Enslaved. Including those born free in the north. The senator for a civil war study said Virginia Tech hosted this online talking provided the video. On todays event speaker is doctor Caroline Wood newhall, she graduated with a ph. D. Earlier this year, from the university of north carolina. She joined us just a few weeks ago, at Virginia Tech, as a post doctoral fellow at the Virginia Center for several more studies. I am certainly really glad she is here, and i think you all will be as, well once you hear her talk. Its clear that shes going to bring an awful lot to Virginia Tech, in terms of teaching, research, and outreach programs, as well. She specializes in 19th century u. S. History, including of course, civil war era. But also north american slavery more generally, warfare more generally, as well. Her writing has appeared and several war monitors and Civil War History journals, among other publications. And her big projects at the moment are converting her ph. D. Dissertations
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Rights. The u. S. Supreme court ruled today that a landmark civil rights law protects and transgender people from discrimination in employment. The court decided by a 63 vote that a key provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 known as title 7 that bars job discrimination because of one also applies to orientation or gender identity with more we go now to kron fours justine waltman shes live in our newsroom with details just team. Well this outcome is expected to have a big impact for the over 8 million lgbtq workers across the country and i want you to think about this way until todays ruling it was legal and more than half of the states to fire workers for being bisexual or transgender most states do not protect lgbtq people from workplace, discrimination this ruling is considered a defeat for the Trump Administration. The white house would argue that the Civil Rights Act did not extend to claims of gender identity and orientation, but the conservative court disagreed. Governor gavi