Details the vision of the atomic bomb. Enjoy American History tv this week and every weekend on cspan 3. Next on American History tvs weekly reel america series the people and the police, oakland, a 1974 krontv documentary about Police Brutality in the community and various ideas to reform the Police Department. Almost from the day it was founded in 1848 folks across the bay in San Francisco have been making jokes about oakland. Theres no there there Gertrude Stein is said to have said. Today californias fourth largest city is a booming industry of commerce, art and culture. But oaklands new glamour and prosperity are not shared equally by all its citizens. Nearly half the citizens population are nonwhite and many are poor. They do not patronize the simpphony or museum or hold the jobs created by the industry port and transportation facilities. Most of oaklands black and brown citizens came here from the south during world war ii lured by recruiters for government and private industry
Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 so his mind is on several things, i think that would be fair to say. Actually, what grant does, grant basically takes a look at whats going on, he calls halak, the commanding general in washington, gets sherman, theyre fighting in north mississippi, and the idea is they are going to move and attack vicksburg before John Mcclaren can get there. These soldiers are coming down to memphis. Guess who is waiting for them. William t. Sherman, come on boys, were going to go down and attack vicksburg. When mcclaren shows up, he looks around, he says, where are my soldiers, where are all these people that i just theyre not around. Theyre with sherman. What happens, of course, the real problem, as grant sees it, is that mcclaren outranks sherman, so if he comes down, he can take over that army. So what does grant do . Grant becomes the person who controls that army in mississippi completely because grant outranks mcclaren. You have this
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This microphone at the pillar , that would be great as we are audio recording for book tv is filming again. So wed like to have yourquestions in their. Following the q and a we will have a signing at this table and if you could just leave your chairs where they are as we have a couple more readings today, that would be fantastic. So today we are very excited to welcome robert plumb celebrating his book the better angels five women who changed civil war america. A collective biography of five extraordinary women who came to National Prominence during the civil war. Documenting out the conflict left openings for women to assume rules usually held by men and showing the depth of their passion and commitment. Plum recounts area cabins work in the underground railroad, traces her move from teaching in massachusetts to a core position in washington where he began the work that led to her establishingthe American Red Cross. Chronicles how Harriet Beecher stowe drew on her staunch abolitionism
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