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
Busiest in all of the country. It is not just the link of two cities. It is the link of two nations. The bridge behind me in the tunnel under the Detroit River annect 16 billion in trade year for both countries. Rely on this network of transportation and international trade, so it is a tremendously important part of our history and has been since precivil war. During prohibition, detroit brings in 75 of all the illegal alcohol brought into this years ofor the 14 prohibition. Detroit the 1800s in was the cigar capital of america. They were days when you had seven to 10,000 Railroad Cars waiting to be trends or did they could not get across the river because they would come in to detroit and then have to wait for fairies to take them across to canada. That backlog made the conversation about either a tunnel or a bridge take the forefront. Something had to be done because we had storehouses filling up waiting for this transportation because very slow ferries can only transport 60 time, no
Of the president travels by train politics and pullmans. The president travels by training it is his first 29 books. Came out the First Edition in 1996. It is been updated several times in 2018 was rereleased by eco books and media i believe is the third or fourth edition of the book. Bob himself as a journalist by trade. And 38 years worked for the Huntington Herald a dispatch in huntington West Virginia where he currently lives. He has a ba and ma from marshall university. While he was in college he worked summers for the railroad. That actually is how i got to know, bob. I interned at the museum in baltimore, maryland. Mutual interest and admiration got us together. I welcome bob and i will begin the presentation now. One other programming notes, so understand all president s use trains to travel around and still do on some occasions. We picked seven president s because of some specific issues they encountered or specific milestones that are associated with their president ial train
Of the president travels by train politics and pullmans. The president travels by training it is his first 29 books. Came out the First Edition in 1996. It is been updated several times in 2018 was rereleased by eco books and media i believe is the third or fourth edition of the book. Bob himself as a journalist by trade. And 38 years worked for the Huntington Herald a dispatch in huntington West Virginia where he currently lives. He has a ba and ma from marshall university. While he was in college he worked summers for the railroad. That actually is how i got to know, bob. I interned at the museum in baltimore, maryland. Mutual interest and admiration got us together. I welcome bob and i will begin the presentation now. One other programming notes, so understand all president s use trains to travel around and still do on some occasions. We picked seven president s because of some specific issues they encountered or specific milestones that are associated with their president ial train
Of the president travels by train politics and pullmans. The president travels by training it is his first 29 books. Came out the First Edition in 1996. It is been updated several times in 2018 was rereleased by eco books and media i believe is the third or fourth edition of the book. Bob himself as a journalist by trade. And 38 years worked for the Huntington Herald a dispatch in huntington West Virginia where he currently lives. He has a ba and ma from marshall university. While he was in college he worked summers for the railroad. That actually is how i got to know, bob. I interned at the museum in baltimore, maryland. Mutual interest and admiration got us together. I welcome bob and i will begin the presentation now. One other programming notes, so understand all president s use trains to travel around and still do on some occasions. We picked seven president s because of some specific issues they encountered or specific milestones that are associated with their president ial train