Courage, family, and citizenship to counteract prevailing stereotypes, and the national archives hosted this talk and provided the video. Greetings from the national archives. I m david fairio, archivist of the united states. And it is my pleasure to present deborah willis author of the black civil war soldier. The civil war was the most prolonged conflict to be extensively be recorded in photographs. This visual record gives a sense of immediacy that we don t have with paintings and prints from the revolutionary war and other earlier conflicts. We can identify individual faces and imagine ourselves in the battlefields in the aftermath of the fighting. Thousands of those images are in the national archives but photos of the black soldiers are rare. In the book the black civil war soldier deborah willis shows us the faces of the number of black soldiers who took up arms to fight for their freedom. Using photographs and the written record, she examines not only the individual stories of
local officials discussed efforts of raising awareness of african-americans. this took place at the annual conference in denver. good afternoon and welcome. my name is aster liverman here in denver. it is my pleasure and honor to introduce our speaker for this session who ll present aspects beyond the green book: african travel. ranging from a personal colorado stories to sites across the country. to the far left, let me welcome our colorado native, gary jackson who grew up in denver before attending the university of redland and california, he earned his doctorate at boulder. he was assigned to the civil division, district of colorado before entering private practice in 1976. in 1982, he cofounded the firm of demana and jackson, a partnership that continues to the denver county court bench of january of 2013. gary has been recognized as a colorado s super lawyer. colorado bar association award of merit and among others. in 2018, the institute recognized gary for excellen
oysters have a distinctive flavor. it has a coppery aftertaste that is wonderful. they are small oyster bus that have a big flavor. this is the freezer line. we re moving the top shelf shell from the oysters. this is our faster chucker. he is quickly removing the top shell then the oyster will be rinsed, graded and run through a nitrogen freezer. this is a flash freezing the oyster. we ll be running it at 100 degrees below zero and freezing it at a core temperature of 80 degrees below zero in seven minutes. this is our deep freeze. it is about negative 10 fahrenheit in here, which maintains the quality of your freeze. it is kind of empty right now and we re in the process of restocking it. over the course of the winter, we restock and in the summer we sell them. i feel proud to be parking lot of an industrypart of sucha wonderful industry that has a history. we ve been doing this generation after generation. having that connection to the past i have a lot of drive to. we ve b
could open again. it was severely dilapidated. in the late 1990 s, with the city working together and a private businessman, they were able to restore it to original glory. i still get chills when i see the stage and think about the people who walked across it and performed here. we use it as the community. you can see anything from art house films on the big screen when they bring it down to local talent shows today with our rising stars. it is a beautiful piece of history of macon. probably one of my favorite parts is if you look at the paintings on the wall, the chain stenciling represents the bondage of slavery but in the end the chains are broken representing the freedom. it was here with rhythm and blues so much happened in that sense of race relations. with a foresight of charles douglass such a big thinker. he paved the way for a macon to be a music mecca that grew over the years way passed his lifetime. this is american history tv on c-span 3. our 2014 cities tour
throughout 2014 c-span cities tour has featured the history of communities throughout the country with the help of our local cable partners. today we feature the music of several of these cities. so right now we re at the dug douglass theater, one of the most famous landmarks in macon, georgia. it was a theater that started in the early 1920s by an entrepreneur, and macon s first african-american millionaire charles douglass and it became a cornerstone to the music industry and to performing african-american artists throughout the south. so charles douglass was an important figure in macon history because he was macon s first african-american millionaire, but he started out with very humble beginnings. he was the son of a former slave who began working as soon as he was old enough to do it. he began working with the florida blossoms minstrel circuit and how to network different venue that is would play or showcase african-american artists, and what that did was it led t