longer than the monroe family. so our our new interpretation, really, this has given us the opportune

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