Great. Well, there's less that news. My name is Rob and we got a lot of things to go over and not a lot of times Let's just jump right in first thing I want to talk to you about is of course what the market is doing, but there are some Market indicators and some market resilience, which is actually pretty surprising to me And I'm gonna talk about those things and also a little bit of my concerns Going forward as far as the macro band then we're gonna talk about the Voyager lawsuit as it screams along at a study Pace and we're talking about there was an email I got which talks about how to file a claim the conference call that you can attend just by calling into a number and a Password and then the real big question is when can we get our money in crypto? I also talk about how polygon got picked up by Disney and is this really a big thing or a good thing? Because I want to remind you of a little project that Disney put out in 2015 called Dragon chain and lastly We'll talk about ethereum merge news, which quite honestly is a big snooze fest But we'll see what happens and then of course lastly We're gonna do the DCA show today on James's channel or best answers and I'll show you with the link So let's get into it because we got a little bit of time and heck of a lot of content. So the first things first is The market the market has surprised me And I'm glad I'm glad I was I'm glad I was wrong I thought with the CPI numbers we'd see a bigger dip, but it didn't Went from around 20,000 out of 19,000 and came right back up and now here. We are 20,000 813 So if you caught those those falling knives and sat around it and then did what I did which was just kind of pick it up Congratulations, that's what it's all about if you wanted to do those things and for me you know, I picked up Bitcoin around 19 2 or 19 3 4 some around there and Now it's a good day feeling pretty good about just waiting and value cost averaging into Bitcoin Was this a great play? Maybe I mean in the future. Can we go down to 14,000 or 12,000? Sure. Why not? It's crypto But today's a good day and I'll take the small wins Also, if we take a look down everything's up. Everything's a good day They're in 1200 which we were at that point of almost going below a thousand But here we are and actually market cap is teetering on that one trillion at 975 billion. So I'll take it 1.4 Let's see if there's any big winners 4.5 great The Lido staked ether this is good news because we want that to remain pegged Which it's kind of not 1183 Compared to 1224 so not too bad But a little concern Polygon was a big winner yesterday after that big news with Disney But it's come down to earth, but still holding out for on 69 cents. That's good See 7.5 percent for cosmos a great project. I hold some cosmos and then of course quant I'm I have no quant so I don't really know much about that project, but sure and that's what's going on the market So the question that is if we're up, how is our brother and sisters doing over there in traditional finance? Well, NASDAQ is up S&P is up. I believe and You know, we're kind of attached to the hip for now So that's what's going on the market and here's some factors that I thought was interesting because I know I Know right now the fear and greed index the fear and greed index is Not like it was before it wasn't like eight or nine things around 15 But people are still afraid They're still concerned that everything could potentially go to zero look I get it I was the same way in 2017 or 2018 I thought maybe go to zero But in all honesty, you have to take a look at the big businesses that are getting into it And they're betting on the future of blockchain and then we can take a look at stuff like this This is from looking to Bitcoin. We can take a look at Bitcoin wallet sizes that have more than one Bitcoin That's at an all-time high and we've got it at How many addresses 800 almost nine hundred thousand addresses hold more than one Bitcoin now Take away the grain of salt because it's on chain data Somebody could have had 20 Bitcoin and then they created 20 wallets and just put one Bitcoin into each those wallets So it is what it is But I don't know a lot of people that like to do that or who would do that Of course people in the chats will say of course they do sure but I got a enough Bitcoin And I don't know why anybody would do that. Okay, whatever. So that's good news there But then the question then is well, who's using it? Well, there's a thing called Bitcoin active addresses meaning the different The number of addresses on the Bitcoin blockchain either sent or received transaction and you can see right here We're not an all-time highs and we don't see those all-time highs as far as Bitcoin active addresses Unless we see the actual price of Bitcoin go up Pretty far so like we can see a bet down here in 2017 when Bitcoin was almost 19,000 That was the most almost the most active addresses one point almost 1.2 million then of course over here 1.24 million That was on January 10th 2021 and then over here when we hit Bitcoin at around almost 63 somewhere in there. Yeah About 1.9 million or so or 1.2 million So we are right now hovering around 863,000 active addresses Which is kind of interesting because that's roughly how many are have one Bitcoin So people are about people are still buying it up. They're still accumulating and now they are now whole coiners Also, let's take a look at the pool. I always say this wrong Well multiple P well, I don't know well multiple what this is It's a metric looks at the supply chain of Bitcoin's economy Bitcoin miners in the revenue when we fall below a certain range Which we can see right here is usually when they start to say this is the bottom Or this is part of the bottom and you can see this goes back to 2012 The multiple was zero points. Wow zero point three And of course any above zero point five or below zero point five is a bottom indicator that happened again in 2015 happened again in 2019 whoof then of course it happened during that COVID thing. I don't remember that Back, what was that change for March and then also of course now here. We are at almost an all-time low almost This won't be the most one. So there's some bottom indicators, but are you ever gonna time the bottom? Yeah, maybe good luck I can't do it. Maybe you can do it. I've never timed the bottom. I've never timed the top but the real question that you ask yourself is Is Bitcoin cheap or is it expensive and I think that's the bigger question to really ask and then lastly Logarithmic growth curves and you can see that this is the lower value medium value or high value These yellow bands here and you can see just how far down we are below and we did that again as well 2020 right when COVID struck and of course here. We are again even lower. Wow negative point three Nine how much we're here? Huh negative point. That's weird zero point one nine. That is pretty and that is really undervalued But anyhow, that's not financial advice. That's just me look at some charts going. Yeah I think it's cheap and that's what's going on with the on chain type of stuff There's one thing that does concern me as far as macro events and it's unemployment. I think that's First of all, there's a big difference between the economy and Wall Street and of course there's a big difference between the economy what's going on in crypto but one of those things we take a look at is of course the unemployment rates and you can see that in In America, I don't know where it is like where you live, but you can see over the last Five years or so that the only time I really spiked of course was during the the pandemic But right now we're sitting at 3.6% pull this up. Let's see Here's a year Since 2021 I've actually just gone down down and down and of course over five years. That's what it looks at What's it like ten years? So we haven't really gone up too high and the question you're asking yourself is what's considered a normal unemployment rate Many consider 4% to 5% unemployment rate to be full unemployment or full employment and not partially concerning The reason is because people are always between jobs or whatever else the reason I bring this to your attention is Because I think things are being buoyed and things are staying doing okay because people haven't lost their jobs yet And I do think that as the economy moves into sort of a little bit more suffering we see a little bit of problems with Not only just supply chains, but just Companies who and we see this already that the earnings report came out and it's not as high as what they think it should be And then there's layoffs. We've seen that's in crypto companies. You've seen that's on I Think a block-fi coin base just either froze their hireings or laid off 18% of their workforce So as people start getting laid off, I think you're gonna see some a Little bit of a tumble in the traditional markets and then also in crypto However, the thing that does make me give me a little bit of pause Is that we're so low the unemployment rate is so low and the employers that are out there are saying hey I can't get any people to or the right people or at least some people just to work with me So even if we go up to four five or even six percent That's not so bad as long as we don't hit these kind of crazy numbers Where we're up, you know through the roof at 1416 percent so around six percent is probably unemployment might go up That's the only thing I think that Would be a very bold bearish indicator. I think we've actually got a lot of room to go So I'm gonna think about that in the comment section. Let's move on to voyage your lawsuits, so Just got this nice email This morning and it says dear first of all, I thought it was a spam, but it wasn't dear value customer There's a petition and it talks about chapter 11. You know in Saints bankruptcy code debtors cases of blah, blah, blah Notice of chapter 11 bankruptcy docket number someone this stuff that we already know and then Right here it says please click here for additional information. I was like, well, I think I should do that So I did that and there's this great Frequently asked questions that they put out and there's a lot of great information here So I thought I would share it with you guys So, you know what's going on, especially how to file the claim all that stuff. This was filed July 13th I think today's the 15th correct me on wrong Yeah, 15 so It just talks about what is this well everybody get everybody receives a notice of commencement meaning they're in chapter 11 bankruptcy great What is section 3 for one meeting? It's a it's for informational purposes for voyagers creditors. That's you and me It's scheduled for 11 a.m. Eastern on August 30th. Don't worry. I'll remind you and we'll be held Telephonically the dial-in number is eight seven seven four two nine forty one sixty and the passcode is two four seven two nine One three.  