Votes of black people, brown people, older people, younger people, the people who tend not to vote for the same persuasion as those who pass those laws. So history is never over. Every time we think we have turned a great corner in race and race relations, which we did in the reelection of barack obama and president obama every time there is a revolution there is a counterrevolution and the resistive to president obama for better or worse in whatever side of that issue people might the on is a kind of counterrevolution. Its a push back against his conception of government, him personally his conception of how to use federal power. It never ends. Its never over. Host i will take this opportunity to remind our American History tv viewers that are coverage of selma and those events are available at cspan. Org history letting you know about the coverage coming up this week. A lot of coverage of the suspects and tenure of the assassination of abraham lincoln. Lets go to the site of the lee
They held a mock symbolic burial of a former slave woman named Hannah Reynolds who was killed here on the morning of april 9. No one ever knew where she was buried. They do her name and who her master was, her owner and the Africanamerican Community of appomattox county got together with the National Parks service and planned for months this amazing performance that was a living history burial, a funeral for Hannah Reynolds. The choirs were terrific. They same they sang spirituals. Without any accompaniment. I was surprised stunned, and please define hundreds and hundreds of black folks. I have never seen that many of the civil war site. Today there are almost none. That is a very very old saga. Historic. It goes back to the years when civil war sites and this is changing by the National Parks service, they have begun to make Great Strides but it used to be seen as essentially a place where you saw the story of the blue in the grade. You saw the story of an. A sitespecific story of bat
Sometimes, you dont have to have any more explanation for the friends around you then maybe the one you just gave. For one thing, the civil war lets face it it causes, the war itself and its consequences, its an epic. It is a tremendous epic, if by epic we mean, a great story. It has heroes and villains. It has causes. It has results. Tell your friends when they look at you like some weird eccentric. Tell them you have one of the few republics in the world, and 80some years in its history, it tears itself to pieces over the secondlargest system of slavery on the planet. It fights the first total war humankind ever fought, a much bigger cost that anybody intended. It ends slavery overnight. 4 Million People are liberated. A bloodletting like no other in its history, and then, it has to put itself back together. You might tell your friends thats a hell of a story. Its an epic. That is why we are drawn to it. Its legacies. Its meaning. There are problems still out there laying around ever
Bringing it out now, other than the physical things how do you maintain the mental sort of mindset of being in 1865 . Tyler especially if im answering the questions of people im not doing whats called first person. Im not pretending like im in 1865. Its a lot easier to relate to people if youre not attending like what is this microphone . Its a lot easier to answer questions. But while were in the field one of the things that keeps you sane is to remember that it was done in the past and if that they could do it, you could do it, too. Just camping out and everything, this is why we came out here. If you get rained on, thats just part of the deal. What brought you out into doing these kinds of events to begin with . Tyler i wanted to start as a musician. I taught myself how to play fife and i joined the fife and drum corps. Ive come out for about 14 years now, its on most like a family. We just go everywhere as a group. Have you been here before . I have not been to the park before, no.
Catholic sisters representing their congregations at the United Nations will participate in events March 6-17 during the U.N.'s annual forum promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women.