My dad had an eighth grade education, my mom, a fifthgrade education, and yet, they believed in the promise of this country. They worked really hard and sacrificed, as so many latinos and hispanics have done in this country, because they wanted that Better Future for their children, and they believed in the promise of this country. They talked us important values that have been our guide for our lives, me and my siblings, my six brothers and sisters. They taught us the importance of family, faith, Community Hard work, sacrifice, honesty integrity. Tonight at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. Next on American History tv, researcher Peter Kornbluh discusses president kennedys attempts to open up negotiations with cuba. He discusses the issues involved with establishing reliable dialogue in negotiations. He is coauthor of back channel to cuba. This is about 45 minutes. Thank you. Im here to introduce Peter Kornbluh, whom i have just met. I have just gotten a copy of his new book, co
Corrected by reconstruction. This was the constitution that was written in 1875, and interestingly, texas still operates under this constitution today, even though it has had hundreds of amendments to make changes to it. We can flip to the signature page of the document, which contains all of the original signatures from 1876. As you can imagine, these are many of the most prominent men of their day. While this document addressed some issues of inequality, of course, these problems did not go away with equality, and franchise men, most notably even though men of african dissent could theoretically vote, women were not allowed to vote until well into the 20th century. This is a memorial to the Texas Legislature in 1884 by the undersigned committee of colored men. I guess that is kind of a predecessor of the black caucus. They are asking for redress on several issues that pertain to people of african dissent descen living in texas at the time. Tthis small leaflet entitled handicapped was