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Much onment relied very incredible skills as an organizer, her exceptional commitment, her unwavering commitment to social justice. You can watch this another american artifacts programs by visiting our website at cspan. Org history. Announcer now more on Dolores Huertas life story. We talked to her when our local content vehicles visited bakersfield, california. Dolores huerta is a civil rights activists who cofounded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962, which became the united farm workers of america. In 2012, president obama awarded her the medal of freedom for her lifes work. Del...

Us in terms of harvesting cotton and tomatoes. At the end of the basero program is one Significant Impact. Also what we see at the same time was there was not not only was there a number of visas available to mexican nationals, right, but we also see a shift in the temporary worker programs. So at this time, there had been, prior to 1965, a temporary worker program, h2 program. It was relatively small in scale and continues to be relatively small in scale. Prior to 1965, the burden was on the government to show that the workers that were coming in under the temporary programs would not harm th...

Not a hearing room at first. And then in the 1970s, Senator Frank Church began to investigate problems with the cia and fbi. And this was goaliing to be the first investigation into the intelligence operations. The material they were handling was so secret that it had to be in a secure place. So this room was converted. A floor was built across. It was turned into offices for the Church Committee that was investigating the cia and the fbi. They had armed guards standing at each of the doors to make sure no one came in. Reporters thought it was interesting that the Church Committee was trying t...

Staying in the united states. And youre quite right to say that this is an oversight. Because its, in a lot of discussions of immigration, theres a connation of being foreignborn and being immigrant, but in fact, theres a sizable group of people who are foreignborn, residents of the united states, and theyre not immigrants in the sense that they are on a path that leads eventually to citizenship. So theres a large number of people who are settled here on h h1b visas, and these are visas that are meant to bring in highly skilled, essentially technical workers. Often they work in the i. T. Indus...

Birth of president dwight david eisenhower, his granddaughters gather for a rare family discussion at Gettysburg College to talk about his military and political career as well as his relevance for 21st century americans. Then on saturday afternoon at 1 00, 60 years ago, rosa parks defied a city ordnance for blacks to leave their seats on a city bus to make room for white passengers. Her stand helped instigate the bus boycott as we hear from the attorney for rosa park and demonstrators. Then at 6 00, William Davis on the littlephoneknown aspects o ulysses s. Grant and robert e. Lee. And a 1965...