Either way, I linked I'll link this phone number in the comment or in the description and you can do whatever you want to do Let me know if you think that's a actually of interest to you and we'll go from there also How can I file a claim? Is there a date by which I must file a claim? The court has not yet set the deadline also known as the bar date and procedures for filing claims meaning hey Where's all my money? Where's all my crypto? What's going on? Once that's happened creditors including all customers will receive a proof of claim form and Instructions and how to file a claim so I know yet, but it's gonna be I think it's gonna be important because they're gonna be asking you like Well, how much has you have been there? Well, what was the value at that point? How much have you have you spent how much USD and all that good stuff so that you can say this is mine? The cash thing I'm not to 100% on and I'll get that a second So what's a claims agent who is voyages claims agent a claims agent as a pro professional firm appointed by the court to assist with administrative aspects of The chapter 11 filing and of course for this one the claims agent is Stretto That's the law firm so there's restructuring information line can be contacted at 8 5 5 4 7 3 8 6 6 5 again 8 5 5 4 7 3 at 6 6 5 and You can ask them all the questions you want How long will the restructuring take place chapter 11 is a court supervised process that enables companies To reorganize while keeping management in control of operations. Let me say that again Chapter 11 is a court supervised process that enables companies to reorganize while keeping management Voyager management in control of operations and while receiving protection from creditors We'll provide additional information later. Does this mean voyages are going on business? No, it's chapter 11 Court supervised process will allow us to continue to pay employees and meet obligations to customers Operating without disruption. I got to tell you I don't think they're really I mean they can pay the employee employees That makes sense, but as far as operating without disruption. I think so far. There's been some disruption in how You're able to operate with the with the app. I can't withdraw and I can't buy or sell any crypto So I don't know I Love this question though For the FAQ Why Can't I trade over the draw assets? That's a great question and it just says because at 2 p.m We stopped that 2 p.m. July 1st. We stopped that One will void you lift the suspension. We anticipate reopening the platform When we have completed the reorganization process I thought that was a bold statement to say that we're gonna do that once the reorganization process actually happens So they want to do that Let's see if they can do that and before I go on there's gonna be comments about Of course coffee Zilla and and his and his video where he talks about how they shouldn't have filed their chapter 11 should have a SIPA SIPA I believe what is what is called? Because of the way that lawyers work their job is to find the different Parts of the legal process where they can Actually maneuver and one of those was if you're doing something like that Of course, you can't do if you're a brokerage and you are trading securities. What they're saying is that Crypto is in securities because that is right now a gray area and that's what's going on I can't tell you why they did it like that. That's just what the lawyers did I think that was their choice and of course they could legally do it because the judge allowed it And that's all I can really tell you I'm not a lawyer as you can pop probably tell right now So moving forward Is my money safe and while I get it all of it back customers cash is held in a special type of bank We know this metropolitan USD deposits will be available after a reconciliation and fraud prevention Is the USD and my account FDIC insured? We've gone over this ad nauseam four times at least But let me just read this part USD and your Voyager cash account is held at Metro commercial bank It and it is FDIC insured. This means you are covered in the event of Metropolitan commercial banks failure up to 250 K FDIC insurance does not protect against the failure of Voyager. We know that we got it But to be clear Voyager does not hold customer cash that cash is held at Metropolitan commercial bank Which leads me to my question. Well, if that's the case and they just hold it Why can't we just go there and take it out? Apparently it's because they have to go through some kind of audit and do KYC and AML procedures Which I don't understand it anyhow because we already did that with Voyager Shouldn't just be easy as just taking that information that Voyager gave and just do a reconciliation go, okay? Jane gets X amount of dollars. That's what was in her account. Joe gets X amount of dollars That's what I see in his account. Maybe that's what we're talking about. That's why it's taking so long I don't think I don't understand why it would take so long. I just don't Tell me where I'm just not thinking straight and we'll go from there. So Why did Voyager's website change the way it talked about FDIC insurance and then it just says Voyager wrote the FDIC in early 2021 to clarify the language and Please I'll see Voyager's custom agreement which provides for the details Outdated pages of a blog from 2019 are being updated to be consistent with this clarification So really what they're saying is we just didn't update the site. Okay, sure What will happen to crypto on my account? Voyager currently is approximately 1.3 billion of crypto assets on his platform. We said again Voyager does have 1.3 billion of crypto assets on his platform plus Claims against three arrows capital of more than 650 million. Good luck getting that back It fluctuates through the exchange rate between Bitcoin and USD customers will receive a combination of the following.   What is that? Pro rata is a Latin term meaning in proportion used to assign or allocate value and proportion to something that can accurately Individually be to measure direct calculated in North American countries. It's referred to as prorated.  So if you If you move into a apartment complex, right? It's a thousand dollars per month You move in the 15th they go you only you're only gonna owe us 500 bucks. That's prorated or prorata so just so everybody's a hundred percent clear on that one and What else and that's pretty much it And then it just goes in a gobble to go king time match my crypto I'll get back and they don't know one thing I will say and before I move on I'm I am surprised at the speed of which this reorganization is actually happening the information That's been put out and everything that's pretty much being you know Available to the public and we even went through the slides the first day of the court case. You can watch that video It's been like three or four days now So we'll see what happens. Am I like super bullish on this one? No, not really, but I am Optimistically I am fearfully optimistic will say and let's see how it all plays out much thing about that in the comment section Let's get to Polygon some good news. So This was actually came out yesterday. I thought it was interesting Polygon was selected to participate in Disney's Accelerator program before we go on Disney already has a blockchain at least they had it it was called Dragon chain and it was the biggest thing when I was in in 2017 people thought it was gonna be big It was Dragon chain open source software originally developed at Disney in 25 2015 and then it broke off and it was gonna be this this great blockchain of blockchains great programs and well Let's see Dragon chain It's ranked 935. It's down 10% today And Let's take a look at the max. I Don't care how much your dollar cost average. You're not gonna recover from that and it goes down also Just so you know Dragon chain sec. Oh, no, it's not there No, I Saw something with dragon chain and sec, but I guess not anyhow, so The original thought is this this is great for polygon. I'm glad for polygon, but just remember Just because it's Disney doesn't mean it's gonna be the most fantastic thing of all time But there are some positives Polygon then select the partake in Disney's 2022 accelerator program to build on polygons web 3 tech Which will commence this week. They're one of only six projects to be accept accepted into the accelerator program It's focused this year on AR augmented reality NFTs and artificial intelligence. Well, I think they can help definitely with the NFTs. We'll see about the AR and AI and this is Ryan Watt. He's the polygon CEO and he says they were the only blockchain selected So I gotta tell you that is pretty bullish. I do like that glad I own polygon You still want a little bit more but that's stuck on Celsius. So what are you gonna do? Disney said the accelerator would be looking to attract growth stage companies with a vision for making an impact in the future of Tech and entertainment Disney's accelerator program was launched in 2014 and really what it is. It's an incubator program So they're gonna be in this program They're going to help to foster and move things along and it got me to thinking For these incubators or different programs that are selected by huge companies. Does this really help you? I mean as time goes on. Well, the question then becomes first of all Incubator programs actually do help and I was as I was thinking about this and like, I don't think that's true But apparently it is There is a significant increase in the rate of success for businesses if they start out in incubators Take this for the grain of salt. This is Tracy Kitts former CEO COO of the National Business Incubation Association After five years businesses that were nurtured in a business incubator have a survival rate of 87 percent It's pretty good by comparison the survival rate for companies that go it alone with that without the benefits of incubator support Is 44 percent. So just taking a look at that I can say well That's a good thing, especially it's not about what you know, it's who you know, it does needs a pretty big company So I like that however The question then becomes are they gonna dump a bunch of money or how's it gonna work? Occurring to this it looks like they're gonna work with them a little bit more side-by-side introduced into people and actually make their way down that that got me thinking about angel investing because You know