next panel could be here at 1:15 p.m. that would be helpful and we'll stay on track. that was a fantastic wonderful series of presentations, thank you all very much. [applause] >> you are watching american history tv 48 hours of programming on american history every weekend on c-span three. follow us on twitter. for information on our schedule of upcoming programs and to keep up with the latest history news. each week, american history tv's "reel america" brings you archival films that tell the

story of the 20th century. >> the white house to washington, d.c., usa the day, july 2 1964. the occasion, signing into law the civil rights act of 1964. >> tonight, i urge every public official, every religious leader every as nice and professional man, every workingman and every housewife i urge every american to join in this effort to bring justice and hope to all our people and to bring peace to our land. [applause] >> one year has passed since we had the president's civil rights bill enacted into law. a year ago, we had a program

with some of the same people who are here today. today, we are here to take a look back at this one year of the civil rights act of 1964 and to look ahead at what may come in other areas for civil rights for all americans. >> we touched on school desegregation, employment, what's most important in a democracy is we read about 99% of this country voting and yet we know that in selma, the governor collins mentioned somma, the reason we had selma was because in the state of alabama, one half of the county had less than 15% of their negroes of voting age is registered to vote. in mississippi, this percentage went up to 76 out of 82. this new voting bill was just

going into effect. will it remedy the hard-core learned and established deprivations? i look for great progress on the local level toward correcting some of the problems that now must engage national organizations or the federal government. as soon as we get voting, i look for problems with sheriffs and judges and local elected officials to decline because they will not have those kind of sheriffs. >> i recall in your speech in the march on washington from the steps of the lincoln memorial in 1963 on august 28, when you said that many congressmen set in front of you and we want to get this civil rights act passed because we will help free some of our southern congressman. you knew that their hearts were right and they wanted to vote right but politically, it would be suicidal to vote their

convictions. i said to someone, speaking in the usa lecture recently, they asked what would happen to many southern congressman when the negro gets and uses his right to vote. i set i expect the congressman to become some of the greatest liberals in the united states senate and house of representatives. because i think they would like to vote their conscience. some of them will retire that's right. but i think the voting rights act cannot be over emphasized. it's the heart and guts of the democracy. >> this year, the c-span is touring cities across the country. next hour look at omaha, nebraska. you are watching american history tv, all we can, every weekend on c-span three. >> the union station operated

until 1971. the last train left here may 2 and it sat vacant for two years and union pacific gifted it to the city to become a museum. we made the station our home and now it's a museum preserving the omaha history. this exhibit focuses on the omaha livestock industry of very important industry for south omaha as a city and eventually for omaha as a whole. >> cattle marketing centers are strategically located in all must -- and omaha serves a large western area. it's holding pens of handle more than 100 million cattle since its founding over 80 years ago. there is hell lives jock -- here is the livestock train, right on time3. . >> the livestock industry starts in the 1870's as a fattening station, a place for cattle to get fed, they hit a

feeding station before they go to a stockyard to be slaughtered. eventually, that turns into the stockyards as we know, the omaha stockyards in the 1880's. 1883 is the start of what we call union stockyards. that is the beginning of the industry here. we have eight omaha city leaders who purchased, just shy of 2000 acres of land, and devoted 250 of those acres to livestock pens and the livestock exchange building and things like that. they are developing this entry -- industry and starting in 1884. omaha had the railroad which existed with union pacific and union station so we definitely wanted to use what we had to have the stockyard start here and utilize that. the transcontinental railroad went through to move cattle

quickly through an animal to slaughterhouses like chicago for example. eventually, we had our own here proved very popular -- profitable for the city. by the turn-of-the-century, we had 26,000 people and when the city of south omaha was 29 years old, it had 30,000 people. this is only four miles south of omaha. the cities are starting to grow together in 1915 omaha annexed the city of south omaha and the stock of industry so it was all one city at that point. it was called the magic city. it was also called porkopolis and little chicago. it was a booming industry here. by the 1950's, the stockyards employed up to 400 people and would run crews 24/seven to keep up with demand. by 1955, we were the largest dockyard in the world surpassing chicago and had 19 packing

houses in all kinds of industries associated with the stockyard that seemed to bloom overnight. that is the magic city. we had a lot of immigrant groups coming in to work stockyard, the germans, the irish, the checks the polls. . everyone was coming to work year it was a good living unit everything you needed, the packing houses, the big four major there were amenities in south omaha. if you lived in south omaha, you worked in the packing house for the stockyard. we had about 20,000 animals per day at its peak that were shipped in. each different type of animal like hogs and cattle and sheep the packing houses were the only ones in the world in the 1950's that would still process all three types of meat. by the 1960's, the packing houses had been built in the 1890's and they were going out of date.

the whole industry starts taking a different turn. omaha stopped being the center. the stockyards are unfortunately not there. the only piece that is still present in south omaha is the livestock it changed building. that was pretty much a mini city with everything in it from barbershop two cigar shops and hotel rooms. the administrative offices and ballrooms, it was a one-stop shop for south omaha. it was pretty much anything you needed to with the stockyard exchange would of been there and now it's apartments and retail space and proms still happen the ballrooms for a local high school so it's a private community but that the only thing that is left in south omaha of this booming industry. the beef industry and omaha is still going strong. we have companies that still