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hi everybody i'm chuck yarbrough i teach history at the mississippi school for math and science and i am so sorry that i could not get the technology on our end to work for our society at mississippi arc of this presentation today i understand mona did a fantastic job answering questions and what i'm going to do is do my part of the presentation solo no doubt not as good as it would have been or mona involved at this point but better than nothing i suppose although that may be presumptuous something so i'm going to share the powerpoint and begin the presentation uh hopefully you enjoy it thank you all right okay so today i was asked and mona was asked to talk about the burial ground as common ground researching and presenting the eighth of may emancipation celebration in columbus i've already introduced myself chuck yarbrough you already know mona vans ali the wonderful archivist at our community gym which is the local history room at the columbus lounge public library and i'm going to get right into it and try not to keep you too long since i've kept you for an hour without actually being there already oh and one other thing i don't typically speak from a script so this may be offensive to those of you who are archivists there is no paper copy of what i'm about to do but anyway why do we do the eighth of may emancipation program the eighth of may emancipation celebration like tails from the crypt and like a lot of other research projects that we instituted our school and that i've done in my classrooms are really about helping students and community reach peak performance in the cemetery now doesn't that sound awesome you as archivists are the key features of this what is peak what do i mean by that peak principles are really about the principles that allow students to thrive when they develop what education reformer ted dintersmith calls pink principles and it goes like this in a project like tales from the crypt and the eighth of may emancipation celebration students find purpose contributing to our community's understanding of itself they acquire essential skills researching and writing and collaborating and speaking and all of those other things that we ask them to do in performance they also develop agency they decide how to share what they know what they've uncovered and and what that sharing will actually look like what the presentation will look like and the students retain the knowledge in a way that allows them to be even more creative and impactful so where do we do that well the burial ground i like to say the burial ground is common ground at the burial ground every single one of us understands personal loss we have all experienced it we all know that we will one day be the one who is lost and every person understands what that feels like because we've lost someone who's dear to us so that allows us to think about and share a common humanity and ultimately when we think about loss and humanity we're thinking about story and a performance project like the 8th of may emancipation celebration is uniquely qualified to kind of get at this idea of story and loss so loss or humanity story how do we get at them well that's where you come in archival collections offer everyone an avenue to explore all three of those you know the raw data if you will for the human experience is wrapped up in archives is it complete no but there's a lot of it there and we have to figure out ways to get at it to share with the broader community to empower our communities and in my case my students so what do we do well at the burial ground we're going to utilize archival resources using those resources to create performances students create spaces and in those spaces they and the audiences are going to begin to create new realizations and levels of understanding about our collective past and of course that informs their ability to shape our future it it informs our community's ability to do that so okay that's the bureau grinders common ground let's talk about the eighth of may emancipation celebration since 2005 2006 this has been a research performance partnership between the mississippi school for mathematics and science and students in my african-american history class in our voices in harmony choir and others that are outside of those groups but the students recruit essentially and the local history room at the columbus lounge public library now i'm going to give you a brief overview of the project and then kind of get into how it developed and and we'll talk about the resources in the archives as well as kind of the nuts and bolts of putting it on um first of all the eighth of may emancipation celebration is um it consists of groups of two or three students that use primary and secondary sources to research the lives and context of individuals buried in the historic sandfield cemetery now the sandfield cemetery is one of the older african-american cemeteries in the city of columbus but is certainly not the only one we use the sandfield cemetery because one it's easily accessible and two the primary leaders political and religious and civic leaders in the black community the late 19th and earliest part of the 20th century are buried in sandfield so that's why we choose that one i organize those groups of students and research subjects around some theme so you might have two or three students researching two or three research subjects who are connected in some way so for example i might have a group of pastors three or two or three i might have a group of world war one veterans might have different members of one family or maybe cousins that moved to chicago some evidence of the great migration any number of possible combinations or maybe people went to the same school union academy the students conduct research they use resources in the library as well as online and they create research folders those research folders that raw material the data that's in your archives they then use to create original scripts that explore the historical topics the students are discovering through their research so for example a couple years ago we had a group of students researching world war one veterans african-american local world war one veterans who went to europe and uh and that was a pretty engaging and fascinating fact performance so that would be one example of the script they put together now each group of researchers writing the script with input from me