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Was founded in 1894 and has been continuous ever since. Today well be going into the immersive West Virginia state museum. Well be talking about the early frontier and settlement period, the development of the state, becoming a state, the industrialization of the state, and well go into the later century, the 21st century, and see where West Virginia is today. Were in the West Virginia state museum settlement and frontier period. These are some of the earliest settlers of the land. Were standing beside George Washingtons case where it has specific artifacts such as his sword, his powder horn that he carved during the American Revolutionary war, and the telescope that he used to survey land here, as wel ....
The country exploring the american story as we take book to be an American History tv im the road. With the support of the local Cable Television provider, we visited only four cities in the last year. And over the next two hours, we will look and highlight from some of the stops. We begin our special feature in milwaukee. So this is the photograph of the lynching that occurred im august 7th, 1930, near indiana. James cameron was 16 at the time, was supposed to be the third person hanging from the tree. But he miraculously survived the lynching. His two friends abe and tommy, it was like 18 and 19 years old, they were killed that day. By mob. Between ten and 50000 angry white people. This was actually in North Central indiana. Join lynching took place. So you end up writing the book they called the time of the survivo ....
Of the tusk gee institute and was a prominent figure in the africanamerican community. Up next, we learn about his connection to West Virginia and how his life there shaped him s a future leader. Booker t. Washington was for 20 years the spokesman and leader of africanamericans in america. And at the time, we had horrible jim crow race codes in the south. That didnt happen here in West Virginia. It was a different sort of race relations. And what he observed with his boyhood heroes was the building of a black middle class, and that really became his path, his career path as he went from tuskegee to being a National Celebrity. Booker was born in a place called hales ford, south of roanoke, virginia, about 225 miles from here, and in those first nine years, he was a slave boy. He didnt have pants. He wore a slave boy shi ....