Todays conversation and to have this chance to speak with dr. Rice. I have to start on a personal note though because we are living in such a stressful time. How are you doing . How are you holding up . Where are you right now . Well, i am in california, and i am doing just fine. Like most, quote, knowledge workers, i am able to work from home. I did hear a funny line the other day, im not sure whether im working at home or living at work. But im finding this a time when i am actually pretty productive. Im able to do almost everything remotely. Im trying to keep up my exercise routine. Im practicing the piano so i can wrestle choppin to the ground. Ive just become director of the hoover institution. But frankly the time off the road, not on airplanes, allowed me to make a smooth transition. All in all, that plus keeping in touch with friends and family by zoom or by text, its really quite okay. Its quite okay. Well, condy rice, 2020 has been and i have to say first of all, it sounds li
Welcome to the oversight subcommittee on civil rights and civil liberties. The infiltration of local Police Departments. Good morning to the chair of the committee, miss maloney, our Ranking Member mister roy the vice chair of the committee ocasiocortez and all of our wonderful members who join us. I want to take a moment to extend the welcome to tlaib this is her first hearing with our subcommittee. Were delighted to have her join us welcome miss tlaib. Before we begin today i want to play a video that will set the stage for the discussion that were about to have. Please go ahead and play the video. White supremacy permeates every corner of society, and every institution. Police, fbi, to the department of justice. Check out the social media posts, its a good day for a chokehold. Or, look at this piece of, street justice or just plain karma quickly, hopefully by police gunfire. Or, if you can read it. That and any situation right, what if i told you that all of those inflammatory words
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Chad williams is the author of torchbearers of democracy, African American soldiers in the world war i era. Next, he talks about the postwar activism of the soldiers, explaining how after fighting with the idea of democracy abroad, many return to join movements to secure more rights and better social standing for African American here at home. National world War One Museum, in kansas missouri of 2019. Now id like to introduce our first speaker for this morning. Doctor chad williams, he is a agus this professor and history at african and African American studies at brandon university. He specializes in African American and modern United States history, world war i and African American intellectual history. He is the author of torchbearers of democracy, African American soldiers in the world war i era, which received the 2011 liberty, legacy, Foundation Awards from the organization of american historian and the 2011 distinguish book of war society of military history. He is also a part o
Germany invades poland and world war ii breaks out that. Week what is on americans minds in 1939 is staying out of war. And you see in the section of the exhibition, deep concern in the United States about spies, about nazi spies in the United States. At the time called a fifth column. Americans are asked by gallup to believe that journeys are already beginning to organize to deploy spies. 71 of americans say yes. You see the fear of spice played out in our Popular Culture and in our political culture the First American movie, big studio movie to take on naziism is a warner bros. Movie. Its based on a true story of a nazi spy ring in the United States. I am a nazi spy. I am one of thousands stationed in every part of the United States to steal the secrets of your national defense. There are spies stations in brooklyn, philadelphia, newport. In places like buffalo, seattle, washington. Our trial in the United States federal court, brought to the attention of a startled nation, this amaz