by the way i you know i'm i kind of help them craft them to make them as powerful as they they can but they then select and recruit a student performer that may be one member of the group or it may be somebody they just know is a good performer and that student will be charged with developing the character further with the help of that group of students and to share the findings and understanding with a public audience and that project culminates with a public performance that partners the students in the class the students they've recruited as speaking performers and members of our voices in harmony choir which is a student directed student-led choir gospel choir and you'll see that in just a couple minutes that performance takes place in sandfield cemetery and now has grown to annually include a crowd of two to three hundred and typically gets a lot of nice local press coverage and a little bit of national coverage as well so let's talk about that place uh we're not in the archives yet i realize that okay the place sandfield cemetery is the place established in the 1840s it is as i've already said one of the historical african-american burial grounds and it's identified as such in early 20th century city directories and newspapers that kind of thing so that's our location what does it look like well this is a photograph i get asked often to lead tours to sandfield cemetery local african-american historical tours this is a photograph taken during one of those tours looked like it was a chilly day if i remember correctly and what you'll notice there is that there aren't a whole lot of tombstones this cemetery we do believe is full at least the western half of it which is the historic part where we do our performance but the lack of tombstones is suggestive of the low socioeconomic status of african americans who would have been buried there that makes the tombstones that are there that much more noteworthy in in one sense and definitely more likely to have something in an archive somewhere connected to their story the date now we picked the 8th of may because according to the diary cyrus green union troops arrived in columbus on the 8th of may 1865. now he says that on the 8th of may 1866 when in his diary he records that today was a day long to be remembered by members of the african race here is what his words are and what he's saying is that or he says in that passage that a year ago on 8th of may 1865 union troops first arrived in this place now the importance of that date is attached obviously to emancipation while the emancipation proclamation of course had been signed well before this the reality was that emancipation didn't even arrive as a possibility until federal troops arrived in any place so when federal troops arrive here that's cause for immense celebration and indeed the eighth of may would be celebrated as an emancipation day a celebration independence day for well over a century a columbus new newspapers in the early 20th century offer brief accounts of eighth of may celebrations and parades there are accounts in the macon paper down in knoxville county and in the aberdeen paper in monroe county to the north of us of people traveling on the train to columbus to celebrate the eighth of may and both aberdeen and macon had celebrations as well at some point in the late 19th and early 20th century uh what did those celebrations look like well there were games speakers food you know music it was a party if you will so those are the places and then we need to have the resources and this is where the archives comes in now you guys had a chance to ask questions of mona the columbus lounge public library local history room is an absolute one essential aspect of the research performance projects we do and it's a wonderful institution for taking an archives and bringing it to life by sharing it with a community and i'm very happy and proud that my students help in that role but you know without us i'm pretty certain mona would figure out a way to do it and maybe do it even better right so a shout out to them the bill of garth archives and library digital resources like ancestry.com the library edition are both places our students have gleaned information and i've gleaned information from records there um additional well here's an example this is uh actually from the ancestor.com um library edition and news access to newspapers this is from 1906 the 8th of may thursday was the 8th of may and the day it was as usual celebrated by the colored people of columbus and it goes on to talk about the pastor of the methodist church uh reverend w h m edmonds is a key speaker their baseball game shooting matches celebration this is an example of 1913. down at the bottom left of this particular newspaper excerpt is the emancipation day the eighth of may emancipation day and then up at the top right is the um st paul's episcopal church celebration of the 8th of may they held a luncheon on the 8th of may which was a fundraiser for the ladies of the church because many of the white families had domestic servants who were off on the 8th of may celebrating independence and freedom so another really important resource that mona and i know a lot of you guys have been involved with in the society of mississippi archive archivists is making the mississippi digital library come to life with resources the mississippi digital library materials for columbus mona and her staff have been working diligently to digitize scan and then put in a form that's usable and indeed we have been using those resources they've been irreplaceable this year in the pandemic so what can you find on there one is you can find the diary of cyrus green the quaker from indiana who came here to teach at that freedmen's bureau school that i mentioned previously we start our performances each year with a student who portrays cyrus green and that student actually reads from segments of his diary and in fact i'm going to stop sharing this for just a moment and share something else which is going to be a youtube segment uh by the way i think this is something we can do now on um we can do now in this youtube presentation that might not have worked on webex this is the very beginning of the 8th of may celebration in 2019 not a professional recording by any stretch of the imagination but i think you'll enjoy it so we're going to watch just a few seconds get a sense of how it begins good afternoon my name is cyrus green and i'm a quaker from