NEWS C-SPAN interviews Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan and features Historic Blandwood, February 22

C-SPAN interviews Mayor Nancy Vaughan

on Washington Journal, February 22

in segment from ‘Cities Tours’

Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan will appear in a segment focusing on C-SPAN’s  Washington Journal, Sunday, February 22, 7 to 10 a.m. on Time Warner Cable Channel 225.

In segment recorded last month during C-SPAN’s Cities tour week in Greensboro, Mayor Vaughan speaks about Greensboro from the historic West Parlor of Governor John Motley Morehead’s downtown Blandwood residence on Washington Street. The iconic structure is the only building in Guilford County listed as a National Historic Landmark, which White House Historian William Bushong said ranks with the greatest landmarks: Independence Hall, White House, Jefferson’s Monticello, Madison’s Montpelier and Washington’s Mount Vernon.

Cities Tour on Greensboro will be broadcast this weekend, February 21 and 22, as follows:

·         February 21, noon, Book TV on C-SPAN 2 (Time Warner Cable channel 226)

·         February 22, 2 p.m., American History TV on C-SPAN 3(Time Warner Cable 227)

BOOK TV FEATURES

·         Learn about “Fire In The Belly: Building A World-leading High-tech Company From Scratch In Tumultuous Times” from authors Jerry Bledsoe and Jerry Neal.

·         Hear author Charles Bolton talk about his book “Poor Whites of the Antebellum South: Tenants and Laborers in Central North Carolina and Northeast Mississippi”

·         Visit the University of North Carolina at Greensboro to learn about the role women have played in the U.S. military throughout history.  See the Women Veterans special collection of historic published materials.

·         Hear the story of the “Belles of Liberty: Gender, Bennett College and The Civil Rights Movement” from author Linda Beatrice Brown

·         Learn about “Families in Crisis in the Old South: Divorce, Slavery, and the Law” from author Loren Schweninger

                       

·         See the WWI Propaganda Special Collection located at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.

·         Hear author Mark Elliot talk about his book “Color Blind Justice: Albion Tourgée and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson”

AHTV FEATURES

·         Visit historic Blandwood, the home of North Carolina Governor John Motley Morehead. Morehead was the state’s 29th Governor but known as the, “Father of modern North Carolina,” because of his progressive political views. Executive Director of Preservation Greensboro, Benjamin Briggs tells the story of Morehead’s life, the role he played in ending the Civil War in North Carolina and his lasting impact on the state.

·         See the Dolley Madison Collection at the Greensboro Historical Museum. Dolley Madison is a Guilford County native and the only first lady to be born in North Carolina. 

·         Tour the Murphy’s Confederate Firearms Exhibit at the Greensboro Historical Museum. The exhibit titled, Through the Collectors’ Eyes: Treasures of the Civil War, features more than 150 firearms which represent examples of work from every major Southern armory during the Civil War.

·         Learn about the deadly 1979 mass shooting that was sparked by racial tensions in Greensboro known as the “Greensboro Massacre.” Guilford County Historian Gayle Hicks Fripp explains the events that occurred on November 3, 1979 and the overall impact it played in the civil rights movement.

                       

·         Visit the site of the Battle at Guilford County Courthouse. See Park historian John Durham walk through the battlefield and tell the story of the Revolutionary War battle fought there on March 15, 1781. Learn about Major General Nathanael Greene and why his strategy was so important to the outcome of this battle.

·         See the Woolworth’s counter which sparked the Greensboro sit-ins in 1960. Chair of the Board of Directors of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum Deena Hayes-Greene explains how the museum tells the story of the four young, civil rights activists who started the sit-in movement in Greensboro.

·         Hear the story of the “Belles of Liberty: Gender, Bennett College and The Civil Rights Movement” from author Linda Beatrice Brown. Brown provides additional insight into the February 1960 sit-ins and its impact on the civil rights movement.

In partnership with Time Warner Cable, C-SPAN’s 2015 Cities Tour takes Book TV and American History TV on the road. C-SPAN2 and C-SPAN3 are featuring the literary life and history of each of these selected cities during special weekends on the public affairs network.

Created by the cable TV industry and now in 100 million TV households, C-SPAN programs three public affairs television networks in both SD and HD; C- SPAN Radio, heard in Washington DC and nationwide via XM Satellite Radio; and a video-rich website which hosts the C-SPAN Video Library. Visit http://www.c-span.org

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