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From YouTube: Discovering the roots of Black History - Lewis Latimer
Description
City of Chelsea
A
B
B
and
we've
wanted
to
know
where
to
where
do
African
Americans
fit
in
Chelsea's
history.
So
we
immediately
found
Louis
Latimer,
the
inventor
and
scientist
and
do
this
book.
If
you
opened
it
up
and
they
give
a
description
of
him,
they
talk
about
him
coming
from
Chelsea
Mass
as
a
boy.
He
grew.
He
grew
up
here.
Well,
there
was
a
particular
family
and
Chelsea
that
believed
that
they
were
related
to
him.
That's
where
this
book
came
from.
She,
let
me
borrow
it
opened
a
book
wondering
why
we
never
heard
of
this
guy
in
the
city.
B
So
that's
how
it
all
started.
This
program
today
is
called
a
discovering
the
roots
of
black
history
in
Chelsea,
because
this
those
roots
grow
deep,
very
deep
So.
Today
we're
going
to
talk
about
the
Lewis
Latimer
House
Museum
in
New,
York
City,
and
the
role
that
his
granddaughter
Dr
Winifred
ladder
manaman.
Who
was
our
historian
and
provided
us
with
a
lot
of
information
and
artifacts,
and
things
like
that,
so
I'll
put
it
over
the
over
to
Leo,
say
a
few
words.
C
B
So
we
were
fortunate
enough
to
be
there
for
openings
pre-openings
a
day
in
the
life
of
the
Latimer
family,
either
with
particular
programs
that
were
designed.
We
became
part
of
the
network
because
when
we
originally
went
there,
we
went
there
to
ask
Dr
Winifred.
How
can
we
use
your
grandfather
as
a
role
model
for
young
people?
C
B
Right
so
so
we,
when
we
went
to
first
to
visit
the
doctor
in
New
York.
We
had
said
that
to
her
and
and
that
sort
of
thing
but
and
we
met
other
people,
other
doctors
that
were
all
into
this
whole
Lewis
Latimer
thing
people
want
to
know
about
this
man.
Even
today,
all
these
years
later,
you
had
recently
had
an
exhibit,
wasn't
Us
in
the
gallery
on
Broadway
I,
don't
know
who
did
that
tell
you
the
truth?
They
never
contacted
us
and
said
anything
about
it.
B
B
C
We
thought
it
would
be
appropriate
to
take
the
train
down
and
we
had
a
meeting
with
Dr
Latimer
at
her
house
and
I
always
think
about
when
we
were
getting
into
New
York
around
seven
o'clock
at
night,
and
we
said
to
talk
to
wonderful,
we
will
come
and
see
you
the
next
day
and
she
goes
hold
on.
Let
me
look
at
my
calendar.
She
goes
I'm
going
to
be
at
a
meeting
until
8
o'clock.
C
Why
don't
you
boys
come
by
at
nine
o'clock
and
we
sat
with
Dr
Wonder
for
from
nine
o'clock
to
after
midnight,
and
she
would
pull
out
all
these
artifacts
on
her
grandfather
and
have
conversation.
You
know
with
us
about
her
grandfather
and
we
felt
it
was
appropriate
to
be
able
to
share
those
things
that
we've
learned
from
her,
as
well
as
her
learning
about
his
growing
up
here
in
Chelsea
and
spending
time
in
this
area.
C
B
C
And
the
bridge
put
down
in
the
Bridgeport
area,
and
actually
we
were
recognized
by
the
City
of
Bridgeport
Connecticut
for
our
work
with
young
people
when
we
accepted
the
award
on
behalf
of
Dr
wonderford
Latimer,
who
was
our
Guru
when
it
came
to
working
with
her
and
getting
the
information
out
about
her
grandfather?
And
she
would
say
to
people
any
information
that
you
need.
C
You
need
to
contact
the
Robinson
Brothers
in
Chelsea
because
they
know
more
about
my
grandfather
than
most
people
do
when
they
have
the
whole
piece
of
Chelsea,
which
seems
to
be
left
out
when
people
talk
about
Louis
Latimer,
because
they
look
at
New
York
and
not
include
Chelsea,
and
we
want
to
make
sure
that
you
know.
Chelsea
is
part
of
the
whole
conversation
around
that
well,.
B
And
it's
important
because
obviously
this
is
the
place
of
his
birth,
but
the
Vladimir
family
in
general
is
fascinating
family
because
it
there
were
activities
touched
on
various
parts
of
American
history
and
that's
the
bottom
line
with
Lewis
he's
African-American.
But
he
was
part
of
America's
history
and
and.
B
That
sort
of
thing,
and
at
the
same
time
his
wife
was
placed
in
Chelsea
and
that
was
on
as
part
of
the
Underground
Railroad,
so
different
parts
of
American
History,
this
one
family
touched
George
Latimer.
Also
the
Massachusetts
personal
Liberties
law
was
developed
because
of
him.
That
said,
you
can't,
if
you
are
an
escaped
slave,
you
cannot
be
sent
caught
and
sent
back
to
your
your.
