S E340: Dr Greg Carr: "Meet Dorothy Porter Wesley!"
In Class with Carr
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4.9 • 972 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Dorothy Porter Wesley, one of the greatest librarians in history, refused to let black authors be crushed and forced into one of just two categories (slavery and colonialism). She changed the library system and gave breath to many great Black authors. #InClassWithCarr, Dr. Greg Carr gives the history. #OurStory.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. |
| 0:10.0 | All right, welcome back, that's right. |
| 0:12.0 | Dr. Great Carr, we're in class with Carr. |
| 0:15.0 | Thank you for joining me again. |
| 0:17.0 | Subscribe to this channel. |
| 0:18.0 | If you are fed by this, you like what you're hearing, |
| 0:20.0 | give us the like, the thumbs up as well. |
| 0:22.0 | Today you said you're going to |
| 0:23.8 | surprise me with somebody we're going to have every week on Saturday we're |
| 0:27.5 | going to have these conversations about a historical figure because people need |
| 0:31.0 | to know there's some is y'all should know and Dr. Gray car knows it. All right, so who's this woman that you're going to tell us about today and why am I going to be surprised? |
| 0:40.0 | Well Karen as you know, we've been talking about this and folks who are watching this know that over the arc now, as we build this momentum, |
| 0:49.0 | we see this sister sitting at the nexus of technology and education this this teacher |
| 0:54.6 | this professor this media kind of platform builder and international figure |
| 1:01.2 | Karen Hunter who who is joking people. |
| 1:03.0 | Oh, no, no, no, no, no, absolutely. |
| 1:07.0 | But I mean that very seriously because what you're doing, |
| 1:10.0 | you know, it's a lot of scholarship now in in in academia they talk they like to talk about |
| 1:14.3 | curation how do we curate well you know we know you we think about curious we think about |
| 1:19.0 | museums how do people put things together well the only reason to to a museum is to look at stuff and think |
| 1:24.1 | about things you have never thought about before. Well you're curating, this platform you |
| 1:28.5 | use it to curate, let me put things together and then have you look at them and think and engaged them back and forth. |
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