indiana who came down to columbus mississippi early in 1866 to teach with the freedmen's bureau i kept a diary and as we begin our celebration today i would like to share with you all some of what impressed me about the freedmen and freed women i had met while i was here i did not fully realize the violence i would come to witness nor the courage i would see in response on february 12 1866 i wrote of threatened horrors night school tonight we heard a hint this evening that there was talk among the southern chivalry and yankee haters of setting fire to the wayside hospital and thus we put an end to our work there i hope there is no danger yet it may be so okay so that is cyrus green's diary in the hands of a capable performer uh kale and mcneese who graduated here in 2019 now first of all before you um archivists get upset that was not the original document in his hands in that book nor was that book very old it just looked a little okay but that's an example of the type of resource that is now available in the digital library thanks to mona staff and is now available to our students now we've been using the paper copy and that's what we have here for years now but any case it's that's one of the things we find and you get from the resources in the library the city of columbus minute books are part of our research again in the archives most recently these have been made available through the mississippi digital library as well and this is actually an excerpt from the city minutes where the leader of the school that cyrus greene worked in which is the freedmen's bureau of school that became ultimately the public school union academy but is called union academy well before it becomes a public school so i would argue that union academy in columbus is certainly among the first schools for americans in the state of mississippi in any case on april 19 1866 dr wilson the director of that school and his staff received a threatening letter they gave that letter to the city council and the city council transcribed the letter in the city council minutes and then passed a resolution you know decrying that threat uh denouncing that and pledging they would offer support of the city of columbus to the efforts of the school this is the letter which again we use in the performance and students uncover in their research and and use in the ways they want to says columbus mississippi april 19 1866 dr wilson with the undersigned have determined that you shall not stay in this country and teach a negro school and if you do not leave we will hang you and your whole crowd do as you please leave or not that is one thing we are determined on that you shall not stay if we can procure a rope that will hold you leave immediately your many enemies that's the kind of record that's available in the archives to tell completely the story of columbus and we're accessing it with my students now that set of resources in the archives connects us to what's in the actual cemetery and i want to talk a little bit about you already okay you know we've got two or three students researching using the resources in the archives and they're researching a small group of people may be connected by something like world war one participation or something like that or family and then i want to talk about some of the things they've uncovered over the years again in conjunction with me to e quite frank some of the things i uncover and share with the students and then they put them in performance for example the story of jack and gilly rabb and their family jack rabb was a free man of color the family believed and who married gilly rabb some time after the civil war and they had several children and one of them well they went on to be a pretty prominent family but there was no verification of jack rabb's free status even though the family had said he was free before the civil war ended until a student actually entails from the crypt uncovered a court case in the lowndes county records and that court case was a lawsuit by a guy named charles hereford against alan rabb the oldest son of jackrabb charles hereford claimed to be an illegitimate child of jack rabb by an enslaved woman born in 19 excuse me born in 1862 hereford sued for part of the inheritance that jack rabb and gilly rabb left to their children the courts found against him the courts found that charles hereford was the illegitimate child of jack rabb however because he was born of a slave woman an enslaved status was matrilineal charles hereford at birth had no right to inheritance even though this lawsuit was after jack rabb's death in 1882 who was the person being sued this guy this is alan ram it was jack rabb's oldest son alan rabb established a meat market in downtown columbus on what was then north market street next door by the way to where the friendly city bookstore just opened and then at some point in the 19 teens he moved his location over to the south side just off the campus of the industrial institute and college now muw it was on the corner of 5th avenue south and 2 10th street no not excuse me 9th street this is that location this is rabb's meat market on the left his house actually over here on the right you can see a pretty substantial building and uh and this was the you know his part of the world uh alan rabb as i said was very successful members of his family eventually took part in the great migration and they moved to chicago along with other columbus families and then eventually some of his children ended up in louisville kentucky and in philadelphia pennsylvania and other places out west and up north in fact right now his great grandson christopher rabb is a state assemblyman from philadelphia in the pennsylvania state assembly another person we've learned a lot about over the years is state senator robert glead now this is admittedly a pretty terrible uh photocopy of the composite for the state legislature but you get a sense of what he looked like that we really don't have much on him this is his daughter's grave site okay state senator robert glead was enslaved we believe he was an escaped slave who was captured here in columbus during the civil war he refused to announce who the person who was a slaveholder was and therefore according to state law was sold back into slavery to a guy named miller after the war he gained his freedom and he became a prominent business and then political leader he was appointed to the columbus board of aldermen city council