We begin with a visit to nashvilles Ryman Auditorium as author dale ewing how the venue became a place for political rally, civil rights events and Country Musics grand ole opry. Today were at the historic Ryman Auditorium in downtown nashville, tennessee. The nickname of the Ryman Auditorium is the Mother Church of Country Music which definitely tells the history of both things that it is famous for. It was built by a riverboat captain who was famously converted under a tent in downtown nashville in may of 1865. And after his conversion he believed that traveling ministers should have a permanent home inside that was large enough to take the large crowds of the traveling ministers who go to town. So captain ryman built the Ryman Auditorium and it opened at first in 1892 as a tabernacle. So thats the church part of the history. And the Country Music part deals with the grand ole opry which came in 1943 any came here until 1974 when the new opry house was built, but during the run of th
Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 the hutchinsons connect their background in music that was developed through the baptist church. They had they come from a family that was very active in the Baptist Community in New Hampshire and it taught them how to sing and how to read music. Music is a little bit problematic in rural new england at the time, right. Its dangerous. People who are musicians are seen as immoral perhaps in some way. The Church Provides a moral space for people to be able to sing because theyre singing the word of god and the hutchinson family as a whole is active in the Musical Community in New Hampshire through the baptist church. One of their brothers is the choir director of the church and provides Music Lessons for the community. The hutchinsons try to run with that in lynn and get this idea maybe we could become a performing troupe. In 1841, they decide to try their luck as three brothers and they tour new england and upstate new york and
Act. This is just under two hours. The committee on the judiciary subcommittee on the constitution civil rights and Civil Liberties will come to order. Welcome everyone in attendance. Normally what we would do if i could give an Opening Statementt and the Ranking Member would give one a. Ms. Clark one of the witnesses has a 3 40 train which would have been easy to accomplish if it werent for the house of representatives schedule and with the permission of the member we are going straight to the statement and back to the traditional i talk, he talks, somebody else talks. Ms. Clark and thank you for being here. President and executivpresident r of the civil rights law under the civil rights organizations. Previously worked for seven years at the naacp Legal Defense and Education Fund where she helped lead the Organization Work in the voters rights across the country and worked on cases defending the constitutionality of the Voting Rights act. Prior to joining the Legal Defense fund she w
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