With the help of our spectrum Cable Partners well explore the citys history and literary community, beginning with author pat oneill on the history of irish immigrants and how they helped build kansas city in what it is today. One of my Favorite Places in the whole cold is browns market run by john and john mcclain and cary brown. And they start the business in the late 1880s. Irish style. The oldest continual Retail Operation in west of the mississippi, maybe in the whole world. But browns is kind of our community center. One of those great Little Corner Neighborhood Grocery stores where people are extended credit in the neighborhood, people came here for generations, and its now kind of the same thing. People come here just to gossip and compare notes notes and head kids. So, its a much like a small town Crossroads Store in ireland. The title of the book, from the bottom up, its in the sense that in kansas city, were along the rivers, and the Missouri River in the kansas river and it
That now, if you walk into a room, what are they looking at . They are looking at their phones. So for folks in the political world who want to reach the next generation or region to the future understand what the future of political advertising is going to look like, things like the latest game, i think candy crush may be fitting in popularity, but there is always something new that is popping up. Finding ways to get her message in front of people where they are paying attention because it is really important. Tonight at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. This year, cspan is touring cities across the country exploring americas history. Next, a look at our recent visit to omaha, nebraska. You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. Carrie meyer the Union Station operated until 1971. The last train left on may 2 and then it sat vacant for two years. And the Union Pacific gifted it to the city to become a museum. We made Union Station our home and no
Story of the 20th century. The white house to washington, d. C. , usa the day, july 2 1964. The occasion, signing into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Tonight, i urge every public official, every religious leader every as nice and professional man, every workingman and every housewife i urge every american to join in this effort to bring justice and hope to all our people and to bring peace to our land. [applause] one year has passed since we had the president s civil rights bill enacted into law. A year ago, we had a program with some of the same people who are here today. Today, we are here to take a look back at this one year of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and to look ahead at what may come in other areas for civil rights for all americans. We touched on school desegregation, employment, whats most important in a democracy is we read about 99 of this country voting and yet we know that in selma, the governor collins mentioned somma, the reason we had selma was because in the stat
Buildings in town. Thats where the museum comes into play, to make sure that this is preserved. Union pacific is still nationally a huge freight travel railroad and so they still do a lot of freight back and forth. You are still shipping in Union Pacific. Theyre one of our Largest Companies here in omaha. They have not dwindled. Their Passenger Service may have ended but their service to the community is still going strong. When you walk into the building, it is definitely aweinspiring. Ive worked here seven years and am ll look up amazed when i see this. We hope visitors, when they come, leave with an appreciation of not only what Union Pacific did for this area ut the history and people of the that built omaha over the years. Announcer our next stop is the Durham Museum and its exhibit n how the growth of rrd fueled the meat packing an stockyards industries in the early 20th strrment the Union Station operated until may, 197167 the last train left out of here may 2, and it sat vacant