by the military governor and then he was elected to the mississippi state senate and to this day remains the only african-american man to represent all of lowndes county in the mississippi state senate he would remain in the senate until he ran for sheriff of lowndes county in 1875. and in 1875 the documents the in city minutes record that he was leading a parade through downtown columbus on the eve of the 1875 election we would probably call that a get out the vote rally today and they were attacked by a mob a white mob four people were shot and killed three were wounded he testified about those events before congress not once but twice but there really wasn't protection for him eventually he ended up in galveston texas and uh and that's where he died and his body was brought back to columbus for internment in 1916. and again getting in the archives we even have the response to his death in the local paper one person writes that he was respected in a capable businessman and political leader another writes that he was the last survivor that held office that are now in 1916 held by honorable whites so you get this white supremacy story very clearly conveyed in in the archives uh anna louise glee was a teacher she taught at union academy here in columbus and then moved to texas and lived there until she died in 1938 gleed had a store downtown and it was cater corner to the columbus well to the lowndes county courthouse which this is a historic american building survey photograph in the 1930s at the lowndes county courthouse and the confederate monument over here on the left interestingly would have been staring right across the corner at gleed store location which of course was gone by the time this monument was put up another person is uh william isaac mitchell professor william isaac mitchell was born into slavery in about 1855 and he became one of the first students at alcorn a m he became the first african-american principal of the union academy and he was so loved and respected as an educator after his death in 1916 a new school was open for african-americans called mitchell elementary mitchell memorial elementary school on the south side of columbus he also was active in missionary union baptist church he also was somebody who did training institutes and and surrounding communities for african-american teachers and he also was a business leader he was the president of the penny savings bank here in columbus all information that students get at through our partnership with the archives either in documents or well either in person documents or online this is a photograph of william isaac mitchell and the board of directors of the penny savings bank a couple of interesting figures here on the far left over here to william isaac mitchell's right is m shepherd and reverend schumper was actually a delegate to the national republican convention in 1912. and then uh down here seated on the far left is the doctor theadrick v james the first african-american doctor in columbus this is a photograph well a photocopy of a photograph of union academy from sometime in the mid 20th century before it was torn down another couple people we find out information about benjamin fernandez on the left and his wife emma fernandez benjamin fernandez was the first african-american member of the columbus school board if you will was the franklin academy school board trust of trustees and then this is the graveside of richard denterf little john little john is somebody else we've uncovered a good bit of information about over the years piece by piece he was a grand mason and he was uh i don't remember where he was born but he was a graduate of oberlin college and he came to columbus sometime in the late 19th century and by the time of his death in 1903 owned several bits of property downtown when he died he was a prominent guy when i first went out in the cemetery in the late 1990s to start to figure out if we could do a cemetery project in sandfield i was walking through the cemetery with a you know a legal pad and just jotting down names on tombstones well i came about halfway through the cemetery there's a path through the cemetery and it goes from a bunch of houses to a little quick stop and it's often that path is frequented by people that are walking from the neighborhood to the quick stop and then walking by with a frosty cold beverage well one guy was walking back with a a very large beer okay and uh and he asked me what i was doing and i explained to well you know i'm a history teacher and i'm doing this project trying to figure out if we can research people buried out here and i asked them do you know anybody who's buried out here anything about them and his answer was well not really but but that guy over there that guy was heavy and he was pointing to richard denter for little john's grave well it's hard to tell from this photograph but this plimp the bottom part of the tombstone is about six or seven feet high and then lying down on the ground behind it is novelist that was knocked down in the early 1990s when a tornado came through this neighborhood and it's another six feet or so and then the urn standing over there in the left-hand side of the image that would have gone on top of the obelisk so you put those back together and you've got a monument that's 12 maybe 15 feet tall so richard denterf littlejohn was indeed heavy and that's the kind of story we're trying to get at learn more about so that we can share more about this columbus history the african-american story another person we get to talk about some who is tangentially connected to the leaders there is dr emma j stringer now dr stringer is not buried in the sandfield cemetery but students have found connections to him there and that allows us to tell his story he was a a dentist and he was from uh originally from mountain bay he was educated at meharry medical college in nashville and he located here sometime in the late 1940s he became the leader of the local naacp eventually became the president of the mississippi naacp and he led the voter registration drive and the first petitions to integrate the local schools after brown versus board of education the ku klux klan actually put him on a hit list in 1956 and uh by the end of the year everybody on that hit list i think there were six people on it they were all out of the mississippi out of the state of mississippi and except for emmitt stringer his wife was a teacher she was fired