beginning in the 1820s, charleston is no longer a major port. boston, philadelphia, new york has taken over the over seas trade. charleston is not that great of a harbor. goods, supplies is shipped up to boston, new york, philadelphia for shipment overseas. it has become more localized and you see more slaves and free blacks being used on the steam ships operating along the coast. it was said that the term pilot was only reserved for whites. the planter will operate along the coast after the firing on fort sumter. she will be found between jacksonville, florida, up to charleston and going up to geor georgetown. linton off the southern coast to stop the importantation off the coast and the exportations used to buy military goods to europe. trying to stop any training now. the problem was, to have an effective blockade you have to have staemeamed war ships, you e to have places you need

boston, philadelphia and new york has taken over the overseas trade. charleston is not that great of a harbor. good supplies, cotton mainly is shipped up to boston, new york and philadelphia for shipment overseas. so owe you see the maritime trade along the coast becoming more localized, and becoming more localized, you see more slaves and free blacks being used on these smaller packets, smaller steam ships operating along the coast. and robert smalls will be part of this system that is created at this time. they are especially trained to work on these packets. smalls himself will be referred to as a wheel man, it was said that the term pilot could only be reserved for whites. so he was called a wheel man, instead of a pilot. at the start of the civil war, the vessel he's working on, the planter will be hired -- she will be found anywhere between early jacksonville, florida, all the way up to georgia, carrying supplies for the confederate military, he'll be part of the planter's crew when they destroyed the light house at hunting island. sort of wipe out the navi

taking part of the batteries, bringing the goods back to charleston. one of these forfications that is being abandoned is a confederate fort on coles island at the mouth of the river. smalls and planter will be going out there nearly daily bringing supplies back to charleston from the works on coles island. at the same time because there were federal forces on charleston there were a number escaping in boats going out. smalls carries out his mission on the plan ter. the crew of the general in commands command of charleston turned himself over to the fleet. it made it even tougher because the confederate is watching more closely what is going on. they had reckoned the determination of robert smalls. he is going to make his plan. but on the night of may 12th. while the vessels went ashore for the night. they went to work. the boiler stoked, the crew, that went along with smalls, not all of the screw did, it could be five to 7 members, slipped the borings to a neighboring wharf daughter and wife and sister and a slave sailor and another lady and a child. w

a story of triumph over adversity success against the odds and what better place to talk about american life in charleston smalls second home and a place unique in contribution and the mid wife to those things that would come. this evening i would like to talk about the background to smalls later life. i would like to talk about his experiences in buford. in buford but mainly in charleston as a way of understanding how these environments prepared him for his later achievements in life. mckey used 60 different people ma mainly in the countryside. they comprise d the labor force at his buford home. domestic service had it's disadvantages for example. domestics were on call around the clock to attend to their owners various needs. that was a downside and a negative. and unlike field hands they had no place to hide. indeed typically they were fed better than the field hands also. domestics were privy to important information that might prove essential and valuable because of their proximity to their owners and also to the people who came and visited their owners. they were in a privileged position. but mckey

delaney is the former research director at the college of charleston. currently he is an associate professor and chair of the history department of the university of texas at arlington. he teaches american history, african-american history, and the history of american public rights movement. he is a graduate of central state university in ohio where he earned his bachelor of arts degree in history. he earned his masser of arts and dr. of philosophy degrees in american and african-american history in ohio state university in columbus, ohio. he has published several books including black police in america, essays on the american civil rights movement and born to serve. he is currently completing a book on african-americans in dallas, a social and political history for texas a&m university press. among his research interests are police history, criminal justice history and the history of the american civil rights movement. he also combines the traditional roll of a professor of public history dedicateded to the preserves of -- please join me in welcoming dr

they are going to be part of the movement that will be prepared to launch the attack against charleston in july of 1863. the planter smalls serving on boards the planter as her pilot will carry troops, supplies back and forth between port royal. after the campaign, they were operating near the mouth of the river when lieutenant colonel elwell directed the captain of the planter to go to an area where she could come under enemy fire. he ordered his removal and stated sir, you will please place robert smalls in charge of the united states transport planter as captain. he brought her out of charleston harbor more than a year ago r running under the defenses of that strong hold. he is an excellent pilot and worthy of the position. this is due him of the proper recognition of his heroism and services. the kurpt captain is a coward though a white man. general gilmore the department commander immediately approved the order and added luster to small's clear. from this point on until the end of the war small will serve as captain of the planter working for what would be $150 a month that would b

