Much onment relied very incredible skills as an organizer, her exceptional commitment, her unwavering commitment to social justice. You can watch this another american artifacts programs by visiting our website at cspan. Org history. Announcer now more on Dolores Huertas life story. We talked to her when our local content vehicles visited bakersfield, california. Dolores huerta is a civil rights activists who cofounded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962, which became the united farm workers of america. In 2012, president obama awarded her the medal of freedom for her lifes work. Delores huerta i was born in dodson, new mexico and then moved to california when i was six years old. My parents moved us to california. My parents divorced. Sister androught my california. To my two brothers to california. As a teenager we were always harassed by the police. We had a lot of discrimination in high school against all the kids of color. A lot of the kids that were the okie kids as the
Us in terms of harvesting cotton and tomatoes. At the end of the basero program is one Significant Impact. Also what we see at the same time was there was not not only was there a number of visas available to mexican nationals, right, but we also see a shift in the temporary worker programs. So at this time, there had been, prior to 1965, a temporary worker program, h2 program. It was relatively small in scale and continues to be relatively small in scale. Prior to 1965, the burden was on the government to show that the workers that were coming in under the temporary programs would not harm the u. S. Workforce. Beginning in 1965, that burden then shifted to employers. What this meant was there was more of an active, exantiscreening role that the government played in determining which temporary workers and generally which foreignborn workers would be able to come into the United States, giving the government more control in terms of limiting the access of mexican and other latinamerican
Not a hearing room at first. And then in the 1970s, Senator Frank Church began to investigate problems with the cia and fbi. And this was goaliing to be the first investigation into the intelligence operations. The material they were handling was so secret that it had to be in a secure place. So this room was converted. A floor was built across. It was turned into offices for the Church Committee that was investigating the cia and the fbi. They had armed guards standing at each of the doors to make sure no one came in. Reporters thought it was interesting that the Church Committee was trying to break through secrecy, but they were surrounded by guards to keep these secrets in here. But the fact of the matter is, if the congress was going to investigate, they had to promise to maintain secrets. So this room was a hub for that information. Then, when the Church Committee led to the creation of the Permanent Committee on intelligence which still operates in the senate, this room became th
Staying in the united states. And youre quite right to say that this is an oversight. Because its, in a lot of discussions of immigration, theres a connation of being foreignborn and being immigrant, but in fact, theres a sizable group of people who are foreignborn, residents of the united states, and theyre not immigrants in the sense that they are on a path that leads eventually to citizenship. So theres a large number of people who are settled here on h h1b visas, and these are visas that are meant to bring in highly skilled, essentially technical workers. Often they work in the i. T. Industry. They can stay for supposedly up to six years two visas. Many of them do try, of course, to get green cards and to stay permanently. We dont really understand very much about the kind of, the experiences over the long run of the people who are coming on these nonpermanent visas, even though they are really a very sizable group, probably 5 of the foreignborn, roughly are on nonpermanent visas.
Birth of president dwight david eisenhower, his granddaughters gather for a rare family discussion at Gettysburg College to talk about his military and political career as well as his relevance for 21st century americans. Then on saturday afternoon at 1 00, 60 years ago, rosa parks defied a city ordnance for blacks to leave their seats on a city bus to make room for white passengers. Her stand helped instigate the bus boycott as we hear from the attorney for rosa park and demonstrators. Then at 6 00, William Davis on the littlephoneknown aspects o ulysses s. Grant and robert e. Lee. And a 1965 Progress Report on nasas projects, including the manned Space Program and the mayriner fly by. All weekend and on holidays too, only on cspan 3. Up next on American History tv, a group of authors and historians talk about the legacy of the 1965 hartcellar act which changed immigration policy from a quota system to one that focussed on skills and family relationships with american citizens or resi