Highlights This 3-Day Holiday Weekend on American History TV, July 3-6, 2020
C-SPAN3's American History TV
Three-Day July 4th Holiday Weekend, 8am Friday, July 3 - 8am Monday, July 6, 2020
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Friday 7pm ET
1960 Lunch Counter Sit-Ins
In 1960, four African American students sat down at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, launching a civil rights movement that would spread to other cities throughout the country. University of Massachusetts, Amherst professor Traci Parker joined American History TV and Washington Journal to take viewer questions about protests against desegregation during that time. She's the author of "Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s."
Saturday 10am ET
Declaration of Independence Global Legacy
The Smithsonian Associates hosts University of Maryland history professor Richard Bell who talks about the Declaration of Independence -- its origins, purpose, and global significance during and after the American Revolution.
Saturday 10pm & Sunday 4pm ET
Reel America: "Fresh Colors" - 1970
Czech political refugee and animator Paul Fierlinger's first job upon arriving in the United States was to create a U.S. Information Agency film about the American flag. Using his own narration, animation, and archival footage, the filmmaker honors his new country and laments the Soviet crushing of a 1968 student uprising in his homeland. Mr. Fierlinger went on to receive an Academy Award, and has created animation for several PBS programs including Sesame Street.
Sunday 6pm & 10pm ET
American Artifacts: Museum of the American Revolution
American History TV toured the galleries in Philadelphia's Museum of the American Revolution in 2017, the year it opened. Director of Collections Scott Stephenson uses artifacts and interactive exhibits to tell the story of the Revolution from 1760 protests in Boston to the opening shots at Lexington and Concord, and from the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the suffering at Valley Forge. President & CEO Michael Quinn also talks about the museum's history and design, and shows us what he calls the museum's crown jewel: George Washington's camp tent.
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