A
B
B
She
was
part
of
a
group
to
save
the
Latimer's
house
in
New
York.
That
said,
they
sold
the
house
his
daughter,
then
the
house
sat
empty.
Then
the
city
in
New,
York
was
going
to
tear
down
and
Dr
winifit
and
and
others
set
up
a
committee
to
save
the
house,
and
they
did
obviously
once
the
house
was
saved
and
they
went
on
to
raise
money
for
by
working
with
the
Queensborough
president
Queens.
B
If
you
know
New
York
is
a
very
historical
place
to
get
just
to
start
developing
the
house,
rebuilding
it
and
all
that
and
moving
it
and
in
the
future,
you'll
see
pitches
of
the
move
actually
move
in
the
house.
That
sort
of
thing.
So
so
that's
why
we
keep
talking
about
her
because
she
was
she
was
co-chair
of
that
committee
and
then
she
became
the
vice
president
of
a
new
committee
that
was
developed
once
the
house
was
saved
called
the
latim
of
fun.
C
And
and
actually
when
they
were
moving
the
house
through
the
city,
they
let
all
the
school
kids
line
up
to
actually
see
them,
move
in
the
house
through
the
city
and
it
kind
of
brought
back
memories
of
when
they
were
building
a
bridge
and
how
they
were
moving
houses
here
in
Chelsea
to
different
parts
of
the
city.
To
do
that
and
wonderful
was
very
active.
C
What
Claire
Schumann
was
the
president
of
the
borough,
who
actually
came
to
the
dedication
of
the
Latimer
house
when
and
caught
settled,
and
we
were
there
several
several
times
for
different
openings
in
the
day
that
Claire
Schumann
showed
up
at
there
and
she
said
I'm
not
going
to
introduce
everybody
who's
here,
but
I
want
to
introduce
the
Robinson
Brothers,
who
traveled
here
from
Chelsea
to
bipata
today's
activities
here
at
the
Latimer
house
yeah.
We.
B
Took
a
picture
with
her:
yes,
we
lost
the
picture
yeah,
we
did
take
a
picture
with
her.
We
was
so
fascinating
about
that
day
because
when
we
would
go
to
New
York,
we
would
stay
in
Manhattan
and
it
takes
about
an
hour
to
get
to
Queens
with
a
with
a
House
museum
is,
and
we
get
there
when
we
got
there
late,
because
we
didn't
realize
the
time
it
took
so
long
to
get
there
and
thousands
of
people,
I
would
say
probably
10
000
people
I
would
guess.
B
B
B
B
C
Yes
and
I
I
think
it's
important
to
touch
upon
the
fact
that
Lewis's
work
with
the
some
of
the
greatest
Minds
in
the
business
and
you
work
with
Edison.
You
work
with
maximum
you
work
with
Alexander,
Graham
Bell
and
without
Vladimir
Alexander
Graham
Bell
would
have
not
caught
the
patent
for
the
for
the
telephone.
C
He
worked
with
Edison
and
he
wrote
the
first
book
on
incandescent
lighting
and
I
like
to
see
if
he
actually
wrote
the
book,
whose
system
really
wasn't
and
he
worked
with
maximum
and
down
in
in
Connecticut
and
eventually
moved
on
over
to
work
with
Edison,
and
he
was
responsible
for
setting
up
the
street
lights
in
New,
York
and
Philadelphia
Montreal
and
in
England
you
know.
So
you
could
see
the
contributions
that
Lewis
made
to
the
world.
B
B
So
it
was
ironic
to
see
this
this,
because
this
is
where
he
lived.
While
he
was
there,
he
was
part
of
the
Bridgeport
scientific
society.
That
was
what
sir
Hiram
Maxim
the
maxims
are
famous
for,
not
only
electricity,
but
they
also
the
machine
guns.
They
would
invent
us
at
their
family.
That
sort
of
thing,
then,
eventually
we
were
contacted
by
the
Juneteenth
Committee
in
Bridgeport,
and
they
were
looking
for
somebody
that
was
still
alive.
That
was
part
of
the
latim
of
family
descendants,
descendants
in
that
in
their
room,
Juneteenth
celebration.
B
B
A
C
Of
thing
right
and
they
they
presented,
they
presented
us
with
an
award
for
our
work,
with
Dr,
wonderful
and
I'll
work
with
with
the
kids
and
and
getting
his
name
out
and
keeping
his
name
alive
out
in
the
world,
and
he
felt
it
was
important
to
recognize
us
and
we
accepted
the
award
in
honor
of
Dr
Winifred.
Who
was
no
longer
with
us.
B
B
So
we
were
able
to
work
with
hundreds
of
kids
between
the
both
of
us,
so
we
also
form
a
I'm,
a
Chelsea,
High,
basketball,
coach,
you're,
a
Pope,
John,
basketball,
coach
and
then
at
one
time
it
at
some
time
it
you
get
the
realization
that
our
kids
needed
more
about
education
than
Sports.
