Slavery in the united states, through 1950. This was a period that witnessed both progress and backlash. Blackthe civil war virginians and americans embraced new opportunities. On one hand, black lives flourished under the new promises afforded by freedom in American Society. Black people suffer from backlash from the white establishment. At the same time that we see the incess, we also see regress the form of disenfranchisement and legal s segregation in the forms of American Society. We will look at a few stories that exemplify push and pull dynamic. The section starts with reconstruction and key legislative amendments that fundamentally shape the rights of black people in america. In 13th amendment, first 1865, which finally and definitively ended 246 years of slavery and america. Ratified in 18 68, which guaranteed Citizenship Rights to domer slaves and promised to process and protection under the law to all americans. Its an amendment regularly cited in legal cases today. Amendmen
[applause] please take your seats. The morning and welcome to 400th anniversary commemorative ceremony. It is my honor to welcome the lady, thend the First Lieutenant governor justin fairfax, the attorney general, senator mark warner, and senator tim kaine. Scottepresentative bobby and a representative from virginia. Bass andative karen from missouri. Speaker of the house of for thes, first counsel embassy of wanda. ,he former Virginia Governor the former Virginia Governor robert mcdonald, the former missouri governor greitens, former representatives james payne, members of the governors cabinet, members of the virginia General Assembly, including senate ,ajority leader Thomas Norment portsmouth mayor john wrote, the members of the 400 years African American history federal museum, Deputy Assistant secretary of fish and wildlife parks, National Parks service officials, including daniel lla,h and david ve members of the Hampton City Council and other special guests. On behalf of the mem
This morning for traffic. Hello s getting weird good new in the weather department. The risk of Severe Weather is tu out of the p for quite sometime to come. A little weather front and work its way through the region today. As itcomes through it might ring out one or two isolated rain shower in the day today. Most of us will not get rained on for a fday. A lonesome drop in charlottesville. 73 in washington. Cooler to the north west. 64 leesburg and 63 winchester. That slightly cooler and slightly more importantly less humid air moving in for the weekend. At least less humi here is your planner for hot and humid. A chance forh a ser or two. Mostseof tho rain chances across parts of Northern Virginia and Northern Maryland and lorraine chances for today. Good morning, jack taylor. How are you . Chuck, morning. Starting off deja vuing agai hi. Canal road is closed again this morning between reservoir and ll fox unfortunately, with mondays damage from the storm. That roadway will take a whi
And how claude monet would paint the sunrise. On the whole, a beautiful morning. Ndenty of humidity still lingering around that will lead to a little chance for a stray shower later today but no Severe Weather. Nmore informatio on Tropical Storm barry and the wide ranging impact that storm will have on the gulf coast the course of the whtkend. Rignow leesburg, good morning. 63 degrees. 71 now in clinton, maryland. Your planner, four thing to know about today. Hot and humid. Upper 80s to near 90 today and 90s over theeekend but much lorraine chances. Ill show you your future weather to time out what little opportunity is there for rain our friday coming up. Jack taylor, good morning. Good morning, chuck. Slow traffic in the dtrict off 295 inbound from the 11th street bridge. First a crash on the third nd that cleared and then a broken down vehicle on the ride of the roadway that also cleared. Now all travel lanes are open but delays hopefully will begin to e. Canal road still closed bet
Another strong system swe through the area bringing heavy rain and some isolated thunderstorms. After a tree crashed through one mans home in chevy chase he says he he is lucky to be alive. Michael zilinger was sitting on is couch when a tree fell through the roof. I looked up and there werehe brancs coming through and i was shocked. He is now working with his Insurance Company to see what is covered. Residents in louisiana are preparing for the worst as Tropical Storm barry moves to the gulf and the storm is inching closer to the ast. Tropical storm barry set to land tomorrow and evacuations are under way right now. New orleans is still drying out from more than 9 inches of rain this week, which means the misissippi river is higher than normal. Barry could lift the river to its highest level in nearly 70 years. 10 5 inches of rain are possible and if barry turns into a hurricane, that storm will make history. This will be the first time that we have had a hurricane make landfall in lo