00:29 - WELCOME TO THE AFRICAN

00:30 - AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, I'M COREY

00:32 - CLARK. AN

00:33 - 1850 CENSUS FOR AFRICAN

00:35 - AMERICANS WERE DOCUMENTED ITS

00:37 - RESIDENTS OF SCRANTON. TODAY

00:38 - THE COMMUNITY NUMBERS ABOUT

00:41 - 5,000. OVER THE YEARS

00:42 - AFRICAN AMERICANS HAVE

00:44 - MADE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS

00:45 - TO BUSINESS CULTURE AND

00:47 - POLITICS IN THE

00:48 - REGION. WE'RE AT THE

00:49 - ANTHRACITE HERITAGE MUSEUM

00:50 - TO TALK ABOUT THE HISTORY OF

00:52 - AFRICAN AMERICANS IN SCRANTON.

00:54 - JOINING US IS GLENN

00:56 - US JOBS. THE FOUNDER

00:57 - OF THE BLACK SCREEN PROJECT

00:58 - THANKS FOR JOINING US. THANKS

01:00 - VERY MUCH. WITH THE MOST OF

01:02 - THOSE 5,000 AFRICAN-AMERICAN

01:05 - SCRANTON IAN'S COME FROM.

01:07 - THEY COME FROM ALL OVER WE

01:09 - HAVE AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND BLACK

01:11 - AMERICAN FLAG. WE HAVE

01:13 - AFRICA A BLACK FOLKS ALL OVER

01:16 - THE DESK

01:18 - MAKE IN PATIENTS.

01:21 - WHO ARE FROM OTHER

01:22 - CITIES. SO WE ARE PRETTY

01:25 - DIVERSE IN TERMS OF THE

01:26 - BLACK COMMUNITY HERE.

01:28 - SO LET'S TALK ABOUT

01:30 - THE BEGINNING SO WE

01:32 - 1850 THERE WERE 4.

01:34 - WHERE DID THE FIRST AFRICAN

01:35 - AMERICANS COME FROM.

01:38 - RIGHT SO THE FIRST

01:39 - AFRICAN-AMERICAN HERE IN

01:41 - SCRANTON THAT ARE DOCUMENTED

01:43 - WHERE. A PENNSYLVANIA HAD

01:45 - GRABBED GRADUAL A LOT OF

01:47 - EVOLUTION SO.

01:50 - EVEN IN THE EARLY 1800.

01:53 - ALTHOUGH PENNSYLVANIA DID NOT.

01:56 - THE INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY

01:57 - AS SOMETHING THAT THEY SHOULD

01:58 - HAVING THEIR LAND. THEIR

02:00 - CARE COMING FROM DIFFERENT

02:01 - AREAS THAT HAVE PLEASE FRAME

02:03 - FROM THE CELLPHONE BROTHER.

02:05 - WE'RE HERE IN 1800 THEY WERE

02:06 - STARTING THE EYE AND WHERE AND

02:08 - WITH THE INDUSTRY

02:09 - OF IT OF THE AREA AT

02:10 - THE TIME. SO THEY HAD WHAT THEY

02:12 - CALLED COMPANIONS ONE OF THE

02:15 - COMPANION WITH HENRY START

02:16 - WHO IS ONE OF THOSE

02:18 - REPRESENTATIVE METS AND

02:20 - STAYED THERE. SO HE CAME

02:23 - AND DURING THAT TIME YOU

02:24 - ARE EITHER. WITH THE GRADUAL

02:26 - ABOLITION ACT YOU'RE EITHER.

02:29 - A PLAY FOR X AMOUNT OF YEARS

02:31 - THAT WE WOULD LIKE OR TEAM

02:32 - CRAFTED THE AGE OF 26 TO

02:34 - 21. THEY WOULD GREEN YOUR

02:37 - SLEEVE YOU HAVE FOR YOUR

02:38 - SLEEVES SO HENRY START GOT HIS

02:40 - FREEDOM BE ONE OF THOSE PLAYS.

02:41 - I THINK BECAUSE HE WAS THE

02:43 - YOUNG MAN AT THE HE WAS ABLE TO

02:44 - AID HIS FREEDOM AND WE'RE

02:46 - GOING TO THE SILK ABOUT IT IN

02:47 - THE I WORD. I'M IN THE EYE

02:49 - AND INDUSTRY FROM THAT HE ARE

02:51 - KIDS AND WAS INCREDIBLY

02:52 - SUCCESSFUL HERE. HE WAS SELLING

02:54 - GOODS TO SOME OF THE MOST

02:55 - PROMINENT PEOPLE AND IN THE

02:57 - AREA AT THE TIME. IT'S GRANDSON

02:59 - WAS CONSIDERED SO COME HOLLOW

03:01 - THE AN 1800. TO SELLING GOODS

03:04 - THERE AND HE WAS ABLE TO MAKE A

03:05 - THE FANS WILL AMOUNT OF WEALTH

03:07 - AND PHILADELPHIA, AN 3 MERCHANT

03:09 - AISLE, SHOPS AND THE AND THE

03:12 - CITY OF PHILADELPHIA. IT'S

03:13 - PRETTY COOL THOUGH THEY WOULD

03:15 - FOLLOW HIM. THE

03:16 - PHILADELPHIA IT REALLY LEE

03:19 - 1800. I KNEW WHAT HE WAS ONE OF

03:21 - THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN HERE

03:22 - WITH THE NAME. AS EARLY

03:24 - AS THE YEAR CONTENDER.

03:26 - WHAT KIND OF JOBS THAT BAD.

03:31 - I'M ABOUT TO FACE AND

03:32 - THAT I'M ABLE TO FIND.

03:35 - ALL ARE HAPPENING AND LIKE THE

03:37 - 1800'S LIKE YOU CAN

03:39 - 601870'S ABOUT EVEN INTO THE

03:42 - 1950'S NORTH AFRICAN AMERICANS

03:43 - WERE DISTILLING DOMESTIC WORK.

03:46 - LABOR CAPE COD.

03:47 - BIG INDUSTRIES WERE NOT REALLY

03:49 - AVAILABLE TO AFRICAN

03:50 - AMERICANS IN THIS AREA.

03:52 - SO YOU WOULD SEE A LOT OF

03:54 - SEAMSTRESSES WORKING AT HOME.

03:56 - A MAN HAS LABORED AND ALSO LIKE

03:58 - THERE IS AN BUTLER'S

03:59 - WORKING AT RESTAURANTS.

04:02 - I JUST WANT TO BACKTRACK A

04:03 - LITTLE BIT YOU TALKED ABOUT

04:04 - SLAVERY WAS THERE A CONNECTION

04:07 - TO THE UNDERGROUND

04:08 - RAILROAD AND THIS AREA.

04:09 - YEAH THERE'S A

04:10 - STRONG CONNECTION THE

04:11 - UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.

04:12 - NOT ONLY IS GRANDSON BUT THE

04:13 - NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA

04:14 - REGION SPECIFICALLY.

04:17 - AND WE REALLY PENNSYLVANIA,

04:18 - NOT FAR FROM HERE. THERE

04:21 - A FREE A FREE BLACK

04:22 - SETTLEMENT AND A LOT OF THOSE

04:25 - INDIVIDUALS ARE USING AN

04:26 - UNDERGROUND RAILROAD AND MAKING

04:27 - THEIR WAY TO WAVERLEY

04:28 - PENNSYLVANIA UNSETTLING ON

04:30 - CARBONDALE ROAD. IT IN A

04:31 - LOCATION THAT IT'S CALLED COLOR

04:34 - HILL AT THE TIME.

04:35 - AND SO IT WAS A

04:36 - DESTINATION WAS UNKNOWN.

04:41 - UNFORTUNATELY SCRANTON KIND

04:43 - OF HAD MIXED A MIX OF VIEWS ON

04:45 - SLAVERY AND EMANCIPATION AND

04:47 - ALSO THE ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT

04:49 - SO WE HAD SOME

04:49 - FOLKS IN THE CITY.

04:50 - THEY'RE ALL FOR HELPING THE

04:51 - BLACK POPULATION GAIN THEIR

04:53 - FREEDOM. WE ALSO HAD

04:54 - ANOTHER SIDE WHO FIGHTING

04:56 - FOR LONG TO MAKE SURE THAT IF

04:58 - THERE'S A BOUNTY HUNTER COMING

05:00 - FROM THE ONCE THEY'RE CLEANED

05:01 - PROPERTY BACK IF THEY GO BACK.

05:03 - SO BACK TO WAY REALLY

05:05 - THIS WAS SOMETHING

05:06 - THAT THE CITY WAS VERY PROUD OF

05:08 - HOWEVER THERE WITH AS MANY

05:09 - ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES, SO A

05:10 - LOT OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS

05:11 - THAT WERE PART

05:12 - OF THIS 3 BLACK SETTLEMENT

05:14 - AND WE REALLY WERE COMING TO

05:15 - SCRANTON FROM ORANGE TREE SO

05:17 - KNOW IN THE MID 1800 WE SAW

05:19 - THAT POPULATION MOVING INTO THE

05:21 - SCRANTON AREA FOR MORE

05:22 - OPPORTUNITIES AND THAT

05:25 - I MEAN YOU KNOW WHERE OR SO

05:26 - THAT WE'RE ABLE TO GET ENOUGH

05:28 - AND THAT WE WORK

05:28 - THAT WEREN'T SEEN AS A.

05:33 - AVERAGE FOR AN AVERAGE

05:34 - BLACK AMERICAN DURING THAT TIME.

05:36 - AND WHAT WERE THE BIG

05:37 - INDUSTRIES IN THIS WE WERE

05:39 - SITTING ANTHRACITE COAL MUSEUM.

05:41 - SO CLEAR THAT WAS A A SURE

05:43 - SOMEWHERE. MAJOR INDUSTRIES ARE

05:46 - OUT THERE.

05:47 - SO IN SCRANTON COAL IS KING

05:48 - NOW WITH THE BIG ENOUGH TO

05:50 - WEAR. THE EWING MOST OF THE

05:51 - UNITED STATES AT THE TIME AND

05:53 - SO A LOT OF FOLKS ARE

05:54 - COMING HERE LOOKING.

05:58 - AND THE MINDS IN OUR AREA AND

05:59 - SCRANTON WHERE PRETTY MUCH

06:01 - DEDICATED TO WHITE ETHNIC

06:03 - GROUPS OR TALKING IRISH AND

06:05 - ITALIAN FOLKS HAD

06:06 - THEIR STAKES IN THE MINE,

06:07 - HOWEVER, AFRICAN-AMERICAN JUST

06:09 - NEVER HAD THAT ABILITY TO BE IN

06:10 - THE MINE. HAD THIS CONVERSATION

06:12 - A LOT OF PEOPLE BECAUSE

06:14 - WE KNOW THAT THIS THING

06:15 - IN THE REGION AND THERE'S

06:17 - SO MUCH AND INDUSTRIAL

06:18 - BOOM AROUND COLD.

06:21 - AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE NOT

06:22 - ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT.

06:25 - TRANSITION IN AMERICAN

06:26 - HISTORY AT THE TIME.

06:28 - SO AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE

06:29 - BASICALLY THE 2 GUARDS OF MINE

06:32 - THAT. WELL THE NEWS YOU CAN

06:33 - GET OR IS THE RARE INSTANCES

06:35 - BREAKER BOYS AND THINGS

06:36 - LIKE THAT. BUT FOR THE MOST PART

06:38 - COLIN HERE IT IS RIGHT.

06:42 - AND THAT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT

06:44 - I HOLD AGAIN. ANYBODY AND WHEN

06:45 - AND SO THE RELATIVE AND JUST

06:47 - ONE INDUSTRY THAT WE'RE IN AND

06:49 - SO I LIKE TO FOCUS ON THAT THE

06:51 - SPOTS THAT WE WERE IN AND

06:52 - KIND OF WHAT THAT MEANS TO.

06:55 - YEAH.

06:55 - JUST TO TALK ABOUT COAL,

06:56 - SO YOU WERE UNABLE TO FIND A

06:58 - SINGLE BLACK COAL MINE NOT FROM

07:00 - SCRANTON SPECIFICALLY. SO THERE

07:03 - I FOUND A COUPLE MY MINERS,

07:04 - THE TICKETS, A HOST OF LOVE

07:06 - THERE.

07:08 - AND OTHER PARTS OF LUZERNE

07:09 - COUNTY THAT'S THE COUNTY TODAY.

07:14 - ANY DOCUMENTATION OF

07:15 - SCRANTON RESIDENT COAL MINER AN

07:18 - AFRICAN-AMERICAN IN THE MINE

07:19 - IN THIS GRANT FROM THE MINE WAS

07:21 - NOT ABLE TO FIND THEM. I WAS

07:23 - ABLE TO FIND EXAMPLES OF THE

07:25 - I WAS ABLE TO FIND EXAMPLES OF

07:27 - PEOPLE TRYING TO DO THAT

07:29 - THERE IT. A FEW. MINING MAKE

07:32 - THAT HAPPEN. AND THEY WOULD

07:34 - BE HOW MINERS TO COME TO

07:36 - THE AREA AND WORK IN THE

07:37 - MINE WHEN THE POPE HAD LEFT

07:38 - THE MINE. THE ONE INSTANCE,

07:40 - THERE'S A THERE'S A TRAIN

07:41 - COMING INTO THE CITY FROM

07:42 - VIRGINIA THAT HAS SOME CONDIT

07:44 - CONVICTS TO WEAR IT. WE DURING

07:47 - THE COMICALLY SYSTEM TO COME

07:48 - TO THE AREA AND BE IN THE MINES

07:50 - WHEN THEY GOT UP THAT RAIN AND

07:51 - ALL THAT IT WAS BLACK MEN FROM

07:52 - VIRGINIA, A LOT OF THOSE FOLKS

07:54 - THAT WERE THAT HAD LEFT THE

07:55 - MINE CAME BACK TO THEIR JOBS.

