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weekend here on american history tv. we are in special collections at the university of southern mississippi. today we are looking at the theodore bilbo papers. his collection is very large. [laughter] we have over 2500 boxes of archival material relating to theodore bilbo. his career and his life. theodore bilbo and this is one of his signed photos that he would distribute to fans was a mississippi politician in the first half of the 20th century. s career started around 1910, when he was doing a state congressman race. by the 1930 s he had been elected governor. at the time in mississippi, you cannot serve consecutive terms as governor. he served one term into the 1920 s, early 1930 s, then skipped a term, then stroked another four years later. - then served another four years later. he was elected to the u.s. senate in the mid-1930 s. he served until 1946 when he was removed from the senate. after being elected for a third term because of bribery charges. and ....
railroad town, earning it the nickname pub city. today this south-central mississippi city is best known as the home of the university of southern minute southern mississippi and camp shelby, one of the country s largest training bases. with the help of our comcast training partners, over the next hour here how they became a center for the civil rights movement. instance, weg, for had registration. african-americans could not register. everything was still segregated. a lot of the businesses, restaurants, and hotels were still under these kind of old jim crow laws. later, the story of a hattiesburg washerwoman who saved her life s earnings and then gave it all away. she started out by boiling clothes and a big tub in the house. she would wash them, she would hang them up to dry, and when she ironed them she would put them out there as well. she started out by charging a dime, if you can believe that. from a dime i guess she went to a quarter and then maybe up to $ ....
all weekend, american history tv is featuring hattiesburg, mississippi. was founded by captain william harris hardy, a confederate railroad builder. the city was named after the captain s second wife hattie. about hattiesburg all weekend here on american history tv. we are in special collections in hattiesburg, mississippi. his collection is very large. we have boxes of archival material related to theodore bilbo. signed photos his he would distribute to fans. he was a mississippi politician 20the first half of the century. he was a state congressman, and by the 1930 s he had been elected governor, and he had put in two terms as governor. term at the end of the 1920 s, and of the 1930 s and then served a term for years later. then he was elected to the u.s. senate in the mid-1930 s. he served until 1946 when he was removed from the senate. removed from the senate after being elected for a third term because of bribery charges and because of his views regarding rac ....
every single day, and that is not an overstatement. .he daily body counts the calls either to or from the situation room, often at 2:00, 3:00 in the morning to see if the carrier pilots had returned. is joinedan hw brand by johnson and nixon aides to discuss the president s decisions during the conflict. and the church committee hearings, convened to fbi, cia, ande nsa. testimony by the fbi director william colby, lewallen, fbi informants, and others. we are here to review the major findings of our investigation of fbi including programs aimed at the messick targets. fbi surveillance of law-abiding at domestic targets. fbi surveillance of law-abiding citizens and cases of intelligence operations. chest but for the complete le, go to c-span.org for the complete schedule go to c-span.org. is touringr, c-span cities across the country exploring american history. next, a look at our recent visit to hattiesburg, mississippi. you re watching american history tv. all we ....
on lectures in history, georgetown university professor maurice jackson teaches a class on the philosophy of w.e.b. dubois, an author and civil rights activist in the late 18th late 19th and early 20th centuries. he described his early life, role as an educator, and relationship with other activists of the time. this class is about an hour. maurice jackson: today we discuss the works of w.e.b dubois. we just entered african-american history month. odson established this for three reasons. one was because of frederick douglass birthday, the birthday of abraham lincoln, who established the emancipation proclamation, and also the birthday of w.e.b. dubois, born february 23 in massachusetts. my wife was pregnant with our second child, and she went into labor february 22. as we went to the hospital, i said, dear, if you have this child tonight, he will be born on george washington s birthday. if you hold out a couple of hours, we will have a dubois baby. you can imagine ....