Todays discussion is Frederick Douglass and the meaning of july 4 for the negro. Manys program is one of the National Archives will present in washington and president ial libraries nationwide in celebration of the 241st anniversary of the adoption of the declaration of independence. Building is the only place to begin your july 4, as we will present our annual declaration of independence reading ceremony on independence avenue. Guests, thomas jefferson, benjamin franklin, adams,jefferson, john will read the constitution. Ceremony, there will be hands on a team of these for all ages until 4 00 p. M. Inside the National Archives building. The museum will remain open until 7 00 p. M. If you are not here in d. C. , the reading ceremony which begins at 10 a lot at 10 00 will be live streamed. We will conclude our celebratory with a noon program in this theater, discussing the sus sex resolution. The sussex resolution. The discovery of a second banks script of the declaration of the discove
He is the author of the 2016 book the lives of Frederick Douglass, halloween todays presentation will be signing copies of the book. Please welcome Professor Robert levine. [applause] thank you for the introduction tom, and my thanks to tom for organizing the event. It is a real honor to be here. My guess is you would rather hear an actor over an academic, so i will be relatively brief, five minutes. As a lot of you know, frederick born into slavery in 1818 on the Eastern Shore of maryland. For the first 20 years of his life, he was a slave moving back and forth between the Eastern Shore and baltimore. He escaped from slavery in 1838 taking a train him baltimore while dressed as a sailor and eventually made his way to new bedford, massachusetts. He worked in the shipyards there and as a minister staying relatively quiet about his antislavery views. In part because he was a fugitive slave and was afraid of being remanded back into slavery, but in 1841 he spoke out against slavery at in
Venues. David particularly in his book race in the union, has examined the postwar culture in america and eric has literally written the book reconstruction. Has this wonderful new book that takes a look at lincolns evolution on this issue, where it took the country. Let me start by observing something that you all know, which is we are living in or maybe living through is a better era in which raw emotions are being continually laid bare about the status of americans, race relations, refugee status. We all know recent examples. Let me tell you about one that occurred some months ago, but may have slipped through the cracks as we focus on current events. , Hillary Clinton was appearing in iowa, defending her choice, interestingly, as Abraham Lincoln as her favorite president. They asked secretary clinton, who is your favorite president . She said, im sorry, bill. Its a ram lincoln. Why, she was asked. Its Abraham Lincoln. Why, she was asked. She said because he was willing to forgive.
Considered felicityious when the two went together. Three outer rungs applied social steady pressure, jockeying for pressure, the diplomats the army and navy crowd and the politicos, but clearly it was the cave dwellers particularly women like mary klemmer and Laura Holloway who influenced the pecking order among the capitols society. Fanny eams mrs. Charles, maintained an eclectic sunday salon at her 14th and 8th street home while her sister Marian Campbell governeur of new york was in several knickerbocker circles. Mrs. Eames reigned in d. C. And she would later befriend the first lady, mary lincoln. The physical attributes of the district did not recommend it. Noah brooks described the streets as canals of liquid mud. John hay concurred it would be difficult to conceive of a meaner street in architectural adornments than pennsylvania avenue. And as we just heard maybe the architectural recommendations of real estate on pennsylvania avenue remained there. There were of course areas o
Aircraft hag hangar last night. He was placed in handcuff s of the state troopers is accused of killing. Now prosecutors are making plans. It is my intention to file notice to seek the Death Penalty for eric frein in this case. Nbcs jay gray brings us the details. Reporter after 48 days on the run, one of the fbis most wanted criminals, alleged cop killer eric frein, was captured by u. S. Marshals near an abandoned airport in the pocono mountains. They saw an individual that they thought was eric frein and they ordered him to surrender to, to get down on his knees and raise his hands, which is what he did. Corporal dicksons handcuffs were put on him and he was placed in corporal dicksons car. Reporter they searched for the suspect they described as a survivalist and skilled marksman who allegely killed dickson and seriously injured trooper Alex Douglass in what they called an ambush. Now hes behind bars in the same place he allegedly carried out the attack. Hes been stripped of his gun