Youre watching American History tv. All weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook at cspan history. Each week, american artifacts takes you to museums and Historic Places to learn about American History. Next, we tour the president ial vehicles collection at the Henry Ford Museum until dearborn, michigan. Transportation curator, matt anderson, shows us cars used by president s truman, eisenhower, carter, and reagan. And the and we look at the history of the automobile in the united states. And were actually standing in front of a series of president ial limousines, which tell the story of the development of president ial transportation over the last 117 years or so. Right behind me is a 1902 broem carriage that was used by president theodore roosevelt. By the time of roosevelts administration, its a common occurrence to see cars moving on public streets. Roosevelt, interestingly enough for all of the reputation he has as a real forwardlooking prog
Victory. Yeah. Wow, lets do it. Eagles eagles. And later on today we will have the pep band but lets do some traffic, ready. Lets check jam cams as we get ready on this monday back to work back to school kind of morning as we look live, we are dealing with fog depending upon where you begin and end your trip this morning. This is a live look at blue route 476 working your way up toward the schuylkill expressway, to the maps we will go not that bad as far as speedometer readings. It is quiet up this early on a monday morning a lot of us still celebrate ago this big eagles victory maybe from yesterday and i know it, listen, becca and emily were first won here they are laughing, right. Ben franklin bridge on the philadelphia side in the bad at all. We are live here all morning long 439 Germantown Pike right across from the Plymouth Meeting mall, karen and thomas back to you. Is there a dozen more, it doesnt get any better than. That we will check in with that. Day of rest turns into a day
American history. The opening session is on africanamericans and religion. While we wait for the conference to begin, a look at a 2011 trip to a storage site in a washington, d. C. Suburb with the director of the Smithsonian National museum of African American history and culture. He showed us some of the artifacts that will be on display in the new museum, opening on the national mall, september 24, 2016. Right now, we are in the Storage Units of the National Museum of African American history and culture. In essence, this is the heart of the museum of. Because whats behind me, and what we will see today are many of the objects that are going to be the soul of this museum. This is an opportunity to sort of preview some of the material that the public will see when the museum opens in stores. The story of the africanamerican experience is both a story of resiliency at achievement, but its also a story of struggle. Parts ofe hard exploring this history is that were athe people who the w
And Historic Preservation and interpretation, and about how African American history fits into the larger narrative of american history. Next, the opening session on African American religion. This event was cohosted by the Smithsonian Museum of African American history and culture and the american historical association. It is an hour and 40 minutes. Thank you for joining us on this rainy day in washington, d. C. This panel attempts to answer the simple but complex question, what is African American religion . , at leastn america the vast majority, were chattel to be bought and sold, exploited, and often cast aside when every ounce of value had been extracted an. But unlike the livestock listed alongside them at state inventories and at auction, this peculiar brand of property sought to preserve their humanity. In their relationships with each other, in the establishment and operation of their social institutions, and especially in their sacred beliefs. Percentof african adopted a bel
Soninlaw of naacp Board Chairman channing tobias. As the chief of the African Union unit for the united nations, dean immediately sent white a draft of the report. It dismantled all of eugene blacks cliches about rising tides raising all boats. Deans analysis laid out that while south africa had the highest per capita annual income on the continent most of that went to the white minority population. Africans in the union in fact made 75 less per year. And minors despite the growing demand for labor earned only 4. 02 per week. The report reaffirmed whites position as he took to the media to make the case for cutting off all funds, especially that of the world bank to south africa. Eugene black, white noted, had exhibited a kind of naivete to construe milans nazi model of racial policies as benefiting all the population of south africa. This was dangerous and shallow thinking. The world banks loans did not help. Instead it had bolstered a racist dictatorship, undercut more moderate force