Oh, i think were about out of time. I just want to say thank you to both kevin and james. Lets give them a hand im chris. Good luck with the Mississippi Department of archives and history. Our session is titled uniquely American History. And in one way or another, these three books touch on nearly every state in the union, as well as our neighbors to the north and the south. Well hear from each of our authors about the stories that they tell in your books. And then ill ask a few questions before opening it up for questions and comments from you all. Please remember. That since we are on cspan and the viewers wont be able to hear your question unless you go to the microphone and ask it. There. So all comments and questions take it to the podium. Jeff lynne has chronicled the Southwestern United States in such american undesirable roles as bonnie and clyde. Charles manson and jim jones. Lives in fort worth, texas, and is a member of the texas literary hall of fame for such bestselling bo
Jackson. To learn more about our cities on our tour, visit cspan. Org local content. We will continue now with our look at the hicks the history of jackson. This is on cspan3. We will open two museums on one roof. Under one roof. The Civil Rights Museum will focus on mississippis Civil Rights Movement, mainly focusing 1975ish. Timelineave a National Telling us how much mississippi affected us nationally and vice versa. We will focus on the mississippi story. We are in the Storage Facility for the exhibit. Right now, we have about 350 artifacts in the art exhibit, a small amount. We have been actively collect in the past few years since we received the funding to do the Civil Rights Museum. That with most museums, once we open and once you see we have told an honest and truthful story and you will care for the jets, that after we opened, we will get more of an influx of artifacts coming in. The good thing about the Civil Rights Museum and the museum of history is we have flexible cases
We will open two museums under one roof. The Civil Rights Museum will focus on mississippis Civil Rights Movement, mainly focusing on 19451975ish. We will have a National Timeline telling us how much mississippi affected us nationally and vice versa. We will focus on the mississippi story. We are in the Storage Facility for the exhibit. Right now, we have about 350 artifacts in the art exhibit, a small amount. We have been actively collect in the past few years since we received the funding to do the Civil Rights Museum. We know that with most museums, once we open and once you see we have told an honest and truthful story and you will care for the jets, that after we opened, we will get more of an influx of artifacts coming in. The good thing about the Civil Rights Museum and the museum of history is we have flexible cases so we can change out the exhibits and add new artifacts as time goes on. These are just some of the artifacts that will be in the Civil Rights Museum. I chose vario
Time for a period of general speeches followed by debate and a procedural vote on a u. S. District court nomination. Thatll be followed by a vote on legislation sponsored by senator Claire Mccaskill dealing with Sexual Assaults in the military a. Also on the agenda, Senate Democrats plan an allnight session to talk about Climate Change and other environmental issues. Over in the house, theres no legislative business today. The chamber will gavel in at 2 00 eastern for a pro forma session. The house will return tomorrow at noon with eight suspension bills being considered including a resolution that calls on the u. S. To impose sanctions on russia for its intervention in ukraine. You can watch live coverage of the house on cspan and the senate here on cspan2. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies 35 years ago and brought to you today as a Public Service by your television provider. Host and fadi chehade is the president and ceo of the Internet Corporation for assigned names and num
When the weapon was found, it still had green marks from the branch and they were able to find exactly where he had the branch on. A few years ago, for the 50th anniversary of the freedom riders, they had a reunion here in town, and one of the gentleman that came into town this is his bus tickets he had carried with him all these years. It is also the receipt he received for getting out of jail. He was arrested with all the other freedom riders that came into town for a breach of peace. It meant so much to him he carried them with him all these years. He was from san francisco. He came as an 18yearold student because he wanted to make a change. The impact it had. To immediately arrive here in jackson and the throw to in jail, for trying to improve society. You can tell when he gave it to us, this held a deep lays in his a deep place in his heart. The freedom riders consisted of hundreds of different people from across the country, all of the africanamericans, as well as a lot of white