Their research, climate change, access to Research Labs and private and Public Partnerships and research. The committee, email address is circulated prior to the hearing. Good afternoon and welcome to todays hearing. Will hear about how these capabilities have been leveraged in response to the covid19 pandemic. I want to thank the Ranking Members, members of the subcommittee and witnesses for joining us today. Members of the subcommittee are enthusiastic about the Energy Innovations coming out of the nation. Given the labs providing our country, the materials pioneering power lines, and discovering 22 elements, the periodic table would be much smaller. As a covid19 pandemic begins to unfold in the u. S. , its apparent the does operatory programs are well positioned as we respond to the virus. Its perhaps not well known research is not in a lab. In fact, scientists developed neutralize chemicals and biological agents. This was used to cleanup the Office Buildings and anthrax in 2001. Sc
Throughout the country and the world, people raise questions about the purposes of the leaders who supported or profited from slavery, whether in richmond, boston, or birmingham, monuments and statues have become a flashpoint for the black lives matter movement. Since 2015, ford has held an annual Summer Institute set in myth memory, monument, and that has forced questions of remembrance and memorialization. Each year, we find the spring has brought new and urgent crises that require attention and consideration. This year, more that more than any recent memory, demands that and more. Today, we explore some of these questions with you. I am pleased to welcome dr. Toary green and kevin levin todays cabinet conversation. Both dr. Green and mr. Levin have written extensively on how a wide range of americans commemorate the civil war. Sharingrrently different perspectives on civil war memorials. They have been active in recent debates dr. Green is an associate professor of history and the d
Available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. Next on American History tvs american artifacts, we visit the Canon House Office building to see artifacts that tell the story of africanamericans in congress in the 20th century. Im sarah elliott, the curator at the house of representatives. And im matt rauz nwasniewsk. We want to talk about africanamerican representation in the 20th century, and we 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 elected in the 19th century leaves in 1901, george white of north carolina, and then its a long time before another africanamerican comes into the house. Thats is Oscar Depriest from illinois. We have a couple 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 and how he got into congress. So theres a long period, almost
I have always believed that unearned suffering is redemptive and if a man has not discovered something so dear and precious that he will die for it, then he doesnt have much to live for. We have seen that the revolution began in many ways and that the course of this following has many tributaries. Now we are concerned with its effects which we said are not uniform. One of the difficult fights but one which has scored impressive gains is in shattering what reverend Martin Luther king has called the appalling apathy of the good people. Dr. Blake told a fellow member, some time or other we are all going to have to stand and be on the receiving end of a fire hose. Leaders of all three faiths decided they must do something, not just say something, and soon many clergymen were stepping from behind their pulpits and joining the ranks of pickets. Until then Church Action had been limited to a few fronts, among them new orleans. It was three years ago that grade School Desegregation came to the
Africanamericans come to congress in the 19th century is not one a lot of people are familiar with. We actually had 22 africanamericans serve between 1870 and 1901. 20 in the house, two in the senate. Its largely a house story. And it has to do with the role of congress during the civil war and the in decade after. During the civil war there were a group of radicals in congress, radicals because they believed in the equality of africanamericans and wanted to create a society in the south after the war that was a multiracial society. These were radicals in the house like Thaddeus Stevens who was chairman of the ways and Means Committee and a very powerful leader. Also people like henry winter davis. In the Senate People like charles somner and benjamin wade. And they led to not only prosecute the war more vigorously but also to have a reconstruction after the war but was one that was not so lenient towards Southern States and was going to ensure that Political Rights were extended to af