Conversations with nonfiction authors and others making things happen. Weekly hour long conversations that regularly feature authors on Nonfiction Books about a variety of topics and behind the scenes of the Nonfiction Book Publishing Industry with industry updates and best sellers lists. Find our podcasts by downloading the free cspan app and wherever you get your podcasts and our website, cspan. Org podcast. April, 1865 brought the confederate surrender at appmattox and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and many africanamericans were hopeful that johnson would promote. And they were disillusioned with johnson, after Frederick Douglass talked about it. And eventually led to his impeachment. Within the records of the archives is the impeachment of johnson, february 1868. Three days later 12847 voted to adopt the resolution. In the failed promise, Robert Levine brought Frederick Douglass and wider black community to reject Andrew Johnson and call for a guilty verdict in his impeachm
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Black gotham Carla Peterson recounts the lives of black elites in new york city in the 19th century. Professor peterson examines a community of black new read more . Recounts the lives of africanamerican elites in new ork. This is about an hour, ten minutes. Um, i want the start out my talk with two quotes. Um, theyre both from the prologue of my book, and ill give a little explanation for them, um, but they introduce why i decided to write book. Write the book. So the first quote is in my own prose from the prologue. We still hold certain truths about africanamericans to be selfevident; that the phrase 19th Century Black americans refers to enslaved people. That the, that new york state before the civil war denotes a place of freedom, that blacks in this new york city esignates harlem, that the black community posits a classless and culturally unified society, that a black elite did not exist until well into the 20th century. The lives of my new york forebearers belies such assumption
We visit the Health Office building to see artifacts that tell the story of africanamericans in congress in the 20th century. I am the curator at the u. S. House of representatives. I am the historian. We wanted to talk about the history of africanamerican representation in the 20th century. We have a lot of artifacts from house collections that has to do with that. And a lot of history to cover. The last africanamerican to be elected in the 19th century leaves in 1901. George white of north carolina. Then it is a long time before another africanamerican comes into the house and that is oscar dupree from illinois. We had a couple of rare artifacts from him from the 1920s and 1930s. Before i launch into them, matt, tell us about oscar dupree. Matt almost three decades after George Henry White leaves congress when there are no africanamerican to serve in the house or senate. That has everything to do with the jim crow laws that go on the books in the south. The way that that changes over
We visit the Health Office building to see artifacts that tell the story of africanamericans in congress in the 20th century. I am the curator at the u. S. House of representatives. I am the historian. We wanted to talk about the history of africanamerican representation in the 20th century. We have a lot of artifacts from house collections that has to do with that. And a lot of history to cover. The last africanamerican to be elected in the 19th century leaves in 1901. George white of north carolina. Then it is a long time before another africanamerican comes into the house and that is oscar dupree from illinois. We had a couple of rare artifacts from him from the 1920s and 1930s. Before i launch into them, matt, tell us about oscar dupree. Matt almost three decades after George Henry White leaves congress when there are no africanamerican to serve in the house or senate. That has everything to do with the jim crow laws that go on the books in the south. The way that that changes over