Africanamerican representation in the 20th century and have a lot of artifacts from the house collection that have to do with that and a lot of history to cover. And the last africanamerican sort of to be eleshgted in the 19th century leaves in 1901, george white of north carkarcar and a long time before another africanamerican comes into the house. Oscar depriest from illinois. We have a couple of really rare artifacts from Oscar Depriest from the 1920s and 30s. But before i launch into them, because i love them so much, matt, tell us a little bit about Oscar Depriest and how he got into congress. So theres a long period. Almost three decades after George Henry White leaves congress where theres no africanamericans who serve in either the house or the senate. And that has everything to do with the jim crow laws that go on the books in the south, and the way that that changes over time during those decades, theres a critical thing going on in the south where africanamericans begin to l
Attack that happened today 3 people have been killed what more can you tell us baronets. Information on this attack is still coming in it happened now just 3 hours ago local time happened at 9 oclock or just before 9 oclock in the local time when there tucker we understand and to church in the center of nice armed with a knife he attacked people in the Church Killing 3 people one woman was decapitated one of the victims according to the mayor christian strohs either says one of the teens appears to been the churchwarden the man says the attacker was shouting allah akbar during the attack and during the attempt by police to arrest him he was shot during that. Time by the police he survived and is being treated in hospital other people were also injured in the attack now we are being told that french president money or macron is heading down to nice to the scene of this attack the church in the center of nice on the southern french coast the area around it has been sealed off by armed po
Police brutality a domestic incident became a global law. In a country torn apart by racial inequality. Can americans find a leader to unite. All of the key issues of the us elections. On aljazeera. And on welcome again to rewind and theres a chronic here on rewind were going back to some of aljazeera is most powerful documentaries and finding out how the story has moved on since today we rewind into a film about a remarkable doctor on a mission to cure blindness millions of people around the world suffer from blindness that makes difficult lives harder than ever it in many cases they condition could be easily cured most cases of cataract blindness occur in the developing world and often they go untreated simply because of poor access to medical facilities but in some of the most remote parts of naipaul one of the worlds poorest countries and i can revolution is on the way thanks to a doctor locally known as the go out of sight so effective as his technique that doctors from around the
Educational institutions designed to mold the minds and bodies of italys children between the ages five and 11 undertook a mission to rejuvenate the italian race and create a second roman empire. This project depended on the twin beliefs that the italian population did, indeed, constitute a distinct race and that certain aspects of its moral and physical makeup could be influenced during childhood. The book released last year is the work of our visiting author, dr. Eden maclean. Dr. Mclean is a historian of 20thcentury europe with a focus on italy in the interwar period. She joined auburn Universitys Department of history in 2012 after teaching for two years at western connecticut state university. She earned her ph. D. In history from Yale University and a ba in history from university of virginia. She is joined on stage tonight by museum advisor, partner, and friend, dr. Gunter bischof. The marshal plan chair of history and director of our partner for tonights program,. Enter austria
Gutierrezromine teaches a class about laws and policies regard ago bor regarding abortion. She tracks Public Opinion through court cases and newspaper kofrncoverage. She also describes costs and health risks in different time periods and states. All right. Everyone, welcome back. This week were looking at the topic of abortion. And in class on tuesday we watched the film abortions stories womens health. That is looking at the more current debates about abortion now. It was looking at abortion in states that had begun to legislate abortion restriction. So today were actually going to go back in time a little bit. Were going to give some Historical Context and do a historical overview of the topic of abortion and were going to start nationally and then were going to look at california specifically, specifically on the topics of specialized abortion or abortion specialists and decriminalization. And then were going to go back to the National Context to look at roe v. Wade and then the leg