07:57 - THEY WANT TO BE AFRICAN-AMERICAN

07:59 - IN OUR CITY COAL MINE.

08:02 - IT WAS WHETHER AN INDUSTRY THAT

08:03 - THEY FELT COMFORTABLE

08:04 - HAVING A BLACK PEOPLE.

08:05 - WAS IT SYSTEMATIC I MEAN

08:07 - WHERE THEY'RE LIKE OFFICIAL

08:08 - RULES IN PLACE.

08:09 - IT WASN'T IT WAS A

08:10 - SYSTEMATIC I THINK IT WAS JUST

08:12 - KIND OF THOUGH THE LAW OF THE

08:14 - LAND OR WHAT PEOPLE PERCEIVE

08:16 - YOU AS ACCEPTABLE ACCEPTABLE

08:18 - PLACE WERE ACCEPTABLE

08:19 - WORKPLACES FOR

08:20 - AFRICAN AMERICANS.

08:21 - AND THEY DIDN'T SEE CALL IT

08:23 - THE INDUSTRY FOR BLACK PEOPLE.

08:26 - SO WHAT WERE SOME

08:27 - OF THE INDUSTRIES THAT.

08:29 - BOY FOR LOUDON MOST IN I

08:31 - SAW A LOT OF DISHWASHER

08:34 - LABOR. RELIEVERS SO THEY'RE

08:36 - DOING ANYTHING A LOT OF HAULING

08:38 - A WHOLE PRODUCT AROUND

08:40 - THE CITY WITH ANOTHER

08:41 - THING WOMEN WERE SEEN THIS IS

08:43 - LONGER SAYS. WHERE SERVERS AND

08:45 - RESTAURANT, SAME THING WITH MEN.

08:51 - A POPULAR HOCKEY NATION

08:52 - AND THE CITY DURING THAT TIME.

08:56 - YEAH THOSE ARE THE BIG ONE SO A

08:58 - LOT OF DOMESTIC WORK

08:59 - FOR WOMEN AND A LOT OF

09:00 - RELIEVER JOBS FOR MEN TO

09:02 - THEY'RE PICKING UP KIND OF GUY

09:04 - WHERE THEY COULD. WELL

09:06 - UNTIL ABOUT THE 1950'S

09:09 - OR SO THOSE ARE PRETTY MUCH THE

09:11 - MAIN OCCUPATION THAT I WAS ABLE

09:12 - TO FIND IN TERMS OF I MEAN,

09:14 - BUT THEN WE HAD SOME OUTLIERS

09:16 - THERE'S A FEW BARBER HERE.

09:18 - WE HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL

09:18 - BUSINESS OWNER HERE IN THE CITY

09:20 - OF SCRANTON. AND

09:24 - BOTH WHO WERE GETTING

09:25 - THEIR HANDS ON EDUCATION

09:26 - BY THE 1950'S YOU START SEEING

09:28 - AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN TAKING

09:29 - UP JOBS AS TEACHERS. BUT FOR

09:31 - THE MOST PART THERE WAS AN END

09:33 - SORT OF. WORK

09:34 - OPPORTUNITIES THAT PROVIDED.

09:37 - ECONOMIC GROW AND EVEN

09:38 - GENERATIONAL ECONOMIC.

09:43 - THEY LIVE IN DIFFERENT PARTS

09:45 - OF THE THE TOWN OF WHAT WE'RE

09:47 - MOST OF IT AFRICAN

09:48 - AMERICANS CONCENTRATED.

09:49 - THE BLACK COMMUNITY WITH

09:51 - CONCENTRATED IN THE DOWNTOWN

09:52 - AREA OF SCRANTON WELL INTO THE

09:55 - 1960'S.

09:56 - SO AND SCRANTON EARLY

09:58 - HISTORY THIS AS IT IS TODAY

10:00 - DOWNTOWN CLEAR WITH THE HUB OF

10:02 - INDUSTRY. SO A LOT OF ENTRANCES

10:04 - TO THE IN AND OUT OF COAL MINES

10:05 - ARE HAPPENING IN THE DOWNTOWN

10:06 - AREA BEGIN TO SEE HER THERE.

10:08 - YEAH, IT'S AFFECTING RAIL LINE

10:10 - PEOPLE WERE TAKING PASSENGER

10:11 - TRAIN DIFFERENT PLACES SO

10:12 - THE HUB OF A LOT OF INDUSTRIES.

10:14 - SO IN BETWEEN ALL OF THAT THERE

10:17 - A COURT ALLEY AND

10:18 - THAT'S WHERE THE

10:19 - BLACK COMMUNITY WAS LIVING

10:21 - THE LIVING IN THE DARK IT.

10:24 - PARTS OF THE CITY THAT NO

10:25 - ONE REALLY WE'RE SEEING THEIR

10:27 - LIVING NEXT TO A HOTEL

10:28 - BECAUSE THEY WERE

10:30 - STEWARDESSES AND SERVER AND

10:33 - THINGS LIKE THAT. SO

10:35 - FOR A LONG TIME THE BLACK

10:36 - COMMUNITY WAS LIVING IN THAT.

10:37 - STANDING COUNT AS THEY

10:39 - CALL THEM AT THE TIME, A SMALL

10:41 - LITTLE SHACK AND BALLROOM.

10:43 - AROUND THE CITY OF SCRANTON

10:45 - AND THERE WASN'T MUCH

10:46 - OPPORTUNITY TO BUY PROPERTY IN

10:48 - OTHER PARTS, A CITY OF

10:49 - BRANSON. AND I WAS ABLE TO

10:51 - KIND OF FOLLOW TRENDS AND

10:53 - HOUSING FOR A WHILE AND THAT

10:54 - WAS A BIG THING THERE WERE A

10:56 - LOT OF. A REAL ESTATE COMPANIES

10:59 - THERE.

11:04 - THE PEOPLE WERE NOT OFFERING

11:06 - THOSE AND PEOPLE OF COLOR,

11:07 - SPECIFICALLY BLACK PEOPLE.

11:09 - HE SAID COURTS IN ALLEY

11:10 - STATES. SOME OF THESE PLACES

11:12 - HIM IN AND FACT COURT.

11:18 - A COURT IN OR I LOVE

11:20 - YOUR PLACE BECAUSE

11:21 - THE AFRICAN AMERICAN

11:23 - PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING.

11:24 - YEAH SO THAT WAS ONE THING SO

11:27 - SOME OF THE MAJOR OF COURSE AN

11:29 - ALLEY THAT THE BLACK COMMUNITY

11:31 - WERE LIVING AT OF RAIN IN

11:33 - COURT. DOWNTOWN.

11:36 - WE COURT WITH ANOTHER

11:37 - ONE CENTER STREET IS FAMILIAR

11:39 - FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE DOWNTOWN

11:41 - COFFEE SHOP THERE NOW.

11:43 - IT'S BEEN SEGMENTED BY A LOT

11:49 - OF THE VOTE POPULATED. AND NOW

11:51 - HE'S FOR THE BLACK COMMUNITY.

11:53 - IF YOU ARE BLACK.

11:55 - AND THE 1880'S ABOUT THE

11:56 - 1920'S, YOU'RE LIVING

11:57 - FOUR-QUARTER YOU'RE LIVING

11:58 - IRANIAN COURT ON THE C HOSPITAL

12:00 - USED TO SIT RIGHT NEXT TO

12:02 - RAYMOND COURSE A LOT

12:03 - OF FOLKS ARE LIVING THERE.

12:06 - MANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR HOUSING.

12:10 - UP UNTIL THE

12:12 - WITH THE NEW DEAL

12:13 - AND THE WPA PROJECT

12:15 - THAT'S A NATIONAL SURVEY

12:17 - HOUSING CONDITIONS AND SO THAT

12:19 - WAS HAPPENING HERE IN A CELL

12:22 - FROM THE 1930'S IN THE 1950'S

12:24 - AND 60'S. THE SURVEYS ARE

12:26 - HELPING TO BUILD ACCEPTABLE

12:28 - HOUSING FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS.

12:31 - EVEN THOUGH THIS IS

12:33 - HAPPENING THERE IS STILL A LOT

12:34 - OF DISCRIMINATION IN TERMS OF

12:36 - WHERE THE BLACK COMMUNITY TO

12:37 - LIVE.

12:38 - THEY'RE TRYING TO GET THEM OUT

12:39 - OF THE COURT NOW

12:39 - IS THAT WE'RE SEEN

12:40 - AS UNLIVABLE STILL THE

12:42 - CRIME RATE IN ALL OF THESE LIKE

12:44 - NEGATIVE ASPECTS TO WHERE THEY

12:47 - ARE HAD TO CALL HOME. BUT THEY

12:48 - DIDN'T KNOW WHERE THEY WANTED

12:50 - TO PUT THE NEW COMMUNITY

12:51 - OF PEOPLE IN OUR CITY.

12:53 - SO THEY STARTED TO BUILD A LOW

12:54 - INCOME HOUSING OF APARTMENT

12:56 - UNITS. HOW LOW INCOME HOUSING

12:59 - PROJECT AROUND THE CITY AND

13:02 - THAT'S KIND OF WHERE WE

13:05 - I'M IN TOWN APARTMENT AND

13:06 - DIFFERENT HOUSING COMPLEX CLOSE

13:08 - TO THE DOWNTOWN AREA.

13:09 - THAT'S ALSO A WHOLE NOTHER.

13:14 - YOU MENTIONED THAT THERE

13:16 - SOME SUCCESSFUL

13:17 - BARBERS. ONE OF THEM

13:19 - JACKSON MERRYWEATHER YOU

13:21 - TALK ABOUT HIM WHO NEVER MARRY

13:23 - WEATHER HAS AN INCREDIBLE

13:25 - HE'S FROM VIRGINIA. HE

13:26 - WAS BORN AS A SLAVE.

13:29 - WHEN THE CIVIL WAR BROKE

13:30 - OUT THERE WAS A READING MAN.

13:35 - GREAT WITH CIVIL WAR

13:36 - TERMINOLOGY. BUT THERE IS THE.

13:43 - CAPTAIN DARBY AND SO HE WAS

13:44 - GATHERING A MAN FROM FRANCE

13:46 - AND AND. SCRANTON AND DUNMORE

13:48 - AT YOU HEAD DOWN SOUTH TO FIND

13:50 - THEM.

13:53 - THE ORAL HISTORY HAS IT

13:54 - CAPTAIN DARBY TOOK HIS BOAT TO

13:57 - VIRGINIA AND WHEREVER

13:58 - MERRYWEATHER IN VIRGINIA WAS

14:00 - LIVING AT THE TIME I WAS

14:01 - NEARBY THEIR CAMP AND SO HE

14:02 - WAS PLAYING WITH HIM AND JOKING

14:04 - AROUND WITH SOME OLDER AND

14:06 - THEY BECAME VERY CLOSE. AND FROM

14:09 - THERE. LIVING STORIES

14:11 - LEFT AND BASICALLY

14:13 - HELPED HIM GAIN HIS FREEDOM

14:15 - ALONG THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

14:17 - BECAUSE JACKSON MARY WHEN

14:18 - MOTHER ENDED UP COMING TO THE

14:20 - CITY OF SCRANTON AND ABOUT

14:23 - 1862. AND AT THAT TIME HE WOULD

14:25 - HAVE BEEN 15 YEARS OLD. SO

14:27 - WHEN HE WAS 15 YEAR-OLD IN UNION

14:30 - ARMY

14:32 - I BECAME A CITIZEN IN SCRANTON

14:34 - AFTER THE WAR WAS OVER

14:36 - AND FROM THERE HE BECAME

14:37 - A BARBER MEAN VERY VERY

14:39 - SUCCESSFUL BUYER HERE

14:40 - IN THE CITY OF SCRANTON.

14:42 - AND ONLY A FEW BARBER SHOPS

14:43 - ALONG THE DOWNTOWN. HE HAD WAS

14:45 - SHOT ON AVENUE. HE HAD A SHOT

14:48 - ON WYOMING AVENUE. PLACES HE

14:50 - ALSO BECAME A COMMUNITY LEADER

14:52 - AFTER BEING A BARBER'S SO

14:54 - HE WAS THE CALLER REPUBLICAN

14:56 - CLUB WITH PLAY.

14:58 - A GROUP OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN

14:59 - MEN WHO ARE FIGHTING FOR THEIR

15:01 - RIGHT AND PRIVILEGE TO VOTE.

15:02 - A

15:04 - HE WAS ALSO INVOLVED HEAVILY

15:06 - WITH BETHEL AME CHURCH.

15:09 - WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN

15:11 - CHURCH HERE IN THE CITY OF

15:12 - SCRANTON CITY DOING A LOT

15:14 - OF WORK. THEY'RE HE WAS VERY

15:16 - PROMINENT SUCCESSFUL AT THE

15:17 - TIME AND WAS INTERESTING IN THE

15:19 - CITY WOULD CALL

15:20 - WOULD OFTEN CALL HIM.

15:23 - THEY SAID HE IS HE'S A

15:24 - BLACK MAN WITH A WHITE SOUL.