we were this morning at the charleston museum, which i guess is the oldest museum in the country. you are at the largest museum in the world, i guess. people of african descent have been in this country since 1619. what happened? what was sort of the politics or what happened that is bringing the new museum of african-american history to life at this time? >> well, actually, it was earlier than that where african-american civil war veterans were calling for this kind of commemoration. we had the leadership of someone like john lewis, who really pushed for this national african-american museum, and its time has come. and african-americans need to be represented in these kinds of cultural institutions. >> you have a question, sir? >> i might add on that that a major part of the civil rights movement of the 1960s was the establishment of african-american studies, which was to make it possible for african-americans to review their own history, write their own history, and develop an understanding of their experience. so ancient questions like who are we, identity could be resolved mor

a member of the charleston elite. gave a couple of decisions in the early civil rights era. he was so ostracized by local society and perhaps threatened, he resigned his federal judgeship and moved to new york. he couldn't live in charleston anymore. now, that america has vanished. but that was the america of 1940. in that america, you had a quarter of the people living on farms. are you going to send this farm boy away when his mom is disabled and his father has died and nobody else can till the field? let the locals make the decision. they'll know about it. you have other people living in the big cities where the draft board is going to be run by the local town hall machine. they know the local community, let them handle it. it seemed fair in a way where you're deciding life and death decisions that you do that. by 1965 when i was in college and about to go to law school, it seemed very unfair. because we had gone through the civil rights movement and the message was you need one standard for the whole country. it's unfair not to have a uniform standard and to be able to de

master, the relationship that he was able to have with his mother, the fact that he was able to live kind of on his own, you know, in charleston, the fact that he was able to pull off this vision to commandeer the planter. a number of kinds of things. are there any thoughts about why and how he -- i mean he was able to come

next to president john quincy adams at dinner in boston and he was escorted in washington, with the charleston-born botanist and future secretary of war and by everett, the boston-born lawyer and future secretary of state. he met 95-year-old charles carroll, the last surviving signer of the declaration of independence and the only catholic to sign that document and sam houston, the future president of the first president of the republic of texas. he attended town meetings in new england and observed slave markets in the south. he visited indian villages in the michigan territory waged on steam boats and shortly after he disembarked and he was a tacitous form of transportation and he traveled by stage coach. he went to columbia, south carolina, and he unfortunately, did not make it to charleston. tocqueville was an aristocrat who suffered during the revolution. you can trace him back to the invasion of william, and some of his ancestors were part of that arm pep his great-grandfather, now a distinguished philosopher and lawyer who was defense council in king louis xvi, after the three days before he

the kind of thing you do with your girlfriend. if you want to see these videos, head to our website, rightthisminu rightthisminute.com. >>> another minor league baseball. it's in charlestoncarolina. we have the ashville tourists versus the charleston river dogs. this video is from wcsc. they have a river dogs player caught in a pickle. pickle! >> i didn't know you were supposed to yell that. >> oh, yeah. it's what they did in "the sandlot." this makes the tourist manager not so happy. this is the first inning. a huge argument ensues between the manager and the umpires. there's where he gets thrown out. getting in the face of the ump, but he's not finished. here's what he does next. takes third base and goes over and gives the base to a fan. >> okay. when you mean stealing third, he's not stealing third. >> he's literally stealing third. >> then he comes back and starts taunting the ump. >> yeah, at this point when you're kicked out, you better get your money's worth. >> are they cheering for him? >> this isn't his first notorious blowup. back in 2006, he had another incident where he freaked out again. >> is it weird that when he gets mad he takes it out on the bases? he