if you just dump a bunch of money, isn't that good enough? Well, no not really there's this Article I came came across Which talked about angel investing and it makes a lot of sense The more that a mentor or that a company or that an organization that knows a lot of things and a lot of people on a lot of insiders The more they work with those companies the better off people are so if you take a look at angel investing There's a whole joke How do you become a millionaire an angel investing? Well, it's pretty easy you just start as a billionaire and work your way down because usually it's very tough So make your money back, but it really comes out of this How profitable has angel investing been in the period leading up at? 2007 this is an old study I know But it makes sense angels angel investors who spend less than 20 hours for these Individual companies have an average return of 1.1 X capital if they spend within 20 hours More than 20 hours they get almost 6% 6 X capital and they spend more than 40 hours They get almost 7 X so really what it comes down to is this the more of these big companies spend with the smaller companies and Help them out and incubate them and give them the right resources and tools not just money usually the better off They are so that Might make me start to dollar-cost average a little bit more of polygon I haven't been doing it lately because of what I've been talking about but it sounds good And yeah, let me just think about that in the comment section and very quickly Ethereum developers confirm data the merge and this is From superfizz.eath. There was a conference that went on consensus layer call And they said Prouder Bellatrix in the 8th of August Goldie merged in 11th December 18th August plan main net merge Early September the merge will be two weeks later September 19th Let's see what happens. I've covered this story so many times.  So let's see and that's it for today. So look I'm not gonna go into details on that because it's a waste of time. Let's see if they hit that timeline I doubt it. That's it for today. Look if you liked today's video, I want to like to ask you for a favor Hit the like button. That's all I need from you You don't have to subscribe just like come back. Maybe tomorrow if you like these types of things also as a reminder in About 20 minutes or so we're gonna be going over to James's channel to do the DCA show Ben's got some friends in town so he can't make it. That's cool. Well, we got my man Paul Barone from Tech talk or the Paul Barone network and he's gonna be with us and we're talking about a litany of different things and Especially just the macro stuff. So join us over there There's a link in the description just says DCA live and then you can go over there and chat with us But right now I'm just gonna do a quick Q&A 10 minutes or so I'll answer all your burning questions and we'll go from there. All right That's it. Let's see stop that banner comments Yeah, that was a watch turn likes. That's not bad.  I'll tell you exactly why So we had this great interview With Stefan from Truflation and he's the he's the the founder and CEO and it was great It was a great interview and it was like a pre-recorded one. So then when I switched over to me My mic was off. I didn't think it was off I talked for like five minutes of me just having no volume and it Irritates me to no end when I do those simple small mistakes So when I clicked and broadcast for some reason it just didn't end and I was just ticked off at that fact that I messed it up so You might know I try to do my best job and it just irritates the hell out of me when I don't do everything, right? I Am What is this one funky, but I'm concerned for anyone involved romantically with James. Well, perhaps It's all a numbers game, baby Why am I USDC and Voyager will be pro rated? I thought it's a stable coin equivalent to the USD Excuses and robbery at its best. So you are not wrong on that one the pro ration Maybe what it means? The dollar should be the dollars. You're right. It shouldn't be pro rated the Crypto could be pro rated because let's say they stopped the transaction on July 1st Maybe at that point they say okay, whatever the the monetary value is on July 1st, whatever it was Let's say Bitcoin 20,000 when they get done, maybe Bitcoin goes up to 25,000 They say okay, we're gonna give you $20,000 worth of Bitcoin and maybe 1200 worth of Ethereum and go from there But you're right for the pro rated version of of dollars It shouldn't be pro rated unless they're talking about now They shouldn't be talking about yield because that was only in USDC. So it's a good point and bring that up again Lots of milk still like meld I Got to get Ken owing in here the CEO talk about that again No, but I'm gonna make a t-shirt and it's gonna just be called. I'm not your dad And I think that would be a pretty good one to do you think would any of our crypto back from Celsius? Yeah, if we do we're gonna take a haircut. I'll tell you that Most of us enjoyed it. Everybody enjoyed that that part or most people did it was pretty funny. That's right. Samilla Jackson I was channeling him When toy Yoda That's true The the D's nuts community you got to love those guys if you guys don't follow these nuts Even sounds funny. There is a NFT. Let me just show you What that is? You can't even say it without laughing. That's what's great about that. Let me show you my screen These nuts NFTs I've owned these for gosh eight nine months now And it's one of the few that I actually value of all my of all my NFTs Just go to there and if you I'm not telling you guys to buy the NFTs. It's not it. Just check out their community It's hilarious. There's a guy named cookie on there and he does the best gifts on on a discord group It's great Let's see. Where am I? Okay. Yeah. Yeah, USD doesn't get is an equal USD. It's very true Doesn't work out like that And Jason Butler says a good point Bitcoin has never been around in a real bear market and we are just starting This is gonna get real nasty very soon Sri Lanka the euro This is just start potentially if we see a global recession or God help us a depression at some point I think that'll be the big defining factor. This is why this is and Jason Is it's such a great point that he brings out because we never know what's gonna happen? So when we start to feel like the bullishness you always have to take a look at the other side Which is what I try to give you here as best as possible. I Will still keep dollar cost averaging, but not every day It's just gonna go to once a week because I don't know we don't know what's gonna happen. However So Sri Lanka goes down Which it's already down. It's already bankrupt. The whole fiat economy has collapsed So they're in talk right now with the IMF to get it to get a loan How's that gonna work out? Well, they're gonna be in serious monstrous debt The question then is who are the countries that they owe and how much was it? Well, Sri Lanka is not a economic powerhouse, but it still affects people, right? Then of course the supply chain issues with China that's going to really screw up all the different imports that we have and of course the prices will increase because Supply chains are just not humming along and of course with them with more shutdowns And I even saw something about California wants to shut down again Because they have an increase of whatever variance name your variance and that's what it is so Then the real question is what happens with inflation and that's why we talked about that true flation website Let me show you one more time. I like this website cuz free and We can take a look at 30 different data set points brought in by chain link and get real-time information about what the real true inflation rates are and you can break it down by housing Look at that seven point five transportation Where's the now utilities this one's bad and And this the subcategories are natural gas electricity fuel water mates It's pretty high. This is what I'll be taking taking a look at the Fed will look retroactively And that's why those CPI numbers come up come out But that was like for a month ago So this is what we have right now you can be ahead of the Fed essentially just by taking a look at true flation Is that investment advice? Nope, but it's what I'll be watching so We'll see again the big thing that I'm looking at is Unemployment rates. It's still pretty damn low. Okay, you need a production team. I need a product while I was rushing the day Usually it's a bit more smoother than this Okay, dad That's right If I transfer coins in my web 3 domain, is that me holding my keys? So if you're talking about like an unstoppable domains, that's the that's a web 3 domain So the coins that you are putting into it that is a wallet that you designated So like for my like I have Dan teaches dot crypto and I have my Bitcoin address which is linked to my in my ledger account So I would own those keys because my ledger account However, if I put my Bitcoin address that was to Coinbase. No, I don't so Just wondering your opinion. I gotta tell you I'm very surprised how well it's been doing. It's very resilient And you guys know I am not the bull of the the ever permable. I am I Just call like I see it. It's very bearish market, but even as bad as it is Those CPI numbers hit hard and the bigger the next big test It's July 26 and 27th when the Fed meets and if they come out and they say, you know what? Let's hurt the banded off a full basis point. I Don't think they're gonna do that I think they're gonna be conservative because they're gonna look around at the numbers and go well the CPI numbers were retroactively So maybe we can take a look at it if they were smart enough on they're smart people.  It doesn't make any sense So of course people will debate but whatever I really I Think they're gonna still go point seven five But one's not off the table one's one full basis point isn't off the table And I give it like a 50-50 shot honestly, but if they come on say point seven five I bet the market were rally if they come out and say a full basis point. I don't think it's gonna affect it that much But and of course if those are right and and our market stays resilient Maybe they'll we'll see a little bit of a dip like we did on CPI numbers on the 13th they come back up That's a huge indicator for a little bit more bullishness. So if that happens, I'll probably start dollar cost averaging into all coins And what does that tell you? Yeah, some merch Songbird Yeah, you know what yeah songbird Do you think things will get worse before they get better price action watch of Bitcoin? 