It hints at a story beyond just two years of service and fighting over there. Actually, exactly. We return fighting, the africanamerican experience in world war i. The key to that title is, number one, you dont see the word military because it is not just about soldiers, it is about soldiers and civilians. It is about men and women. Its about young and old. Its about white and black. So that is the long title. But the short title we returned fighting speaks to what happened after the war and how africanamericans use world war i as a transformative event for them just like it was a transformative event throughout the globe. And well explore that story throughout this hour of the washington journal. It is day five of museum week on the washington journal with our friends at American History tv on cspan3. Throughout this segment we invite viewers to join us, phone lines split up regionally. 7027482000, and a special line set aside for africanamerican veterans 2027488002. We would love to
Goes by, we are getting better. You to keepst ask everybody in your thoughts and your prayers and lets just hope and pray that we will not get too many bumps in the road before we get to the vaccine, the drug that will help us. To tell you we have lost our 68th West Virginia. And 86yearold female from canal county. I just go through it over and over and over. It is a terrib thing to have to do. I want to be really respectable to the people we have lost. I do not want them or their theyies to ever think that were a statistic. We are deeply indebted to all the knowledge and the beauty they gave us through their lives. We absolutely want all of you to think about then and their loved ones and keep them in your thoughts and your prayers. Please do so. You that wead to four withing in week an executive order today that im signing that will allow these businesses to reopen, and so list the 14 day quarantine order for outofstate travelers. Effect atwill go into midnight on thursday, may 21. N
Good evening. First of all, thank you, all, for coming out on this rainy evening. I know its a little bit of a channel. I think its going to be well worth your time to be here this evening for this discussion. Its my pleasure to welcome you to tonights program entitled historically speaking we return fighting world war i and the shaping of the modern black identity. Published by smithsonian books, we return fighting is a collection of essays that chronicle the experiences of men and women who serve the country on the battlefield as well as on the home front and their struggles for civil rights. One of the many things we will learn this evening is that while the Civil Rights Movement was decades away, world war i established important questions of citizenship that paied the way toward future progress. We are fortunate to be joined tonight by uty director and editor of we return fighting which includes outstanding scholarship and images and the images are really very powerful of american
Good evening, good evening. First of all thank you for coming out on this rainy evening, i know its a challenge but i think it will be well worth your time to be here this evening for this discussion. It is my pleasure to welcome you to our program entitled historically speaking, we return fading, world war one and the shaping of the modern black identity. Published by story in books, this is a collection of essays that chronicles the experiences of men and women who served the country on the battlefield, as well as on the home front. And their struggles for civil rights. One of the main things we learned this evening is that while the Civil Rights Movement is decades away, world war i established important questions about citizenship that paved the way towards future progress. We are fortunate to be joined tonight by kinshasha holman, the images are very powerful. They are of americans on the home front. It also gives us a different look at African Americans when they return from the
Our personal Protection Equipment for Frontline Health care workers who are battling this terrible virus. It goes into effect at midnight tonight, so all offtive surgeries will be as of tonight and that is what the executive order is. Today, i am issuing an executive order to shut down all private campgrounds to all new arrivals by outofstate residents, and what i mean by that is just this if you are now residing and living in a campground, youre good to go, a private campground. If you have been there in excess of over two weeks and quarantined yourself or whatever, if you have been there and everything, we are good to go. No problem with either one, but if you are at a private campground as a new arrival from an outofstate destination or whatever, we are shut down to you. Were doing it again in an effort to try to protect us as West Virginians from someone coming in from another state and basically contaminating or infecting thousands. We are really moving in the right way here. All