15:26 - I ALWAYS THOUGHT I'D BE REALLY

15:28 - INTERESTING HOW THEY WOULD

15:29 - CATEGORIZE THEM

15:30 - IN HE WAS YEAH IS IT

15:32 - CONSIDERED A COMPLIMENT YOU.

15:34 - THE BLACK BUT ON THE INSIDE

15:35 - YOU MORE WHITE VOTERS. SO YOU

15:37 - VERY VERY AFFECTED. THE WHITE

15:48 - LEAVE THAT CHILD TO BEING

15:50 - A SUCCESSFUL BARBER. AND

15:51 - HIS MAIN WHILE HE WAS IN

15:53 - FLAMES WAS DONE MINE WEATHER

15:54 - AND BUT HE WAS GETTING ALL

15:56 - OF HIS MILITARY PENSION AND THAT

15:57 - MEANS I ALWAYS FELT LIKE THAT

15:59 - WAS KIND OF RECLAIMING. AND

16:01 - FLAMES PAST THAT HE HAD.

16:06 - BLACK VETERANS OF

16:07 - THE CIVIL WAR HERE.

16:08 - THERE

16:11 - THE T A R HAD THEIR

16:14 - ORGANIZATION HERE IN THE CITY.

16:15 - THERE'S EVEN A BUILDING ON.

16:17 - I'M PENN AVENUE THAT WITH

16:19 - THE GR BUILDING OF THE TIME.

16:21 - SO THERE WERE A HANDFUL OF

16:24 - AFRICAN AMERICAN VETERANS

16:25 - OF THE CIVIL WAR, AND THEY'RE

16:27 - LIVING HERE IN THE I THINK

16:29 - FROM MY RECORDS AND I WAS ABLE

16:30 - TO FIND THERE HAD TO BE ABOUT 8

16:32 - OF THEM. THEY ALL HAVE THEIR

16:33 - OWN DIFFERENT STORY THAN HOW

16:35 - THEY GOT HERE IN DIFFERENT WAYS

16:36 - BUT THERE WERE A HANDFUL OF

16:38 - NOT THAT MANY BUT THEY WERE

16:39 - DEFINITELY INVOLVED AND

16:41 - FROM THE THERE. THEIR ACTIVISM

16:43 - WITHIN THEIR MILITARY

16:45 - PARTICIPATION.

16:47 - THERE WAS A MAN THOMAS HOUSE

16:49 - VERY FAMOUSLY WAS HAD A HOUSING

16:51 - ISSUE COMMUTE. I DON'T KNOW

16:53 - HIS STORY.

16:54 - HERE'S ONE OF MY FAVORITE

16:55 - STORIES ACTUALLY FELL.

16:57 - SO THOMAS HE HOW HE

16:59 - CAME TO IN THE 1880'S.

17:02 - HE WORKED FOR THE W BROWN GRAIN

17:05 - WHICH WAS AT THE TIME.

17:07 - ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL.

17:10 - AND HAULING COMPANIES

17:11 - OF THE TIME IN NORTHEASTERN

17:12 - PENNSYLVANIA. WE CAME HERE

17:14 - AND WAS WORKING FOR GEORGE W

17:17 - YOU MOVE UP IN THE RANKINGS A

17:19 - BIT OF THE BUSINESS TO BECOME A

17:20 - BOOKKEEPER AFTER BECAME A FOLK

17:23 - I DECIDED THAT HE WANTED

17:25 - BECOME A U.S. CITIZEN HE'S

17:26 - ORIGINALLY FROM GRACE DIANA

17:30 - THIS WOULD MAKE 11.

17:32 - EARLY 1911 I WANT TO SAY WITH

17:33 - BROWN MARCH FEBRUARY MARCH,

17:35 - THE WHOLE. SO HE DECIDED THAT I

17:38 - WANT TO FIGHT FOR CITIZENSHIP

17:39 - AND HE WAS ABLE TO DO SO.

17:41 - AND MARCH OF 9 TO THE HOUSE

17:44 - UNABLE TO BECOME THE FIRST A

17:47 - BLACK A U.S. CITIZEN GRANDSON

17:50 - NATURALIZATION COURTS.

17:54 - AND ALSO CONSIDERING

17:55 - OUR IMMIGRATION.

17:58 - A FEW MONTHS AFTER THAT IN THE

18:00 - SPRING OF 1911 HE DECIDED

18:01 - THAT HE WANTS TO BUY PROPERTY.

18:03 - HE WANTED TO BUY A HOME

18:05 - FOR HIM THIS FAMILY. FOUND

18:07 - A HOUSE AND THE HILL SECTION

18:09 - OF GRANT IN 19 O 5 PRESCOTT

18:11 - AVENUE. SO HE MOVED HIS FAMILY

18:14 - THERE. BUT THE COMMUNITY DO NOT

18:17 - LIKE IT AT ALL. PEOPLE

18:19 - WERE UP IN ARMS. THE

18:21 - FOLKS, I'M PRESCOTT

18:22 - AVENUE ARE LIKE.

18:24 - THIS MAN IS GOING TO LESSEN OUR

18:26 - PROPERTY VALUE WE'RE NOW READY

18:28 - TO BE A BLACK MAN ON OUR BLOG.

18:31 - ISLAND DEMO TURN OUR

18:32 - COMMUNITY INTO THIS LIKE PROTEST

18:35 - BLAZE. IF YOU LIVE HERE WE HAVE

18:37 - TO PAY A FENCE AROUND THE HOUSE

18:39 - SO THAT WAY HIS THING SAYING

18:41 - HIS AND WE'RE GOING TO PAINT IT

18:42 - WHITE ON ONE SIDE BLACK ON THE

18:43 - OTHER SIDE WE'RE GOING

18:44 - A BOTTLE THROUGH IT.

18:48 - THE COMMUNITY ON PRESCOTT

18:50 - AVENUE GOT TOGETHER.

18:51 - AND WHAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED

18:53 - PRESS THAT ELEMENTARY 4TH DAY.

18:55 - THEY GATHERED THERE AND NOW

18:56 - THE FIGURE OUT A WAY TO GET TO

18:57 - CLASS AND OFF OF OUR BLOCK.

18:59 - SO THEY DECIDED TO MONEY.

19:03 - I THINK WITH ALL THE DOLLARS

19:05 - THAT FIRST. THANK YOU

19:06 - 112 DAYS. CLOSE LIKE $15,000

19:09 - SOMETHING LIKE.

19:11 - SO THEY GOT TOGETHER THEY

19:12 - RAISED THE MONEY THEY COULD SIT

19:13 - DOWN WITH JOY THE HOUSE AND.

19:17 - THEY SAY TO HIM HERE LOOK WE

19:19 - HAVE MONEY FOR YOU MOVE CAN YOU

19:20 - NOT THE PROPERTY IN THAT.

19:23 - NO BECAUSE IT COST ME $3400

19:25 - TO BUY THE PROPERTY SO IF YOU

19:27 - RAISE THE MONEY THEN I WILL

19:29 - CONSIDER MOVING OUT A WEEK

19:31 - LATER THEY REACH $3400.

19:36 - 2018 STANDARDS THAT WE'RE

19:38 - LOOKING AT LIKE A $25,000 OF

19:40 - THING.

19:42 - SO IN 2 WEEKS THEY'RE ABLE TO

19:43 - RAISE THAT MUCH MONEY. THEY GO

19:45 - BACK TO THAT.

19:48 - AT THIS POINT THEY'RE CRACKED

19:49 - EVERYWHERE, EVERYONE AROUND 2

19:51 - POINT OUT THAT.

19:53 - THEY LET HIM DOWN WE HAVE

19:56 - $3400 ARE YOU READY

19:57 - TO MOVE HE SAID $5,000.

19:59 - AND EVERYONE OF ALL THAT

20:01 - AND THE PEOPLE BECAUSE HE SAID

20:02 - MY CITY $400 FOR ME TO MOVE

20:04 - EVERYTHING IS GOING TO CAUSE

20:06 - ALL THE MORE MONEY ON THAT.

20:08 - YEAH I'VE BEEN HERE I'VE LIVED

20:09 - HERE AND HE SAYS EVERYONE I'VE

20:11 - NEVER LIVED IN THE COURTS AND

20:12 - ALLIE THAT YOU'RE TRYING TO

20:13 - MAKE ME I'M NOT GOING TO DO IT

20:14 - NOW AND COMING FROM BRITISH

20:16 - GUIANA AND TO ME THAT'S A LOT

20:18 - BECAUSE EVEN. HIMSELF.

20:20 - A SUCCESSFUL MAN JUST TRYING TO

20:22 - LIVE HIS LIFE HE BECAME A U.S.

20:23 - CITIZEN AND WE CAN'T EVEN LIVE

20:24 - WHERE HE WANTS TO IN THE CITY

20:26 - OF SCRANTON NOT ANY WRITTEN

20:27 - RULES ON SEGREGATION, IT'S JUST

20:29 - THAT AND HE WANTED.

20:31 - SO IT WAS VERY PUBLIC THERE

20:32 - WAS NO WRITTEN RULES, BUT THERE

20:34 - WAS VERY PUBLIC IN A SORT

20:35 - OF OFFICIAL THE WEATHER JERRY

20:37 - PUBLIC.

20:38 - THE WAY THAT THEY

20:38 - WROTE ABOUT IN THE PAPERS.

20:40 - WOODS STEERING TOWARDS A LOT OF

20:42 - RACISM A LOT OF

20:43 - BIGOTRY TOWARD HIM.

20:46 - BUT HE ENDED UP SAYING THIS.

20:49 - A POLICE DEPARTMENT IN THE

20:50 - CITY GAVE HIM SOME PROTECTION.

20:52 - I DON'T KNOW TO WHAT EXTENT

20:54 - THAT WAS BUT HE LIVES IN THAT

20:55 - PROPERTY FOR LIKE LEAST

20:57 - 10 MORE YEARS AND MANY IN

20:58 - MOVING TO PHILADELPHIA ABOUT 15

21:00 - YEARS LATER AFTER THE

21:01 - INCIDENT WHERE WE'VE BEEN

21:02 - WE'LL NEVER REALLY KNOW,

21:04 - BUT I'M ASSUMING IT BECAUSE HE'S

21:05 - PROBABLY TIRED OF BEING TREATED

21:07 - IN HARASSED ME THAT HE WAS

21:08 - HERE. BUT I LIKE TO SAY THAT IT

21:10 - WASN'T FOR THOMAS HOWES AND HIS

21:12 - FIGHT. HILL SECTION ONE BE AS

21:13 - DIVERSE AS IT IS TODAY, ONE OF

21:15 - OUR DIVERSE MOST OF OUR

21:16 - NEIGHBORHOODS IN SCRANTON IT'S

21:18 - A BEAUTIFUL NEIGHBORHOOD

21:20 - AND IF IT WASN'T FOR HIS

21:21 - PERSEVERANCE WHO KNOWS HOW LONG

21:23 - WOULD BE FOR CHRIS BLACK PERSON

21:24 - CAN MOVE ON THE

21:25 - BLOCK RIGHT SO HIS STORY

21:26 - TO ME HAS BEEN INSPIRING STORY

21:30 - FOR ANYONE. KNOWS WHAT'S RIGHT.

21:34 - AND YOU HAVE THE

21:34 - OPPORTUNITY TO DO

21:35 - SOMETHING YOU SHOULD

21:36 - BE ABLE TO DO SOMETHING

21:37 - AND THAT MEANS PUSHING AGAINST

21:38 - AN ENTIRE COMMUNITY AND PUSHING

21:40 - AND ALL OF YOUR NEIGHBORS

21:41 - AND FROM TIME TO DO THAT.

21:43 - AND YOU MENTIONED THAT

21:45 - HE WORKED FOR. GW BROWN

21:47 - DRAYMOND WHO IS GEORGE W

21:50 - BROWN. GEORGE W BROWN ALSO.

21:52 - AMAZING FIGURE IN SCRANTON

21:54 - AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY.

21:57 - GEORGE W GROUND WAS A BUSINESS

21:59 - OWNER. HE STARTED OUT AND JUST

22:02 - A LEVER USED FROM 10 MARYLAND.

22:06 - HE MOVED HERE.

22:08 - I WANT TO SING THE

22:09 - 1970 THEIR CELL

22:10 - LUCAS GRANDSON, AND SOME TIME

22:12 - AND WE REALLY THE FAMILY OF A

22:13 - CHILD ON THE PHONE RECORDS

22:15 - THAT SHOW THAT HE WAS GOING TO

22:16 - SCHOOL MONTH OTHER FOLKS AND

22:18 - WE REALLY I THAT I WAS GETTING

22:20 - A BIT FROM THERE HE WENT TO THE

22:22 - CITY OF SCRANTON AND JUST

22:23 - DOING A JOB FOR THE YOUNG

22:27 - IT'S LIKE BEING IN HOLLYWOOD

22:28 - CONSIDERED ARE THANKFUL

22:29 - BUSINESS FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS

22:31 - AT THE TIME SO THAT FOR

22:33 - YOU WORKING IN A OPENING

22:34 - HIS OWN BUSINESS AND IT BECAME

22:37 - QUICKLY THE FESTIVAL. HE WAS

22:39 - KNOWN FOR BEING VERY VERY

22:41 - PROFESSIONAL IN THE WAY TO

22:42 - HANDLE THINGS AND TALK ABOUT

22:43 - HOW CREDIBLE HE WAS THAT MOVIE,

22:45 - YOU KNOW THE THING HE WAS HIGH.

