Interview with Joan Trumpauer mulholland. She recalls taking part in the 1961 freedom rides, attending tougaloo college, and serving at the Mississippi State penitentiary with other activists. This interview is part of a project on the Civil Rights Movement initiated by congress in 2009, conducted by the Smithsonian National museum of africanAmerican History and culture, the american full like american folklife center. Joan i was born in washington, d. C. And raised in arlington, virginia, basically a mile down the road in apartments, which at that point was the only place in Northern Virginia that would rent to jews. This was the early 1940s, folks had come from new york, looking for government jobs. They wanted out of the boarding houses and they can move to buckingham and that was about it. What did your dad do . Joan they had those government jobs. My father came from southwest iowa, during the depression. My folks met at the midnight shift at the post Office Building in the elevat
Visits to college classrooms, museums, and historic places. Exploring our nations past every weekend on cspan3. I am the director of the George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum here on the campus of George Washington university in the heart of washington, d. C. Four freedomss exhibition celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Norman Rockwell museum, the 75th dday, and of putting on the rose the great images Norman Rockwell painted the created a National Concept of the four freedoms that made visible, tangible, and real the ideological concepts president roosevelt expressed in the state of the Union Address in 1941. [newsreel video] pres. Roosevelt the first is freedom of speech and expression anywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship god in his own way everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want, which translated into world terms means economic , understandings which will nation, ar every healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants
Originally over at sixth and g street. This is the third time the building has been moved. In 1969, the building was taken off of its foundation. They took off some of the first floor. They made it easier for us to move down to the museum site. They have lifted it up on some steel beams. They put wheels underneath the steel beams. They used a Remote Control system to roll it down the street very slowly. It will take it a few hours to get it one block down. Why is it being moved . The first time the building moved was for progress downtown. The metro headquarters was getting built. Metro displaced this little building and moved it to the new site here. The Jewish Historical Society has done a number of weddings thebar mitzvahs in synagogue, but it is not used as a traditional synagogue, it is more for special events. Until this last year, we were doing programming and small exhibitions out of this building. Progress in the city we are rebuilding this huge new neighborhood in this area c
the biden administration s repeatedly denied that there s a crisis at the border despite the commander in chief requesting backup. john: texas governor greg abbott will join us live for an exclusive interview later in the show to talk about what he is seeing in his state. sandra: in just a moment we will be speaking about joe biden s policies pushing the district he represents to the breaking point. john: greg, what s the latest from where you are? reporter: we re here at the point of entry at brownsville where anyone can walk up, claim asylum if they have evidence of a credible fear. but let s go up in the sky to the fox drone team and show you over these ports of entries where some 25,000 asylum seekers are waiting for clearance. that s not the problem, officials say. it s the crossings illegally between the ports of entry. you see the rgc sector, they had 1500 apprehensions just in the last 24 hours. the numbers sandra mentioned about the unaccompanied children, fo
Enough for patchy ice. Heres a look at the radar. Were dry but its yesterday and last night. Its precip that were worried about. Because of those temperatures. Thats why we have a weather alert. The possibility of patchy ice. Parts of Northern Maryland and virginia, look at the temperatures. 28 leesburg, 23 dulles. 23 degrees frederick. Right now its 33 in washington. So the temperatures are getting a little bit colder. Look at the visibility. Were looking at less than a half mile through much of the area. The major interstates, this is also going to be a big issue this morning as well and as the commute goes, this morning, again patchy ice, were looking at dense fog. By this afternoon, big improvements. Well talk about the warming temperatures in a bit. All right. Thank you, sheena. New problem at annandale. Between gallows and graham, all lanes are blocked because of a water main break. This is affecting folks perhaps headed out of town this to Reagan National airport. The ramp block