over the next century, industrialization and vast immigration changed thdemograph. later -- charleston was down there with only 58,000. and you had these vast waves of immigration, starting from ireland and germany in the 1840s which were different cultures, many of these immigrants were catholics in a mostly protestant country that was suspicious of catholics. you had immigration from the 1890s. you start having a lot of immigration from southern and eastern europe, which is very alarming tomorrow americans. we have as many as year 1907, 1 million 200,000 immigrants alive in a country of 86 million. that's as much immigration as we've had in the last decade per annually in a country of more than three times that size. so you're talking about a huge inundation of people who come with strange languages, strange mores. they work in garment sweat shops and steel assembly lines. these were people who end up owning no property. they rent their homes, often don't even have bank accounts. the workmen are paid with cash in a pay envelope or with a check that they cash at the bar outside the fa

. >> you remember the twist, the charleston, the gibson girl, you're old -- not quite? about the pet rock which has to be the biggest scam of all time $3.95, toilet training for the pet rock, folks, total scam. goldfish swallowing, toga parties. >> yeah, but john -- >> hula hoop. >> the bottom line here, the bottom line is that diet is contributing to hundreds of thousands of premature deaths every year. government needs to be deeply involved in helping people eat healthier diets. >> you don't understand. this is a faddist culture. we love innovation. we love to be part of the collectivity that now is in the know about the next best thing and that helps us to share, and in so doing, to unify in this particular social group. >> it's not the only characteristic of our society. we're a seat belt-using society now. we're moving towards nonsmoking in this society. we need to do the same with our diet. >> fads, in the food fads we had the oat and bran fad of a few years ago. then we had a low sodium fad. what did you think of that? and where has that gone? >> it's -- well, it

speaker, i rise in support of senate bill 2061, the former charleston naval base land exchange act of 2012. this bill authorizes the secretary of homeland security to convey a parcel of federal land in north charleston, south carolina, to the south carolina state ports authority in exchange for specified lands owned by the ports authority. the land to be transferred by the department of homeland security formally -- form early comprised a portion of the charleston naval base but is now vacant. d.h.s. currently leases the land it plans to acquire in this transfer and uses it to house some of the operations of the federal law enforcement training center also known fletc. it contains a shipping port in the united states with one passenger and four container port terminals as well as numerous privately held terminals. the waterways in this area contain shipping channels, rivers, bays, creeks, streams, the intracoastal waterway and the atlantic ocean. these waterways provide a realistic training environment for the maritime law enforcement and port security students. specifically the charl

there is an opposition press headed by the "richmond examiner" and the "charleston mercury." most of the opposition is based around davis' military decisions because there was no internal or civil policy to speak of. it's a very small group of people let by robert barnwell whet rhett who owns the newspaper. in fact, in the fall of 1864, rhett who will say that jefferson davis was born for his work as judas was born for his. this is not a reasonable man. rhett and a few others will actually hatch a scheme to try to remove davis from office and install robert e. lee as a military dictator. i don't know if they ever approached lee, of course i'm sure he would have nixed it immediately. it never got anywhere because it was so crack line. but it was also a small but extremely vocal opposition. >> i think what we agree on is that part of the vociferousness to lincoln as it seems to exist in history is because of the two-party system. there a natural opposition that's gearing toward elections that just don't take place in november. they take -- >> almost year round. >> year round. ye

the port royal naval station. this naval station is eventually moved to charleston, but it becomes now the home of the marine corps recruit depot where i work. and just to put a quick plug in for our museum, please come down and visit us, and also come and visit penn center out on the sea islands as well where you can follow more of the story of robert smalls. >> i would say that one of the things that robert smalls didn't complete was indeed, even though for a short period he did have this power base, this political power base, he wasn't able to maintain it. again, not through any fault of his own, but because of the forces of the democratic party and the ku klux klan and the democratic rifle clubs. and he essentially was trying to do what other american ethnic groups had done in this country in terms of using politics, using political power to build an economic base. again, we see it in the 19th century and early 20th century over and over again among the irish, among the italians of how they use politics to help their groups to build economic power. and he was thwarted just as most african-americans in the late

