Quarterly publication of the national archives. Traces a publication of the Indiana Historical society and several Online Publications and blogs processes. She is working on a book currently on africanamerican civil war surgeons. Please join me in welcoming jill l. New mark. Hi and good evening and thank you for the nice introduction. I want to thank jake and the clara barton missing soldierss Office Museum for the invitation to come and touk talk but process about the subject about africanamericans that serve as nurses and surgeon during the civil war. The story of africanamerican medical personnel that serve during the civil war its a often neglected pastor Civil War History and theres been little written on the subject. Histories of simple war medicine often overlook the participation and contribution that is africanamericans made between 1861 and 1865. There are few personal accounts of black surgeons nurses and hospital workers that exist. And materials are often hidden among the
Were assessed . Take the entire exhibit tour of rightfully hers american women and the vote. Sunday at 6 00 and 10 00 p. M. Eastern on american artifacts. You are watching American History tv. The cspan cities tour travels the country exploring the american story. Taking book tv and American History tv on the road every first and third weekend of the month. 20 next two hours, we will look at highlights from some of the stops. We begin in selma, alabama. Many people think that the selma, montgomery marchs bird overnight and was a oneoff idea, but there had been a modern Rights Movement brewing in selma, alabama, since the 1930s. Here in selma, alabama, and any places in the south, africanamericans were denied the right to vote, not because it was not their constitutional there wereecause folks in position of power throughout the south that did not want these folks to have the right to vote so they could be considered secondclass citizens. Toy passed a literacy test deter africanamerican
Learn about their history and life. We will look at highlights of some of these stops. We begin in selma, alabama. Alabama,n selma, africanamericans were denied the right to vote. There were folks throughout the south that did not want these people to have the right to vote. They can be considered second class citizens. Poll taxes would be the price you had to pay per year in order to get on the voting rolls. Say i live here in Dallas County and allke 60 dollars taxes are one dollar a year. Raise that isa 40. Thenf my 60 will go i will have 20 which i have to feed and flow my kids. There are not very many black people who will have extra money left over to pay a poll tax. On something when i have an extra dollar left over and i go down to this courthouse and i show up saying i would like to register to vote. I would go to the county registrar, have my poll tax ready. Takes my pollnel tax but he also administers a literary tax. That tests could take many forms. Ask me the name of the pr
Welcome to daybreak australia. Markets have just come online. We are counting down to asias Major Trading opens. The top stories this hour. Asia set for a weaker open after another hot u. S. Inflation report reinforces bets the fed will not be rushing to cut rates. Oil hitting a high. Energy markets kicking off a cyclical upswing. We hear exclusively from the u. S. Ambassador to china Nicholas Burns about the bill to ban tiktok and curbing beijings access to hightech chips. The Peoples Liberation army will take advantage of that technology to strengthen itself at the expense of the american military. We are not going to do that. We are not going to compromise on National Security and we are not going to negotiate. Lets get to the friday fray as markets come online. Looking like a mixed picture as we head into the final trading session of the week. A bit of weakness, quite apparent when it comes to the start of trading in sydney. The staggered start, a quarter of 1 lower in the first fe
Japanese yen holding fairly steady. We saw that kneejerk reaction overnight and we had local immediate reporting they would exit away from negative policy settings next week the focus on those union group negotiations. Nomura saying the wage hike is likely to be around the 5. 1 range. This is the state of play so far. Yen strength, we have seen it putting pressure on japanese stocks and we saw the miners outperforming yesterday. It will be interesting to see how that sub index performs today considering we are seeing iron ore going down. Equities more broadly so far under pressure ahead of the boj meeting that concludes early next week. Lets take a look at the outlook for career, very much driven by wall street. Further weakness. It was that focus on the fed and the message or the takeaway perhaps from the ppi data, we had further data around resilience in the labor market. Perhaps the fed can afford to take its time when it comes to cutting rates as we saw moves higher for treasury yi