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Freedom to print things and publish things. It is not a freedom for what we now refer to institutionally as the press. Lectures in history, on American History tv on cspan 3. Every saturday, at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Lectures in history is also available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. In 1848 a convention was held in seneca falls, new york to discuss the state of womens rights in the country. The gathering was seen by many as the beginning of the womans Suffrage Movement. However, it took until 1920, over 72 years later, for women to earn the right to vote. During those years organizations such as the National American womans Suffrage Association, and National Womans Party ....
Of land with locations in every state. More than 325 Million People visited these sites last year. Over the next 90 minutes, well feature a mixture of Natural Beauty and history at eight different parks around the country. We begin outside of cleveland. Well learn how the canal plays a major role in western expansion. The ohio canal is part of a twocanal system that was put in place in the early years of america, built between 1825 and 1832. And basically its a water transportation route that connected lake erie with the ohio river which is part of a large idea, a National Water transportation route. In the early days of america, we had 13 colonies all situated along the atlantic seaboard. And our leaders at that time saw a problem. That problem was we needed that country to expand westward. However, there was a big obst ....
Commissioner black. Yes. Commissioner foley. Yes. Commissioner johns. Yes. Commissioner pearlman. Yes. Commissioner so. Yes. Commissioner mat soda. Yes. Commissioner president hyland. Yes. So moved, commissioners that passes 70. Someone is requesting to speak. Commissioners, is staff prepared to make the presentation. Yes. Do you have a slide presentation . Yes, i do. Okay. I see a blank screen. Let me try again. Clerk in the slide presentation mode . Good afternoon, commissioners. [inaudible] Planning Department staff. The item before you today is [inaudible] located at [inaudible] tand the will go [rights movement. The building is further significant as the work of master architect julia morgan. It was the fir at the time of its founding, japanese advanced multiple political and social causes, including the site for African American civil rights and [inaudible] with ....
We begin with a visit to nashvilles Ryman Auditorium as author david ewing talks about how the venue became a place for political rallies, civil rights events and home to Country Musics grand ole opry. Today were at the historic Ryman Auditorium in downtown nashville, tennessee. It definitely tells the history of both things it is famous for. It was built by a river boat captain who was famously converted under a tent in downtown nashville in may of 1865. 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 came 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 ....