there is an opposition press headed by the richmond examiner and "the charleston mercury." most of it is based around davis's military actions. it is simply the war. it is a small group of people led by people like robert bardwell. a few others who are malcontented. in the fall of 1864, rhett will say jefferson davis was born of his work as judas was born for his. this is not a reasonable man. rhett and others will hatch a scheme to try to remove davis from office. i don't know if they ever approached lee, if they did, i'm sure he would have nixed it immediately. it never got anywhere because it was so crack brained. it was a small, but vocal opposition. >> i think what we agree on is that part of the opposition to lincoln to exist in history is because of the two-party system and a natural opposition that is gearing toward elections that don't just take place in november. they take place -- >> almost year round. >> almost year round. yes. >> my name is norman arnold. i ask you comment on two aspects of general mcclellan. did he make a positive contribution to the north by h

boroun was a guest lecturer at the citadel military college in charleston, south carolina in a course called "the conservative intellectual tradition in america" taught by professor mally factor. >> well, thank you very much. it's an honor to be here. and a special honor to be asked to speak on the fragility of watered liberty and to speak on alexis detocqueville. i began to think he was something like mozart. that i was in the presence of a mind that was so far above the level of almost anyone else in history that he almost books no comparison with anybody else. you can listen to the music of

the engine of a new boeing streamliner during a pre flight test >> it started a grass fire at the charleston international airport in south carolina closure of the what runway for more than an hour. the airforce found the debris did not come from any of its airplanes but it caused a bit of hassle. free parking in san francisco may soon be harder to come by. muni is considering adding new meters around san francisco state campus and the zoo. they say it is driven by increasing demand for parking in those areas. there are currently 29,000 earings spaces throughout the city that generate some $50 million of annual revenue. >> not too bad out there, let's go towards ac transit camera, mobile 5 and they're actually crossing the bay bridge now, it looks like the lower deck heading towards oakland and they are in the tunnel heading for to treasure island so not that bad of a drive. no major delays, just very slight delays in a few of the cash lanes. we have cameras all over the bay area including this one. 101 is starting to pick up in san jose, not too bad but the usual drive. not many hot spots a

this happened at the charleston international airport during a pre-flight test. es and boeing said the plane will fly faster and farther than earlier jets with better fuel efficiency. >> that's an impressive airplane. a mississippi couple set the day and mailed out the invitations but they say the day before their wedding, some members of the church they plan to get married at balked because of their race. >> we had people in the sanctuary that was pitching a fit about us being a black couple. i didn't like it at all because i wasn't brought up to be racist. >> this had never been done here before so it was setting a new precedence and there were those that reacted because of that. >> reacted and excluded them. church members made it a point to see the voices of a view do not represent the whole church. the pastor ended up marrying the couple at the another nearby church. >> same-sex marriage is not permitted in colorado and lakewood colorado bakery is taking its own stand against gay marriage, refusing to bake a cake for a local couple's reception. the owner says

the charleston, south carolina flight eventually took off after a three-hour delay. >>> pepco says anyone who lost power in the storm nine days ago has finally gotten it back. crews made the last of the connections overnight. now a customer has start an online petition asking pepco ceo joe rigby to bury the power lines using annual profits. the petition says pepco made $68 million in profit in the first three months of the year. a study by the electric power research institute says it would cost between 5 and $15 million per mile to bury the lines. >>> monitoring metro tonight after a derailment on the grand green line on the green line, metro says it's back up and running. the line was shut down between ft. totten and prince's gorge's plaza between the time of the accident and about 8:00 tonight. no one was hurt. >>> fox 5 is always monitoring metro. if you see something, take a picture or video and send it to us. we'll get it on the air. send it to fox5metro@gmail.com. >>> developing stories tonight in the district, a series of violent crimes that resulted in three death overnight. this

the time. so charleston, like any town so a lot of people down here resented that. me? i'm ten years old, i'm 11 years old, i'm 12. i'm loving this! you know, i'm running up and down the street. i just think it's the greatest thing that's ever happened. >> reporter: if you listen to enough of hitt's stories, you begin to think that the greatest things that ever happened only happen to him. in fact, he says, great material is all around. it's just that most of us don't pick up on it. >> one of the things that these scientists find is that we're, one of the glories of being homo sapiens is that we have an amazing ability to blind ourselves to things that are happening right in front of us. and we see this all the time, right? events happen and people say, i didn't even see it. you know, it turns out we're very good at not seeing things. the upside is that means we're >> reporter: hitt's latest project is a new book titled "bunch of amateurs" in which he teases out a particularly american trait through the stories of famous tinkerers from ben franklin to computer nerds in g

