Gonna jump into the conversation. The one thing i have to say is i think you can tell its urgently important to bring as many schoolkids as possible to come see the incredible exhibit. [ applause ] that is why am thrilled that last week the superintendent of the School District of philadelphia sat with me and announced that the School District and the Constitution Center are launching up program to bring tens of thousands of School Districts to the Constitution Center every year. Wow. [ applause ] they are calling it the Constitutional Ambassadors Program and they go seek support and the great kids are going to start to come see the civil war exhibit and see the Constitution Center and connect classrooms around the country using the virtual constitutional exchanges for our long conversations moderated by a judge or a master teacher. Wow, that is great. Its an amazing project that im so excited to share with you. It needs no introduction. He is author of the best selling book stony the
Professor gets downstairs and all of our colleagues. So were just going to jump right into this conversation. The one thing i have to say is i think you can tell, it is urgently important to bring as many schoolkids as possible to come see that incredible exhibit. And that is why i am thrilled that last week, dr. William highs, the superintendent of the School District for philadelphia sat with me on this overlook and announced that the School District and the Constitution Center are launching a program to bring tens of thousands of School Districts to the Constitution Center every year. Wow. They are calling it the constitutional ambassadors program. We will go seeks a port and great kids are going to start these things in their classroom. Come see that civil war exhibit and see the Constitution Center and then connect to classrooms around the country, using our virtual constitutional exchanges for our long conversations about the constitution, moderated by a judge or master teacher.
Selection of artifacts from the house collection. The story of how africanamericans come to congress in the 19th century is not one that a lot of people are familiar with. We actually had 22 africanamericans serve between 1870 and 1901. 20 in the house, 2 in the senate, largely a house story. And it has to do with the role of congress during the civil war, and in the decade after. During the civil war there were a group of radicals in congress, radicals because they believed in the equality of africanamericans and wanted to create a society in the south after the war that was a multiracial society. These were radicals in the house like Thaddeus Stevens who was chairman of the house ways and Means Committee and a very powerful leader. Also people like henry winterdavis, elihu washburne. In the senate, people like Charles Sumner and benjamin wade. And they really drove the agenda and pushed the Lincoln Administration to not only prosecute the war more vigorously but also to have a recons
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