20,000 seems to be this this new level of support and of course there'll be people out there that say well It could go to 16 17 14 it could I'm not the TA guy, you know, I think you all know that but I just like what Ganon said about George Gammon about looking at The different price factors just take a look at and say is this cheap or is this expensive right now? Is Bitcoin cheap or is it expensive right now is Ethereum cheap or is it expensive right now? It's polygon cheap or expensive and if we take a look at just them all-time highs and the different things that are going on now like Like dragon chain is cheap, right? But in all honesty, I think it's kind of expensive for what it does right dragon chain We talked about it's not coming back.  I could be wrong But that's that's how I see it. So but the other ones like Bitcoin could rally I think it's cheap right now Ethereum everything's built on Ethereum like I don't really like paying the fees I don't like the fact that the merge gives getting pushed back, but everything's built on it and That's just how it is So until we get some more accurate bridges or some other companies that can say okay It doesn't matter what the chain is we can we can link them all together and make these cheap transactions Ethereum will still go up I Shout out for my awesome. Let's see oil was going down. Yeah oil was going down A couple of reasons is because there's some more lockdown especially in China so they're saying well there's not gonna be as much demand because people are locked down and That's one of the reasons so Ukraine war will end but yes, we're in for a bit of a run I don't know if that Ukraine war will end anytime soon. I think you could drag on for years That's another good another concern depends on how much we want to we and the European countries want to keep providing Ukraine with Machinery and missiles and drones and whatever else That's out of my wheelhouse though Don't hate on carrot.  The carrot was right That's interesting. Monkey says the inflation never about money printing. Maybe okay guys It's tensile. I get the heck out of here. So look again Let me not this one come over here come over to DC live right now and Then here's I just put a link in the disc in the comments so you can follow it or you can find it in the description itself and Let's talk Let's see. I know we're gonna talk about macro events. We're gonna talk about CPI numbers We're gonna talk about the potential on July 26 and 27th for those For the Fed rate hikes and we'll go from there. So come on over. Let's talk. That's it for today. So look like today's video I'll just hit the hit the like that's all I asked for and that's really it. I don't care if you subscribe or not I'm out of here. I'll see you guys the other show audios. I'm gonna hit and broadcast and try not to cuss this time


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Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the forum webinar series. I'm Colleen Danes, and I'll be administering the webinar today. In case you don't know, Preservation Leadership Forum is a professional membership program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and this webinar series is made possible by our many members of forum, and we sincerely thank those of you who are with us today. Today's webinar is focused on the multi-year project to recognize the Brown versus Board of Education site. Today you will hear directly from the sites about the past and future of these significant places and learn how to advocate for passage of the new legislation. Before we begin, I just have a few technical things to talk about. If you would like to share what you're hearing today, there are a couple of options. You can download a PDF of today's slides directly from the header marked handouts on your right-hand nav bar, the control panel. We will also be sending out a recording of today's webinar directly to the email that you used to register for this webinar. And finally, all of our webinars are archived in our forum webinar library, and we will share this address at the end of our presentation so you can download those. In addition, we will have some time towards the end for questions, so if you have some, you will see an option in the chat feature to send questions to staff, and we'll be able to compile those questions for our moderator. If you have questions during the webinar, feel free to submit any questions to the staff regarding technical issues or whatnot throughout the webinar, and we will be able to respond to you. Now I'm going to turn over our program to Leslie Cannon, Senior Field Office with the officer with the National Trust for Historic Presentation. Leslie. Thank you, Colleen, and thank you all for joining us for this important webinar about Brown v. Board. Just to get us started. The National Trust for Historic Preservation was invited by Majority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina to explore telling the full story of the Brown v. Board of Education case. The current story is known by most for the National Historic Site in Topeka, Kansas, and the story associated with that. The story and site in Topeka, Topeka, Kansas represents one of the most important events in our history, but what is missing, however, are the portfolio cases that helped Brown v. Board happen. The Briggs v. Elliott in South Carolina, Vila and Belton v. Gephardt in Delaware, Bowling v. Sharp in Washington, D.C., and Davis v. Prince Edward County in Virginia. Only by understanding those cases, stories, and communities can we fully understand the Brown v. Board of Education case. Over the last two years, Kendra Parson, Pam Bowman, and I have been working with Senate and congressional offices. We've visited all the sites and their stewards, and we've talked to community members about their local cases. And while there are numerous sites that can be associated with the Brown v. Board case, we are focusing on the schools most associated with local cases that are pictured in the next slide. Sorry, next slide. So here are just some pictures of all the schools that we've been working with over the last couple years. And so on September 18, we held a virtual launch through Zoom. That was headlined by Majority Whip James Clyburn, Senator Chris Coons of Delaware, and Catherine Malone France, the chief preservation officer of the National Trust. At that launch, we announced the introduction of legislation that will help us broaden our understanding with Brown v. Board. A little bit later, Pam Bowman will give you more specifics about that legislation. But what we're going to focus on first are those sites. Next slide. So just to give you an idea of how the webinar will be set up, we're doing the introduction now. Next will be site presentations. Then there'll be a question and answer with the site. So if you do have questions, please put them in the question chat and we'll be able to answer them at that portion. Then as I mentioned, Pam Bowman will be explaining in detail the legislation related to these cases. And Kendra Parson will be talking about how you can help us advocate on behalf of this legislation. We will then have a question and answer regarding the legislation, and then we will wrap up. And so let's get, let's start, officially start the webinar with Summerton, South Carolina, where we will hear from B Rivers, who is a community activist. Miss Rivers. Miss Rivers, are you there? While we wait, she might be having some technical difficulty. So perhaps while we're waiting to be able to get her on the line, perhaps we can move on to Cameron Patterson. I'm sorry that I apologize. The next person is actually the superintendent of Newcastle County Delaware, Dr. Joseph Jones, my apologies. Thank you Leslie. Good afternoon, everyone. I'm Joseph Jones, Superintendent of Newcastle County Votek School District. I'm here in Wilmington, Delaware. If we could advance to the next slide. On behalf of Howard High School of Technology and the Newcastle County Votek School District, I'm truly grateful that our school has the opportunity and honor to be included as an affiliated school of the Brown v. Board National Historic Site. By telling the full story of the combined cases that led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court's decision to end school segregation, we uncover the true struggle of our nation's civil rights journey, community by community. Next slide. Howard High School may have earned notoriety as the all black high school cited in the Belton v. Gibhart case that was combined with other cases in the 1954 Brown v. Board. But Howard has rightfully earned its place in our nation's civil rights history for more than 150 years. Howard High School, which opened in 1867 at 12th and Orange Streets in Wilmington, Howard or rather back then public school number 16 was the first school for black children in the community. In 1869, number 16 was named for Civil War General Oliver Otis Howard, a national leader in the work of the Freedman's Bureau. And Howard soon became the only institution in the four state area of Delaware, Northeastern Maryland, South Southern Jersey, and South Eastern Pennsylvania to offer a complete high school education to black students. As the new building was constructed at its present location in 1927, it's here where it's continued as a high school ever since. Civil rights leader, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King gave the only public speech he made in the state of Delaware from the stage at Howard on September 12 1960. Dr. King was introduced by Louis L. Redding, the Wilmington lawyer who had argued the belt in the Gibhart case. Howard High School was awarded national historic landmark status in 2005 because of its association with the Brown v. Board decision and because of its historical significance as the state first school for black children. Next slide. So everyone can appreciate what an educational treasure Howard has been in the past and continues to this day be for our community. The school remained a vibrant comprehensive city high school until 1972, when a building expansion double the school size and it embraced its vocational technical mission. Let me first return to the original Belton v. Gibhart case. Next slide. In Belton, parents of black children who were boss to Howard sued the state board of education after denied a request for them to attend the all white Claymont High School, which was closer to their homes. There were 12 students who were part of that case and in our opinion, where we honor them as being Delaware civil rights pioneers. Every bit of the courageous is Linda Brown in the peak of Kansas. A few of these pioneers are still living and we hope