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The  United States Capitol 1866 Blacks and Whites Celebrate the Passage of Civil Rights Amendment

1866 The Capitol: A Great America, in the Making!

An 1866 illustration from Harper’s Weekly shows white women, White Union soldiers and African Americans celebrating new legislation in the Galleries of the House of Representatives in the Capitol. The 14th Amendment, that gave former enslaved people and landless white men full citizenship. (Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives)

Join World Renowned Historian and Professor, Manisha Sinha as she lectures on the History of The U.S.Capitol;  Georgia's Black Reconstruction Legislators: Aaron A. Bradley; The Caning Of Senator Charles Sumner on the floor of Congress: John Brown, Bleedy Kansas, Border Ruffians...

Join www.BlackHistoryUniversity as we welcome Manisha Sinha for another brilliant lecture on The United States Capitol during the Reconstruction Era.

Topics: Abolitionists

1. Georgia Reconstruction Legislators: Aaron A. Bradley

2. Senator Charles Sumner

3. John Brown: Sumner, Border Ruffians

4. The Capitol Celebration during the Passage of the

1866 Civil Rights Amendment.

Manisha Sinha

Chair in American History

University of Connecticut

Department of History

 

 

 

 

Christmas, Celebrity Bible Readings, Blair Underwood

Join The Gist of Freedom as Shellie Gaines welcomes WETV’s Vice President,,Ashley McFarlin Buie! Ashley M. Buie, founder of Bird's Eye Entertainment, Inc., continues to set the entertainment world on fire. Buie has catapulted her career from Production Assistant to Executive Producer to Network Executive. She has worked on a multitude of television shows with some of today’s top television networks including: BravoTV, Discovery, Oxygen, CNN, MTV, CMT, The Travel Channel, and VH1. Ashley shares an inspiring story of how she used her recovery from a debilitating brain disease to author a faith based books.

You can watch the interview here: https://youtu.be/MuYM2Wc6p-A

The Gist of Freedom is honored to welcome Michelle Daniels! The 2020 Presidential Election is historic and Michelle explains the controversies surrounding the swing state's delayed results.  YouTube Link https://youtu.be/zdjAsom71V0

 

 

Oblate Sisters of Providence

Black Nuns at Saint Francis Academy in Baltimore.

Listening now to Filmmaker Gloria Victoria Rolando Casamayor discuss her upcoming documentary about the Oblate Sisters. Gloria’s mom an Afro-Cuban attended a school established by the Sisters in Cuba! www.BlackHistoryUniversity.com 

Elizabeth Clarisse Lange, who became later known as Mother Mary Lange, was born circa 1784, For ten years, she ran a free school for Haitian refugee children in her own home together with her friend and fellow refugee Marie Magdaline Balas.

The Oblate Sisters  continued Mother Mary's mission. They started Saint Francis Academy, a school for African American children. They provided a home for orphans, purchased the freedom for the enslaved and educated them.

Professor Manisha  Sinha Examines America's Loss: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Landmark Civil Rights Events.