Past 12 months, helping us learn the history and literary life of cities around the country. For eight years we have traveled to u. S. Cities, bringing the literary scene to our viewers. You can watch more of our visits itiestour. Org c many think the selma to montgomery march just started up overnight and was a oneoff idea, but a Voting Rights movement had been brewing in selma since the 1930s. [gospel singer performing] here in selma and in many places throughout the south, africanamericans were done night were denied the right to vote, not because it wasnt their right, but because there were folks in position of power who did not want these folks to have the right to vote. That way they could be considered secondclass citizens. Andes and literary literacy tests were used to prevent americans from getting the vote. Poll taxes was a price you had to paper year forgetting on the voter rolls. Lets say i live in a rural area and i am making 60 a year, but poll taxes are one dollar a year
Once you begin walking on the pier you dont realize that youre only a block away from downtown. You realize youre over the ocean, at the beach, and some completely unique environment that really is not part of the city. The pier is among the last great the book is santa monica pier a century on the last ier. Peei the story has this wonderful arc. Ups and downs, almost ends and then the Community Rallies to save it and it has to go through growing pains. Meets Natural Disaster and it grows again so its a wonderful up and down story from fishing pier to Amusement Park pier, and its been the home to many, many interesting stories. The santa monica Municipal Pier opened on september 9, 1909. If you write numerically, its 9909. Opened Public Utilities to run sewage into the ocean. Thats what it was built for. A very specific purpose. It did open as being distinct and unique in the fact that it was the first ever entirely concrete pier built on the west coast of the United States, with the c
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