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It was a group of Alabama State troopers who beat him bloody as bob was just telling us in 1965. He couldnt even remember what had happened. He thought he had died because of the injuries he sustained that day. And, yet, today, it is Alabama State troopers who will be helping to memorialize him. Its incredible. Reporter yes, and an honor guard taking him from the base of the bridge on the other side being passed to that honor guard, and then moving forward on to montgomery, where he will lie in state at the state capitol. I mean, the progress is incredible to think about. You know, as i was listening to you and nancy, i keep going back to that point of humility. It made him so approachable. And as i walk through the streets or i talk to people, each one of them has a slice of history that they can talk about, specifically, with john lewis. I think about Cheyenne Webb criseburg, who was on this bridge as an eightyearold with john lewis and so many other, those 600 protesters. She had co
University of North Carolina. Parents were my parents walther b gaither and fanny little gaither. Uh, great falls was my fathers home. My mother, fannie mae, was originally from anderson, South Carolina and my mom and dad met while they were students at friendship. College in rock hill, South Carolina. After they both graduated from friendship they moved permanently to great falls. Initially they were both schoolteachers. You could be a schoolteacher at that time with just a Junior College education. My dad did not stay in teaching because he discovered that what was listed on his contract as is per month payment for teaching was not the same as he this was thatand a time when the boards of education were all composed of white men. And so at the end of the year, my father approached the person who signed his voucher for, uh, payment and said, i noticed that there is a discrepancy here. Differenceve dollars between what he was supposed to be paid and what he was receiving. For questioni
Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Also lots of skirm ear. Light infantry regiments and each light regiment would have an infantry company, too. Its less than 10 light infantry when it goes to the peninsula and waterloo. Im curious of the location of the barracks in Chester County and Montgomery County in philadelphia. Where was the location for the british army . Gee, i dont know, but during the seven years war when the british army went into Winter Quarters people objected to quartering regular troops in homes, et cetera, and different colonies were asked to build bear axe, the old barracks at trenton is part of the bear axe network, but i dont know where the barracks were located that youre asking about. Im sorry. One more question . Sure. Yes. A quick question about the queens rangers and the queen outfit and they formed for their seven years war originally, i believe. And Robert Rogers tries to get a commission for congress and they dont trust him and he goes to the british and o
Ii. And professor urwin is a long time friend of this museum project. It is one of the great advantages of being in philadelphia, that we can be close neighbors to professor urwin, whose work on the british army in the American Revolution is extensive, and nuanced, and is always inspiring of our exhibits, and publications, and the development of our core exhibition, professor urwin played a crucial role in the display of the story of enslaved runaways, weighing the promise of the phillipsburg proclamation, announced by general clinton in 1779, which offered somewhat vaguely protection and perhaps freedom of run aways who made their way through to the british lines through consultation with a number of historians, particularly of africanAmerican History in this period, it became a really an imperative that we do two very challenging, often seemingly contradictory things with our tableau in showing people facing this question of whether to trust the british on this promise. And one was t