What were known as red legs. Jayhawkers. These are kansasians as he admits in his autobiography who feels the kansasans picked on them. To cross into missouri and get their revenge. So hes in an informal j jayhawking kansas regiment fighting in missouri. Then in 1864 he joins the kansas seventh which is the notorious jayhawking regimen. If you were a missourian and i said kansas seventh, you would know what that meant even probably today. And they had such a Bad Reputation for what they were carrying out in missouri that they got sent away from the kansas missouri border. He did see some service in the south and by the end of the war, hes back in st. Louis. Well, what did Buffalo Bills childhood in bleeding kansas and in his youth as a jayhawker in the civil war mean to him . You can watch this and other American History programs on our website where all our video is archived. Thats cspan. Org history. In 1911, the triangle shirtways factory in new york caught fire and 146 workers died
I am a founding university of the remember the Triangle Fire Coalition and a coauthor with my colleague andi sosin of the new york city triangle factory fire. I will briefly introduce my colleagues on the panel and they will have more time to tell you about themselves shortly. All of us are members of the remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, which you will hear more about as we discuss. And we are all committed to keeping the memory of the victims alive and visible. We began our Work Together as part of a team organizing a citywide commemoration for the centennial of the tragedy in 2011. This rapidly spread from a citywide commemoration in new york to a national and International Commemoration around the world. Were educators, activists, and historians. Briefly, dr. Mary anne trasciatti is a professor of rhetoric at Hofstra University as well as president of the remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, which we are finding is no small task. Rose imperato is an activist and Founding Membe
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Absolutely invisible people of color were on television. Sesame street is a show with a social message, manzano naively believed her onscreen work could end discrimination. Racism has really reared its ugly head in in in ways that were unimaginable to me. In 69 i thought we were gonna fix all of that with sesame street, but clearly it hasnt. As her life changed along with the times so did her character maria. We encompassed what was going on in society. When i fell in love and got married and had a baby, so did maria. And we so it was sort of like the first reality show, without the whining i think. Growing up in a lowincome puerto rican household in the south bronx with an alcoholic father, her childhood was anything but sunny days. My father drank a lot and he was a violent drunk and he battered my mother. And we would run away from him and then wed run back to him when my mother couldnt make ends meet. In her new memoir becoming maria love and chaos in the south bronx, the acclaimed