Learn about their history and life. We will look at highlights of some of these stops. We begin in selma, alabama. Alabama,n selma, africanamericans were denied the right to vote. There were folks throughout the south that did not want these people to have the right to vote. They can be considered second class citizens. Poll taxes would be the price you had to pay per year in order to get on the voting rolls. Say i live here in Dallas County and allke 60 dollars taxes are one dollar a year. Raise that isa 40. Thenf my 60 will go i will have 20 which i have to feed and flow my kids. There are not very many black people who will have extra money left over to pay a poll tax. On something when i have an extra dollar left over and i go down to this courthouse and i show up saying i would like to register to vote. I would go to the county registrar, have my poll tax ready. Takes my pollnel tax but he also administers a literary tax. That tests could take many forms. Ask me the name of the pr
Easier to say that word other than to spell it i cannot figure how to spell it but im president of the National Civil Rights Museum and i welcome you here this evening for this book talk on miss johnsons book and i hope you have had an opportunity to get it and i believe we are selling it and she will be doing a book signing. A couple of things to mention before i introduce to you who will actually introduce miss johnson, our hope here at the museum is each time you come here you learn something that we are educating and informing and hopefully encouraging you to act in some way. We dont want to tell you what to do but to encourage you. Every one of us have been asked the exact same thing of all the people that we chronicle on the National Civil Rights Museum. They never had anything different than what we have from ourselves. The differences they activate it so when you leave here this evening you will have learned something or have new information last year 2018 we commemorated their
To order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. We welcome everyone to todays hearing on the department of justice Civil Rights Division. With that, we will have the pledge of allegiance. Will the gentleman from arizona lead us in the pledge of allegiance . Our colleague, mr. Biggs marzano will be able to participate in the hearing today for the purpose of questioning the witness. If a member yields him time for that purpose, i will now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Thank our witness for being here today. The Civil Rights Division is responsible for the enforcement of civil rights statutes enacted by congress and related constitutional guarantees. This is an issue that is near and dear to my heart. I too, in a previous life served in the department of justice, having served as special assistant United States attorney in the Eastern District of texas. My job there as the witness and my colleagues know is to equally enforce the law. My g
David senio Senior Vice President of p Global Public policy at amazon. Corrects high the committee will come to order. Wildfires are an increasing threat to our country. They have burned more land and put more communities in danger. Last year alone, wildfires affected americans from hawaii to the great smoky mountains. This year, it is likely to get worse. As we sit here today, communities in texas just finished fighting the largest wildfire in the history of that state. It burned almost 1. 4 million acres of land, taking lives, damaging houses, devastating agriculture, displacing families, leaving property across the Northern Edge of the state in ruin. The last wildfire in maui was absolutely catastrophic. It took the lives of over 100 people and shouter countless communities. It was the deadliest wildfire in our country in over a century. The council of native american advancement and the mayor of the county has submitted testimony regarding the ongoing testimony from malley and we o
Good morning. Thank you for coming. Im doug. Its my honor to be here with commissioner. And today, as a quick note before we start, commissioner bratton, well be signing some books out in the hallway just after session. I think were all very familiar commissioner brads achievements. So ill just hit a few of the highlights by way of introduction in william was born in 1947 in boston he served with the u. S. Army in vietnam before the Boston Police force in 1970. By 1993, he was commissioner of Boston Police. He was then commissioner of the new York Police Department from 94 to 96, then commissioner of lapd from 2000 to 2. 2009. In 2011, Prime Minister david tried to recruit him away from us to go run police in london. Fortunately, that didnt happen. The post needs to be held. A british citizen, he returned to the nypd to run that again from 2014 to 2016 and hes currently vice chair of the Homeland Security Advisory Council and hes been on that council under president s obama, trump. Bid