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A 14yearold africanamerican youth from chicago who was lynched in particularly gruesome fashion while visiting an uncle in mississippi in 1955. Hes myrrh and the antilynching movement that followed set the stage for the Civil Rights Movement that we recognize today. Because generally they could not rely on Law Enforcement to protect them, because they understood that the lynchings occurring throughout the south were very deliberate campaigns to subjugate our black population, they were very deliberate campaigns started in the 1870s by the ku klux klan and carried on right up to the resent day through terrorism because they realize africanamericans mobilized their own efforts to combat the terror of lynching and the threat of racial violence through grassroots activism and the founding of integrated social justice organizations. During the period between the civil war ....
To covering live house coverage here on cspan as they gavel in eight bills today, including antilynching legislation. The speakr pro tempore the house will be in order. He prayer will be offere by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain onroy let us pray. Dear lord, we give you thanks foriving us another day. Use thismoment to be e reminded of your presence c1 tap the resoces needed by the members of this peos house to do their work as w as it upon those torn nation and upon the members of this assembly who struggle to see the shared hope for a Better Future in those withwhom they disagree. Fo many americans, the holy season of lent begins tomorrow d foreheads are marked this as men andwomen and as a reminder of your power to thrugh our failures all this day and through the week, may our representatives do teir best to find solutions to pressing issues facig our nation. Please hasten the day when justice and love shall dwell in the h ....
Was founded in 1894 and has been continuous ever since. Today well be going into the immersive West Virginia state museum. Well be talking about the early frontier and settlement period, the development of the state, becoming a state, the industrialization of the state, and well go into the later century, the 21st century, and see where West Virginia is today. Were in the West Virginia state museum settlement and frontier period. These are some of the earliest settlers of the land. Were standing beside George Washingtons case where it has specific artifacts such as his sword, his powder horn that he carved during the American Revolutionary war, and the telescope that he used to survey land here, as wel ....
Engaged large numbers of women in the political process. A part of the campaign was getting the message out to the nation and shifting Public Opinion to support their case. Tonight we learn about the Suffrage Movement communication machine and how it contributed to the movements success. To introduce our panelists id like to welcome nancy tate to the stage. Sinceo 2015 shes served as cochair of the 2020 womens Vote Centennial Initiative and also is on the board of the turning point suffragist morial from 2000 to 2015 served as the executive director of the league of women voters and is serving the National Academy of Public Administration and also served in the department of energy and d ....