Afterwards wes moore traces his career choices from combat veteran to social entrepreneur to find his lifes purpose. On American History tv on cspan3 saturday night just after 7 00, the 1963 interview of malcolm x discussing Race Relations and opposition to racial integration and sunday at 6 30 p. M. Eastern, former cia chief of disguise tells the story of a husband and wife kgp spy team that infiltrated through the use of sex. Send us a tweet at cspan. In 2008 he was interviewed about congressional efforts to seek redress. Its about an hour for this world history. Today is friday july 4th 2008. Were in denver at the Japanese American National museums conference, and this morning we have secretary Norman Mineta with us. And im doing this differently. We usually do an oral history and i start from the very beginning. But because of time constraints, im really going to focus on the redress, so the first question, i just want to find out, was there anything in your early life that led you
During world war ii. It starts at 8 00 eastern with real america and a documentary and the Living Conditions. At 8 20, lekctures in history with a course on how the press handled the japanese interment and american artifacts takes you through the Japanese American National museum and at 9 55, oral history with normen manetta. Here are some of our featured programs for this weekend on the cspan networks. Saturday morning starting at 10 00 a. M. Eastern live on cspan, our nations governors get together to discuss issues affecting their states. Guests include danny meier and maria bartarmo of fox Business News and on sunday we continue the meeting, featured speakers include jay johnson and gina mccarthy. On cspan 2, saturday, book tv is on the road, appearancing the literalry life of greensboro. And sunday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern, wes moore we re traces his career choices from combat veteran to white house fellow, wall street banker to social entrepreneur to find his lifes purpose and on Am
What this cartoon did from a journalist socially credible and deeply entrusted as life magazine was, especially at a time of such po larty was deeply irresponsible, in my opinion. Which we can all appreciate from contemporary standpoint. When people flinch at the use of the term jam. And one thing i do appreciate about it, though is acknowledgment, at least, in a public forum that most people could not tell the difference between certain types of asians, which, you know, i think a lot of us still agree would happen today. Well, would it happen today . Would it happen today . Would this happen again . Taking a large number of americans, citizens because of their race their religion, their national origin. I mean its not the same thing, but its sort of happening with the ferguson and, like, you know, racial policy in the United States right now. So its not the same thing at all. But its only still an issue today. In terms of race. What if theres another 9 11. What would happen . I dont k
Archival films that help tell the story of the 20th century. On february 19th 1942, roosevelt issued executive order 9066 leading to a forced relocation and internment of over 100,000 people of japanese ancestry who lived on the west coast of the u. S. About 62 of the internees were american citizens. A challenge to democracy from 1944 is a 20minute War Relocation Authority film which attempts to justify the policy by showing the internment process and Living Conditions in the camps sometimes admitting there were problems but frequently glossing over the many negative aspects of forced relocation. To wartime communities. Established in out of the way places. But ordered to reduce a military hazard at a time when invasion was great. 2 3 of the evacuees are american citizens by right of birth. The rest are the japanese born parents and grandparents. They are not under suspicion, they are not prisoners, not internees. They are merely dislocated people. The place ten different Relocation C
In the early 1970s and i think one of our challenges to think about what some of the consequences of those are and as kim said whether or not these are connected to each other. So, between about 1971 and 1976 and 1977 we first of all, get millions of new voters in this country, right . So you get a constitutional amendment that makes the voting age 18 instead of 21, so thats early in the 1970s. You also get a transformation of the primary system in this country, right . Prior to the 1970s, you had primary systems they were not binding primary systems so the primary system that we all experience that at times has caused the last five or ten years crises of its own, that is also birthed in the early 1970s. You begin to get a transformation that had already started in the 1960s, but comes to true you wigs wigs in the 1970s of the ways in which Congressional Committees are structureded. You get the break down of the old Congressional Committee structure, dominated largely by southern senat