Highlights This Weekend on American History TV June 6 - 8
C-SPAN3's American History TV
8am Saturday, June 6 - 8am Monday, June 8, 2020
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Saturday 10pm & Sunday 4pm ET
Reel America: "Education '57"
In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, into orbit and American educators reacted with alarm and a determination to improve science education. "Education '57" is a U.S. Commissioner of Education report on the status of schools at the time. The film suggests that teachers are underpaid, parents are apathetic, school construction needs to increase, and too many students drop out before they graduate. This is the first of three films on education airing on Reel America this week as the school year for many students ends around the country.
Sunday 6pm & 10pm ET
American Artifacts: Mobile, Alabama African American Heritage Tour
American History TV joined tour guide Eric Finley to learn about the history of Mobile, Alabama from the Jim Crow era through the civil rights movement. The tour features stories of churches, businesses, leaders and entrepreneurs who thrived despite segregation and racial tensions.
Sunday 7pm & 11pm ET
Emancipation in Washington, DC
Oberlin College history professor Tamika Nunley talks about the experiences of newly-freed African Americans, particularly women, in the Washington, D.C. area following the 1862 District of Columbia Emancipation Act. She spoke at a symposium co-hosted by the American Civil War Museum, University of Virginia Center for Civil War History, and Library of Virginia.
Sunday 8pm & midnight ET
The Presidency: President Reagan's First Press Conference
Ronald Reagan gives his first press conference, nine days after taking the oath of office on January 20, 1981. Questions about the recently-resolved Iranian hostage crisis and its aftermath dominated a discussion that ranged from domestic affairs to the new administration's foreign policy priorities. President Reagan met with the press in the Old Executive Office Building next door to the White House.
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