Shrank stories about individuals who led slavery volts, educated fellow free people, and participated in abolitionist on harpers welcome to the Virginia Museum of history and culture in richmond, virginia welcome to our latest special exhibition which is titled determined, the 400 years struggle for black equality. This exhibition is part of a statewide commemoration of the 400th anniversary of significant events that happened in virginia and fundamentally shaped the course of American History that statewide commemoration is called american evolution 2019 and the determined exhibition is a legacy project of that statewide commemoration. And particular, a determined determined commemorates the 16 19 arrival of the first recorded captive africans in virginia. Then it looks at the instilling 400 years and traces the legacy of the beginning of slavery in virginia through emancipation and segregation, the modern civil rights movement, up till the president they. One of the unifying themes o
Ferry. Welcome to the Virginia Museum of history and culture in richmond, virginia. Welcome to our latest special exhibition which is titled determined the 400 year struggle for black equality. This is part of a statewide commemoration of the 400th anniversary of significant events that happened in virginia and fundamentally shaped the course of American History. That statewide commemoration is called american evolution 2019 and the determined exhibition is a legacy project of that statewide commemoration. In particular determined commemorates the 1619 arrival of the first reported captive africans in virginia. And then it looks at the ensuing 400 years and traces the legacy of the beginning of slavery in virginia through emancipation, segregation, the modern civil rights movement, up to the present day. One of the unifying themes of this exhibition is the struggle for equality and explores various ways in which black virginian have fought for equality. Whether it means freedom from en
Special exhibition that is titled determine, the 400year struggle for black equality. It is part of the statewide commemoration of the 400th anniversary of significant events that happened in virginia. And fundamentally shaped the course of American History. It is called american evolution 2019. And the determined exhibition is a legacy project of that statewide commemoration. And in particular, determined commemorates the 1619 arrival of the africans in virginia. It looks at the ensuing 400 years and traces the legacy of slavery in virginia through emancipation, segregation, the modern Civil Rights Movement up until the present day. One of the unifying themes is the struggle for equality. It explores various ways in which black virginians have fought for equality and that means freedom from enslavement and oppression. Whether that means fighting for equal justice and equal access for opportunities. It is for the consideration of humanity. The exhibition covers a broad chronological ar
As we visit with crystal, with the extreme history project as she looked to the over the history of the city. Crystal we are here in the extreme history project offices which used to be a historic brothel. Extreme history is a nonprofit that is located here in bozeman. We bring history to the public in fund engaging and relevant ways. We do historic walking tours throughout the summer. We do a lecture series in the winter and we do workshops and other events around history. We try to get people to engage in history. What better way then in a historic brothel . In the 1980s, there was a real push to uncover more of the social history. In doing that, there is more to history than just wars and generals and all of those things that we have been studying as historians for many years. We started looking at womens history. We started looking at Minority Community history. We really discovered that there is so much more to tell within these narratives that we constructed over the years. That
And we are so stoked that she brought a colleague. Please join me in welcoming them for our presentation. Becky she stole my line because i was going to say this is probably the best teacher conference you can go to. That is why i brought irene this year. This is my third year. I want you to go back to your school and encourage all of your teacher friends to come because this is such a valuable conference. Thank you friends of the world war ii memorial for inviting me back again for your third. Irene and i are going to talk about, and we will see it in the video, fashion on the ration. Nothe united states, we did ration clothing as much as the british did. But we had some severe restrictions on rationing. One of the things you can see from the powerpoint is that 50 of japans exports are fabric and silk. 32 of that comes to the united states. And that they were our only source of silk. So you can imagine how, obviously, pearl harbor is going to impact silk and other fabrics in the unite