Local officials discussed efforts of raising awareness of africanamericans. This took place at the annual conference in denver. Good afternoon and welcome. My name is aster liverman here in denver. It is my pleasure and honor to introduce our speaker for this session wholl present aspects beyond the green book african travel. Ranging from a personal colorado stories to sites across the country. To the far left, let me welcome our colorado native, gary jackson who grew up in denver before attending the university of redland and california, he earned his doctorate at boulder. He was assigned to the civil division, district of colorado before entering private practice in 1976. In 1982, he cofounded the firm of demana and jackson, a partnership that continues to the Denver County court bench of january of 2013. Gary has been recognized as a colorados super lawyer. Colorado Bar Association award of merit and among others. In 2018, the institute recognized gary for excellence county court ju
Could open again. It was severely dilapidated. In the late 1990s, with the city working together and a private businessman, they were able to restore it to original glory. I still get chills when i see the stage and think about the people who walked across it and performed here. We use it as the community. You can see anything from art house films on the big screen when they bring it down to local talent shows today with our rising stars. It is a beautiful piece of history of macon. Probably one of my favorite parts is if you look at the paintings on the wall, the chain stenciling represents the bondage of slavery but in the end the chains are broken representing the freedom. It was here with rhythm and blues so much happened in that sense of race relations. With a foresight of Charles Douglass such a big thinker. He paved the way for a macon to be a music mecca that grew over the years way passed his lifetime. This is American History tv on cspan 3. Our 2014 cities tour has taken us o
Oysters have a distinctive flavor. It has a coppery aftertaste that is wonderful. They are small oyster bus that have a big flavor. This is the freezer line. Were moving the top shelf shell from the oysters. This is our faster chucker. He is quickly removing the top shell then the oyster will be rinsed, graded and run through a nitrogen freezer. This is a flash freezing the oyster. Well be running it at 100 degrees below zero and freezing it at a core temperature of 80 degrees below zero in seven minutes. This is our deep freeze. It is about negative 10 fahrenheit in here, which maintains the quality of your freeze. It is kind of empty right now and were in the process of restocking it. Over the course of the winter, we restock and in the summer we sell them. I feel proud to be parking lot of an industrypart of sucha wonderful industry that has a history. Weve been doing this generation after generation. Having that connection to the past i have a lot of drive to. Weve been doing somet
Well as their individual personalities. Joining the panel is Lisa Kathleen graddy, the curator of the first ladies collection at the National Museum of American History. The National Archives hosted this 90minute event. Hello, everyone. How are you . [ applause ] thank you for being here. Were going to have a rousing evening, i hope. Its certainly an interesting one and an interesting discussion, and i have to say the whole topic of what the first lady wears we know is a frequent topic of discussion, and we have Lisa Kathleen graddy here, who wrote the book on the first ladies collection here at the smithsonian, and Lisa Kathleen, i would speculate that you run the most visited Curatorial Department at the smithsonian. We are told it is the most visited exhibition at the smithsonian and at this point the oldest. We turned 100 years old this year. How fantastic. 100 years old. That is wonderful. I want to ask all of our panelists why do we care so much about what the first lady wears. W
Throughout 2014 cspan cities tour has featured the history of communities throughout the country with the help of our local cable partners. Today we feature the music of several of these cities. So right now were at the dug douglass theater, one of the most famous landmarks in macon, georgia. It was a theater that started in the early 1920s by an entrepreneur, and macons first africanamerican millionaire Charles Douglass and it became a cornerstone to the Music Industry and to performing africanamerican artists throughout the south. So Charles Douglass was an important figure in macon history because he was macons first africanamerican millionaire, but he started out with very humble beginnings. He was the son of a former slave who began working as soon as he was old enough to do it. He began working with the florida blossoms minstrel circuit and how to Network Different venue that is would play or showcase africanamerican artists, and what that did was it led to the groundwork for the