I forget who the speaker for this class was, but I do remember she was a woman. She was a woman who didn't play either- there were some kids in the front row talking to much. So she paused her whole presentation just to ask them if they were finished.
A scribe is a person who writes books or documents by hand; a representation of someone in writing. There were Scribes of the Fields and Scribes of Cattle. There were scribes of Architecture... all types of scribes. The Egyptians wrote with papyrus scrolls.
She then went on to name people like Geneeral Oliver Otis Howard. The man whom of which school is named after. She named Alaine Leroy Locke, Lulu Vere Childers, Frederick Douglass, Ira Aldride, Louis C. Cramton, George Washington Carver, Charles R. Drew, Harriet Tubman and so on. She was naming all the people our buildings are named after; Sojourner Truth, the woman whom after my hall is named.
I'm not sure why she started with scribes and then went on to naming people. At first I figured maybe she was naming some famous black scribes, but when she started naming people who weren't really known for what they've written and or haven't been known to write at all.. I knew there had to be some other connection. So I figured she connected it like this instead: Scribes write things down, and in a sense record history. Our history, written by our scribes, concerns every single person she named that day. The scribes are responsible for why we will never forget. They'll live on through the scribes work, as will we.
Nicole McKinney
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