here is joseph rainey again. the first african-american in the house. it takes is all the way around to all of them who were there. i find this so poignant. when this was printed, no one knew how long would it be? did they think 20 years was going to be a long time? did they think it would just be a moment. you can see it seems terribly damaged and had a hard life. indeed, it has. it was at some point -- someone took this and pasted it probably on a wall. it is pasted on board. underneath the print is is wallpaper. it was perhaps pasted on someone's wall in recognition of those things that happened. it was printed in d.c. we acquired it in d.c.. it may never have left to the nations capitol, unlike black representation at the time it was printed. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> monday night, a discussion of the 45 day strike against verizon. and a discussion of the transportation ownership and its interest in high-speed internet and broadband expa

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on his first day as a page, notable african-american members such as robert elliott and joseph rainey, both of south carolina, brady was the first african-american to serve in the house, he delivered speeches on the floor attesting to violations against the 14th amendment rights of the constituents. in that sense, picking provided -- paging provided a common experience for two teenage african-american boys who, separated by nearly a century, witnessed the house grapple with monumental civil rights issues. to change gears and conclude, i would to tell you about one of the research questions that nagged us as we wrote the history of the house page program. one that we are still trying to determine conclusively. that is pinpointing the exact start date of the practice of paging in the house. we know the use of legislative messengers evolved over the better half of the century. when adults serve as messengers until the late 1820's when according to official house records, it is clear that a page corp employing young boys and teenagers took shape, but when exactly? following the panic of 1