I saw a lot of hands. Okay. I was curious about hotels in new york. I mean i know my parents stayed at one of the few hotels in new york that allowed black people to stay there. Well, you know, it was different. Like up where i interviewed paula, up at the polo grounds, she mentioned in her building at one time walter white from the naacp, Thurgood Marshal stayed there, judge bruce wright stayed there at one time in that building. But further up is a building count 555. Gnat king cole would come in town and he couldnt stay in town. He could playdown town but couldnt stay downtown. What years were your parents stay ting there . They got married in 54. Well you know, i guess it happens. But i know i read his article not too long ago that hairy bell fon taye was having a hard time finding a place. He ended up buying the building and sold the penthouse to lena horne. Thats how he was able to get in the upper westside. Do you know the websites url for the green book chronicles so people wit
Be sure to watch cspans washington journal beginning at 7 00 eastern on friday morning. Join the discussion. Next on American History tv, historians discuss general shermans march flew georgia. After that, historian dennis fry talks about the impact of john browns raid in the 1860 goals. The New York Historical society hosted this hour long event. Welcome, its great to be back in the same seats as we always occupy. For those of you who have come to a number of our sessions. We are promised and we are promising each other that well do more in the coming seasons. We have a topic today that we think is one of the best that weve come up with, its a neglected civil war story. Because of the focus on shermans march through georgia. Theres a little less attention on shermans other march, which followed the march through georgia. Take a look at this scowling man in a fantastic coat, as we begin talking about him. Im going to start with john who as you heard has written two wonderful books abou
Entries to actually tell us what all of this means in the grand scope of things. The other thing is that some confederates we can say well, we can go to the pension files, these documents when confederate soldiers will fill out documents to get money and prospects which we will talk about in a few minutes but those files in many ways are incomplete. They are also hidden from public view. In fact, some states actually still have medical seals on these documents because they contain private details. Medical details, about family members that you dont want necessarily to go public. So for the veterans who came home psychologically disturbed, some of them turned to alcohol abuse, some to drug abuse, particularly opium. We also see some contemplate and actually commit suicide. Bill hicks is one of these guys. He was described as the pristine man if you will, colossus in form. He lost a leg in the battle of shilo in 1862. He came home to a law practice that seemed promising but wasnt that gr
Democrats, democrat line. Republicans, republican line, and you can tell us what you think on cspan on twitter and on facebook. The phone lines are open. Discourse, thel kind that we see on tv, and the kind that we experience among each other, it did not used to be this bad. And it does not have be this way. Now, a little skepticism is healthy. But when people distrust distrust they come to institutions. They lose faith in government. They lose faith in our future. We can acknowledge this. But we dont have to accept this. And we cant enable it. That was the speaker of the house yesterday, a little bit of his speech on capitol hill. Dont lose faith in the government was his message. What you think this morning about what the speaker had to say and the current tone of politics . This is the front page of the Washington Post republicans building a firewall between trump. They say their big money allies are rushing to protect senate house cabinets. Fearing that the party could lose its hol
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