22:49 - A DIFFERENT MATERIAL ACROSS

22:50 - THE TRI-STATES SO THAT EVEN JUST

22:52 - AND NORTHEAST OF MANIA BUT

22:54 - THE DELAWARE SHORE. SOMETIMES IN

22:56 - NEW JERSEY, SO.

22:58 - THEY'RE IN WITH YOU WRITE

22:59 - QUITE READY TO MOVE HIM AS A THE

23:01 - SCHOOL BUSINESS OWNER. A 1920

23:04 - 50 PASSED AWAY AND HIS WIFE

23:05 - MISSING WE'VE BEEN AROUND FOR

23:07 - OVER BUSINESS AND

23:08 - MADE IT EVEN MORE.

23:11 - THEY WERE GROSSING ABOUT A

23:12 - MILLION DOLLARS IN REVENUE IN 2

23:13 - DAYS AND ABOUT $70,000.

23:20 - THEY WEAR REALLY.

23:24 - THE BACKBONE OF THE BLACK

23:25 - COMMUNITY HERE HE HAS

23:26 - THE MOST WELL THEY HAVE THE

23:28 - MOST POWER THE MOST INFLUENCE

23:29 - IN THE CITY OF SCRANTON AND

23:30 - WE'RE REALLY SEEING ON BEHALF

23:32 - OF AFRICAN AMERICANS

23:33 - HERE AND THE LATE

23:34 - 1800'S IN THE EARLY

23:35 - 1900 THERE WASN'T AND HE

23:37 - CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS IN OUR

23:38 - CITY THAT REPEATING

23:40 - THE BLACK POPULATION. WE

23:46 - A FRIEND OF HOMELESSNESS

23:47 - OR SOME SORT OF CHARITABLE

23:49 - ORGANIZATION AND THAT WAS

23:50 - CATERING MAINLY TO THE IRISH

23:52 - COMMUNITY THAT WAS HERE.

23:54 - BUT THERE WASN'T ANY OR MAYBE

23:55 - THAT WAS SPECIFIC TO THAT SO

23:57 - JOIN JIMMY BROWN AND HIS

23:58 - WIFE MISSING BELIEVE THEY WERE

24:00 - GIVING EVEN HELP

24:02 - TOO A LOT OF FLACK FOR

24:04 - THAT AND CITY EVEN BRINGING

24:06 - KIDS AND PEOPLE INTO THEIR OWN

24:07 - HOME BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE

24:08 - PLACES TO LIVE.

24:10 - A LOT OF THEIR REVENUE WITH

24:11 - GOING TO HELP FUND BETHEL AME

24:13 - CHURCH WAS OUR FIRST AFRICAN

24:14 - AMERICAN CHURCH HERE IN THE

24:15 - CITY OF BRANSON.

24:16 - AND EVEN THE COMPANY WILL THE

24:18 - MATERIALS TO BUILD BATTLE AND

24:20 - THE CARE THAT IS

24:20 - STANDING HERE TODAY.

24:23 - HIS LEGACY LIVES ON IN WAYS

24:24 - THAT WE DON'T REALLY EVEN KNOW

24:26 - PARTICULARLY IN ARCHITECTURE

24:27 - BECAUSE A LOT OF IF YOU REMOVE

24:29 - THE COMPANY.

24:33 - SO THEY USE THEIR

24:34 - POSITION TO YEAH THAT YEAH.

24:37 - IT WAS VERY INTO POLITICS

24:38 - TO MAKING SURE THAT

24:40 - IF BLACK PEOPLE IN THE CITY ARE

24:41 - ELIGIBLE TO VOTE AND CAN VOTE

24:42 - THAT THEY'RE MAKE THAT THEY ARE

24:43 - GOING TO GO AND THAT

24:44 - THEIR VOTE DOESN'T MATTER.

24:48 - EVEN ABLE TO SWAY. AND

24:52 - 1900.

24:53 - THEY WERE FIGHTING TO MAKE

24:54 - SURE THAT THERE WAS A CATEGORY

24:56 - THAT ILLUSTRATED AFRICAN

24:57 - AMERICANS OVER THE AGE OF 21

24:59 - WHO ARE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE IN THE

25:00 - 1900 CENSUS ACROSS THE.

25:03 - BUT HE WAS ABLE TO GARNER 200

25:06 - MEN TO BE REPRESENTED

25:07 - IN THIS IN THE CENSUS

25:09 - AND ALL OF THE MEN REPRESENTING

25:10 - THE FENCES CAME OUT OF THE

25:11 - DIFFERENT THINGS. NO OTHER

25:13 - PLACES IN LACKAWANNA COUNTY.

25:16 - NO OTHER PLACE IN LACKAWANNA

25:17 - COUNTY AT THE TIME HAD AS BIG

25:19 - OF A POPULATION

25:19 - HAS STRENGTHENED.

25:23 - ALL OF THAT CAME FROM

25:25 - HIS PUSH A FEW OTHER MEN

25:27 - PUSH TO GET THE MEN IN SCRANTON

25:29 - TO BE SEEN AS ELIGIBLE TO VOTE

25:31 - AND ACTUALLY MATTER AND TERMS

25:33 - OF REPRESENTATION. AND

25:35 - 2019 TODAY, LOOKING BACK AT

25:37 - THE SENSES. ALTHOUGH YOU KNOW

25:39 - THE CITY MIGHT HAVE KNOWN AT

25:40 - THE TIME THAT YOU KNOW

25:42 - YOU'RE AT. BUT IT'S ACTUALLY

25:44 - NOT THERE. IT LOOKS LIKE

25:45 - THEY'RE. THEY'RE REMEMBER

25:46 - ANYONE THERE YOU KNOW SO.

25:48 - THAT COMPANY HAS A

25:50 - HUGE IMPACT. THE LEGACY OF

25:51 - GEORGE AND WE HAVE A HUGE

25:53 - IMPACT ON THE CITY AND WHAT IT

25:55 - MEANS TO BE A BLACK

25:56 - PERSON AND TODAY.

25:57 - AND YOU SAID LOUISE.

25:59 - TURNER BROWN CARRIED CARRY

26:00 - THAT ON AFTER HIS PASSING.

26:03 - YES, SHE DIDN'T EVEN REALLY

26:04 - WANT TO TAKE OVER HIS BUSINESS.

26:07 - SHE.

26:08 - SHE HAD HER OWN INDUSTRY THAT

26:09 - THE TIME IN HER

26:10 - OWN THING GOING ON.

26:12 - BUT HE NEVER SEEN OWNING A

26:14 - TRUCKING SOMETHING THAT HE

26:16 - WANTED TO DO. BUT

26:17 - WHEN HER HUSBAND

26:18 - PASSED AWAY AND HE SAW ALL

26:19 - THE PEOPLE LIKE PUTTING IN BIDS.

26:21 - FOR AND HER HUSBAND COMPANY

26:23 - THAT HE SAW THAT HOW IMPORTANT

26:24 - WAS HOW VALUABLE WAS THAT

26:26 - HE DECIDED TO TAKE IT OVER AND

26:28 - RIGHT IN HER CELL AND

26:29 - THE HAND THIS BEING BIGGER

26:31 - THAN HERSELF AND SHE WAS ABLE

26:33 - TO REALLY TRANSFORM THE COMPANY

26:35 - INTO SOMETHING SO MUCH BETTER.

26:38 - AT THE TIME THEY HAD LIKE 11

26:39 - FORCES HORSE DRAWN CARRIAGE.

26:43 - AND SHE WAS ABLE TO TREAT

26:44 - THOSE IN AND SELL THEM FOR

26:45 - TRUCK BRAND NEW TRUCK AT

26:46 - THE TIME OF THE CIVIL AND THE

26:48 - AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY IS JUST

26:49 - STARTING TO ROLL IN AND THERE'S

26:51 - ONLY ONE PLACE IN THE CITY OF

26:52 - SCRANTON NOW SELLING TRUCK TO

26:54 - THE W BROWN TRUCKING COMPANY

26:55 - DURING THAT TIME WITH US ON TO

26:57 - BE FASCINATING. ALTHOUGH THEY

26:58 - HAD MORE THAN ENOUGH MONEY TO

26:59 - BUY IT. NO ONE IN

27:01 - THE VARIOUS ON THAT.

27:06 - ECLIPSE TREE IN LACKAWANNA

27:07 - PRETTY MUCH RIGHT NEXT TO ONE

27:08 - OF THEIR WAREHOUSE BUILDING.

27:09 - THEY WERE SELLING THEM.

27:14 - THING THAT'S IMPORTANT TO

27:15 - NOTE BECAUSE. IT WASN'T FOR THIS

27:18 - ONE TRUCKING.

27:19 - A COMPANY. THAT'S MANUFACTURING

27:21 - THE FACT THAT BELIEVES IN THE

27:23 - COMPANY. THEY WENT EVEN BEEN

27:24 - ABLE TO BE AS SUCCESSFUL AS

27:26 - A TEAM I MEAN DOWN THE ROAD

27:27 - AND THIS PLACE THE SOUNDTRACK

27:29 - FOR THE GAME THAT CAN ACTUALLY

27:31 - IMPROVE THEIR BUSINESS.

27:32 - SO THAT WAS THAT SOMETHING

27:33 - THAT THESE BLACK BUSINESSES

27:35 - FACED WAS THAT I'M TRYING TO DO

27:37 - BUSINESS WITH OTHER BUSINESSES.

27:38 - I DO THINK IT WAS HARD

27:39 - DOING BUSINESSES WITH OTHER

27:40 - BUSINESSES. BECAUSE AT

27:43 - THIS TIME. RIGHT AFTER THE

27:45 - CIVIL WAR AND PEOPLE CALL

27:48 - ME AND AND IT'S KIND OF THE

27:50 - READJUSTING OF BLACK

27:52 - PERSPECTIVE OF NOW IN BEING

27:54 - SEEN AS A HUMAN AND THEN

27:55 - ALSO OWNING A BUSINESS

27:56 - IN THE FACE WHERE YOU'RE ONE OF

27:58 - YOU I THINK IT IS REALLY HARD.

28:01 - BECAUSE THIS IS PROBABLY.

28:04 - YOU RARE INSTANCES

28:06 - WHERE THE WHITE

28:07 - COMMUNITY HAVE TO DECIDE IF

28:09 - ONE THEY DON'T WANT TO PATRONIZE

28:10 - YOUR BUSINESS. AND HOW THEY

28:12 - APPROACHED THAT SAME THING TOO

28:14 - AS BEING A PERSON OF COLOR.

28:17 - BEING SOMEONE WHO'S OWNING

28:18 - A BUSINESS AND PAY TONIGHT AND

28:19 - THEN SEEING AT SOMETHING BETTER

28:21 - SOMETHING WORTH. SO I DO THINK

28:22 - THERE ARE CHALLENGES THERE

28:24 - AND MARY WEATHER STORIES REALLY

28:26 - INCREDIBLE IN TERM OF THIS

28:28 - CONVERSATION BECAUSE I FEEL

28:29 - LIKE HE WAS BATTLING THAT A LOT

28:31 - TOO BECAUSE HE DIDN'T COME

28:33 - FROM A PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT

28:35 - TO THEN PARTICIPATING IN THE

28:37 - CIVIL WAR GAINING HIS FREEDOM

28:39 - AND THEN NAVIGATING IN

28:41 - THIS SPACE AS A SUCCESSFUL

28:43 - INDIVIDUAL. AND IN THAT

28:45 - AND ONE IN THE MAKING.

28:47 - THANK YOU IN 1875.

28:51 - A BLACK MAN CAME INTO A

28:52 - BARBER SHOP TO GET A HAIR CUT

28:54 - ACTUALLY TO BE SAVED UP AND

28:56 - HE DIDN'T WANT TO DO IT YOU.

28:58 - HE TOLD HIM THAT HE ONLY THE

29:00 - WHITE HAIR BASICALLY. AND THE

29:03 - MAN WAS VERY ADAMANT

29:04 - ABOUT HE BEING SEEN

29:06 - BEING CARRIED OUT OF PAYING

29:07 - CUSTOMER. I'M JUST LIKE YOU

29:09 - LIKING YOU DO THIS SO AFTER

29:11 - THE BIG DUFFEL AND HE ENDED UP

29:14 - GIVING HIM THE DAY AND THEY

29:16 - GOT INTO THIS FIGHT RIGHT AFTER

29:18 - THAT AND HE BASICALLY MADE

29:19 - THEM LEAVE THEY WILL KIND OF GOT

29:21 - ARRESTED FOR THE COUPLE THAT

29:23 - THEY GOT INTO BUT I THINK ABOUT

29:25 - THAT OFTEN.

29:26 - AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT

29:28 - WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE TO LIVE

29:29 - ANYTHING 75 IN SCRANTON

29:31 - DURING THAT TIME.

29:33 - BUT IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN FOR

29:34 - SURVIVAL LIKE THIS IS HOW YOU

29:36 - ARE FEEDING YOUR FAMILY THAT'S

29:37 - HOW YOU'RE LIVING AND YOU ARE

29:39 - A SUCCESSFUL COME THAT MAN.

29:41 - AND AGAIN THE WHITE COMMUNITY

29:43 - BASICALLY AS A WHITE MAN

29:45 - WITH BLACK IN YOU ARE PROBABLY

29:47 - GOING TO A MOVE

29:48 - MOVE AROUND IN THIS

29:50 - SPECIFIC WAY OR ACT DIFFERENTLY

29:51 - FOR PEOPLE AND IF PEOPLE SEE

29:53 - YOU AS A PERSON WHERE

29:55 - OTHER LOOK LIKE YOU DON'T COME

29:57 - IN HERE BUSINESSES AND HAVE YOU

29:59 - YOU KNOW ENGAGE WITH

30:00 - THAT INFORMATION. BUT I DO

30:04 - HE HE CAME AROUND A FEW YEARS

30:06 - LATER AND BECAME A A HUGE CIVIL

30:09 - RIGHTS ACTIVISTS. IN THE LATE

30:11 - 1800'S.

