Explore the history of this Central Texas town of 129,000 since along the river and is home to Baylor University, the oldest institute of Higher Learning in the state. The institute of texan thatre in san antonio says the second most well known thing from the Texas Rangers was the alamo, and we are talking about 200 years of the history and heritage of upholding values of law, order, and justice. Later we will visit the Dr Pepper Museum as we learn how impact of gettings the local economy. In 1885 when a pharmacist was mixing together ine different concoctions the back of the old corner drugstore. Where the pharmacy was located. It came up where a fragrant smelling mixture that he liked very much was, he probably used it in some medicines but eventually it was sold as a syrup with carbonated water across the Soda Fountain counter. First we travel to Baylor University to find out about its black gospel restoration object, working to archive records to help us learn more about the role i
And it is great to be back here all the time. A few years ago, after agreeing to write a book celebrating the centennial of Grand Central terminal, i casually suggested an audacious but catchy subtitle, how a train station transformed america. And almost immediately i was struck by second thoughts. Individuals and events shape history, but could a single building . Luckily, Grand Centrals 100 year imprint on commerce and culture, its pivotal role in urban development, and codifying landmark and air rights, in shifting manhattans Cultural Center of gravity from downtown in midtownstep manhattan, turned out to validate the subtitle after all. Aell, a building, albeit monumental one, was one thing. Could a single object be transformative . That question arose after the British Museum and the bbc collaborated on the history of the world in 100 objects. That inspired a spate of collections on subjects including bird watching, the first world war, cricket, the future, the beatles, shakespear
Education, including not only Baylor University but two black colleges. It had the nickname of the athens of texas because there were so many institutions of higher education. They also had a lot of libraries. Wacos society had always considered itself a little more civilized, loftier than other towns. So it was particularly ironic that in this prosperous, welleducated town with so many of lifes amenities that this incident could happen. The story of the waco lynching of Jesse Washington in 1916 really begins with the discovery of the body of lucy fryer who was a farm woman who was his employer. He and his family had not been in the waco area for very long. They were itinerant farm laborers, but it was not only Jesse Washington himself, 17 and mentally challenged, who was plowing the fields and working for them, but it was also his parents who lived in a little shack on their property with some other children. I think there was a younger brother, a teenager, and they were all doing som
The 2014 Freedom Award in the capitol statuary hall. During the 1960s civil rights movement, lewis served as chairman of the student nonviolent cord knitting committee, and helped organize the march on washington and the Voting Rights march from selma to montgomery, alabama. That is tonight at 9 25 eastern time, here on American History tv. This year, cspan is touring cities across the country, exploring American History. You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. It is hard to imagine an essentially a modern day town where our grandparents or greatgrandparents couldve lived, it wasnt that long ago , 1916, where Something Like this could take place. That scholars called these events spectacle lynchings. And they took place mostly in the late 19th century and early 20th century. One of the interesting aspects of this horrendous lynching is that it didnt occur in some little backwoods village where everybody was poor and ignorant, but it was in what the
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