those are some of the characters in the book along with aldrich, forgotten founder, my favorite word is gravel terrien, an ornery guy. he was the intellectual mainspring in many ways of the early revolution. aldridge very believes in republicanism from service to country over self and he takes abstract concepts and makes them reality but he also takes one of the largest training fleet in the colonies which he and his family owned and converts them into supply lines. as i mentioned earlier, the necessary and was gunpowder, all the majorti operations the brith were conducted in the early part of the war were to take and disarm americans take vital supply of gunpowder. without gunpowder, no revolution could be thought but coming up with the concept, he's one of the first in writing to talk about foreign alliances, he and other doubleheaders forged alliance spain and looked through his contacts the last 3r 30 years with this relationship and they bring in the parish to the colony and future vice presidentt,, future congressman gerrymandering is named after him, bill of rights, electoral

tuesday, july 20th will be the launch day >> kneel armstrong and buzz aldrich stepped on the moon, it was an inspiration to me and the entire world. >> reporter: and come tuesday a whole new generation will be watching >> countdown to that launch. our thanks to morgan chesky. >>> a covid outbreak has hit the texas democrats who fled to washington two more state lawmakers tested positive yesterday bringing the total infected to five all of the representatives say they are fully vaccinated and all the cases are mild meanwhile, that caucus is still kicking off a five-day conference to keep the pressure on conference. for more, let's get to nbc's tracie potts a big week ahead in the fight over voting rights. >> reporter: hi. right. the whole idea is to build consensus around doing something on the federal level when it comes to voting rights the texas conference was supposed to be mostly in person. it is now largely virtual because of the members who have tested positive for covid but they hope that the message is the same, that message being not just in texas but nationwide action needs

betty aldrich, she did domestic work. to show you the relationship they had, when i was born, i was born as fred lee gray. but, my mother was working for miss betty and miss betty told her when she came back to work after i was born that she thought that my middle name should be david. you know what my mother did? my mother officially changed my name from lee to david. i grew up under an all black environment. and i was very religious. one of our preachers was from tennessee. they said when i was young -- i was baptized in montgomery when i was eight. our preacher said there are two things a black boy in alabama, professionally, could look forward to. that was being a preacher or a teacher. so, since i was religiously inclined, a preacher, boating school for tennessee for black boys who wanted to be teachers -- preachers. he told my mom that even though she didn't have money she ought to send me to that school so i could learn how to preach. while i grew up in the ghettos of montgomery until i was eight years old and atte

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