to incorporate their stories in our site experience at Howard. Next slide. Please take a look at Howard today. A modern comprehensive technical high school where 850 students are not only their high school diplomas, but industry recognized certifications in one of 13 different career programs of study. Leslie, is it possible to play the video? Thank you, Leslie. We are very eager for this legislation to be approved and to getting started with developing a site plan for visitors. Thank you for having us here today. Thank you, Superintendent Jones. And now we will have Allison David, who is the CEO of the Claymont Community Center. Everyone, thank you Leslie. It's such a pleasure to join everyone for this webinar. We're absolutely thrilled to be part of this effort to tell the complete story of integration. Next slide, please. Claymont High School was built in Claymont, Delaware in 1924. Its story of integration is truly an example of the community working together to integrate legally. The local Claymont Board of Education approached African American parents about integration. Both sides knew that this would be a really tough legal battle, but the parents bravely decided to move forward. Next slide, please. In 1951, Lewis Redding and an African American attorney in Delaware filed a lawsuit on behalf of eight African American students seeking admission to Claymont High School. In April of 1952, the Delaware Supreme Court upheld a ruling by Delaware Chancellor Colin Seitz declaring that separate schools were not equal and should be integrated. Seitz was the first judge to rule for immediate integration in a public school. Claymont High School prepared to admit 12 African American students on September 4th, 1952, having received verbal permission to do so the night before. Because the State Board of Education did not give written permission, Claymont was told to send the children home on the second day of school, and they defied that direction. While it wasn't perfect, the integration in Claymont was peaceful and remains an important part of our story in Delaware. We are very proud to be one of the cases cited in Brown versus the Board of Education. Next slide, please. The Claymont High School is now home to the Claymont Community Center, a non-profit anchor in the community that's been here for 45 years. We think it's extremely special to note that one of our founding members, Baker Trion, was on the school board at the time and was instrumental in the school's integration. Our mission is to enhance the community by addressing the human needs of wellness, belongingness, and esteem. We provide educational, recreational, and social support to people of all ages. We are eager to be part of this larger conversation to recognize the contribution that Claymont High School and the other sites made to end separate but equal education. We work now with the community to push for full equity for all Americans. Thank you. Thank you, Allison. And next, we're going to have David Wilk, who's the board chair and professor of Temple Fox School of Business for a Ho Kesson colored school number 107. Good morning, everyone. It's such a pleasure to be here and we are so excited to be part of the Brown versus Board of Education National Park Service affiliate sites. So thank you to Leslie and everyone at the National Trust for Historic Preservation for this honor. I'm David Wilk. I'm chair of the board of a nonprofit charity known as Friends of Ho Kesson colored school number 107. Could you please advance the slide? This is a picture of our actual school and property as it exists today. And it is a about 2200 square foot property on about five acres of land in a beautiful part of the state of Delaware. Next slide, please. Our team, one of the most unique things about the Ho Kesson colored school number 107 is one of our board members is the honorable CJ sites who is chief justice of the Delaware Supreme Court. And as incredible as this is on April 1 of 1952 CJ's father, Delaware Chancellor College J sites issued the decision declaring that disparity between the all white and African American schools was in violation of the Constitution. This ruling was appealed all the way to the Supreme Court where it was upheld and became part of Brown versus Board of Education. So it really has an incredible connection with what's happening today. And here are some of our other esteemed board members as well. Next slide, please. These are just some great pictures are overall theme really comes from the inspiration of an Emma Lazarus quote, until we are all free, we are none of us free. And if you look at the picture on the left, you can see that Lewis L. Reading, who was the first African American attorney in the state of Delaware, and also the first African American to attend Harvard Law School. This is Robert Carter, this is Oliver Hill, and this is Thurgood Marshall, and Spotswood Robinson, all of whom were involved in the cases that ultimately led to Brown versus Board of Education. Here in Delaware, we're very fortunate that we have Shirley Bula, who was the basis for the case in the Ho Kesson School, and then Louise Ethel Louise Belton from Howard and also Claymont. And the most interesting thing about Shirley Bula's history is the only thing that Shirley's parents wanted was for a bus to pick her up and take her to the black school on the way to dropping off all of the white children at the white school. And the state of Delaware refused to do that. And the Bulas were not looking to be the ones who brought down segregation in schools, but because they hired Lewis Reading to represent them this led all the way to being a folded into Brown versus Board of Education and ultimately leading to desegregation of schools. So it's pretty amazing it could start with an innocent inquiry and some great archives. Next slide please. The most awe inspiring part to me and all of our members of our volunteer board is that we still have the blessing of having living students who went to the Ho Kesson School still alive here to tell their story. And so this is Leroy Peterson who was there in the late 40s, Sonny Knot who's 90 years old and was there from 1937 to 1944. This is Sonny's sister Charlotte who went there. This is Robert Berry and this is Blanche Tucker. And this is our Newcastle County executive, Matt Meyer. So we have a lot of videos and we're spending a lot of time capturing the memories of the students who actually went to the school which is just beyond amazing to us. Next slide please. The future of the school. It wasn't enough for our board to really say, well we're going to memorialize this place and turn it into a museum commemorating the history. Similar to what they've done with the Claimant Community Center and also an amazing job that has been done with the Howard High School of Technology. We have decided to and have entered into an agreement with Newcastle County to turn the historic Ho Kesson Colored School into a center for diversity, training, inclusion and social equity. And we are working with obviously the thrill of being able to be included in the National Park Service but we've got a lot of great stakeholders that are partnering with us in this process. Next slide please. There's so much gratitude from all of us to the National Trust, Representative Clybourne, Senator Coons, Senator Carper, Lisa Blunt Rochester, our Chief Justice, Dr. Tony Allen, and County Executive, Matthew Meyer. This is a picture of all of the students and all of many of the folks that are in this mention at the signing ceremony for the MOU between our friends group and the county for the Diversity and Inclusion Center that just happened on August 10th of this year. And so would you please run the video please. Newcastle County Executive Matt Meyer honored to be here with several students, two alums of the Ho Kesson Colored School. In Newcastle County today we are reckoning with issues of justice, issues of how to govern and how to have communities that are fair to everyone for the present and the future. In order to do that we first must understand our past. We have to understand tremendous horrific injustices that happen not just in our country, not just in our state but right here in Ho Kesson in Newcastle County. And that's why we're so excited to potentially partner with the federal government to preserve places like this that enable us to educate everyone in the community, this generation and future generations so we can understand the past and build a better future. Great, thank you. Students, we are so fortunate. I'm David Wilk in the background, chairman of the Friends of Ho Kesson School. We are so fortunate to have four of the students that actually went to the school in the 30s and 40s. And so may, would you all just introduce yourselves please? Start with Sonny. My name is James Sonny Knot. My name is Robert S. Berry. My name is Blanche M. Tupper. Great. Oh, and we have one more. Come on in Leroy. And we have one more addition which is Leroy. Leroy, introduce yourself please. My name is Leroy Peterson. I went to the school back in 1946. That's great. And we, on behalf of the Friends and on behalf of the county, we just all want to say an incredible thank you to Senator Coons and Representative Clyburn for taking the time and having the passion to include the Ho Kesson School in our national park system in the future. Yeah, thank you. So it takes leadership. I know that nothing happens unless individuals make it a priority to make it happen. And Senator Coons, Representative Clyburn, your leadership, it is national leadership. There are communities just like us here. There are students just like these students, alums all over the country who I think are extremely humbled by your leadership. And we're excited to partner with you to preserve the history of this tremendous community institution for generations to come. Thank you very much. And to the students, it is good. And now we just want to let you know from all of us, it gives us chills and goosebumps to think that we have the ability to memorialize this place with all of you because it's such an important part of your life. It is such a gift for all of us to be able to share your experiences and our plan is to have lots of videos and lots of interviews and lots of capturing your memories of what it was like to go to school here. And that'll be all a part of what we do in the future when we renovate and reimagine this place. And as Dr. Blackwell, one of our new board members said, this is hallowed ground, and we want to make sure that it's preserved for future generations. Thank you. Thank you all very much. Thank you, Mr. Wilk. Now, we'll hear