30:14 - HELPING WITH HELPING TO BUILD

30:16 - THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCH

30:17 - HERE BETHEL AME CHURCH. REALLY

30:19 - INVOLVED IN POLITICS

30:21 - AT THE TIME, I'M. SO I DON'T

30:23 - KNOW IT MAYBE HE SAW THAT

30:24 - WHEN YOU DOING WITH KIND OF.

30:27 - FIGHTING AGAINST THEM COMMUNITY

30:29 - AT THE END OF THE DAY THE ONLY

30:30 - PLACE THAT WILL ACTUALLY ACCEPT

30:31 - YOU AS YOU ARE SPEAKING OF

30:33 - POLITICS TALK

30:34 - ABOUT THE KEYSTONE.

30:35 - REPUBLICAN CLUB OR THE CALLER

30:37 - WAS WITH WAS THE COLORED

30:38 - KEYSTONE THE PUBLIC

30:39 - THEIR NAME CHAIN.

30:40 - A HANDFUL OF TIMES OVER THE

30:42 - LEGACY OF THE ORGANIZATION.

30:44 - BUT AND ONE THAT

30:45 - STOOD OUT THE MOST WITH

30:47 - THE KEYSTONE COLORED REPUBLICAN

30:50 - CLUB OR THE COLOR

30:50 - PIECE ON THE PUBLIC.

30:52 - OR YOU CAN SIMPLY CAUGHT

30:53 - THE STONE REPUBLICAN CLUB.

30:55 - WHICH IS BASICALLY A GROUP OF

30:57 - AFRICAN-AMERICAN MEN WHO WERE

30:58 - FIGHTING AND RALLYING AND

31:00 - CAMPAIGNING AROUND THEIR VOTE.

31:03 - ELECTION. IT WAS A NATIONAL

31:05 - ELECTION LOCAL ELECTION.

31:07 - WE'RE REALLY INFLUENTIAL ON

31:09 - THE REPUBLICAN VOTE HERE IN THE

31:11 - CITY OF SCRANTON.

31:12 - SO ANYTIME SOMEONE CAMPAIGNING.

31:14 - THEY WOULD GO TO THE KEYSTONE

31:15 - REPUBLICAN CLUB AND CHAT WITH

31:17 - THE GENTLEMAN THERE AND TRY

31:18 - AND GET THE BLACK COMMUNITY TO

31:19 - SUPPORT THEM BECAUSE THEY KNEW

31:21 - IF THEY WERE UNABLE TO PAY

31:22 - THE BLACK COMMUNITY THAT'S A BIG

31:24 - PORTION OF VOTES THAT

31:25 - YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO GET

31:27 - AND SO GEORGE W GROUND WITH

31:28 - THE PRESIDENT OF THE KEYSTONE

31:30 - REPUBLICAN CLUB JACKSON HAD

31:33 - SOME SORT OF BOARD MEMBER

31:35 - POSITION FOR SOME TIME.

31:38 - A FEW PROMINENT AFRICAN-AMERICAN

31:41 - BASICALLY ALL OF THE PROMINENT

31:42 - AFRICAN-AMERICAN MEN THAT I'VE

31:43 - BEEN DIGGING UP HAD THEIR HAND

31:46 - IN THE EAST ARE

31:46 - REPUBLICAN CLUB FOR A

31:47 - LONG TIME. SO IT MUST HAVE BEEN

31:49 - SEEN AS AN ORGANIZATION THAT

31:51 - FEEDS. ORGANIZATION THAT REALLY

31:53 - WITH INFLUENTIAL IN THE CITY

31:55 - AND SO IF YOU ARE SOMEONE WHO

31:57 - MEANT SOMETHING I THINK WE'RE

31:59 - REALLY INVOLVED.

32:03 - HE'S A REPUBLICAN CLUB I WAS

32:04 - THE MOTIVE, THE MOTIVE. ONE

32:06 - FULL HEART AND GIVING.

32:09 - AFRICAN AMERICAN TO BE

32:10 - REPRESENTED IN THE CENSUS AS

32:11 - BEING ELIGIBLE TO VOTE.

32:13 - NIGHT I LOVE TO BE INCREDIBLY

32:15 - FASCINATING AGAIN BECAUSE THE

32:18 - WEATHER FOR THEIR ACTIVISM THAT

32:20 - CATEGORY WOULD BE LEFT OUT

32:21 - OF THE CENSUS FOR 1900 AND TODAY

32:24 - IN 2019. IT WOULD LOOK LIKE

32:26 - THERE WERE NO BLACK MEN OVER

32:28 - THE AGE OF 21 ELIGIBLE TO VOTE

32:30 - IN THE ENTIRE COUNTY. BUT IT

32:31 - WAS THE ACTIVISM OF JACK

32:33 - MERRYWEATHER AND GEORGE W

32:35 - BROWN AND A HANDFUL OF OTHER

32:37 - MEN WHO ARE MAKING SURE THAT

32:39 - WE'RE BEING SEEN AND THAT WE

32:40 - COUNTED AND THAT WAS SOMETHING.

32:42 - TO BE RECOGNIZED.

32:44 - ANOTHER FAMILY NAME THAT

32:46 - COMES UP THEM SOME OF THOSE

32:47 - PROMINENT MEN WAS THE KEYS

32:49 - FAMILY. YES IN GEORGE HE IS

32:51 - ABOUT TO TALK ABOUT

32:52 - GEORGE HUGHES. SO GEORGE

32:56 - WITH THE SON OF

32:57 - GEORGE HE'S YEAR.

32:59 - DURING THE SENIOR HE WAS A

33:00 - PLAY I THINK FROM MARYLAND.

33:03 - HIM IN THE SUN AND JOINING

33:05 - THE UNION ARMY, EITHER

33:07 - CLEAN SLAVERY OR IS JOINING

33:09 - IN GAME THEIR THEIR FREEDOM.

33:12 - AND THAT'S THE WAY I'M NOT

33:13 - REALLY SURE ON THAT PART OF HIS

33:14 - STORY. ALONG THE WAY OF BECOMING

33:17 - A A RECENT EVERY PERSON.

33:21 - HE WAS BEING TOWED AWAY

33:22 - ALONG THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.

33:24 - THE FATHER WAS.

33:25 - AND AT ONE POINT WHEN SOMEONE

33:26 - APPROACHED HIM AND ASKED HIM

33:28 - WHAT HIS NAME WAS AS THE

33:29 - STORY GOES. HE HAD EVEN IF CAN

33:31 - YOU CALL THEM THAT HIS NAME IS

33:33 - JOYCE HE WHICH THEN TURNED INTO

33:35 - GEORGIA. SO HE HAS BEEN

33:36 - REALLY INTERESTING STORY.

33:39 - HIS FATHER WHEN HE JOINED

33:40 - THE UNION ARMY, HE WAS WOUNDED

33:42 - AND WHEN HE CAME BACK FROM

33:44 - AND A HALF AWAY FROM SOME OF THE

33:46 - INJURIES AND GORGE HE WAS

33:48 - LIVING IN WAVERLY IN THE FREE

33:51 - BLACK SETTLEMENT THAT I

33:52 - MENTIONED EARLIER. HE WAS THERE

33:53 - FOR SOME TIME AND THEN HE

33:55 - MOVED TO SCRANTON. AND BECAME A

33:57 - COACHMAN FOR IRA CHRIS. THE

34:00 - FAMILY WAS A WEALTHY FAMILY

34:02 - HERE IN THE CITY OF SCRANTON.

34:06 - MAIN AVENUE IN

34:07 - SCRANTON IS THE LEGACY OF

34:08 - THEIR FAMILY. HE'S WITH

34:11 - THE COACHMAN FOR HIM

34:13 - AND ONE OF MY FAVORITE STORIES

34:15 - ABOUT GEORGE. HE IS THAT.

34:18 - ALTHOUGH HE WITH EQUIPMENT

34:19 - FOR THE MAN WHEN I RECRUIT WAS

34:21 - UNABLE TO SMOKE CIGARS ANYMORE.

34:23 - HE WAS A LOVER OF CIGARS,

34:24 - PASSIONATE ABOUT THEM. WHEN HE

34:26 - WAS NO LONGER ABLE TO HELP THE

34:27 - GUARDS PART OF GEORGE III'S HIS

34:30 - JOB WITH SMOKE, THE GARDEN

34:31 - BLOW TO FILL IN FOR STAYS IN

34:34 - EVERYONE KIND OF WITH THE NEWS

34:35 - BY THE STORY AND ONE OF HIS

34:36 - JOB TITLES WITH THE BOSTON OPENS

34:38 - THIS MAN'S FACE.

34:41 - HE WAS ALSO ACTIVE ON AND THEN

34:43 - HE'S A REPUBLICAN CLUB. HE WAS

34:46 - AND A LOT OF THEM. THE BET AN

34:49 - ORGANIZATION BECAUSE HE WAS A

34:51 - CIVIL WAR BUT FROM HERE.

34:54 - YEAH, HE DID. ALSO DID SOME

34:57 - ANYTHING KIND OF ADDS TO

34:59 - THE A HISTORICAL LANDSCAPE

35:00 - OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY HERE.

35:04 - ANOTHER NAME THAT

35:04 - COMES UP IS JOHN MORGAN.

35:06 - ANOTHER GREAT STORY. HOW

35:08 - DID HE HOW DID HE END UP AT

35:10 - SCRANTON JOHN MORGAN HAS A

35:12 - REALLY INTERESTING STORIES SO

35:14 - HE'S FROM NEW YORK. HE FROM

35:16 - ROCHESTER NEW YORK I THINK HE

35:18 - FELL ASLEEP ON. A FREIGHT CAR

35:20 - ON THE TRAIN. I DON'T KNOW IF

35:23 - HE WAS PLAYING.

35:26 - HOMELESS OR WITH THE CASE MIGHT

35:28 - HAVE BEEN THE BELL SLEEVE ON

35:29 - A TRAIN CAR WHEN YOU WOKE UP.

35:31 - HE WAS IN SCRANTON PENNSYLVANIA

35:32 - AND NOT REALLY FOR THE

35:34 - RALLY, HOW HE GOT THERE. AS THE

35:36 - STORY GOES. HE ENDED UP IN

35:38 - FRANCE AND THEN STARTED WORKING

35:40 - AND LIVING IN THE CITY OF HE

35:42 - WAS DELIVERING COAL AROUND THE

35:45 - CITY FOR SOME SOME POINT

35:47 - IN TIME. BUT YEARS LATER HE AN

35:50 - ELECTRIC CAR. I HAVE JUST

35:52 - SCRAPPED THERE WERE ABOUT.

35:57 - UNDOUBTEDLY INCREDIBLE

35:59 - AROUND THE SAME TIME THAT CARS

36:00 - ARE BEING INVENTED IN.

36:02 - HE'S ABLE TO BUILD HIS OWN. A

36:05 - VEHICLE CONTRAPTION OUT THIS

36:07 - OLD MEALS IN I THINK YOU HAD A

36:09 - BUCKET TO CATCH OIL IN IT AND.

36:13 - FROM THE PHOTO THAT IS VERY

36:15 - GREEN NEED THAT KIND OF LEFT OF

36:17 - THE STORY.

36:19 - IT DID LOOK LIKE A HUNK OF

36:20 - GARBAGE PUT IN A COOL WAY.

36:24 - AND FANS IN A STRANGE

36:25 - PLACE AND THE FAMED

36:27 - WAY, BUT YOU'RE

36:28 - ALSO STILL ABLE TO.

36:32 - USE YOUR LIKE CREATIVE

36:33 - INTELLIGENCE AND MAKE

36:34 - A CAR AND ACTUALLY RAN IN A

36:36 - ROW, BUT HE DROVE IT AROUND THE

36:38 - CITY OFTEN TOO.

36:40 - THE STORIES AND

36:42 - THE STORY SAY SO.

36:44 - YOU ARE ABLE TO FIND SOME

36:47 - ARTICLES AND THAT THE TITLE OF

36:50 - THE ARTICLE WAS CITIZEN SCARED

36:52 - BY HOMEMADE AUTO A WOBBLY

36:54 - WHEEL CONTRAPTION DAN'S ITS

36:56 - WAY OVER PACE PAVEMENTS ON

36:59 - PRELIMINARY TRIP WORKS LIKE

37:00 - LOCOMOTIVES. SO HE WAS HE BUILT

37:03 - A CAR AND HE WAS ACTUALLY

37:04 - ABLE TO USE THAT TO MAKE MONEY.

37:06 - YEAH, HE USED TO MAKE

37:09 - AND ANOTHER NEWSPAPER CLIPPING

37:10 - HE WAS ACTUALLY USING IT

37:12 - TO LIGHT.

37:13 - MOVE IT CALL THAT HE WAS

37:14 - DELIVERING AROUND THE PEOPLE

37:15 - AND RESIDENTS.

37:17 - NOT ONLY WAS IT FOR FUN BUT OUT

37:19 - OF PRACTICALITY IT WAS AMUSING

37:20 - PROBABLY FROM SELF AND THE

37:22 - COMMUNITY TO SEE.

37:24 - A LOCOMOTIVE CAR, A POPPING

37:25 - UP AND DOWN THE STREET.

