Saturday at 4 00 p. M. Eastern, here on American History tv. I have a dream this afternoon, that one day right here in detroit 1963 it, would be here where dr. Martin luther king gave his portion of the i have a dream speech. Announcer continuing our tour of detroits history with historian and tour guide, we had back downtown to cobo center, which is low coded on the banks of the detroit river. So we are in downtown detroit, at what is now cobo center. It was built in 1960 as cobo hall and cobo arena, named after the former mayor, who was a supporter of housing segregation. When this was built, it became the Main Convention center for the city of detroit. In 1963, it would be here where dr. Martin luther king, after leaving one of the largest civil rights marches in americas history, 125,000 people, would come here to listen to a portion of the i have a dream speech on june 23, 1963. He gave the portion of that speech right here in detroit two months before he gives it in washington. P
Actors, journalists, people who are admired from would be are and what they do. Here at the museum, our mission is to promote understanding of the importance of the free press and the First Amendment. We hope more people come to visit the exhibit because the events at stonewall and rise up, the stonewall and lgbtq Rights Movement tells the story of how everyday americans, First Amendment right of the press, speech, religion, to rise up, freedom of Assembly Push back , and advocate for change, and that is what we are about here at the newseum. Explaining to people the story of the First Amendment. This movement. The story of the lgbtq Rights Movement, really about the first embodies everything amendment. We hope people will come to experience it as well as the movies and other interactions that we tell here at the exhibit. You can watch this and other american artifacts programs any time visiting our website cspan. Org history. , announcer we head back downtown to cobo center, located o
The blackburns were people who had been enslaved in kentucky, they had escaped because blackburn had been sold down the to new orleans and thornton did not want to lose the woman he loved so they escaped together in 1831. When they came to detroit to get far away from kentucky, because of the 1793 slave law, going to ohio was still risky because down to hunters can come and take you even from free states and take you back down to wherever you escaped from and ohio where they had been for a little while was too close to kentucky. Doubting bounty hunters were always in ohio. When they arrived here, thornton was a brick mason for a couple years, making a living for seamstress is a so both of them are making a living doing work in the fields that they already have even when they were enslaved. She is a seamstress and he was a brick maker. They live a free live in detroit. To bounty hunters come to detroit because they have word and blackburn are here. They have seen by a Family Member who
Was the busiest freshwater shipping channel in the world. And it still is today. Today, we are in downtown detroit. There is a lot of development. People are opening up restaurants and stores. Had the valley not been destroyed, much of the Downtown Development would be done by African American Business Owners. This weekend, cspans cities tour visits detroit. With the cooperation of our Comcast Cable partners, for the next two hours, we explore the citys history. Would begin at the Detroit Historical museum to learn about the inventions and people that helped make detroit the motor city. We are at the Detroit Historical museum and about to walk into a wonderful exhibit called americas motor city could detroit has been the motor city capital of the world since 1915 when there were over 42 Companies Making cars and another 75 Companies Making parts. While other towns build cars, we built lots of cars. Prior to 1900, the detroit area enjoyed a wealth of strong manufacturing. A lot of it ta
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