from Cameron Patterson, who's the executive director of Robert Rosa Moten Museum. Good morning. I'm grateful for the opportunity to share on behalf of the museum and on behalf of our community. If you could advance the slide. It was here at this site, the former Robert Rosa Moten High School, which is now the Robert Rosa Moten Museum and a national historic landmark that nearly 70 years ago, students walked out of school and into history. And our focus is sharing Prince Edward County's story, one in which children play a significant role. In 1951, the Moten student strike launched a 13 year court battle to achieve educational equality. Davis versus County School Board of Prince Edward County was the only student initiated case of the five that comprise Brown v. Board of Education. At the local level, Prince Edward County was the only county in the nation to close its public schools for five years between 1959 and 1964, rather than desegregate. And it would take a subsequent court case in Griffin versus County School Board of Prince Edward for the Supreme Court to intervene and reopen schools. We know that the Prince Edward story and the story of our communities involved in Brown v. Board teaches us how everyday citizens can make extraordinary change. And these citizens use the tools of a constitutional democracy to bring forth that change. Again, this story is one in which students play a significant role. And to understand the Davis case and our community's involvement in Brown v. Board, we must first mention how things got started. It was a committee of students led by 16 year old Barbara Johns that planned the student walkout that took place here at Robert Russell Milton High School on the 23rd of April 1951. Johns recounted the inadequate school conditions and encouraged her fellow classmates to walk out of school in protest until county officials agreed to build a new school. After connecting with leaders from the NAACP's legal team, Oliver Hill and Spotsworth Robinson, those gentlemen agreed to take the students case, thus beginning what we know as Davis versus County School Board of Prince Edward. The lawyers agreed to take that case under two conditions. First, the students must gain the support of their parents and the support of the community. And additionally, students must be willing to have challenged the constitutionality of segregation, which they would ultimately end up doing. We see from the photo to the left of mass meeting that took place in May of 1951 where the community came together to offer its support to the students as we began to move forward with the legal efforts. And the photo to the right is a photo of plaintiffs involved in Davis versus County School Board of Prince Edward, which would become one of the five that make up Brown v. Board of Education. These are the faces of individuals whose courage and sacrifice helped to change the nation. Prince Edward County represented nearly 70% of the plaintiffs that would be involved in Brown v. Board of Education. Advanced slide. Following the period in which Virginia enters known as massive resistance, Prince Edward County stood alone facing a court order to desegregate schools in September of 1959. And it was at this time that County leaders, our local Board of Supervisors, the governing body refused to fund the schools effectively closing them. And the NAACP would challenge the closing of schools in Griffith versus County School Board of Prince Edward. And it would reopen public schools here in Prince Edward. This is certainly an impact that we still feel today within our community. We're proud that here at this site, that it was local citizens led by the Martha E. Forster Council for Women, Advanced Slide, that worked to mobilize to purchase the Milton School building from the county. They succeeded in designating the school a national historic landmark and ensuring that it was placed on Virginia's landmark register. We're proud that we've been able to open this museum in 2001, where next year we will celebrate our 20th anniversary of being open to the public. And we're grateful that through our permanent exhibit, Milton School Story, Children of Courage, that we are able to share of the courage and sacrifice of Prince Edward citizens, that we're able to share of the broader context of Brown the Board of Education, and that we're able to tell the story of those who were locked out of schools between 1959 and 1964. We're proud to join with communities involved in Brown as we seek affiliation with the National Park Service, because we believe in the importance for our collective ability to share this history, because we know that it strengthens us all. Thank you. Thank you, Cameron. Now, we were not able to have a panelist from Susan Middle School, but we will now watch a video that they sent. 1954 represents global awareness. 1954 represents choice and catalysts. 1954 represents strength, passion, revolution, breaking barriers. 1954 represents freedom as a group. 1954 represents power, persistence. 1954 represents success, solidarity, history, humanity, resiliency. 1954, we fought. In 2020, we fight. And we'll keep on doing so until every black and brown child has the power to create the life and the choice that they were born into this world to do. So we honor the legacy of our ancestors. We honor every single parent and caregiver and community member who joins us in this academic and intellectual and mental fight. So join Sousa in this fight. Join Sousa in this protest. Join Sousa in making sure that every single black and brown child gets, deserves, and has access to high quality education. Teachers who love them, a community full of resources, and just a good life to see them as children, to see them as those who are empowered to live the life that their ancestors died. Walked, marched, and fought for. We are Sousa. Thank you to Sousa for sending us that great video. I'm going to try to circle back and see if the rivers was able to get back online. Are you ready for me? Can you hear me? Yes, in this room, we can hear you. You can hear me, okay. So you're ready for me to start now? Yes, Miss Rivers, we are ready. All right. I was, I like to start by thanking you all for doing this. I think this is a great thing. And I think Summerton is deserving of having this dishonor. And I would like to start with the origins of Briggs versus Elliott. The first lawsuit to reach the United States Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of school segregation originated in Clarendon County, South Carolina. Even though the case became Brown versus the board, Briggs versus Elliott provided the basis for most of the evidence and arguments used in Supreme Court trial. It had not been for some poor people in Clarendon County, racial segregation in the United States may have continued for a longer period of time. Now I would like to start with the bus transportation case. That was the first case filed in Clarendon County and it was against the school board. The families in the Davis station area were asking for a bus transportation to get their children to high to high school because they lived eight to nine miles away from Scott's branch high school and they had to walk both ways each day. The families in Davis station, the Hammett families, Hammett Pearson, I'm sorry, Hammett Pearson and his brother Levi, they got together and they filed a lawsuit for bus transportation. And when that failed, when the county refused to do that, they asked the county, they bought a bus and they asked the county to provide gas for the transportation to and from school. The county refused to do that as well. And then the case was thrown out because they put the decisions that needed was that the Pearson's were living in one school district and paying taxes in another school district. Excuse me. So that was the people of Clarendon County had to decide how to proceed. And that's when they proceeded to Briggs versus Elliott. And then Briggs versus Elliott, Reverend DeLane was the person who led this group in that event. They were, most of the people in Clarendon County were undereducated and farmers and they had menial jobs and things like that. Many of them did own their own land. So they paid taxes and but denied everything that went along with being represented in the school district. So in January of 1949. They had to transition from the bus transportation case to the equalization case. But that's when the NAACP attorneys, along with Reverend DeLane, they asked that they have at least three months later on March of 1949. Mr. Thurgood Marshall, a lawyer for the National NAACP Legal Defense Fund met with a group from Clarendon County. And Marshall told the group that the NAACP had decided it would no longer argue cases whose only goal was to obtain bus transportation. So the Clarendon County group was not willing to let the matter drop. Too many things were wrong with our schools and their children's work. For example, Scott's Branch School in Summerton had two outdoor toilets to serve 12 grades of students and their teachers. Drinking water fountains, rural fountains on outside the school yard. There were not even enough classrooms for the students. After being urged to remain too far and reconsidered by Reverend DeLane and the six other representatives from Clarendon County. Marshall finally proposed an alternate action plan. He said that the NAACP would back a group of parents who wanted to sue for equal educational opportunities and facilities for Negro children if they could find such a group in Clarendon County. DeLane came back from the meeting with the NAACP and the group ended up being over 100 parents and students were suing for equalization of schools. This all started in May of 1949. As parents signed, they became Briggs because parents signed in alphabetical order. And the Briggs family was the first family to sign. My family, the Brown family, was the second family to sign. And as this went on, and the case was heard in the district court, the judge, J. Waring said that, why are you suing for equalization of schools when you supposedly already have that? So that's when Dr. Marshall and the other lawyers went back and decided to file for desegregation of schools. In fact, they got 20 parents from that group of parents that signed for equalization of schools. The parents who signed for desegregation of schools and they became the plaintiffs in that case. And that's when the case was the first case to go to the U.S. Supreme Court. That was the case for desegregation of schools in South Carolina. The fact that it became, it was passed through the courts and it became Brown versus the Board. And our