37:28 - THE UNION HOOK AND LADDER

37:30 - COMPANY COMES UP. SOME RESEARCH

37:33 - AS WELL WHAT WHAT WAS THAT.

37:34 - SO THE UNION HOOK AND LADDER

37:37 - WAS THE ONLY AFRICAN

37:39 - AMERICAN. A FIRE COMPANY.

37:43 - FIRE COMPANY IN THE CITY OF

37:44 - BRANSON NOW A TOP RATED BY

37:46 - BLACK MEN. AND IT WAS

37:48 - CALLED THE LATTER. SO THIS IN

37:51 - 1870. AND THERE ARE A LOT A

37:53 - VOLUNTEER COMPANY IN THE CITY

37:55 - AT THIS TIME.

37:56 - WE HAD AN ORGANIZED GRANTING

37:57 - FIRE DEPARTMENT FOR THE MOST

37:59 - PART AND THE WIDE RANGING

38:01 - AREAS, A LOT OF UNFAIR

38:02 - COMPANIES KIND OF ACT.

38:05 - DURING THE TIME WE DIDN'T

38:07 - HAVE A HOOK AND LADDER AND

38:08 - BASICALLY A HOOK AND LADDER IN

38:09 - THE MAP ARE ADDED THAT HAS MADE

38:11 - THAT TOOK THE LETTER THAT GOES

38:13 - ON TO THAT OF THE BUILDING

38:14 - THAT WAY YOU CAN SAVE PEOPLE SAY

38:16 - BUILDING FROM A FIRE THAT

38:17 - ON THE SECOND AND 3RD FLOOR

38:19 - BUILDING.

38:20 - SO IN THIS LIST.

38:21 - I THINK IT WAS LIKE AROUND 9

38:24 - TO 70 THE 1874 AND THERE HAD

38:26 - BEEN A HOOK AND LADDER COMPANY

38:28 - IN THE CITY FOR ABOUT 5 YEARS.

38:30 - SO IF THEY'RE IN FIRE VERY

38:32 - CALM AND SO THERE'S A FIRE THE

38:33 - SECOND OR 3RD FLOOR OF

38:34 - THE BUILDING IS PROBABLY DONE.

38:36 - SO A GROUP OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN

38:37 - MEN IN THE HILL SECTION IN

38:39 - SCRANTON DECIDED THAT THEY WANT

38:40 - TO GET TOGETHER AND HELP THE

38:42 - CITY. SO 20 AFRICAN-AMERICAN

38:44 - MEN GOT TOGETHER AND

38:45 - BASICALLY RAN THE APPARATUS WAS

38:48 - WAS THE HOOK AND LADDER

38:49 - COMPANY HERE IN THE CITY. THEY

38:51 - DISBANDED AFTER ABOUT 10 YEARS.

38:54 - AND OF

38:56 - THOSE 20 MEN ONE GOT TO BE A

38:57 - PENSION FIREFIGHTER AND THEN

38:59 - CITY OF SCRANTON HIS NAME WAS

39:01 - LINCOLN TILLMAN AND HE BECAME

39:03 - OUR FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN

39:05 - FIREFIGHTER IN THE CITY

39:06 - OF SCRANTON UNION

39:07 - HOPING LETTER THEY WOULD

39:10 - RYAN THIS APPARATUS OFTEN WITH

39:12 - NO HELP NO HELP OF COURSE IS

39:14 - THERE ANYTHING YOU

39:15 - WOULD CALL IT THE BELLS

39:16 - AND HILL SECOND AND 5TH AND

39:17 - CALLED THE HILL SECOND BECAUSE.

39:19 - THERE'S A LOT OF HILLS.

39:22 - THE ORAL HISTORY

39:23 - THAT ARE STILL LIVING.

39:25 - THEY WOULD TALK ABOUT HOW

39:26 - MEN WITH COLD HEAVY APPARATUS OF

39:28 - ALL OF THE HILL AND BY THE

39:29 - TIME THEY GOT TO WHERE THE FIRE.

39:31 - THE FIRE WAS MOST OF THE MEN

39:33 - WERE SO SHOCKED THAT THEY HAD

39:34 - TO FOLLOW. GROUND AND

39:35 - WAIT FOR THEM TO CATCH

39:37 - THEIR BREATH SO WHILE THEY'RE

39:38 - LIKE TRYING TO GET COLLECT

39:39 - THEMSELVES CITY THAT IS IS

39:40 - THAT A RESIDENT THERE JUST LIKE

39:42 - TRY TO PUT OUT THE FIRE AND

39:44 - WEDNESDAY, THE MANATEE BACK

39:45 - THEY JUMP IN THERE LIKE

39:47 - AND BY THE FIRE SO. IT'S JUST

39:49 - INTERESTING THAT THINK THAT

39:50 - YOU HAD TO HAVE ALL THE

39:51 - EQUIPMENT AND RUNNING UP THE

39:53 - HILL YOURSELF AND HOW

39:54 - LONG AND HOLLYWOOD THING.

39:58 - AFRICAN-AMERICAN PENSION

40:00 - FIREFIGHTER HERE IN THE CITY OF

40:01 - SCRANTON AND YET A LONG CAREER.

40:03 - HE STARTED OUT AS A YOUNG

40:05 - TEENAGER I THINK IT WAS 16 WHEN

40:06 - HE THE UNION HOOK AND LADDER

40:08 - VOLUNTEER COMPANY AND AND WE

40:11 - CAN A FIREFIGHTER FOR OVER 50

40:13 - YEARS. WELL RESPECTED

40:14 - IN LOVE IN THE CITY.

40:16 - IN HERE IN LOUISIANA

40:18 - AND SAY HERE THAT

40:19 - YOU CAN HIS NEPHEW FOR TILLMAN

40:21 - HIS FIREFIGHTING UNIFORMS

40:23 - ACTUALLY HEAR THEM.

40:30 - YEAH, I THINK HIS STORY ALSO IN

40:32 - THE UNION HOOK AND LADDER AND

40:33 - ONE OF MY FAVORITES, ALTHOUGH

40:35 - AS THAT OF ALL MY ALL THE

40:36 - STORIES ARE MY FAVORITE, BUT.

40:38 - I JUST THINK ABOUT ALL OF THE

40:40 - KIDS WOULD BE SELLING FIRED

40:41 - KNOW THAT THERE WAS A

40:43 - BLACK FIREFIGHTER HERE IN

40:44 - THE CITY AND TO BE HONEST.

40:46 - I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THERE'S A

40:47 - BLACK FIREFIGHTER CURRENTLY

40:49 - TODAY AND THIS WAS.

40:50 - AND GRAND TODAY. YEAH.

40:53 - I MEAN SOMEONE CAN PROVE ME

40:54 - WRONG, BUT I DON'T KNOW I DON'T

40:55 - KNOW ANY. RIGHT NOW,

40:57 - BUT IT'S JUST IT'S JUST

40:58 - AMAZING TO KNOW THAT THERE'S

41:00 - SO MANY INSPIRING INDIVIDUALS.

41:03 - WE'RE HERE THE CITY OF BRANSON

41:04 - DURING A TIME WHERE BLACK FOLKS

41:07 - ARE BARELY ENOUGH HUMAN BEING

41:08 - HAD LITTLE TO NO RAIN AT ALL.

41:10 - IF WE DID WE FEEL WE'RE GETTING

41:12 - THAT SECOND CLASS OF THE FAN.

41:14 - AND THE GRAND SCOPE OF THE

41:15 - UNITED STATES AND WHAT WAS

41:16 - GOING ON TO KNOW

41:17 - THAT THEY WERE HERE.

41:19 - TAKING CARE OF IMPAIRED

41:21 - COMMUNITY LIKE BEING A FIRE

41:22 - FIGHT THAT'S A LOT OF WORK

41:23 - AND WANT TO DO IT AS A VOLUNTEER

41:25 - IS JUST SOMETHING THAT

41:26 - IS STILL IN MY RUBBLE.

41:28 - YOU HAVE A GREAT INTEREST

41:29 - IN THAT THE BLACK HISTORY OF

41:30 - SCRANTON SECTOR THESIS

41:32 - WAS A MAJOR SOURCE.

41:34 - OF MY PREPARATION FOR THE

41:37 - WHAT IS THE TITLE OF THE PIECE

41:38 - WHY DID YOU WRITE IT. ON WHAT

41:40 - WE DID.

41:41 - YEAH SO THE TITLE MIGHT BE

41:42 - SAYS IS THAT YOU'RE BLACK THE

41:44 - OVERLOOK COMMUNITY OF SCRANTON

41:46 - PENNSYLVANIA AND I CHOSE THAT

41:47 - TITLE BECAUSE AS A BLACK WOMAN

41:49 - FROM THE CITY OF SCRANTON.

41:53 - IT'S OFTEN SEEN THAT IF YOU'RE

41:54 - BLACK YOU'RE NOT. BUT YOU'RE

41:56 - BLACK AND KIND OF THE SAME

41:57 - LIKE YOU'RE BLACK YOU'RE

41:58 - FROM SCRANTON SO THAT'S

42:00 - KIND OF WAY TAKING THAT TAKE ON

42:01 - AND GROWING UP THERE I ALWAYS

42:03 - FELT LIKE BEING BACK WITH THE

42:04 - STIGMA BEING A BLACK

42:06 - FRIEND TONY IN WITH A

42:07 - STATEMENT HERE AND NOW WE

42:09 - WANTED TO AVOID AT ALL BANNED

42:11 - FROM SUMMER OUTFITS AND

42:12 - FROM PHILADELPHIA, OR YOU OR

42:14 - WHEREVER I WAS FROM AND

42:16 - AS I WENT TO SCHOOL AND I THINK

42:18 - DOING THE WORK.

42:20 - REALLY WANTED TO PROVE IT MIGHT

42:22 - BE FOR THAT YOU CAN BE BLACK IN

42:24 - HANDY FROM SCRANTON AND YOU CAN

42:26 - BE DOING ALL OF THESE AMAZING

42:27 - THINGS THAT WE HAVE INCREDIBLE

42:28 - LEGACY. SO I JUST WANTED

42:30 - WHOEVER IS READING

42:32 - IT, HOWEVER I PREPARED

42:33 - TO TAKE AWAY THAT.

42:35 - THERE AND SOMETHING

42:36 - BEAUTIFUL ABOUT BEING BLACK IN A

42:37 - SPECIALLY SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL

42:38 - ABOUT BEING A BLACK BEAR COMING

42:39 - IN BECAUSE LOOK AT ALL THE

42:40 - THINGS THAT WE'VE

42:41 - BEEN DOING HERE FOR SO.

42:42 - SO THAT'S KIND OF HOW I GOT THE

42:44 - TITLE AND THE OVERLOOKED

42:46 - PART YOU OVERLOOK COMMUNITY OF

42:47 - BRANSON IS BASICALLY BECAUSE YOU

42:50 - WITH THAT I'M COVERED SO MANY

42:51 - FANTASTIC STORY AND I CONTINUE

42:53 - TO FIND MORE EVERY SINGLE DAY.

42:55 - I KNEW OR PIECES OF THE THINGS

42:57 - I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD

42:59 - HAPPEN UPON AND I JUST. I

43:01 - REALLY WANT. EVERYONE TO NOT

43:03 - BELIEVE THAT BLACK RESIDENTS

43:06 - HERE ARE TRANSIENTS BECAUSE

43:08 - WE'RE NOT I WANT TO BE INVOLVED

43:09 - IN THE COMMUNITY. WE WANT

43:11 - TO BE ARTISTS WE WANT TO. DOES.

43:15 - TO THE CULTURAL FABRIC YOU

43:16 - JUST LIKE ANYONE ELSE DOES AND I

43:18 - THINK THE MORE THAT

43:19 - THE COMMUNITY THINK

43:20 - THAT THE MORE WE INTERNALIZE

43:21 - AND IT BECOMES LIKE A NEVER

43:23 - ENDING CYCLE OF

43:24 - I'M JUST NOT REALLY

43:25 - PARTICIPATING OR

43:26 - WE HAVE GOING ON

43:26 - HERE AND I THINK THE MORE

43:28 - THAT WE SHARE THAT IS A THING IT

43:30 - WILL ACTUALLY PLAN TO

43:32 - SPEED AND IT WILL CAUSE.

43:35 - BRANDON THE EVEN MORE

43:36 - BEAUTIFULLY DIVERSE PLACE.

43:39 - AND THAT HAS SO MUCH HISTORY

43:40 - OUTSIDE OF THE IN THE REGION.

43:42 - SO THAT'S KIND OF WHAT I WANTED

43:44 - TO SHOW MY THESIS AND THE WORK

43:45 - THAT I'M DOING IT IN GENERAL.

43:47 - LET'S TALK ABOUT THE WORK

43:48 - YOU'RE DOING WHAT IS THE BLACK

43:49 - SCRANTON PROJECT.

43:51 - SO THE BLACK WOMEN PROJECT

43:52 - IS A LOCAL HERITAGE INITIATIVE

43:54 - THAT BASICALLY GREW OUT

43:56 - OF MY GRADUATE, HE SAID SO.

43:59 - ALONG THAT HAVE BEEN THROUGHOUT

44:00 - THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING IN

44:02 - THE DIGGING THERE.

44:03 - WE ALSO HOST A LOT OF EVENTS

44:04 - WHERE WE SHOWCASE THE WORK OF

44:07 - BLACK ABOUT ARTIST HERE

44:09 - IN THE CITY. ARTIST WORK WITH

44:12 - STUDENTS WHO WORK WITH OTHER

44:14 - INSTITUTIONS AND COLLEGES AND

44:16 - PLACES LIKE THE SAHARA TO

44:17 - MOVE IN AND THE LACKAWANNA

44:19 - HISTORICAL SOCIETY JUST 2.

