In cooperation with the National Constitution center, exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 Historic Supreme Court decisions. Quite often, and many of our most famous decisions, there once the court took that were quite unpopular. You lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it beans to live in a society of 310 different people who have helped stick together, because they believe in the rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases, our series that explores the people and stories behind some of the Supreme Courts most important decisions throughout our history. This week, the 1952 steel seizure case. Its officially known as youngstown steel and two Company Versus soy or. To get us started, we will start with a piece of vintage film from a documentary. It features president terri truman on april 8th 1952 as he announces to the nation his seizure of the nations Steel Industry. With american troops facing the enemy
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Discussion entitled, historically speaking, Thurgood Marshall, a life in American History, an evening with spencer crew and paul finkle man. Before we begin, let me also welcome our audience whos streaming the discussion through the museums you stream channel. Our twitter handle this evening is historicallyspeaking. We are also thrilled that this program will be broadcast via cspan book tv and will be aired at a later date. Through dr. Crews compelling new biography introduces us to the constant battles of equality faced by africanamericans through a study of Thurgood Marshalls extraordinary courage and his believe in the power of the law to change society. Thurgood marshall, a life in American History, follows his career from his youth in baltimore, maryland, to his days as a Supreme Court justice. Thurgood marshalls inspiring story illustrates how pervasive is racism in American Society and reveals the difficulty of the struggles of africanamericans to make progress against it. Throu
Johnny is my given name. Narrator thats a rhyme children used to scribble in their schoolbooks a long time ago, a time when the school was built, a time when we were proud of being educated. Through the years, weve lost some of that pride, taken our education for granted, and even ground neglectful. Grown neglectful. All around us, things have been changing. We have gone from the one horse shade to the space satellite, and now schools have a lot to do with National Security and our survival. Now theres trouble. And we realize the trouble is with brains and training and technology. So, in 1957, a lot of americans began to take their schooling their schools a little more seriously. This is a report on American Schools in 1957, what they did, what they didnt do. And what theyed didnt need. It is a report by the office of education in washington. My name is alan edwards. Heres the man who is making this report, United States commissioner of education, Lawrence Jeter thick. You know, americ
Most mysterious first lady we have ever had in modern times. You think that is true. I certainly do pretty so i set out to do this because i thought there was this strange void of facts and information. In keeping immigrants out. It was just shocking how little is known about basic biographical information. Donald trump has been in the public eye forever it seems like. Why do we know so little about melania . There are a lot of reasons. One is she only arrived in america at 26. So i had to travel to her native country, its a small country carved out of the former yugoslavia. When she was there was a socialist country. They did not have great archive archives. The bosnian war, that whole area was engulfed in conflict. Also, she once it that way. When i was going around, it was very interesting how many people said oh ive got a call that said dont talk to anybody. She really shes really made a brand out of being the mysterious milani f. I think one aspect of that is people make a lot of