He brought 60,000 guest, the union army. Sherman had previously been to savannah and lost savannah. There was no burning, looting or destruction. Savannah was spared. Sherman just left savannah about four months later with those 60,000 troops. A significant amount of marriages occurred between savannah women and northern officers. So we come up past the American Civil War through the reconstruction period ending in 1876. By the 1920s cotton had failed because of overgrowth and lack of fertlization and in gave the weevil and savannah was back to being poor. Lady aster said savannah was a beautiful lady with a dirty face. By the 40s and 50s the old houses in downtown savannah were worth more dead than alive just to get the bricks to build new houses. One city planner said savannah was so poor she was not able to destroy herself unquote. Progress did make some hideous inroads in putting highways through one part of the old town and a street through three of the pressures squares. At one p
The founders are. In 1954, come to the rescue was the Historic Preservation society who had enough when the Old City Market was destroyed and they built an incredibly hideous looking parking lot. So, they band together and formeded what some called it hysterical save savannah foundation. Literally seven old ladies, some in tennis shoes, went around throwing their bodies in front of the wrecking ball to stop the progress and a Revolving Fund started to buy a house for 5,000, restore it to what it was and sell it for 25,000 or something. You got 20,000 and you do it and do it until at some point savannah now has the largest restored Historic District in america which is quite an accomplishment. What has been done since 1954 is an accomplishment. And i will not name any of those seven little old ladies. They are not twittering old lady. They have clout and it showed. Historic savannah is sometimes nogs meaning north of gaston street. My wife and i live on gaston street. We live on the sou
Covered in blood. Reporter Airport Security camera captured this image of three men, that belgium prosecutors say are behind the attacks. Authorize believe that the two men in black, blew themselves up, they have issued a wanted notice for third suspect. Another deadly explosion, rock a busy subway station an hour later, some Passengers Evacuated through dark tunnels. Belgium Authorities Say there is still a strong possibility of another terrorist attack but people here in brussels, have allowed to return to the streets, and the subway system is slowly reopening. Speak nothing cuba president obama condemned the attacks. We must be together, regardless of nationality, or race or faith, in fight ago begins the scourge of terrorism. Reporter the attacks comes days after authorities in brussels arrested Salah Abdeslam a key suspect in the paris deadly a tax. One thing shack go to me in the wake of the paris attacks yet another sophisticated coordinated attack, right under the nose of europ
Her own activist strategy. She always said to other activist we must acknowledge today. Later we visit the special collection as Syracuse University to learn about the antislavery movement. First, we speak with author, marsha weisman, about her book prelude to prisonment student perspectives on school suspension. Well, school to prison pipeline is a catchy term that looks at the increasing numbers of students who are suspended from school for disciplinary misbehavior. And it captures both students two are suspended and sent to whats called an alternative school in most districts. Some states allow students to be expelled from school for up to a. Meaning they get no Educational Services whatsoever, and also encompasses the increasing use of police and arrests. So, students are we have seen over the past decade or more, that more and more young people are arrested in schools for behaviors that normally had been, or in the past, had been addressed by school staff, School Principals and gu
Their account from inside the home at 6 00 oclock. For now we are live from blue bell Steve Paterson for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Steve paterson, thank much. Commercial air liner on its way from spain to germany crashed in the french alps today and there are no signs of survivors. Cbs the news correspondent tina krause has the very latest. Reporter this is what is left of the commercial airline their slam in the Mountain Side in the french alps. The german winnings plane carrying 150 people was about an hour from the flight from barcelona to dusseldorf when it made a sudden wrapped descent. There was no distress call from the air bus a320 as it approached the Southern Alps plunging 14,000 feet in eight minutes. We have to investigate properly with all of the professionals what went wrong. Reporter a group of 16 High School Students and two teachers are among the passengers. Family and friend gathered at their school in germany to wait for word on their loved ones who were returning from a