44:21 - THEY'RE ALL THE HISTORY AND

44:23 - ALSO ADD ANOTHER LAYER OF

44:25 - EDUCATION AND ESPECIALLY

44:26 - A LAIR ART I ADORE THE ART

44:29 - AND I THINK IT'S A REALLY

44:30 - IMPORTANT PART ABOUT LIVING IN

44:32 - PORT PART ABOUT EDUCATION IN

44:33 - IT AN INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT PART

44:35 - ABOUT COMMUNITY. SO ANYWAY

44:36 - THAT I CAN TIE IN ALL OF THAT.

44:39 - AND WHEN WE DO THE BLACK RACE

44:40 - IN THE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION.

44:42 - YOU'RE DEDICATED TO ARCHIVING

44:44 - HISTORY AND SHARING THE HISTORY

44:46 - AND THEN MOVING IN SOME PARTS

44:47 - AND THERE ANY WAY THAT WE CAN

44:49 - SO WE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR

44:50 - VOLUNTEERS ARE ALWAYS LOOKING

44:52 - FOR STORIES AND PHOTOGRAPHS.

44:54 - WE HAVE AN ARCHIVE FOR

44:55 - BUILDING YOUR OWN COLLECTION. WE

44:57 - REALLY WANT WE REALLY WANT THE

44:59 - BLACK FRIENDS AND PROJECT TO BE

45:00 - ANOTHER PILLAR IN OUR COMMUNITY

45:02 - WHO WANT TO BE KIND OF.

45:05 - ADJACENT TO THE HISTORICAL

45:06 - SOCIETY, SO IF ANYONE IS

45:07 - LOOKING FOR SOMETHING WE

45:08 - WANT TO BE A RESOURCE TO THE

45:10 - COMMUNITY AND WE ALSO WANT

45:11 - TO INSPIRE OTHER GROUPS TOO I'M

45:13 - LOOKING INTO YOUR HISTORY

45:15 - AND THE. REALLY A STATE

45:18 - LIKE REALLY AS TO THE

45:19 - PLACE BECAUSE. YES,

45:22 - A CERTAIN THINGS AND CERTAIN

45:23 - PEOPLE ARE HERE IN HISTORY AND

45:25 - THAT'S STILL SUPER BEAUTIFUL.

45:26 - WE NEED THAT BUT WE CAN'T

45:28 - DISMISS BOTH WHO

45:29 - ARE HERE NOW AND

45:31 - WHAT THEY'RE DOING IN THEIR

45:32 - LEGACY. SO EVERY DAY BUILDING I

45:34 - LIKE THE UNITED.

45:36 - LET'S TALK ABOUT THE CIVIL

45:38 - RIGHTS MOVEMENT. WHAT WAS THAT

45:40 - LIKE. IN THIS AREA.

45:43 - SO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

45:45 - IN THIS ERA AND IN FRANCE AND

45:47 - IN ONE INTERESTING AND I KIND

45:49 - OF LOOK AT THE CIVIL RIGHTS

45:51 - MOVEMENT DIFFERENT AIR SO WE'RE

45:52 - TALKING ABOUT THE CIVIL RIGHTS

45:53 - MOVEMENT IN THE 1950'S AND

45:55 - 60'S. THE CITY WAS VERY AWARE

45:57 - OF WHAT'S GOING ON ON THE

45:59 - NATIONAL LEVEL, BUT I THINK

46:00 - WE'RE STILL GRAPPLING ABOUT HOW

46:01 - WE.

46:04 - WE'RE STILL GRAPPLING

46:05 - WITH WHAT THAT MEANS ON A

46:06 - LOCAL LEVEL A LOT OF PEOPLE

46:07 - DIDN'T BELIEVE THAT THERE WAS

46:09 - DISCRIMINATION THAT THERE WAS

46:11 - SEGREGATION HAPPENING HERE

46:13 - PEOPLE WEREN'T BEING

46:15 - PAID FAIRLY THAT BOTH

46:17 - DIDN'T HAVE AFTER THE EQUAL

46:18 - OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYMENT OR

46:20 - HOUSING WHEN IN FACT THAT WAS

46:21 - HAPPENING RIGHT UNDER THE NOSES

46:23 - OF PEOPLE EVERYWHERE INCLUDING

46:25 - LOCAL POLITICIANS IN PROMINENT

46:27 - INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE

46:28 - POWER TO CHANGE THINGS.

46:30 - SO IN THE 1950'S IN THE 1950'S

46:32 - THERE ARE A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE

46:34 - WHO WERE REALLY GETTING

46:35 - INVOLVED WITH CITY COUNCIL.

46:38 - AND GETTING INVOLVED

46:40 - WITH MAKING FOR THAT.

46:42 - PEOPLE OF COLOR SPECIFICALLY

46:44 - WE'RE ABLE TO HAVE ACTIVE.

46:46 - THE HOUSING AND

46:47 - THINGS LIKE THAT. SO.

46:50 - WHAT I WAS ABLE TO FIND

46:51 - WAS THERE'S A LOT OF DIALOGUE

46:52 - AROUND THAT AND ALSO ONE OF

46:54 - THE BIGGEST DIALOGUE HOUSING

46:56 - FAIR HOUSING FOR PEOPLE OF

46:58 - COLOR BECAUSE UP UNTIL THEN

47:00 - MOST AFRICAN AMERICANS WERE

47:01 - LIVING IN THE COURTS AND ALLIE

47:03 - THAT I MENTIONED BEFORE

47:04 - SO WE'RE KIND OF CRAFT INTO THE

47:06 - WORST KIND OF HOUSING AVAILABLE

47:08 - IN THE CITY AND FOR NO OTHER

47:09 - REASON THAN OUR IN COLOR.

47:11 - AND A WOMAN NAMED

47:13 - MISS. MRS. CLARENCE

47:15 - BERGEN WITH VERY ACTIVE.

47:17 - HE WAS WE

47:20 - RACE RELATIONS BOARD THAT

47:21 - WAS CLEARLY THE CITY COUNCIL SHE

47:23 - WAS INVOLVED WITH

47:24 - THAT TO MAKE SURE THAT.

47:26 - WHAT THE CITY WAS SAYING WAS

47:27 - BEING LED UP TO AND MAKING SURE

47:29 - THAT THE PROMISES ARE BEING

47:30 - KEPT AND HE HAD HER HAND A LOT

47:32 - IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LOT OF

47:34 - THE HOUSING COMPLEXES

47:35 - THAT WAS HERE AROUND

47:36 - THE CITY. YOU CAN SEE VERY

47:37 - WORRIED THAT THE HOUSING WHEN

47:39 - RELEASED TO THE BLACK

47:40 - COMMUNITY. YES WE'VE BEEN

47:42 - ABLE TO LIVE THERE BUT SHE

47:43 - WAS TO REALLY PUSHING FOR

47:44 - INVESTMENTS HE WANTED TO MAKE

47:45 - SURE THAT THE HOUSING WOULD BE

47:46 - AN INVESTMENT FOR OUR

47:48 - COMMUNITY. SO THAT WAY

47:50 - IF YOU'RE BUYING A PROPERTY

47:51 - OR IF YOU'RE RENTING TO OWN YOUR

47:52 - ACTUALLY WENT DOWN AND THAT YOU

47:54 - CAN PASS SOMETHING DOWN OR

47:56 - IT JUST WHO BUILT PROPERLY AND

47:58 - ALL THE THINGS THAT GO INTO

47:59 - FAIR AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY HOW

48:01 - THEY DO REALLY INVOLVED IN.

48:03 - MY INVESTIGATION ON THE CIVIL

48:05 - RIGHTS MOVEMENT HERE IN THE

48:06 - CITY IS STILL DEVELOPING BUT

48:08 - WHEN I WAS ABLE TO PUT TOGETHER

48:10 - IT WAS THAT. AND MRS.

48:12 - CLARENCE VERY WITH ALSO A

48:15 - GATHERING BOTH

48:16 - TO GO TO THE MARCH ON

48:17 - WASHINGTON SO HE HAD A GROUP

48:19 - ABOUT 20 PEOPLE THAT WENT DOWN

48:21 - IN THE SEA AND PARTICIPATE SO.

48:23 - MILLER HERE BUT THE STORY

48:25 - THAT I'M STILL KIND OF THE THING

48:26 - TOGETHER.

48:28 - BEFORE WE RUN OUT OF TIME

48:29 - THERE COUPLE MORE PEOPLE THAT I

48:30 - WANTED I GET THE

48:32 - OPPORTUNITY TO TO

48:37 - DOCTOR JAMES FOSTER AND THEN.

48:40 - DOCTOR JAMES E FOSTER

48:42 - I WAS SAYING WITH OUR

48:43 - FIRST AFRICAN POSITION OR

48:45 - DOCTOR NOON, THE CITY. BUT NEWS

48:47 - THAT MOST PROMINENT

48:48 - ONE THAT I CAN FIND.

48:51 - HE WAS PRACTICING HERE

48:52 - IN THE CITY OF SCRANTON.

48:54 - ABOUT

48:55 - 1800 TO ONE OF HIS OFFICES

48:58 - WITH AT 3.10 NORTH WASHINGTON

49:01 - AVENUE. SO FOR FOLKS WHO KNOW

49:02 - SCRANTON THE CRAFT IS ACROSS

49:04 - THE STREET FROM PAPA'S PIZZA.

49:06 - A LOCAL FAVORITE.

49:08 - AND I JUST FOUND ME

49:10 - REALLY AN THING WHEN I CAME

49:11 - ACROSS A NAME BECAUSE HE

49:12 - WAS ALSO ONE OF THE AND THE

49:13 - INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE INVOLVED

49:15 - WITH THE PEOPLE

49:16 - REPUBLICAN CLUB THAT WE

49:17 - AND BEFORE THAT IN

49:18 - THIS LEHIGH CAME ACROSS

49:19 - THE NAME. HE WAS ALSO HEAVILY

49:21 - INVOLVED IN BETHEL IN HER

49:23 - DEATH. AND HE WAS A

49:24 - PHYSICIAN. BUT HIS STORY HAS

49:27 - BEEN GETTING A LITTLE BIT ANGLE

49:28 - AND I'M SO THANKFUL UNRAVEL.

49:31 - PEOPLE HAVE WROTE ABOUT HIM

49:32 - IN THE NEWSPAPERS AND ANY OTHER

49:34 - DOCUMENTS ABOUT HIM. HE DID

49:36 - SOME TIME AT MEDICAL SCHOOL.

49:39 - I DON'T KNOW IF HE

49:40 - FINISHED ARE NOT YET

49:42 - HAVE BEEN ABLE TO

49:42 - GET TO THE RECORD YET

49:43 - TO SEE IF HE STARTED THERE AND

49:45 - THERE BUT THEY TALK

49:46 - ABOUT THAT A LOT OF PAPERS.

49:49 - AND ALSO FROM PHOTO THAT I'VE

49:50 - SEEN OF HIM AND KIND SOME OF

49:52 - THE STORIES ARE WRITTEN ABOUT

49:54 - HIM AND PAPERS. HE WAS WHITE

49:55 - PASSING AND I THINK THAT WAS.

49:58 - AND THE SECOND READING I THINK

50:00 - THAT WAS HOW HE SO PROMINENT

50:02 - AS A PHYSICIAN. IT WAS ALL THE

50:05 - RAIN THAT LIKE THERE WAS

50:06 - NO DEATHS ON THE HANDS.

50:08 - I GUESS PEOPLE ARE DYING FROM

50:09 - ALL DIFFERENT TYPES OF EITHER

50:10 - THING. BUT I THINK OF BEING

50:12 - ABLE TO PASS HIS WAY TO BE ABLE

50:14 - TO KIND OF UNLOCK CERTAIN

50:15 - PRIVILEGES SAYING HE WAS ABLE

50:17 - TO MANEUVER OUT IN THE CITY

50:19 - OF BRANSON KIND OF LIKE WE'RE

50:21 - TALKING ABOUT JACK THE

50:22 - MERRYWEATHER ALTHOUGH HE HAD A

50:24 - CROWD DARKER BROWN IN HE WAS

50:26 - STILL SEEN AS THIS SORT OF LIKE

50:28 - WHITE ON THE INSIDE IN THE

50:30 - WORLD. BUT I THINK IT'S STILL

50:32 - LIVE IN. LET THEM HAVE

50:33 - INTEGRITY AND AND SUPPORTING

50:35 - THE BLACK COMMUNITY BECAUSE HE

50:36 - DID YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT

50:38 - WE WERE BALANCING A COMMUNITY

50:40 - IN A FOUNDATION AND MAKING

50:41 - SURE THAT OUR VOICES ARE BEING

50:43 - SEEN AND HEARD POLITICALLY.

50:46 - SO.

50:47 - I KNEW SOMEONE KIND OF MORE

50:48 - KNEW IN MY RESEARCH THAT I LIKE

50:50 - VERY INTERESTED IN FINDING

50:52 - OUT MORE ABOUT HIM. I DON'T KNOW

50:54 - THAT MANY. BLACK POSITIONS

50:56 - IN THE AREA IN GENERAL AND TO

50:58 - KNOW THAT A LEGACY ONE HERE

51:00 - YOU KNOW THE FIRE WHOEVER, AND

51:03 - CANNON FIRE.

