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Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 lilienth. Lincoln won the 1860 president ial election because he carried every free state except for a divided electoral vote in new jersey. So he compiled a clear majority in the Electoral College and as we all know, of course, it is electoral votes that count. He also amassed far more popular votes than any of the other three candidates. But his plurality victory gained only 40 of the nationwide popular vote. He got no electoral votes and hardly any popular votes in the south. He was not on the ball loballotn Southern States. As we have seen an articulate ideological minority of republicans did consider slavery a moral problem, but mainstream republican moderates always said slavery was beyond their reach. Lincolns victory shocked the south. Throughout ....
He was killed cutting logs in the woods. So that first five were very young and my dad ernest jones married my mama and has five more children, but my dad raised all ten of us because they was very, very young when their dad got killed. Basically they were very disciplined, had a seventh grade education. Mom had a seventh grade education but very bright, very brilliant people and one of the ambitions they had, they gave us as we were little kids, he two goals for us, he wanted all of us to be educated and he wanted to see all ten of us in heaven, so he wanted us to be committed to church, hard work and school, so i had the pleasure of going to school all the way through elementary, all the way through high school and i never missed a day. He was mean and tough on us going to school, so we had to get up 4 00 in the morning, milk the cows, feed the pigs and do all of this walk one mile from the house to the dirt road where the bus came by and gets the bus at 6 45. You to do that and appl ....
Chad williams is the author of torchbearers of democracy, African American soldiers in the world war i era. Next, he talks about the postwar activism of the soldiers, explaining how after fighting with the idea of democracy abroad, many return to join movements to secure more rights and better social standing for African American here at home. National world War One Museum, in kansas missouri of 2019. Now id like to introduce our first speaker for this morning. Doctor chad williams, he is a agus this professor and history at african and African American studies at brandon university. He specializes in African American and modern United States histor ....
Because he is older than i. And he says it is true. My grandfather had 500 invested in the stock market. And of course he lost it. This is when people were jumping out the window and so forth. And my grandparents were teachers. I think he taught languages and music. I dont know what my grandmother taught. But they moved from virginia to philadelphia. And that started the family, split the family, because my grandparents could get a job. They said they didnt hire black teachers in philly. They had black children going to integrated schools, but no black teachers. So, my grandmother took in washing an washing, and my grandfather refused to do that type work. And the family actually split. They were together physically but not together. The older kids went to college in the family, and they were teachers. The two oldest ones. The youngest kid was sent to school by the middle children who are did not go to children. They had to work to help pay. So, here we go about the color line thing. I ....
Questions, Colonial Williamsburg and monticello. Thomas Jeffersons Monticello recorded this program and provided the video. Good afternoon. My name is Brandon Dillard and im the manager of historic interpretation here at monticello. You might recognize my voice because in previous live streams im usually the guy behind the camera and im reading questions from our audience as they come in so that we can directly engage with you while were talking to our first person interpreter actor bill barker who portrays Thomas Jefferson. We wanted to do something a little bit different this week. Given the National Conversation and given events all around us, we know that 2020 has been a challenging ....