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The theme of this years event is ordinary people, extraordinary times. Historians explore how the war affected a Diverse Group of american people. The event is cohosted by the library of virginia, university of Virginia Center for Civil War History, and the American Civil War museum. In the first session, james robertson, Virginia Tech history professor emeritus, and the author or editor of more than 20 books will give a talk titled civil war echoes from the common folk. But first, the director of the center for Civil War History at the university of virginia will welcome the audience. This is live coverage on American History tv on cspan3. Good morning, im Gary Gallagher and i very pleased to welcome all of you this morning. To our symposium titled ordinary people, extraordinary times. I do this and welcome you on behalf of the library of virginia, the American Civil War the center for Civil War History at the university of virginia. Treadway, they library and would perform this task,
2017, it will be 43 years ago and a lot has happened at that site since then. The park has been developed yearbyyear. Initially, it took about two years to get the buildings out and to put in grass and it is mainly now a grassy space. More money now, i believe in the neighborhood of 60 million has gone into refurbishing the parks further. So not only was the fair beneficial immediately in terms of transforming downtown spokane, but now the better part of 50 years later, there is still momentum that began their that is part of the spirit of that place, the spirit of the place of the middle of spokane falls. Our cities to her staff recently traveled to spoke at, washington to learn about the rich history. To learn more about spokane and other spots go to cspan. Org cities to her. You are watching American History tv. A weekend every weekend. We continue with our look at the history of spokane. Up next on American History speak to a gathering house by the association of africanamerican mu
Relations. We had horrible relationships with the black community in particular. A lot of people had been beaten up. I was one of the people severely beaten by the police and made the decision i was going to become a police officer. This was commonplace in detroit. It was probably around that time the naacp attentive to integrate , and Thee Department Police Department went on strike. We had all these things occurring. In the 1950s and 1950s, people had been shot and killed by the police. All of these things festered. We had a great deal of people that moved up from the south who wanted to get jobs in detroit because of the big three. They found things were probably as bad here as they were in the south. They were getting frustrated in terms of the things going on. Watch the entire program on the 1957 detroit riots at 8 00 a. M. And 8 00 p. M. Eastern on monday. Up next, nina howard speaks to a gathering hosted by the association of africanamerican museums about designing museums and p
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