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Transcripts For CSPAN3 1968 Poor Peoples Campaign 20180217

I want you to know who these lovely young men are. They are both named mark. Which is very convenient. Mark mario, distinguished president of the National Urban league, and mark steiner, who is a brilliant journalist and a former and current activist in social justice. You will hear a lot more from him. They will be joined by more people you will see shortly. To get us started, i would like to bring to the podium one of my favorite people at the smithsonian. He is a distinguished leader of this institution. His official title is the Elizabeth Mcmillan director of the Smithsonian National museum of American History. He is part of our top collaborators in the work that we do, particularly with the exhibition space we have at the american museum. John. [applause] well, good morning. It is a pleasure to welcome all of you to the interNational Museum of American History. I would say, if ever there is a time in america when we need historic understanding, as well as museums that present hist

Transcripts For CSPAN3 American Artifacts Saving Slave Houses Project 20180223

Project. She is joined by several archaeologists and preservationist, and team of tremble incorporated who came along to have a series of 3d laser scans. We are here the to do laser scanning and documentation of a slave house that is here. This is part of a independent project that i am doing that is called saving slavehouses which is a database of all of the slavehouses in the united states. It is a acting as Central Depository of documentation and information about slave houses in the united states. I have partnered with turnbull which is the company that makes the survey equipment that i have used to do kind of the highest level of documentation that is available to us today which is 3d laser scanning. It is important the to do this, because one, documentation is a type of preservation. Slave houses are buildings that are disappearing from the landscape, and so by documenting that, that is one way of preserving them. And documenting them through my database is also a way to share in

Transcripts For CSPAN3 American Artifacts Saving Slave Houses Project 20171009

Brandon plantation and learn about her saving slave houses project. She is joined by several archaeologists and preservationists and a team from trimble inc. Who came along to document the plantation with a series of 3d laser scans. We are here to do laser scanning and documentation of a slave house that is here. This is part of an independent project that i am doing that is called saving slave houses, which is a data base of all the known slave houses in the united states. It acts as a central repository of information and documentation of slave houses in the united states. I have partnered with trimble, the company that makes the survey equipment i use, to do kind of the highest level documentation that is available to us today, which is 3d laser scanning. Its important to do this because, one, documentation is a type of preservation. Slave houses are buildings that are disappearing from the landscape. So by documenting them thats one way of preserving them. Documenting them and thro

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