International condemns france for allegedly exploiting the pandemic to roll out repressive measures against its people. Thanks for joining us here on r. T. Armenia and azerbaijan have both flat out rejected calls for a ceasefire theyve ruled out peace talks as hostilities over a disputed border territory and a 5th day here are the latest Images Released by azerbaijan showing the destruction of Armenian Military vehicles in the nagornokarabakh region both sides released a string of videos to back of their claims of military conquest. Is in the heart of the conflict zone and reports now on the impact the hostilities are having on local communities nagornokarabakh is sandwiched between the 2. Of armenia and as a. John but as commanders in chief are deploying platoon after platoon to the frontline its often civilians who end up in the crossfire on both sides or in a small town in the disputed nagornokarabakh region the front line is about 5 to 7 kilometers that way and thereby johnny shell
Available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. Next on American History tvs american artifacts, we visit the Canon House Office building to see artifacts that tell the story of africanamericans in congress in the 20th century. Im sarah elliott, the curator at the house of representatives. And im matt rauz nwasniewsk. We want to talk about africanamerican representation in the 20th century, and we have a lot of artifacts from the house collection that have to do with that and a lot of history to cover. And the last africanamerican sort of to be elected in the 19th century leaves in 1901, george white of north carolina, and then its a long time before another africanamerican comes into the house. Thats is Oscar Depriest from illinois. We have a couple really rare artifacts from Oscar Depriest from the 1920s and 30s, but before i launch into them because i love them so much, matt, tell us a little bit about oscar and how he got into congress. So theres a long period, almost
We know he did and he was attempting to put a marker down. This wont be forgotten and will come back. In the center we have the two africanamerican to served in the senate. By the muchrounded larger numbers of African Americans who served in the house. There is joseph rainey, the first africanamerican in the house. And it takes it all the way around to all of them who were there. I find it so poignant in that, when this was printed no one knew how long would it be. Did they think 20 years would be a long time . Did they think it would be just a moment. What did happen in this print it looks terribly damaged, like it has had a hard life. As if at some point someone took this and pasted it on probably a wall. Underneath that is wallpaper. Underneath the print and on top of the board is wallpaper. It was perhaps painted on someones wall. In sort of recognition of the things that happened. We acquired it in d. C. It may have never left the nations capital, unlike black representation that
Tvs american artifacts we visit the Cannon House Office building to see artifacts that tell the story of africanamericans in congress in the 20th century. Im farar elliott. And im matt waz knsniewski. We wanted to talk about africanamerican representation in the 20th century. We have a lot of artifacts from the house collection that have to do with that and a lot of history to cover. And the last africanamerican to be elected in the 19th century leaves in 1901, george white of north carolina. And then its a long time before another africanamerican comes into the house. And that is Oscar Depriest from illinois. And we have a couple of really rare artifacts from Oscar Depriest from the 1920s and 30s. But before i launch into them, because i love them so much, matt, tell us a little bit about Oscar Depriest and how he got into congress. So, theres a long period, almost three decades, after George Henry White leaves congress where theres no africanamericans who serve in either the house or
Some small plane had lost its way and hit one of the World Trade Center towers. Obviously, within a short time after that, we understood that it was a big plane and it was a deliberate attack. I never made it to new york that day. Dayd to defer my trip one while we dealt with the chaos that was created by the attack. David talk about that chaos for a moment. Obviously we lost power throughout southern manhattan. A lot of markets went down there was concern about the payment system, for example. Harvey the problem was the damage that was done was quite extensive. Was figuring out how extensive the damage was, and what the protocol should be forgetting the markets back to a normal state. We immediately decided to shut down the security market. With thet in tandem then chairman of the new york Stock Exchange, and who became my constant telephone buddy throughout the week we had to deal with the wreckage that was caused by the attack. David how could you get information those first hours .