Side of the river. This structure was donated to us about 10 years ago by the descendants of the original founders of that congregation. They bought the land in 1870 two parcels of land with the express purpose of building a house of worship. And in the sale document which we have from the courthouse, they named their structure they named their congregation the antiyokut baptist congregation, and that message of being against the yoke, or against slavery, is something that is important for our story here. And this is a Significant Church for newly freed slaves on the east bank of the river, and so it is really important here in talking about the lives of people who socked freedom after the end of the civil war. We like to start our tour of the whitney plantation here, where we can kind of the what happens to people, some of the things they care about after freedom came. The whitney plantation is the only to show in that is all of these things help us tell we had to build things here an
If they had to use the third one in the japanese still resisted. Learn more about the Manhattan Project here on American History tv. Announcer each week, american and history tvs american artifacts takes you to museums and historic places. Coming up next, we traveled west of new orleans to visit Whitney Wallace louisiana, to learn about the history of slavery in america. Ashley my name is ashley rogers. I am the director of Museum Operations at the whitney plantation. We are beginning our tour today in an historic church, which was built circa 1870 by people who lived on the opposite side of the river in helena, louisiana. In paulina, louisiana. The structure was donated about 10 years ago by the descendents of that congregation. They bought the land in 1870, two parcels of land, for the express purpose of building a house of worship. In the excel document, which we have from the courthouse, they named their congregation the antiyoke baptist congregation. That message of being against
By the descendents of the original founders all that congregation. Y bought the land in 1870 two parcels of land with the express purpose of building a house of worship. They named their structure they named their congregation the antiyokut baptist congregation and that message of being against the yoke or against slavery is important for our story here. This is important for slaves on the east bank, so its really. Mportant we like to start our tour at the lady plantation, where we can kind of the what happens to people, some of the things they care about after freedom came. The whitney plantation is the only plan to show in that is devoted to taking andour owner started we had to kind of build it, build some things here. All of these things help us tell the story of slavery. The John Cummings built property, there were no original slave cabins. We had to move those in from elsewhere. This helped us round out our story and then we had other buildings. Collection. And at the end of slav
Led a march for justice. Commemorating 54th anniversary of Martin Luther king jr. s march on washington. Speakers talked about race issues and the recent violence in charlottesville. This is two hours. Praises the lord. No justice, no peace. What do we want . Justice when do we want it . Now without further adieu, let us hear from our first speaker for the rally in front ofhe juicde is here now from Jay David Cox senior, the National President of afge. Brothers and sisters i come to you today from the American Federation of government employees. The people that said, government is good and government should stand for all of its citizens in an equal mannerism. Brother and sisters, i come to you today with love. Its time to that we bring back love to this country. Lets stop and think. Hatred of the stranger, people who are different. People who come from somewhere else. Speak another language. Have different couples eat different food. Who are we to turn away and ignore injustice in a na
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