Became a multimillionaire. He eventually moved to london and lived there for the remainder of his life. Gave hisll of 1867, he millions away to establish educational organizations. This was a generation before andrew card engaged at the same thing with his money. To the community of georgetown 15,000 to establish a library. Honor of was named in him and serves as a repository for georgetown neighborhood history. For sound being the oldest neighborhood in washington, d. C. Years beforel 49 the Nations Capital was founded in 1800. M. Days speaker is jamie stieh we welcome her back. This is her second top this year. The second saturday of each month she is giving a talk about personagesamerican who really impacted American History. Columnist syndicated and contributor to u. S. News. Com. Today, she is going to give a talk about Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. Anddouglas worked by day how. Tubman worked by night under the stars. Her talk next month will be about rachel carson. Satur
Her own activist strategy. She always said to other activist we must acknowledge today. Later we visit the special collection as Syracuse University to learn about the antislavery movement. First, we speak with author, marsha weisman, about her book prelude to prisonment student perspectives on school suspension. Well, school to prison pipeline is a catchy term that looks at the increasing numbers of students who are suspended from school for disciplinary misbehavior. And it captures both students two are suspended and sent to whats called an alternative school in most districts. Some states allow students to be expelled from school for up to a. Meaning they get no Educational Services whatsoever, and also encompasses the increasing use of police and arrests. So, students are we have seen over the past decade or more, that more and more young people are arrested in schools for behaviors that normally had been, or in the past, had been addressed by school staff, School Principals and gu
White folks to and understand in a lot of ways that in slave africanamericans were people. A Bruce Vaughan as property. For her to a humanize and make them people and for her readers to understand that this is wrong, the breaking up of human families is morally wrong and unchristian was the goals she set for herself in showing the wrongs of slavery in uncle toms cabin. For more information on booktvs recent visit to hartford and many other destinations on our citys toward go to cspan. Org citiestour. Now we bring you the Second Annual bill of rights book festival. For the next four hours panels from the National Constitution center in philadelphia. Mary sarah builder and Sanford Levinson all discuss their book but first a. E. Dick howard on his book the road from runnymede on the magna cartas influence on the constitution. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, happy bill of rights day. This is no ordinary bill of rights day. On december 15th, 1791, the bill of rights was ratified and made p
Raised and who they became over the years, what happened to them. New england and america as a whole underestimate the size and importance of human enslavement during their early period of this country. And the story of slave ships in connecticut has never been told. I was led to the lawbooks and given access to them and time to study and explore them because there was a purpose in it. The purpose was for me to tell their story and share it. When i first came upon the lawbooks, i was then a reporter at the hartford current on special assignment to work on a book about new england slavery. And how big and important and profitable it had been. To discover these logbooks an additional land extraordinary piece of the story, i didnt know at any time there would be connecticut mariners, and provisioning the caribbean which was also a slave based and horrific form of agriculture growing sugar but to discover these logbooks was so important and mine in newspaper backed me up 100 . Once we unde
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