Were assessed . Take the entire exhibit tour of rightfully hers american women and the vote. Sunday at 6 00 and 10 00 p. M. Eastern on american artifacts. You are watching American History tv. The cspan cities tour travels the country exploring the american story. Taking book tv and American History tv on the road every first and third weekend of the month. 20 next two hours, we will look at highlights from some of the stops. We begin in selma, alabama. Many people think that the selma, montgomery marchs bird overnight and was a oneoff idea, but there had been a modern Rights Movement brewing in selma, alabama, since the 1930s. Here in selma, alabama, and any places in the south, africanamericans were denied the right to vote, not because it was not their constitutional there wereecause folks in position of power throughout the south that did not want these folks to have the right to vote so they could be considered secondclass citizens. Toy passed a literacy test deter africanamerican
Tongs representatives witness the final capitulation. General of the army, Douglas Macarthur, Supreme Commander for the occupation of japan warns the authority. Pacific fleet commander and Admiral Halsey welcome him and his chief of staff of board. Escorts thetz general to the nimitz miranda deck for a 20 minute ceremony. It is sunday, september 2, 1945. Right now were on the o1 level of the battleship missouri. Ofnks to the events september 2, 1945, we call this the surrender deck. This is where the japanese sunday surrender ending world war ii. Behind me is where the table sat that day. The ship looked different. Big different than the canopy. This was rotated 30 degrees to starboard to make room for all the officials that would be on board. If you looked around and above is that day you wouldve seen thousands of the missouri curve, crews from other ships hanging on to anything they could, trying to get a glimpse of what was about to occur. At my clock in the morning when the ceremon
Here it is. Because of the faulty [ inaudible ] we have going for us at the federal reserve, we pay much more than other countries. In other words, our interest costs are much higher than other countries when they should be lower. Correct. All right. Thats where the president stands on the fed. 2020 democrat candidate liz warren going after wall street once again, this time shes also slamming private equity firms blaming them for the closures of toys r us, sears and other retailers. Hows this for irony . Campaign workers for Bernie Sanders say theyre not getting paid enough money. Theyre demanding 15 an hour. Of course, remember, bernie is one of the biggest proponents of raising the minimum wage. And by the way, we have astronaut scott kelly on the show this hour to talk about the new chevy corvette. He compares the cars engine to a rocket. Oh, yeah. Weve got a rocketfueled jampacked hour ahead including lara trump right here in the studio. Varney Company Begins right now. In fact, we
Created by cable in 1979, cspan is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. The house modernization of Congress Committee explored best practices on how to recruit and retain a diverse Congressional Staff. Human resources executives and an author of three books on workplace topics testified and answered questions from committee members. This is about an hour and a half. Okay. All right. The committee will come to order without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled cultivating diversity and improving retention among Congressional Staff. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. One of the main ways in which we retain staff is by having it be a 90 degrees in here, so my apologies to each of you. We will be distributing fans to the entire audience. Today we are going to talk about whats really the backbone of this institution and th
Learn about their history and life. We will look at highlights of some of these stops. We begin in selma, alabama. Alabama,n selma, africanamericans were denied the right to vote. There were folks throughout the south that did not want these people to have the right to vote. They can be considered second class citizens. Poll taxes would be the price you had to pay per year in order to get on the voting rolls. Say i live here in Dallas County and allke 60 dollars taxes are one dollar a year. Raise that isa 40. Thenf my 60 will go i will have 20 which i have to feed and flow my kids. There are not very many black people who will have extra money left over to pay a poll tax. On something when i have an extra dollar left over and i go down to this courthouse and i show up saying i would like to register to vote. I would go to the county registrar, have my poll tax ready. Takes my pollnel tax but he also administers a literary tax. That tests could take many forms. Ask me the name of the pr