(More images of the Jan. 18th 2009 "We Are One" concert at the Lincoln Memorial available at flickr.)
HI 152 Teaching Fellow Kerri Greenidge is in D.C. right now for the Inauguration and she just sent this post:
It is madness here! A great kind of madness that is kind of refreshing. I met a 75 year old white Republican from New Mexico who came all the way here with his daughter and biracial grandkids and a black man who can remember being beaten with a billy club in Virginia for riding at the front of the bus in the 1960s . . . AFTER segregation in public transportation was supposedly outlawed. Amazing stuff. I will email you more hopefully tomorrow but I can also email you on Wednesday with my recollections of the event.
See you when I get back,
Kerri Greenidge
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