Birthday of mrs. Lucy berry smith of louisville, kentucky, and the 15th Memorial Ame Zion Church is the scene. Mrs. Smith makes a wish and blows out 100 candles in three puffs. Her grandson gets the first slice of the lovely cake. Pictured are the gracious ladys immediate family. That night, there was a section with her and hundreds of pounds townspeople attending. She has lived in louisville since 1865. May she have many more birthdays is everybodys wish. Yes, just 100 years young. The atlanta daily world and the Negro Newspaper Publishers Association for the first time have obtained full accreditation of one of their representatives to the White House Press conferences of the president. In this critical period in our history, this move is important and significant. To be able to obtain news information firsthand from this important source is an accomplishment for which the daily world and the Publishers Association deserve high praise and commendation. It is my good fortune to be sel
[applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] you are watching American History tv. To join the conversation, like us on facebook. All American News brings you our peoples contribution to america and freedom. Happy birthday to you. That is what it says. The occasion is the 100th birthday of mrs. Lucy berry smith of louisville, kentucky, and the 15th Memorial Ame Zion Church is the scene. Mrs. Smith makes a wish and blows out 100 candles in three puffs. Her grandson gets the first slice of the lovely cake. Pictured are the gracious ladys immediate family. That night, there was a section with her and hundreds of pounds townspeople attending. She has lived in louisville since 1865. May she have many more birthdays is everybodys wish. Yes, just 100 years young. The atlanta daily world and the Negro Newspaper Publishers Association f
Died in the meuseargonne area, but there were also some civilians and other soldiers that were brought from other areas . Yes, but basically, most of the soldiers here died during the meuseargonne. The final result was dramatic for that battle. It was over 26,000 soldiers killed, 96,000 wounded, more or less. Of the soldiers are buried in that cemetery. We have a few civilians, maybe we will see some graves later on. Especially nurses, people from the american red cross, ymca, some special graves we will see walking in the graveyard. The cemetery itself were graves that were consolidated from smaller cemeteries. So when soldiers died in battle, they were buried in small cemeteries around the region. And then the American Government had made the decision that they would allow families to repatriate their loved ones after the war. So about 60 70 of the families brought their bodies back to the u. S. The other roughly 30 remained behind, and they were brought to the cemeteries that were n
Died in the meuseargonne area, but there were also some civilians and other soldiers brought from other areas. Yes, but basically, most of the soldiers here died during the meuseargonne. It was grammatical for that battle. It was over 26,000 soldiers killed, 96,000 wounded, more or less. Almost half a percent of the soldiers are buried in that france cemetery. We have a few civilians, maybe we will see some graves later on. Especially nurses, people from the american red cross, ymca, graves we will see walking in the graveyard. The cemetery itself were graves consolidated from smaller cemeteries. When soldiers died in battle, they were buried in small cemeteries around the region. And then the American Government had made the decision that they would allow families to repatriate their loved ones after the war. About 60 70 of the families brought their bodies back to the u. S. The other roughly 30 remained behind and they were brought to the cemeteries that were now maintained by the ba