You
would
play
sports,
but
education
needed
to
be
the
thing
pushed,
because
what
would
be
the
sense
of
just
working
with
young
people
with
sports
and
then
they
can't
pass
in
school.
B
C
And
I
and
I
I
think
and
part
of
that
goes
back
to
our
connection
with
the
Museum
of
Science
and
I,
always
think
about
Maria,
who
used
to
come
out
and
present
programs,
and
also
when
George
Greenwich,
who
came
out,
who
worked
at
the
zoo
and
did
presentations
for
us
and
we're
kind
of
surprised,
African-American,
zoologists
and
Hussein
would
be.
If
you
can't
see
him,
you
can't
be
him.
C
So
that's
why
the
role
of
education
is
very
important
to
our
young
kids
in
our
communities,
like
we
say
to
kids,
A's
and
B's
means
scholarships
season,
D
to
mean
you
have
to
pay.
So,
therefore,
you
need
to
be
doing
both.
You
need
to
be
opening
up
your
books
and
if
you
want
to
be
an
athlete
that
can
help
you
get
to
the
next
level,
if
that's
what
you're
really
trying
to
do.
B
Not
sometimes
it's
very
difficult
to
get
individual
mentors,
but
group
mentoring
like
with
two
various
engineering
groups:
male
and
female,
especially
females,
okay,
because
that
was
part
of
why
also
we
wanted
to
work
with
kids,
because
the
young
girls
were
having
babies
like
Matt.
It
had
no
future
yeah.
C
So
we've
been
looking
for
a
pilot
program
all
these
years
and
it
seems
to
be
you
guys,
have
something
going
on
let's
get
together
and
we
were
able
to
set
up
a
program
and
utilize
and
Engineers
from
General
Electric
who
came
once
a
week
to
work
with
the
kids
and
people
go.
Do
you
golf?
No
I,
don't
golf,
but
what
you,
the
kids,
are
learning
about:
etiquette,
they're,
learning
science
like
about
distance
to
win.
C
You
know
so
those
aspects,
and
they
were
mentors
to
the
kids
here
in
in
Chelsea
and
one
of
the
things
that
they
used
to
do
was.
They
would
take
a
kid
and
put
them
in
front
of
a
camera
and
say
if
you
have
a
you
know,
going
to
become
something
in
the
sport
or
an
education
you're
going
to
have
to
speak
in
front
of
people
so
I
want
you
to
speak
into
the
camera.
Say
your
name.
B
I
know
Ray
monkiewicz
from
cams
was
a
if
you
ever
do
that
I'll
we'll
support
it
100
that
sort
of
thing
so
that
Still
Remains
a
dream
for
me
to
be
able
to
take
the
you
know
a
busload
of
kids,
local
young
people.
Even
if
it's
for
the
day
you
dried
down
or
whatever
that
sort
of
thing.
So
we'll
we'll
continue
to
look
at
that.
C
Danny
Ryan
was
a
representative
from
senator
from
East
Boston,
Her,
Name
Escapes
me
right
now,
a
representative
was
there
any
artist
from
New
York
and
the
person
from
The
Beacon
Foundation
was
all
also
there
and
we're
in
the
process
of
working
out
the
details
to
bring
me
exhibit
here
to
the
city
of
Chelsea
and
we'll
we'll
go
ironing
out
those
details.
Sometime
next
week,
it'll
come
soon.
The.
B
The
exhibit
is
a
public
Arts,
exhibit
okay
and
and
and
talk
on
what
the
artists
that
develop
it.
It
was
as
a
creative
person
how
she
would
look
at
Lewis
latinum
in
his
life
and
I,
expected
to
see
all
these
pitches,
and
it
really
wasn't
that
it
was
more
when
you
looked
at
it.
It
was
about
the
filament,
but
it
told
a
story
just
looking
at
it.
B
B
B
It's
fascinating
piece
of
art,
and
so
that
put
us
in
back
in
touch
with
the
museum
they
actually
wanted
to
come
to.
Chelsea
and
I
had
to
explain
to
them
we're
no
longer
in
the
library
we
really
I
can
take
you.
You
know
on
walking
tours
or
whatever
that
sort
of
thing,
but
we
they
were
only
here
for
the
weekend
yeah,
so
they
couldn't
do
anything
like
that,
but
they
wanted
to
come
here,
yeah
and
eventually
we'll
get.
C
B
B
B
Or
well,
I'd
like
to
thank
I'd
like
to
thank
Ricky
and
Paul
of
Chelsea
cable,
because
they're
partners
with
this.
Let's
just
see
a
reason
we
had
discussions
and
if
we
want
to
be
able
to
do
a
series,
a
whole
series
of
things-
and
hopefully
you
know
we'll
try
to
maybe
bring
in
some
guests,
like
I'd
like
to
bring
in
somebody
from
the
public
schools
eventually
to
see
how
American
history
is
right
here
in
the
city
of
Chelsea,
there's
always
look
at
Chelsea
as
the
Overflow
from
Boston.
When
people
came
here,
whether
that
was
through.