Will committee on the judiciary subcommittee on constitutional civil rights and Civil Liberties come to order. Thank you for your help getting the door shut and getting people. Care will authorize the recess of the subcommittee any time. Welcome everyone to this hearing on hr 40 and thei will recognize myself or opening statement. Today is the documents the announcement of the abolition of slavery in texas and more generally throughout the confederacy. The news of the emancipation proclamation did not reach texas for 2 years and it was not until 1865 dental they were free. Despite the announcement. Slavery was a crime against humanity one which impacts we continue to grapple with today. This also marks the 400 anniversary of the first african state slaves being brought to america. Slavery was our original sin. Our constitution protected the and various compromises that gave disproportionate power to slave states. The thrift 3 5 clause they were consider personal property and that gave
House judiciary subcommittee this portion of the hearing includes questions from members starting with the subcommittee chair. It is one hour and 45 minutes. Why should the federal government bear responsibility for economic and social damages . Thank you, chairman cohen. The most obvious reason is because the federal government is complicit. Thisrticle you spoke about time of White Supremacy reference in the headline it is so broad that if i tried to cover in one article it would have been impossible. I focus on a specific thing and that is jim crow and housing discrimination specifically in the city of chicago. The federal government was deeply complicit in housing surrogates in and redlining and the plunder of black homeowners in chicago. It would have not existed if the sha did not have a policy of not ensuring loans for black People Living in chicago. It would not have existed if not for the redlining laps that were written and created by this government of every major city in thi
Anniversary of the act of 1964. Remind people what the Civil Rights Act did for the state of like america at that time. Guest you and all of your viewers and listeners. The state of black america focuses on the 1964 Civil Rights Act, one of the most important pieces of legislation in american his. It was americas m. It was signed by president johnson and he had to break a filibuster in the congress to get this past. The context in 1964 is we had witnessed as a nation march on washington, the jobs and freedom of august of 1963 and later, a month or so later, the bombing of the four little girls in birmingham, alabama and in november of 1963 of course, the tragedy that was the assassination of president kennedy. It riveted the nation in the nation was focused about whether it had the wherewithal and the courage to end legal segregation which was the law of the land in the south. Civil rights act of 1964 band discrimination in employment, it band discrimination in public accommodations, i
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