And its my pleasure to introduce dr. Arthur scott stephenson, the president and ceo of the museum of the American American revolution, who will be speaking tonight. His talk is entitled among his troops George Washingtons war tent and a mystic chords of memory. A native of pittsburgh, pennsylvania, scott scotts broad public history experience spans nearly three decades and has been marked by public and professional acclaim for his creative and innovative approaches to engaging audiences. He has developed and collaborated on exhibits, films and interpretive programs for numerous historical sites and organizations, including colonial williamsburg, the smithson in the canadian war museum, the National Park service, George Washingtons mount vernon, the heinz history center, and the museum of the other of the cherokee indian. From 2007 to 2018, scott led the development of the museum of the American Revolutions Award Winning exhibitions, multimedia experience as an educational programing, a
Welcome, everybody. Lets thank the First Unitarian Church for welcoming us here this evening. Church steps up and stands out and steps up for equal rights and social justice, and we want to thank them for that. I think we should thank comes blumenauer for holding this congressman blumenauer for holding this event. We think this is a major step toward to have this forum to talk about where we would like to go, and how you can get involved to move toward this goal. Let me outline the plan and i will get out of the way. We have some Major National and local experts on this issue about Health Reform who can help us understand these terms like singlepayer, medicare for all. And help us understand the National Landscape and then known and the local landscape in the state. They will be introduced in turn. Will endbefore 7 00, of that part of the program and have questions and answers. , whatwho have questions we will do is there will be people with microphones up top and down below, and when
Up next here on American History tv on cspan3, a conversation on the case from the Virginia Historical society. Jeter was not a white woman. Richard loving all agree was a white man. So Virginia State law not only rendered their 1958 marriage illegal, but also required a penalty of at least a year in prison for it. Circuit court judge leon f. Dizile chose to suspend their prison sentences if they agreed to leave the state. After a few years of exile, loving sought Legal Assistance to let them return home to virginia. Today our speaker will be focusing on the suit mr. And mrs. Loving brought against the commonwealth, a case that eventually made its way to the u. S. Supreme court. The lovings challenge the conceit that the state could tell two people that simply because they did not share the same racial identity they could not marry. And if they married that they should be in prison for doing. This be explore their tangled biographies on a ruling, a ruling whose echos can be heard in th
Up next here on American History tv on cspan3, a conversation on the case from the Virginia Historical society. Jeter was not a white woman. Richard loving all agree was a white man. So Virginia State law not only rendered their 1958 marriage illegal, but also required a penalty of at least a year in prison for it. Circuit court judge leon f. Dizile chose to suspend their prison sentences if they agreed to leave the state. After a few years of exile, loving sought Legal Assistance to let them return home to virginia. Today our speaker will be focusing on the suit mr. And mrs. Loving brought against the commonwealth, a case that eventually made its way to the u. S. Supreme court. The lovings challenge the conceit that the state could tell two people that simply because they did not share the same racial identity they could not marry. And if they married that they should be in prison for doing. This be explore their tangled biographies on a ruling, a ruling whose echos can be heard in th
Up next here on American History tv on cspan3, a conversation on the case from the Virginia Historical society. Jeter was not a white woman. Richard loving all agree was a white man. So Virginia State law not only rendered their 1958 marriage illegal, but also required a penalty of at least a year in prison for it. Circuit court judge leon f. Dizile chose to suspend their prison sentences if they agreed to leave the state. After a few years of exile, loving sought Legal Assistance to let them return home to virginia. Today our speaker will be focusing on the suit mr. And mrs. Loving brought against the commonwealth, a case that eventually made its way to the u. S. Supreme court. The lovings challenge the conceit that the state could tell two people that simply because they did not share the same racial identity they could not marry. And if they married that they should be in prison for doing. This be explore their tangled biographies on a ruling, a ruling whose echos can be heard in th