because of his activism eventually she worked for the air force base but she was fired from a columbus city schools job and dr stringer's story brings us from late 19th into the 20th century and lastly there's a connection to the national story because dr stringer as state president of the naacp we know from murley everest williams was the person who asked medgar evers to become the first field secretary of the naacp in mississippi and merly evers william recalled that that happened at dr stringer's house here in columbus so let's talk about performance i'm going to stop sharing for just a minute so i can pause my recording and set something else up that i think you'll find to be a tree okay just a minute i'm going to show you a couple of short clips of performances we're going to talk about the performance and uh and i'm going to go back to the powerpoint for just a moment and then get back to you okay so the last part so what we do is we have research we have writing and then we develop a public performance as i've said for two three hundred people and this has made a big impact in our community that started with the young lady in the gingham dress here in the middle of this image i i think it was on february 26th of 2006 uh renita holmes from louisville mississippi came to me and asked she was the president of the voices in the harmony choir mr yarbrough would you help us put together our black history month program i've done a lot of local history research i know a lot about history and so i was a good person to ask that question and i said absolutely renita but there's a problem it's february 26th not february 1st and black history month will be over in 48 hours so we talked some and i explained to her there's another possibility to do a program like what you're talking about and that is the 8th of may and i explained the program tour we met the next week and put together the initial performance and the way we designed it was with singing followed by some dramatic monologue by more singing potentially by individual students sharing original spoken word poetry or maybe somebody else's spoken word poetry and then finishing with the crowd and performers singing in unison lift every voice and sing and i have to tell you it's one of the most moving moments of my year every year this was the original performance group you can see it's all of we had three spoken performers and we had maybe 10 other singers and that was it it looked like this okay this is 2006. beneath the shade of that tree because we wanted shade we needed shade it's may in mississippi it's already getting warm and you can see i hauled out a couple of dozen chairs and we didn't have enough for everybody so a couple people shared wcbi covered it we thought it was a big success and thought well this is a really neat community thing um by 2018 it's become a pretty big deal and i'm going to stop sharing this so i can now share a sample of the kind of music you would hear at one of our performances this is from 2019 and it's a clip from a youtube performance and we'll just listen to the beginning of what i think you'll agree is an amazing performance i just realized i made a mistake in the share let me try this again this'll work [Applause] sweet [Applause] and what did i [Applause] [Music] coming after me [Music] call me for to i know i know don't stop there because you're not as good as that that's what you guys are thinking and i agree but the i just want to give you the taste of that performance um so what does it look like in the long run okay well what we have uh excuse me i made a mistake on my end so let me get back to where i need to be okay so this is in 2018 and you can see the first of all beautiful photograph students singing we're going to be delivering performances in between songs this is a young man named ezra mcwilliams who's from the delta and he's actually performing as alan rabb the man whose photograph you saw in front of his meat market earlier taiser johnson and jokiah bryant are sharing the story of pastors wives talking about the role of religion in the community in 2018. samantha anderson is singing a solo performance not unlike swing low sweet chariot that you just saw and and this is the kind of advertising that we do it is simply posters eighth of may emancipation celebration historic sandfield cemetery we have been blessed to have partnerships with the city of columbus and of course the columbus lounge public library but the history department at the mississippi state university has been supportive and i appreciate that visit columbus and the cultural heritage foundation and we have other co-sponsors and helpers that help make this a reality now i i will point that out that that's really great for you thinking about your archives coming to life there are potential partnerships here that can make any archive more accessible to the public and a performance program like this might just be the thing for you this is the crowd more recently okay 2019 this particular year you see video crews in the background big audience we were really excited about what went down that year and then this is a young man portraying state senator robert glead i'm going to stop sharing and pause for a moment so i can set up a video you can watch him so the next thing we'll see we're going to watch a brief clip from darien bowles performance of state senator robert glead i hope you'll enjoy things weren't always easy for my family my success it brought tension and violence upon my household most local whites couldn't conceive of free men as their eagles and when i ran for sheriff of lowndes county in 1875 jealous white men invaded my home shot into my furniture and shredded susan's clothes unfortunately my family was able to flee to the safety of the woods and on that same night the night of november 2nd 1875 i was leaning to vote parade today you might call it a get out the boat rally now as we move through downtown a mob led by jacob hunter shark attacked us they shot into our group killing four innocent black men and wounded three others and i owe my life to a friend that hit me in his well that night the next day hardly any of my people voted for fear of their life the dream of free men and freed women being fully accepted as citizens seemed dead after that night and i testified to those events before congress but there was no federal help that would come to restore the protections of the constitution upon me and my people