Were assessed . Take the entire exhibit tour of rightfully hers american women and the vote. Sunday at 6 00 and 10 00 p. M. Eastern on american artifacts. You are watching American History tv. The cspan cities tour travels the country exploring the american story. Taking book tv and American History tv on the road every first and third weekend of the month. 20 next two hours, we will look at highlights from some of the stops. We begin in selma, alabama. Many people think that the selma, montgomery marchs bird overnight and was a oneoff idea, but there had been a modern Rights Movement brewing in selma, alabama, since the 1930s. Here in selma, alabama, and any places in the south, africanamericans were denied the right to vote, not because it was not their constitutional there wereecause folks in position of power throughout the south that did not want these folks to have the right to vote so they could be considered secondclass citizens. Toy passed a literacy test deter africanamerican
Spared putting a gold star in their front window, we were successful. A look at some of the highlights from the past 12 months continues as we take you to reno, nevada. Divorce is really the thing that put reno on the map. It had been known for being a railroad junction. It was modest. It started out as a crossroads and a railroad stop. In 1905 when the first big divorce came, that got international attention. The media started to focus on reno for that reason. That was the publicity they did not have to try to get. People were fascinated by this western town where all of these cosmopolitan people were coming and getting divorces. That was the beginning of a tourist trade for reno. The state of nevada legalized gambling in 1931. It had been on the books before that. That is when they said gambling is legal. We mean it. You can open clubs and casinos. Heart of thehe tourist industry through the 1970s and the 1980s. It was the combination of being the divorce capital of the world and thi
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