case was one of those cases that made up Brown versus the Board. But it was by our parents standing up for us in Summit in South Carolina, very small town, very small county. They in turn stood up for every child in the United States of America. And their legacy should be one that is never forgotten. We know what it is that they, they fought for us and we should never forget what they gave up. Many of them were fired, not that all of them were fired from their jobs. They gave up everything for us. So we should be very appreciative and always honor their legacy. Thank you. Thank you so much, Ms. Rivers. We appreciate it. And so now we'll move on to the question and answer portion of this. The first question is, has the former Hoquessen White School been considered for inclusion? And I'm assuming considered for inclusion in this legislation. I'll actually answer that. And currently we actually have three schools from Delaware. So Claimonts, Hoquessen Colored School, and Howard High School. And so for now we're only considering those three schools for inclusion. Are there any other questions? So now there's a question. My main question is how this alliance broadening of the National Historic Site work. I assume, I'm sure, I'm assuming we're getting to that later. Sure. So I'm assuming that this question is related to the existing existing National Historic Site in Topeka, Kansas. And so that will be explained in the legislation because as part of the legislation, there is going to be, there's proposed a change to the National Historic Site, which Pam will discuss. The next question. What is the timeline for the process? Well, you know, I'll actually have Pam get into that during the legislation because of course part of the timeline depends on if and when this legislation passes. So I actually have Pam address that question in the question and answer portion of the legislation advocacy. The next question is, can the panelists talk about any specific preservation issues currently impacting the schools? Are all of them actively used? So does each panelist want to address that? Maybe we start with Cameron. Definitely. So we've been very fortunate. So, you know, as I mentioned, there was a community group of individuals, the Marthei Forester Council that purchased the building from the county, set us on the path to being able to open our museum, which we were able to do in 2001.  So we were fortunate to be able to complete that process fully in 2013. So we restored the former Robert Russell Moten High School, which is now the site of the museum. We were able to take the existing classroom spaces that we have here at the museum and convert them into gallery space to help us fully tell the story. We were also fortunate from a preservation standpoint to be able to restore the site to its look and functionality from the period in which the students went on strike in 1951. So you see that reflected in the auditorium. You see that reflected in the furnishings and fixtures that were still here on site. So preservation is important and we've been very fortunate to be able to generate some strong support to be able to do that. I think what excites us moving forward is the ability to collectively collaborate with other communities as we seek to elevate this story. Thank you Cameron. I just want to do a time check we're running a little bit behind on time. So for those questions that we can't get to because this is actually going to be the last question for this particular segment. We're going to definitely get your question answered and follow up with with a post about it. So I'll move on to Allison. And again, we have about 12 minutes left and we have a few more segments. So if you could just briefly answer. Sure. Thank you. I would say, you know, the community center, the actual building was owned by the school district for up until very recently when we bought it from the school district. But over the years, we've sort of balanced the preservation of important rooms in the center, balancing that with operating programs and services here. We have a history room that was supported by Steger Triumph family financially. So we have artifacts and memorabilia from the school that we keep, you know, we keep protected. We also have WPA murals in our center. So we work to preserve those. So it's a real balancing act for us of preserving that history, but then also having a space that operates as a fully functioning community center. Thank you Allison. Dr. Jones, do you have a comment. Thank you Leslie. Yes, we are an active site and active school. I mean, obviously within COVID that's changed things a little bit, but normally we would have a about 850 students attending each day. So not preservation per se. We did just go through a robust renovation and a part of that entire architectural design was to preserve and restore elements of the original historic Howard site that building. And it was a quick video, but you did see shots of the auditorium that were originally stored to its grandeur. It's absolutely beautiful auditorium. We are looking currently to reserve some space. We would like this to be an active visiting site where people can come see the site, see the school and experience the history that it has to offer and really look to integrate also with the Claymont Community Center. So people get the full Delaware story and how it ties to Brown v. Board. So all of that is in the works and I know Allison is in agreement. So we're looking forward to moving in that direction. Thank you, Dr. Jones. David will any final comments. Just unmuted. Our story is very different. In 2012, the pocus and colored school was on the sheriff sale block, because a the previous owners of the property had entered into a renovation and expansion of the property and a quarter of the way in. They ran out of money and the contractor filed a mechanics lean on the property and so headed by Dr. Tony Allen, president of Delaware State University and the honorable Josh Martin and also judge Leonard Williams and our Chief Justice CJ sites and Dick Christopher and Fred Sears and Bill Allen, our board members and the Delaware Community Foundation. They raised money to purchase the mechanics leans and to save the property from sheriff sale and it's located in an area of Delaware. We were very attracted to residential development, and the fear was that it would be lost to development and someone would knock the school down, because they didn't have the same feeling that our board members did so we were formed for the purpose of saving the school. We worked amicably with the existing owners to gain transfer of ownership of the property in 2015, and the whole goal now is to, unfortunately, one of the back walls of the original school was demolished during the renovation process which was really unfortunate. But as far as the rest of it goes we're preserving all of the outside walls and the original brick walls but unfortunately on the inside, it's basically just shell a shell building. We're going to use the inspiration of the story of Shirley Pula and the students who you met today to create a living museum with current technology and media and and also have kind of it be besides being a place of diversity and inclusion center. It's going to be a community hub for creating innovation in education going forward so we're trying to do as many things as possible. We're in a little different stage in that we're in the beginning of the community engagement process. We're inviting the community into collaboration, including our national community of new friends that we've met today to make sure that we don't ever assume that we know how to treat the priceless history of the school and its role in Brown versus Board of Education in the best way possible. Thank you, David. And now turn it over to Pam, who will talk about the legislation. Hi everyone. Thank you Leslie and thank you to all the presenters. Your story and the history you shared was truly the inspiration for this collaborative project as we've collectively thought about ways the public can learn more about the Brown v Board of Education. Okay. First slide please. One of our starting points for this project was to take a look at the National Park System. And you'll see here on the slide that the National Park Services manages over 400 sites. And this includes everything from large landscapes, but also historic buildings and cultural assets. And you heard previously in the webinar that one of those is the National Park Services Brown v Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka, Kansas. An idea was formed to enhance the portfolio of the National Park System to include additional historic places representing the other four court cases in Brown v Board. And after two years working with communities and congressional offices, on September 17th the legislation was introduced. And by and large the bill does two things. First, it expands the Topeka, Kansas site to include sites in South Carolina and would also establish NPS affiliated areas in Virginia, Delaware, and Washington DC communities. Next slide. And of the over 400 National Park Service sites, they each have a different type of designation like National Parks, National Historical Parks, or National Battlefield. And one of the lesser known designations is National Park Service affiliated areas of which there's currently 25. And these can range from an individual building to a grouping of buildings or even a large landscape. And for most of the sites that you heard from today, they opted to become a National Park Service affiliated area. There's a few advantages listed on the screen about this type of designation. And one of them being that these sites are able to retain their private ownership. You saw a lot during the webinar about the current use of these schools. Some are also a museum, and that can continue even though they become a National Park Service affiliated area. They're also able to establish management plans and cooperative agreements with the National Park Service that allow for some flexibility in how their story is told and what involvement they have with the National Park Service. Because their National Park Service is affiliated areas, it also doesn't contribute to the National Park Service deferred maintenance backlog, which you may have heard a lot in the news recently about the repair needs at the Park Service. These sites would not contribute to that, and we've heard some reasons from Capitol Hill about why that's an advantage as well. The sites are also available to receive technical and financial assistance from the National Park Service as well as federal appropriations. And