neither president grant nor congress were willing to protect black citizens from violence and talent now that performance is powerful and reveals the type of story we can share in a cemetery i like to say that people come into the cemetery with an open heart because of that burial ground being common ground and they're open to hearing a truth that has only been partially told in most people's understanding of history and again this is a way that you guys know the truths in your archives this is a way to make them accessible to a broader public now i'm going to return to my powerpoint so this was darian who you just saw performing this is my final piece is about community impact this is a photograph from 2018 or 2019 and again a different angle on the crowd by the way that's the same tree we performed under the very first year now we have a stage and it's grown a good bit we've gotten a lot of attention in the nationally for the 8th of may emancipation celebration which is another way to bring value to your community from your archives the atlantic covered what we do in may 8 2014 we've been in us news and world report and in fact this particular piece was a commercial dispatch story that was picked up by the ap and went all over the planet i know i saw it in the houston chronicle and it also was in the philadelphia enquirer because i just happened to run into that a couple of days ago when i was looking for something else and we also been covered in uh it pretty extensively in deb and jim fallow's that new york times best-selling book our towns thousand mile journey into the heart of america check the book out it's really great and we also have had community impact in the actual physical memorialization of our story when i got to columbus in the mid-1990s i was interested in exploring the african-american experience historically now you guys know this columbus mississippi these are places in which the joke is that you know history is one of the growth industries i looked around columbus for evidence of the black experience and this is the only state historic marker i could find with any mention the african-american community and it's a csa arsenal historic marker and the last line is oh yeah this building always also was the first free public school in columbus for african americans the black community is an afterthought when this was put up in the 1950s the reason this is put up is essentially to reaffirm that lost cause version of history that we still struggle with because it was an incomplete history and i'm reminded in fact i shared with a radio audience just a couple of weeks ago remember that an incomplete history is a biased history so our job as archivists as historians as teachers is to try to empower our communities for a more complete understanding of our story this is the most recent state historic marker in columbus very proud to say it came as a result of the eighth of may emancipation celebration this marker was advocated for one of the local garden clubs led by a wonderful retired mew professor martha joe mims and this is the landscaping the garden club did around this brand new stateless historic market that they partnered with the city and of course archives and history to get in the ground this was the dedication of that marker just before our eighth of may emancipation celebration in 2019 so the community is gaining a greater appreciation of our complete story including all of the stories researched and told in the may emancipation celebration and that state historic marker is a very tangible sign of that it's also getting us now international recognition the eighth of may emancipation program will be in an hbo documentary made on that best-selling book our towns this april 13th of uh by the way if you don't subscribe to hbo the time to start your seven-day free trial is maybe april 12th okay but any case um our towns will be on hbo they were here in 2019 they recorded they filmed the students in the archives working with me and with mona in performance of course in the cemetery we even went out and got some footage like this shot the day before just so they would have something to kind of sound track it a little bit really great stuff so we're bringing national and maybe international attention to columbus through an archival collaboration with a school i think that's pretty cool okay and that's the photograph of the cover of the book as well so i started this off talking about peak principles and how the eighth of may emancipation celebration as a partnership between the columbus lowndes county library local history room and phillips garth archives and the school msms and my african-american history students allows us as a community i said students but it really allows us as a community to reach our peak performance purpose community members through projects like this with your archives can tackle challenges that are important and then make contributions to the community essentials community members can acquire skill sets and mindsets that are needed in an increasingly innovative world we're challenged to change this helps agency we gain ownership community members who own our learning we're self-directed we're motivated we make a difference in the community and this can do that and then knowledge you know what we learn together we retain together and then we can create together we can make together we can teach together we can create a greater future for our communities so this is where i would have paused and allowed you to ask questions were it not for the technological snafu that went down uh by the way this is an old postcard of columbus and i superimposed in the middle a kind of posted stamp photograph of one of the 8th of may emancipation parades from around the turn of last century i will invite you to follow on twitter or instagram msms which is msns blue waves at msms blue waves i'm see yarb one and lowndes library is the other thank you for having me and i do apologize so much for the failure of the technology to allow me to be able to answer questions do not hesitate to reach out to me if i can help in any way with your archives of public program thanks so much and once again thank you to mona vance ali and the staff of the columbus lounge library local history room we couldn't do it without them and also thank you to the society of mississippi archivist and carrie mansley for inviting us to be part of y'all's program today thanks so much guys bye-bye