What I Would Like to Learn from the 1619 The Making of America Conference
This is such of an extraordinary event happening today at Norfolk State University. 1619 The Making of America Conference is giving us the opprtunity to take a journey back to the making of America and learn a lot of facts and information that you would never know America without this conference. I am looking forward to learning the small details that are so signifigant to America’s history that the textbooks failed to mention.
1619 what a time to reflect!
Dr.Chandra DeSilva, Vice Provost, ODU…closes his greeting remarks bystating that Dr.Newby-Alexander has started a great work and the history of “1619” is history that the work should be aware of. Dr. Belinda Anderson, Dean of the college of Libral Arts, NSU… Thanked Dr. Newby-Alexander for her dedication and love for history and what she has brought to NSU. We are asking that you tell everyone to follow our tweets , blogs and Facebook activities. This “1619” conference is amazing come out and join us today, tomorrow and the NSU fabulous New Student Center. Dr. Linda Haywood , Professor of History, Boston University, she tells us the life’s story of Queen Njinga. She came from a family of rulers…Queen Njinga, was very out spoken very arrogant. At the age of 37 she was baptized. Throughout her life she was in the mist of many wars. Queen Njinga is known for her great escapes during battle, there are holes and caves that helped her escape that are still visible . In 1757 Queen Njinga wrote a letter to the Pope. She asked religious leaders to send missionaries so that they could run the different churches so that Europeans would take over . On the 18th of November, 1663, Njinga died.
Meet the Moderators: Mr. Calvin Pearson
Mr. Calvin Pearson is a moderator of the “Novelists, Griots, Travel Writers, and Keepers of Sacred Trusts” panel. I am the Founder of Project 1619 Inc. and our goal is to promote the correct history that the first Africans to arrive in Colonial America did not land at Jamestown but came ashore at Point Comfort, today’s Fort Monroe in Hampton, VA. It’s important as a nation that we know the history of the Africans and the impact their culture has had on the Making of America. There is quote by Chinua Achebe “Until the lions have their own historians, the tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” The Africans in 1619 did not have their own historians so their history was written by their oppressors. Yes the stories of our ancestors are sacred. But what we were taught in school, the history that had been passed down from generations has been proven to be inaccurate.