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Welcome to the slavery and freedom exhibition. Im mary elliott. Im a Museum Specialist and cokurater of the slavery and freedom exhibition, which is one of three exhibitions here in this museum. We actually have three exhibitions in this gallery, and those exhibitions cover 15th century africa and europe all the way through today. Some of the things we cover include holding on to humanity under some of the most inhumane conditions. We look at the harsh reality of slavery and freedom and the resistance and survival of a people. We look at how africans and africanamericans shape the world as well as the nation. We look at how they were shaped by the landscape and shaped the landscape. Its important to point out that means socially, politically, economically, geographically, culturally and intellectually. Whats very important for people to understand is throughout this museum we look at these stories that are american stories. The ....
Event was hosted by the National History center. Welcome to this ongoing series hosted by the National History center. We bring perspective to Current Issues and try to provide historical content that can help to inform policymakers and deal with difficult issues. I would like to start first before introduce this mornings topic and speakers, to think the Carnegie Mellon foundation for funding our program. I would also like to thank the office of congressman Gerry Connolly for arranging meeting space. Above all, i thank, congressmann physics from the 11th the district a phd in physics from the 11th district of illinois. And his communication director for their help in organizing the briefing. As always, tha ....
World war i until 1917. On the eve of war which berg was a happening and exciting place. There was a electric power. A Municipal Park system. All these great things were happening in lynchburg. Which berg sent about 3000 soldiers to world war i. That was about 10 of the population. War,e the soldiers went to the home guard on display here we have one of their baseball uniforms. The musketeers spent some time in texas in 1916 and 1917. When they were not training or doing maneuvers, they had a Baseball Team and they played some baseball. Here is one of their uniforms. It belonged to a private named guy. He is pictured right here in this image. Number 46. As i said, lynchburg sent about 3000 soldiers into world war i starting in 1917. Here, on display, we have a jacket from an African American serviceman. His name was roy ....
Mellon foundation for funding our program. Think the office of congressman Gerry Connolly for arranging meeting space. Above all, think congressman hill foster, a phd in physics from the 11th district of illinois. And his communication director for their help in organizing the briefing. To amanda thanks perry for organizing the briefings. Some of you may remember a cover from the new yorker that came out just a few weeks ago. I will show you an example. It shows robots going about their daily work, coffee and their lunch pails. Onlyest of it, while the person in the picture is delegated to a panhandler baking for money. It speaks to the widespread anxiety that exists today, that our nation is making work obsolete. The first time the technological innovation has transformed how we make a living. Question in todays briefing is what can the past tell us about the impact of automation on employment on the workforce . We have three lea ....
Themselves occasionally. He be the basic story was saw miners Walking AroundSan Francisco at the raggedy pants, and ripping through their pockets, and he decided to make a pair of pants out of campus and that he later died them blue or got the fabric from friends, depending on who wrote the story, and then later, he puts rivets in them and cut off and jeans. They were i realized these stories had been made up. Guess who made them a question mark company. Bless their little pointed heads. They really tried. They really tried to tell the early history but they didnt have anything to work with. The time ofs arose world war ii, when there was a lot of competition in the denim world and they needed a powerful origin story and they made assumptions based on what they had and we were left with 1850 clip or ship ripped pockets denim from france. Although i have to say my very favorit ....