Courage, family, and citizenship to counteract prevailing stereotypes, and the national archives hosted this talk and provided the video. Greetings from the national archives. Im david fairio, archivist of the united states. And it is my pleasure to present Deborah Willis Author of the black civil War Soldier. The civil war was the most prolonged conflict to be extensively be recorded in photographs. This visual record gives a sense of immediacy that we dont have with paintings and prints from the revolutionary war and other earlier conflicts. We can identify individual faces and imagine ourselves in the battlefields in the aftermath of the fighting. Thousands of those images are in the national archives but photos of the black soldiers are rare. In the book the black civil War Soldier Deborah Willis shows us the faces of the number of black soldiers who took up arms to fight for their freedom. Using photographs and the written record, she examines not only the individual stories of th
I have never used this microphone. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. We are here to announce and discuss issues of racism in america. Now that the house has passed the George Floyd Justice in policing act, we need to ask ourselves what is next. I am here to introduce you to members of the Congressional Black Caucus. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Worldeeks ago, the witnessed the video execution of george floyd. Within hours, protest began in minneapolis and quickly spread to all 50 states. Within days, protest spread around the world with people in other countries calling out human rights abuses in the United States. Within weeks, all 54 nations and africa called on the United Nations to hold a hearing about racism and human rights in the United States. Last week, we proudly passed with bipartisan support the George Floyd Justice in policing act. We will not stop in the movement for justice and the movement will not stop until a bill is passed in the senate an
it so good at spreading from host to host and why is it in some hosts and not in others. why is it not in any of us are fisher mammals. it is in some worms which come from a very different branch of the animal kingdom. perhaps also interesting to us because those worms kill diseases and if you go back there you might be able to kill those diseases, that s a different story, but there s a lot of biology that we don t understand. like why is it so good at jumping from host to host? is it just because it spreads vertically throughout the population like i talked about with mosquitoes? is it also because it s so good at jumping horizontally from one host to another. yes, these are all questions but there s actually a conference that happens every couple years or so.o. it s a very thriving area ofa lf research. so we have gone from cow poop to slime molds and fecal transplant and back again. thank you all for coming. thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversation] that was ed
war and the movement for gender e. quality. and admiration of history i was curious about the state september 8. what happened on this date? september 8 the surveyor site launched. margo lee launches her book hidden figures into the literary world. [applause] she graduated from the university of virginia with a degree in finance. a journalist from independent researcher, entrepreneur and cocreator of the english monthly magazine with her husband margo is the daughter of one of the first black male engineers so she grew up knowing many of the figures. of the computer project and be foundation fellow and recipient of the virginia foundation of the humanities grant for her research. she lives in charlottesville virginia. virginia woolf once said anonymous and history was usually a woman. let me say that again. anonymous in history was usually a woman. tonight these brilliant women are anonymous no more thanks to her book hidden figures. may the names of catherine johnson, mary j
history, what happened with nasa on this date? september 8, 1967, the surveyor 5 launched, september 8, 1983, satcom 7 launched. september 8th, sts 106 launched. today, september 8, 2016, margot lee shetterly lee shetterly publicly lee shetterly publicly launches her book story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race . [applause] i believe you know margot lee shetterly. they couldn t wait to see her again. she was born and raised in virginia, graduated the university of virginia with a degree in finance, generous independent researcher, entrepreneur and cocreator of english language magazine with her husband aaron, margo is daughter of one of the first nasa black mail engineers, grew up among many figures, the founder of alfred p sloan foundation fellow and recipient of the virginia foundation of humanities grant for her research into the history of women, lives in charlottesville, virginia. anonymous is history, usually a woman. let me say that agai