By emma lazarus that says give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free as the embodiment of the way we think about this country and immigration. As you look across the history of this nation, does it track with the reality of how we have treated immigrants . Dr. Kraut the history of immigration in the u. S. Doesnt track at all with emma lazaruss wonderful quotation. It has been a lovehate relationship. In the 19th century, there was a popular immigrant saying, america beckons but americans repel. In many ways that much more how ourly embodies relationship with immigration has been in the United States. One of the great ironies is that emma lazarus wrote the poem in 1883, and one year before, in 1882, the u. S. Passed the chinese exclusion law, excluding chinese laborers from coming to the United States. We would pass in the years after that increasingly restrictive legislation. So we want immigrants to come. We beckon them with opportunity. We beckon them
Thankfully there are no reports of American Health care workers coming down with the coronavirus. But as we have heard, Health Officials in d. C. Warn us it is very likely the coronavirus will enter a new stage, a new phase here in the u. S. Which begs the question, our Health Care System prepared to protect the workers on the front lines. As the coronavirus continues to spread around the globe, hospitals around the country are preparing for the possibility that a person infected with the coronavirus could walk into their emergency room in the near future. Im optimistic that our Health System should be able to deal with these patients and keep the Health Care Workers safe. Reporter uc berkeley Infectious Disease expert dr. Arthur reingold says its one thing to quarantine a healthy person who has been exposed to the virus, as weve seen happen at Travis Air Force base, and its another to treat someone who is sick and infectious. Will we be able to, quote, contain this . Will we be able t
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 well as in the eastern panhandle. George washington would have been here in the mid 1700s. During this time period frontier and early settlement, this was western virginia. It was part of the state of virginia at the time and it was an area that wasnt greatly developed. A lot of the ideas of
Government. Next, a book tv exclusive. Our cities tour visits charleston, West Virginia, to learn more about its literary history. For years, we have traveled to u. S. Cities bringing the book seem to our viewers. You can watch more of our visits at cspan. Org citiestour. Booker t. Washington for 20 years was the spokesman and leader of africanamericans in america. At the time, we had horrible jim crow race codes in the south. That didnt happen here in West Virginia. It was a different sort of race relation. What he observed with his boyhood heroes was the building of a black middleclass, and that became his path, his career path, as he went from tuskegee to being a National Celebrity. Booker was born in a place called hill sport. It is about 225 miles from here. In those first nine years, he was a slave boy. He did not have pants. He wore a slave boy shirt. He wanted very much to go to school. He saw white children going to school but he wasnt unable to do those things. They leave the
Dark and dawn when the music th finally stopped, they e disappeared across the country. Y although thousands remained on the rented 600acre dairy farm pitching in on cleanup detail or just waiting out the crowd. The festival site is nestled in the heart of the catskills resort area. The biggest town nearby is monticello. And the toin townspeople, quite frankly, were terrified of the prospect of the hippy arrival. Before it was over something happened in monticello. Residents and resorts freely emptied their cupboards for the kids. Merchants were stunned by their politeness. Polite. Thats what i can say about them. Polite kids. You didnt sell too many oo shoes. No, not too many, but they were happy here. I thierful i think they are really a Wonderful Group of kids. Have neg i never met so many kids in such large numbers that were so polite, so patient, so courteous and understanding under these conditions that we had here in the last three days. Certainly in the beginning there was a gr