Africanamerican representation in the 20th century and have a lot of artifacts from the house collection that have to do with that and a lot of history to cover. And the last africanamerican sort of to be eleshgted in the 19th century leaves in 1901, george white of north carkarcar and a long time before another africanamerican comes into the house. Oscar depriest from illinois. We have a couple of really rare artifacts from Oscar Depriest from the 1920s and 30s. But before i launch into them, because i love them so much, matt, tell us a little bit about Oscar Depriest and how he got into congress. So theres a long period. Almost three decades after George Henry White leaves congress where theres no africanamericans who serve in either the house or the senate. And that has everything to do with the jim crow laws that go on the books in the south, and the way that that changes over time during those decades, theres a critical thing going on in the south where africanamericans begin to l
Rep. Pelosi good morning, everyone. Here. You for being i have a special guest with us today, the distinguished chair of the energy and Commerce Committee mr. Frank pallone. I asked him to join us because we haddiscussions that been engaged in about how we go forward. The simple fact is and has always been that unless we crushed the virus, we are not going to be able to open our economy or our schools or our society safely. 4, when we had our testing,onavirus bill, tennis, testing has been the focal point of addressing crushing the virus. It had been in the legislation but it has not a priority for this administration. So in our bill that we put forth, are h. E. R. O. E. S. Act that honors our heroes or state and local folks, healthcare workers, first responders, sanitation, transportation, food workers on the frontlines, our teachers that are on the front nine, they risk their lives to save the lives and now they may lose their jobs in order to protectin order to protect themr we have
Speaker pelosi good morning. Have Speaker Pelosi good morning. I have mr. Frank pallone. I asked him to join us because of the discussions we had been engaged in about how we go forward. The simple fact is and has always been that unless we crush the virus, we will not be able oropen our economy, schools, economy safely. Since march 4, we had our first coronavirus bill, testing, testing, testing has been a focal point of addressing and crushing the virus. It has not been a priority for this administration. In our bill that we put forth, our heroes act that honors our folks, state and local ,nd First Responders transportation and food workers , theye on the frontline risk their lives to save other lives and they may now lose their their jobs in order to children, andour our country, we have to do in what is in the heroes act, to crush the virus. It is not just about having the language which we have over and over. Acting in goodwill, that the administration would listen to the scientist
Thanks for joining us. Thank you very much for inviting me. Its long overdue. Sorry its under these circumstances but see what youre doing since retiring. What are you busy with . Theres a little place in the bay area. Our Main Residence near palm springs right now and with covid, kind of doing that. And have been giving a lot of speeches but with covid, we have been realizing we had to do it virtually and im a Teaching Fellow at usc, teaching a course in demystifying politics and governments. A lot of work to do in that area. Yes, certainly. And i hope you can teach us a thing or two in the ten minutes we have here. I do want to give you my condolences because youre part of a sister hood with Justice Ginsburg, elected in 1993. Year of the woman following the confirmation with claerns thomas, and then Justice Ginsburg nominated and confirmed in 1993 the year after, talk about that era, the year of the woman, i thought that was a bit exaggerated. It was 26 in the senate but that was tri
We know he did and he was attempting to put a marker down. This wont be forgotten and will come back. In the center we have the two africanamerican to served in the senate. By the muchrounded larger numbers of African Americans who served in the house. There is joseph rainey, the first africanamerican in the house. And it takes it all the way around to all of them who were there. I find it so poignant in that, when this was printed no one knew how long would it be. Did they think 20 years would be a long time . Did they think it would be just a moment. What did happen in this print it looks terribly damaged, like it has had a hard life. As if at some point someone took this and pasted it on probably a wall. Underneath that is wallpaper. Underneath the print and on top of the board is wallpaper. It was perhaps painted on someones wall. In sort of recognition of the things that happened. We acquired it in d. C. It may have never left the nations capital, unlike black representation that