Will speak with local authors about the citys history, starting with its link to booker t. Washington. And in about 20 minutes, the Chemical Spill that contaminated charlestons water system and then in 50 minutes, theWest Virginia teachers strike. We begin with booker t. Washington. Booker t. Washington was for 20 years the spokesman and leader of African Americans in america and at the time we had horrible jim crow race notes in the south, that didnt happen here in West Virginia. It was a different sort of Race Relations and what he observed with his heroes was the building of a black middle class and that became his path, his career path as he went from dusky to being a National Celebrity. Booker was born in a place called hales ford south of roanoke virginia, 220 miles from here and in those first nine years he was a slave boy. He didnt have pants. He wore a slave boys shirt, shoes were two wooden slats with a piece of leather across each toe across thetop. He wanted very much to go
Still well above average throughout our area. Nbc first alert meteorologist bill henley is here with a bit of a mixed bag. That was a summer preview. You can look forward to that in june, july and august and today we do have a mixed bag. We saw sunshine this morning and the clouds racing and now it is a steady, light rain for philadelphia. You can see the raindrops on the lens and the view from the aquarium. Look at the rain from the suburbs to new jersey and delaware and even through trenton and this is farther north than what was first expected and it will not be all day. The showers will dry out this afternoon and we will see sunshine again. The Lehigh Valley has dry out and the rain has ended there. 70 degrees at 2 00 and holding into the low 70s this afternoon and the wind shifting and thats going to give us a warmup, allow for a warmup and not for the 80s, not for today. Lateday sunshine in philadelphia, and up to 72 degrees for the suburbs and the jersey shore getting showers mo
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