It hints at a story beyond two years of service and fighting over there. Guest actually, exactly, we return, fighting, the africanamerican experience, world war i. The key to that title is, number one, you dont see the world military. It is not just about soldiers. It is about soldiers and civilians. It is about men and women. It is about young and old. It is about white and black. That is the long title. Title, we return fighting, speaks to what happened after the war and how africanamericans used world war i as a transformative event for them, just like it was a transformative event throughout the globe. Host we explore that story throughout this hour of washington journal, day five of museum week on washington journal with our friends at America History tv, cspan3. Phone lines split up regionally. Eastern or central time zones, 202 7488000. Mountain or pacific time zones, 202 7488001. Special line set aside for africanamerican veterans, 202 7488002. Would love to hear from you as we
Impeachment process. As always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Next. Host good morning. It is monday, november 18, 2019 week 2 gets underway tomorrow. 8 witnesses are set to testify over three days before adam schiffs house Intelligence Committee. We are spending our first hour today asking if the three open hearings that have taken place so far have changed your mind on any aspect of the impeachment of President Trump. If you find yourself changing your mind, 2027488000 is the number to call. If the open hearings have not changed your mind, 2027488001. Textan also to send us a this morning. That number, 2027488003. On social media, you can catch up with us on cspanwj at twitter and at facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good monday morning. You can start calling now. Some of the latest polling on whether bang mines are changing m reutersif so spoke reutersipsos poll over the weekend. Reuters and if
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Another journalist in the book, that they were really consumed with this thought and concerned. I thought that i would read you from this chapter i will stay with you, mary, because its sort of rings that alive. I will read this. People, a. Mitchell palmer and J Edgar Hoover were heroes. For others, they were the villains. Those who saw them as villains might have chosen William Monroe for their alice paul heroes. Excuse me. An American Hero is someone who protested and justices come any quality, and prejudice . What was it someone who protected the American Public from protesters . Was it the man who rounded up a mob to attack an alleged murderer, or wasnt the man who took a bullet trying to stop him . What of the worker, who went on strike to improve wages and conditions . Was it the manager who struggle to keep production moving during the strike . American ideals of individualism and freedom sometime use the notions of villains and heroes. Their willingness to oppose the popular cu
That and on the opposite side, in windsor there is one facing our statue pointing back on this side. Gateway to freedom means that this was the passageway or the route to get to canada to freedom. Was aderground railroad loose mechanism for the freedom seekers to escape to freedom. So, throughout the north especially, their work safe havens. The idea was to get across the ohio river from the slave states to the free states and so there were a lot of safe havens throughout illinois, indiana, forthpittsburgh, and so as well as michigan. The founders future founders of second baptist got involved in the underground railroad before they were even a church. Before they were even a place of worship back in 1831 when thornton and Lucy Blackburn escaped from a plantation in kentucky. The colored community was involved in helping them escape to toronto, in canada. To numbers, mr. And mrs. Lightfoot and mr. And mrs. French were prominent in that escape and they were future members of the second