Africanamerican representation in the 20th century and have a lot of artifacts from the house collection that have to do with that and a lot of history to cover. And the last africanamerican sort of to be eleshgted in the 19th century leaves in 1901, george white of north carkarcar and a long time before another africanamerican comes into the house. Oscar depriest from illinois. We have a couple of really rare artifacts from Oscar Depriest from the 1920s and 30s. But before i launch into them, because i love them so much, matt, tell us a little bit about Oscar Depriest and how he got into congress. So theres a long period. Almost three decades after George Henry White leaves congress where theres no africanamericans who serve in either the house or the senate. And that has everything to do with the jim crow laws that go on the books in the south, and the way that that changes over time during those decades, theres a critical thing going on in the south where africanamericans begin to l
Tvs american artifacts we visit the Cannon House Office building to see artifacts that tell the story of africanamericans in congress in the 20th century. Im farar elliott. And im matt waz knsniewski. We wanted to talk about africanamerican representation in the 20th century. We have a lot of artifacts from the house collection that have to do with that and a lot of history to cover. And the last africanamerican to be elected in the 19th century leaves in 1901, george white of north carolina. And then its a long time before another africanamerican comes into the house. And that is Oscar Depriest from illinois. And we have a couple of really rare artifacts from Oscar Depriest from the 1920s and 30s. But before i launch into them, because i love them so much, matt, tell us a little bit about Oscar Depriest and how he got into congress. So, theres a long period, almost three decades, after George Henry White leaves congress where theres no africanamericans who serve in either the house or
Mayor pete moving ahead there. We have a South Carolina poll out today that shows joe biden once again doing extremely well there. This is such a fluid, exciting race on the democratic side. You see mayor pete jumping up, hes at 25 in iowa. And South Carolina, hes big in joe biden. Well get into that in a moment. But lets begin today kick off week two in public testimony in the impeachment probe. Well get into who will be testifying in a moment, but first latest abc news poll shows where americans are now on this issue. 70 , 70, think the president s actions with ukraine were wrong. Only 25 think they were not. Among those who think his actions were wrong, 51 think he should be impeach and removed from office. 6 think he should be impeached and not removed from office. And 13 think he should not be impeached or removed from office. And the new npr mayor rift poll out this more, 50 believe he should be impeached, 40 do not. 70 think its unacceptable for a president to acc ask a foreign