51:04 - ANOTHER NAME THAT WAS SORT

51:06 - OF A FIRST WAS GEORGE H O US.

51:09 - GEORGIA DOWN TO INTERESTING

51:12 - INDIVIDUAL SO HE WAS

51:14 - OUR FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN

51:16 - MAIL CARRIER.

51:18 - AND.

51:23 - THIS ANY TIME YOU TALK

51:24 - ABOUT IN THE PAPER,

51:25 - YOU DISLIKE A SPICY KIND OF

51:26 - HISTORY TO THE POINT THAT A

51:28 - GUY. BUT HE WAS OUR

51:29 - FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN MAIL

51:31 - CARRIER THEY DID A

51:37 - UP AND SCORE

51:38 - 400 YEARS. AND IT WAS.

51:41 - 181880. 1890.

51:46 - THEY DID A SURVEY OF ALL THE

51:48 - AFRICAN AMERICAN MAIL CARRIERS

51:50 - IN THE UNITED STATES.

51:51 - AND THERE'S ONLY

51:53 - 394.

51:55 - AFRICAN-AMERICAN MAIL CARRIERS

51:56 - AND THAT ONE COUNTRY AND OF

51:59 - JOY THEY DON'T LOOK AS

52:00 - ONE OF THEM, SO THAT TO

52:02 - ME WAS INCREDIBLY

52:03 - SIGNIFICANT THAT.

52:05 - ONE HE WAS OUR FIRST BUT ALSO

52:07 - HE MADE THE LIST OF JUST A FEW.

52:10 - THE U.S. WILL EVER BE ABLE TO

52:12 - ARCHIVE AND MIKE. SO HE WAS

52:14 - OUR FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN

52:16 - MAIL CARRIER AND HE WAS A VERY

52:19 - AND HE KIND OF LIVED

52:20 - HIS LIFE THE WAY THAT HE

52:22 - I WANTED TO LIVE AND DIDN'T

52:24 - REALLY AND OPINIONS ON HIM AND

52:26 - IF WRITING AN EDITORIAL IN THE

52:29 - NEW PAPER TALK ABOUT. A QUICK

52:32 - YOU AND GET THE MAIL-IN VOTE.

52:34 - SO HE WOULD DELIVER

52:35 - MAIL ISLAND OF THE MILL NOW

52:36 - TO THAT JUST TO POST OFFICE

52:38 - THAT INDIVIDUALS TOO. AND

52:40 - HE WOULD RIVAL FOR SOMEBODY TO

52:41 - GET NOWHERE IN TO BE AND IN ONE

52:44 - INSTANCE IN THE PAPER THEY ARE

52:45 - WRITING ABOUT HOW

52:46 - CRAZY IN FACT HE WAS

52:47 - WRITING HIS DRIVING OF

52:48 - COURSE TO THE CITY AND I ALMOST

52:50 - KNOCKING OVER SOMEONE'S LIFE

52:52 - AND THE SLOWDOWN. PEOPLE GET

52:54 - THEIR MAIL WHEN THEY GET

52:55 - THEIR MAIL. WE THINK ABOUT LIKE

52:57 - AMAZON PRIME HOW FAST THE

52:58 - WATER MAYOR, I CONSIDER HIM A

53:00 - REVOLUTIONARY BECAUSE HE WAS

53:02 - HASTY ABOUT DELIVERING HIS MAIL

53:04 - AND YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU

53:06 - GOT IT AFTER THE COLD THOUGH A

53:07 - LITTLE DOES HE KNOW ABOUT THE

53:09 - VALUE CHARACTERISTIC OF A MAIL

53:11 - CARRIER TODAY.

53:13 - SO YOU JUST USE AN INTERESTING

53:16 - WHAT I'M ABLE TO READ

53:17 - ABOUT HIM. ME ALSO

53:19 - STIRRED UP A LITTLE BIT OF

53:20 - COMMOTION HERE IN THE CITY TOO

53:21 - BECAUSE HE MARRIED A WHITE

53:23 - WOMAN AND THAT CAN REALLY GO

53:25 - OVER SO SO WELL HERE IN THE

53:27 - CITY. THERE ARE NO LAWS OR

53:29 - RULES ON INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE,

53:31 - BUT IT WASN'T SEEN AS

53:32 - SOMETHING THAT WAS

53:33 - TO ACCEPTABLE THAT NEEDED CARE

53:34 - AND HE WOULD SAY THAT HE LOVES

53:36 - TO BE LOVED IN THIS LIFE AND

53:37 - AND THAT KIND OF HIS RESPONSE

53:39 - TO ANYTHING SO I JUST KIND OF

53:41 - ADMIRE HIM FOR LIVING HIS LIFE.

53:42 - THE BEST AND JUST ONE IT HE

53:44 - ENJOYED BEING A MAIL CARRIER

53:46 - AND HE WAS RESPECTED.

53:48 - AND IN IN THE 18 IN 1880 THE

53:51 - 1890'S. MORE THAN HALF OF

53:53 - AMERICANS IN GENERAL WERE

53:55 - ILLITERATE WHO COULDN'T

53:56 - READ OR WRITE AND

53:58 - DURING THIS TIME I THINK WITH A

54:00 - 65% OF AFRICAN AMERICANS

54:01 - COULDN'T READ OR WRITE EITHER.

54:04 - A PRETTY HIGH STATISTIC

54:05 - AND SO FOR HIM TO BE A MAIL

54:07 - CARRIER, A BLACK MAN CAN

54:08 - RUN AWAY RIGHT AT A HIGH

54:10 - PROFICIENCY AND JUST. A

54:12 - MIRACULOUS THING YOU KNOW AND

54:15 - EVEN DURING THOSE TIMES OF

54:16 - THE MILITARY OR YOU WANT TO

54:17 - DELIVERING MAIL BUT YOU'RE

54:19 - ALSO LIKE TRANSCRIBING MALE FOR

54:21 - PEOPLE SO YOU HAD A LETTER.

54:23 - HE WAS GREETED SOMEONE AND

54:24 - ALSO RIGHT RESPONDED BACK IN AND

54:26 - DELIVER IT TO GO A JOB WITH

54:28 - MORE IMPORTANT THAN I THINK

54:29 - PEOPLE KIND OF THE BECAUSE

54:31 - MIGHT BE CURRENT FLAG MAIL

54:33 - CARRIER OKAY, BUT JOB

54:34 - ACTUALLY CAME UP A LOT.

54:37 - TO BE ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO

54:38 - WERE ABLE TO READ AND WRITE

54:39 - ACROSS LIKE RACIAL DEMOGRAPHICS

54:44 - SO YOU'RE ACTUALLY SITTING

54:46 - NEXT TO A SCULPTURE OF A.

54:48 - THE SCRANTON AREA SCULPTOR.

54:52 - WHO DID THAT.

54:53 - WE'RE SO THIS IS THE

54:54 - WORK OF CROWDS AT THEIR

54:56 - PATIENTS. HE'S ORIGINALLY

54:58 - FROM WILL FARE ACTUALLY

55:00 - WEST PITTSTON.

55:01 - AND THAT IN LUZERNE COUNTY

55:06 - THE 19601970'S, HE

55:09 - WAS SCULPTING THESE

55:11 - FANTASTIC BEAUTIFUL SCULPTURES

55:13 - OUT OF ANTHRACITE COAL.

55:16 - HIS DAD WAS ACTUALLY A MINOR

55:18 - AND SELL. HE WAS A GREATER

55:20 - GLORY, BOYS AND COLLECTING

55:21 - ON THE TYPES OF THINGS CALL

55:24 - HIS FATHER WITH AN LITTLE

55:25 - TRINKETS ON THE STREET THAT HE

55:26 - WOULD CAR. THEY'RE PRETTY

55:27 - POPULAR PEOPLE ARE BUYING UP

55:29 - ALL THE TIME AND THAT'S KIND

55:30 - OF HOW HE LEARNED THE CRAFT.

55:32 - THING AND CALL AND

55:34 - HIS WORK IS JUST.

55:36 - I LOVE THIS WORLD THAT'S

55:37 - SO UNIQUE AND TO ME THERE'S

55:39 - SOMETHING SO SO MUCH HEAVIER TO

55:42 - ME ABOUT THIS WORK BEING

55:43 - THAT HE'S A BLACK MAN FROM

55:44 - NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.

55:47 - USING THE ANTHRACITE USING THE

55:48 - COOL IN A WAY THAT WE KIND OF

55:50 - NEVER WE'RE SO SEATED WITH HIM

55:53 - AGAIN MAKING ITS ARE IN

55:54 - MAKING HIM FOR THE WHOLE THING.

55:56 - SO HIS WORK HAS LIKE A STRONG

55:58 - MEANING TO THE WORK THAT I DO

56:00 - FOR THE BLACK FRIENDS AND

56:01 - PROJECTS. ALTHOUGH YOU FROM

56:03 - THERE IN COUNTY. WELL I THINK.

56:05 - I VERY MUCH SYMBOLIZES

56:06 - I THINK WHAT IT

56:07 - MEANS TO BE BLACK AND THE

56:09 - NEVER SAY REGION GREATLY.

56:12 - YES SO I DEEPLY ADMIRE HIS

56:15 - WORK, I ADMIRE THE WAY THAT HE

56:17 - WAS ABLE TO

56:18 - A GOAL AND CREATES CERTAIN

56:19 - THINGS AND TELL STORIES IN

56:21 - THIS, BUT ALSO THE

56:23 - PROMINENT THAT HE SOME OF HIS

56:25 - WORK WITHIN THE

56:26 - METROPOLITAN MUSEUM

56:27 - OF ART. AND PRESENTED TO THE

56:31 - PRESIDENT. I JUST THINK IT'S.

56:36 - THE COOLEST THING AND WHEN

56:37 - I CAME TO THE AIRBUS A HERE TO

56:38 - USE THEM AND SAW HIS WORK.

56:40 - I'M NOT GOING AWAY BY

56:41 - THE THE TECHNIQUE OF IT ALL,

56:44 - BUT THEN TO KNOW THAT HE'S AN

56:45 - AFRICAN-AMERICAN MAN FROM THE

56:46 - AREA ME WITH THIS A VERY

56:48 - I THINK AN INCIDENT PART

56:50 - OF THE THINGS IN THAT KIND OF A

56:51 - KIND I GET BACK INTO THE

56:54 - SPACE BELONGING TO US TOO I IN

56:57 - TERMS OF

56:58 - THE COLD A REGION IN THE

57:00 - COAL CALLED HER A LOT OF BLACK

57:02 - PEOPLE BLACK AND BROWN

57:03 - PEOPLE FEEL LOCKED OUT OF THE

57:04 - ANTHRACITE REGION

57:05 - AND THAT IF IT'S A HISTORY.

57:07 - BUT HIS WORK IN A WAY FOR US TO

57:08 - DRIVE BACK IN AND

57:09 - BE INCLUDED SO THAT.

57:13 - WE'RE ALMOST OUT OF TIME,

57:14 - WHAT'S ONE THING YOU THINK OUR

57:16 - VIEWERS.

57:18 - I FIND MOST INTERESTING ABOUT

57:20 - THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY

57:22 - IN SCRANTON THAT

57:23 - THEY MAY NOT KNOW.

57:26 - THE MOST INTERESTING THING

57:28 - ABOUT AFRICAN AMERICAN

57:29 - COMMUNITY HERE IS THAT. WE ARE.

57:34 - SO DYNAMIC AND I THINK

57:36 - WE EXCEL IN WAYS THAT.

57:39 - PEOPLE DON'T ALWAYS ASSUME THAT

57:41 - WE CAN ACHIEVE KIND OF AN

57:42 - ALL THE EXAMPLE THAT I GAVE YOU

57:44 - BEFORE. WE'RE JUST DOING SO

57:46 - MANY INCREDIBLE THINGS AND ALSO

57:49 - VERY ADAMANT ABOUT WHO WE ARE

57:50 - IN OUR FACE THAT WE'RE KIND OF

57:52 - OCCUPYING. SO I THINK THAT'S

57:54 - ONE THING THAT I CAN SEE IS

57:56 - COMING BACK IN OUR COMMUNITY

57:58 - TOO. I THINK SHARING THE WORK

58:00 - HAS ALSO FROM MY COMMUNITY

58:02 - TOGETHER THE WAY THAT WE

58:03 - HAVEN'T SEEN.

58:05 - BECAUSE BEFORE FOR

58:06 - A WHILE I WAS STANDING.

58:09 - BOTH WITH THE U.S. AS PLANNED

58:10 - AND LIKE WE LIVE HERE, BUT WE

58:12 - ARE GOING TO BE IN YOU KNOW

58:13 - REALLY ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE

58:15 - BUT WE ACTUALLY ARE IF YOU KIND

58:17 - OF OPEN YOUR EYES A LITTLE BIT

58:19 - MORE AND I THINK I I SEE THAT

58:21 - AND I JUST SEE THE BEAUTY IN

58:23 - EVERYONE HERE AND JUST HOW.

58:26 - JUST HOW FANTASTIC AND SMART

58:27 - AND INNOVATIVE THAT WE ACTUALLY

58:29 - ARE AND SEEING IT IN MY OWN

58:31 - COMMUNITY HAS BEEN THE MOST

58:33 - BEAUTIFUL THING.

58:34 - WELL I THINK THAT'S A

58:35 - GOOD PLACE TO END IT.

58:37 - GLYNIS JOHNS FOUNDER OF BLACK

58:38 - SCRANTON PROJECT THANK YOU VERY

58:40 - MUCH FOR JOINING US.

58:40 - THANKS FOR HAVING ME.