President ial election. Lets start with chicago. This last summer was the 50th anniversary of the Democratic National convention in chicago. I dont know if any of you saw, there was a couple of specials. We have some of footage that is pretty shocking for people to see nowadays. Before 1972, most of the delegates to both conventions were elected through back channels, small party conventions. In 1968, 73 of democratic delegates through the convention had been elected this way. Less than 25 were elected in the way we normally do it. President Lyndon Johnson took himself out of the race. He was not up for reelection in 1960 eight. This initiated a freefall in the Democratic Party between a number of candidates. One of which, who was very popular, was unfortunately dead by august of 1968. That was robert kennedy. He had been a unifying candidate for many people in the party. He was assassinated in june of 1968. That is one thing that is lying behind the convention in august of 1968. The k
So i tell the story of black women in the union and im going to tell you about the story, too. They say, that, well, history is biographical. In my case, it is. Im an immigrant. And i went to university and, you know, started doing history and very much interested in immigration and you know what were women doing. And the story is that is that, you know, you have these women coming from the south end work on the great migration and from the british west indys. They worked as domestic servants. They came across a book and there was one line in it and said that, well, they were also garment workers. And i was just fascinated because it was a new narrative. I it made the difference to black folk the an opportunity to break into industry you have men going to war but in the case of the Garment Industry in new york, the sort of sensation of transatlantic you didnt have the supply of eastern and workers and that was the traditional supply for the Garment Industry. Well, there were all of the
Im going to have our 1st welcome to this special edition of the news as we cover the festivities commemorating 30 years of german reunification on this Germanys National holiday it was on this day 30 years ago that east and west germany reunited to become one country again for the 1st time since the 2nd world war this years event is being held in potsdam the capital state of brandon book state near berlin that german president from father steinmeyer will be speaking shortly well bring you his speech live its a splendid occasion but this years festivities are scaled down in compliance with social distancing measures and other restrictions put in place due to the coronavirus kind. Of help me guide us through the events today and shine a light on its significance im joined in the studio but it of you cross part. Common ration venue in potsdam nina hoss is standing by at the iconic Brandenburg Gate in berlin we welcome. Thomas sparrow and lets start with you the german president is speakin
I welcome you to the Historical Society and center this eechk. If you do not know about us, its time you did. We are the first such center within the walls of a major museum in the United States. And its about time. Im not going to take too much time, too much time away from the panel, but i do want to do a special shoutout to our moderator, post doctoral fellow in womens history and public history here at new york his r historical. Nick is a fantastic scholar and human being and colleague and i am so absolutely thrilled that hes been with us at a very important moment in the development of the center. I also want to do a special shoutout to the Melon Foundation itself, which about four years ago, gave us a giant vote of confidence and very lovely grant to get the center up and running because at the Melon Foundation, we are here and we are here to stay. And really, really happy about that. In any case, nick went to columbia university, got his phd there just a couple of years ago, as
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