these are just some of the many reasons and benefits of being affiliated with the National Park Service. In addition to that, we're better able to connect the stories of all of these cases that are part of Brown v. Board and also to deal with things like heritage tourism and the branding of the Park Service to give some more attention and allow the public to learn more about these sites. Excellent. And you'll see here a little bit about the bills on your screen. There were two bills introduced simultaneously that day, one in the House and one in the Senate. In the House, it was introduced by Representative Clyburn from South Carolina, along with original co-sponsors and supporters from each of the congressional districts representing these communities. In the Senate, the legislation was introduced by Senator Coombs, and you'll see the names of the senators from each of those states who were also original co-sponsors of that bill. And so we certainly thank these offices, all of them, for their leadership over the past two years and moving forward to help advance this legislative proposal to expand the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site. We were very pleased that our efforts from both the communities and here at the National Trust were able to have 100% participation by House and Senate offices representing these site locations. In terms of the past forward, we also got a question on this in the chat. As you all know, we are in the midst of an election year, and so there's a little bit of uncertainty right now about the legislative calendar and what bills will be heard in committee or on the House or Senate floor between now and the end of the year. But we wanted to get the ball rolling and get this legislation introduced so we can all start to be educating people and starting to spread our resources and our knowledge to set this up for some success either later in this Congress or in the future. And to tell us a little bit more about the tools that we have initially and some of the advocacy opportunities that you have, my colleague Kendra Parsons will be speaking about that. Thank you, ma'am. I'm so thrilled that we've had the opportunity today to hear from so many of our sites and to share and learn some of this incredibly rich history. Next slide please. So we'd like to ask all of you joining us today to add your voice and support of this legislation. First, please visit our the brandy board page on our website saving places.org to ask your elected officials to support this legislation. We also invite national or DC Virginia Delaware or South Carolina or Kansas based organizations to join us on a sign on letter to Congress. And you can indicate interest in adding your name to the letter by emailing us at brown VBO we at saving places.org. Finally, please follow the National Trust website and social media for updates and for their opportunities to get involved. And please share the news of this legislation with your own networks and ask them to join us in support. This time. We'll have the opportunity to ask a few questions about legislation or advocacy opportunities from our audience. The first question is understanding this is a federal legislation. Are there any state laws being introduced to also support this cause a better question is the National Trust working with state entities to support the legislation. I can answer that briefly. We've been focused on legislation at the federal level. One of the reasons for that is because these would be National Park Service affiliated areas even expansion of an existing National Park Service site. That would need to happen at the federal level, but Kendra Leslie and others have been in touch with your communities to do what we can to see how this effort can be supported in your community. There's certainly nothing at the state or local level from a legislative standpoint that we are working on right now, but we hope to have support from those folks as well. The next question is where can a copy of the bill be obtained. We will have some links for you to access that legislation on the National Trust website, the URL that Kendra shared a moment ago. You can also go to www.congress.gov. And when you type in the bill numbers, you'll able to see each day and updated list of co sponsors and supporters of those bills, as well as the text of the legislation. That's also somewhere where you can see the progress of the bill if there's a committee hearing or a vote on the House or Senate score. Then there's a question. How did this initiative get started? What do you recommend for other groups of sites who may want to push for similar recognition? Well, as Leslie mentioned at the beginning of the webinar, we had a conversation, the National Trust and Representative Clyburn just over two years ago talking about the idea of connecting the sites, elevating their stories, and perhaps pursuing this legislative project that's now come to fruition. I think for other sites who are interested in doing something similar to this, it will be on a case by case basis. I think to evaluate the different opportunities and options for your site to perhaps do something at the federal level. And depending on where you're located, there's different, you would talk to different members of Congress, either in the House or the Senate to maybe explore that opportunity. So this is going to be the last question, and this actually came in the other part of the Q&A, and that is, and I'd ask to see if any of our panelists want to answer this question, and that is, does anyone care to comment on what would happen if Brown v. Board of Education is overturned? Great question. I will let someone from one of the sites comment on that. I can attempt to answer that question. Honestly, in all my years of education, which spans over two decades now in Delaware, I've never even thought of that. I would shudder at the thought, I think, and especially in Newcastle County, Delaware, we reside, and which I've grown up in. We've done and attempted to make great strides towards integration, equity, and diversity at all levels. And so I think if that happened, we would set back, you know, hundreds of years. And I would like to think that I'm a product of deep segregation in Delaware, and I was, you know, transported from one area to another to attend schools. And so I would like to think at this point, people like me are now in seats that think of the dynamic lives that our students are living, and that we're trying to reach them every day to provide them the very best opportunities, regardless of race. And so we work towards that every day in our district, and I would like to think every day in our state. So it's a great question. Not something I've thought about before. But if that's being asked, that's obviously something someone else has thought of. So I appreciate it. Would anyone else like to address that question? Sure, I'll take a stab at that. I think the whole purpose behind all of your great work and all the collective efforts of all of the stakeholders. And the whole idea is, we can never let this happen again. And regardless of whether Brown versus Board of Education is overturned, the voice of the marketplace and the voice of our people in the country will resonate louder than any legislation. So I think that we're using the inspiration behind Brown versus Board of Education to turn our school into a center for diversity, training, inclusion, and social equity. And the whole idea is that's where we're going to teach people how to be more tolerant and how to be more accepting of people that are different than them. And I think as a real estate advisor and also a teacher, this is what the market is saying. Our generations coming up want inclusion and social equity to be a core part of who we are in the future. So I think the train has left the station on that. But I think that it's really critical that we never assume that it's too late to teach everybody how to be better human beings by understanding what it feels like to be inclusive and value add to everyone in our communities around the country and around the world. So hopefully that trend will outweigh any judicial action or political misbehavior. So anyway, fingers crossed on that. Anyone want to make a final comment? I think, you know, one of the things that I would just remind us all, I mean, Brown was a great and important legal achievement for the country. But it is not the end all be all in terms of the equity and inequality issues that we still face as a nation. In some ways, it was the Brown follow up in terms of Brown to that is really defining us in a pretty impactful way in terms of the inequalities that we still face in a number of different areas, including education. So, you know, I hope that, you know, our work with this effort is a reminder that, you know, we still got to keep moving. We still got to keep fighting to ensure that we are making important strides forward. Thank you Cameron. There was one last question that I'm going to answer and it asks if there is a uniform statement that can be sent out by advocates via their social media sites to promote the initiative. The answer is absolutely. I might suggest that you email us at bbboe at savingplaces.org and we can get that information for anyone that wants to help us advocate regarding this legislation through their social media. We would love that. So please reach out to us and we can get you the language for the different social media platforms. Great. Thank you everyone. I just wanted to let you know that we can keep the discussion going on our forum connect. This is our free online community for people in the business of saving places. We have active conversations happening all week throughout the week on topics such as section 106 to women's history at historic sites. If you haven't joined form connect, you should definitely do so now and continue the conversation. In addition, we want to invite you all to attend our online conference next month, October 27 through the 30th. Early bird registration ends on October 7. So I encourage you if you're looking interested in joining, definitely do so by the 7th so you can receive deep discounts on the conference. And again, I just wanted to thank everyone for attending today's conference. A special thank you to our speakers for sharing their experience and expertise. And if you have any questions about this webinar or others, feel free to send us an email. You can also email us about the the statement for social media and we will forward that along to our colleagues who are working on that campaign email is forum at savingplaces.org. Thank you so much. Have a good day.