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Mr. Chairman. You can hear the gavel. I can remember sam irvin sitting up there. It brings back memories. It certainly is filled with the echoes of history. Coming up next on American History tv, a Panel Discusses minority activism leading up to the 1968 election. It is part of dr. Martin luther king jr. s Poor Peoples Campaign, africanamerican into condo activist came to washington, d. C. They explained how people of different races came together but it is largely remembered as an africanamerican movement. This event is part of the American Folklife Center at the library of congress to Mark N...

And the picture is not fully painted unless you look at, what it is called, the Labor Force Participation, rate and i think that a lot of folks probably know what this is, this is, this is the number of, it is calculated as the number of people that are either employed, or unemployed but actively looking for a job. And in 2015, the rate of people without disabilities that were actively par participating in the workforce, was 68. 9 percent and that is compared to the rate of people with disabilities in 2013. Was 20. 3 percent. And i think that it is really important to point out here, and as th...

Yes. Jills book tells the story of a woman who would not be put down. The book paints a vivid pore train of Belva Lockwood. And should gain from her life the public attention long overdo. Women in the public eye nowadays are courted by various archives seeking to be the repository of their papers. Not so in lockwoods time. Piecing together her work and days required the relentless pursuit of a determined sleuth and thats just what jill became in this process. A most persistent detective. In the introduction to the biography. I noticed that Elizabeth Stanton had compared lockwood to shakespeare...

Justice. When poor people marched on washington, the 68 campaign in black and brown. I will introduce the speakers briefly and then they can come up and begin the discussion. So the first person ill introduce is Gordon Mantler, whos an assistant professor at George Washington university specializing in the history and rhetoric of 20th century social Justice Movements and the africanamerican and Latino History of the United States as well as an oral history and history of film. His first book and focus of his Library Presentation is power to the poor and the fight for Economic Justice 1960 to 1...

Carvings and the fixtures and the great chandeliers. And the history. There is even a plaque on the wall that lists the famous events that took place in this room. I was once asked by a radio correspondent to describe this room to a Radio Audience that could not see it. I said this room reminds me of grand opera because it is a magnificent setting. When theres an investigation, it usually has a large cast of characters and a convoluted plot, and everyone sits around waiting for the witness to sing. Television came along in 1947. The first televised hearing was general George Marshall testifyin...