the charleston-bound flight left reagan after a three-hour delay. >> that's crazy. >>> and having trouble connecting to the internet this morning? you could own one of the thousands of computers infected with malware. the fbi shut down a ring of cybercriminals more than a year ago. when agents went down to take the hacker's server down, they realized they would lose a temporaria access. if you can't get online this morning, contact your internet service provider for help. all of the computers working in here this morning? >> that is good. >> for good? >> okay. >> and that seems quick. i hope mine is okay when i get home. >> three secs. >> and you click on it. >> we're good. >> and i hope i'm gone. >> that is to easy. >> yes. we'll see. >> what happens if it does that? >> you can't get the internet and have to call the provider. >> okay. >> and that may cost you mean. >> and -- . >> and that is the one that doesn't work? >> you should toss it. >> it works. >> i think the smithsonian might like that. >> right up there with air wolf. >> and ernest borgnin from air wolf. >> he was in spongebo

george hest in their mid-50s say they were handcuffed before midnight after they started doing the charlestonl drum player's beat on nearly empty platform. the charges that included impeding the flow of traffic were later dropped. the city law department is reviewing the file. ♪ ♪ >> back now to politics and the integration of the culture war in the campaign. correspondent shannon bream explains a war only one candidate wants to fight. >> cut off funding to planned parenthood. >> both obama campaign and planned parenthood fund going after romney inaccurately portraying his position on abortion. >> it's an issue that basically the democrats are using to try to create a wedge, to try to mobilize women voters with a slight advantage at this point in time. >> indiana governor mitch daniels once thought to be in the hunt for the 2012 g.o.p. nomination famously warned politicians in 2010 to call a truce on social issues until the deeper economic issues can be resolved. while romney made only the briefest public remarks on the culture topics -- >> marriage is a relationship between one man and one w

the 1830s. mr. barone is a guest lecturer in charleston, south carolina, and of course, called the conservative intellectual tradition in america taught by professor mallory factor. >> thank you very much. it's an honor to be here and a special honor to be asked to speak to speak on alexis de tocqueville. in reading tocqueville in preparation for this lecture. i began to think that he was something like mozart, that i was in the presence that was so bar above the level of almost anyone else in history, that there was almost no comparison with anybody else. you can listen to the music of mozart and it sounds pleasant and melodic and so forth, but if you really think about it, if you really analyzed it, you

the men were coming from orientation at the university of charleston saturday afternoon.both were startinglasses there this fall. while frisby was driving along i-79... investigators say he somehow crossed the median into the southbound lanes. 3 i believe tavon was vp of student body........it just shows how much they were loved at the school.... school.... details of the funeral arrangements can be found on our website at fox baltimore dot com. 3 the body of a navy officer... killld in the colorado movie massacre... returns home to ill. illinois.on thursday... motorcyclists with the illinois old guard were on hand to escort the hearse carrying petty officer john larimer... when it landed at the airport. larimer was stationed at buckley air force base in colorado. the 27-year-old was shot and killed as he shielded his girlfriend from gunfire in the theater. a public viewing for larimer is scheduled for today. the reverend jesse jackson pays a visit to the memorial site... of the colorado shooting victims.on thursday... he also spoke in front of the apartment complex... where suspect james

master, the relationship that he was able to have with his mother, the fact that he was able to live kind of on his own, you know, in charleston, the fact that he was able to pull off this vision to commandeer the planter. a number of kinds of things. are there any thoughts about why and how he -- i mean he was able to come about these sort of unusual kinds of things that certainly supported and aid him in his achievements? >> well, i guess you would have to say either a charmed life or probably a blessed life. he was -- he was certainly raised to be a religious young man. and in so far as i know, continued to be very religious in his life. so i think were he to explain it himself, he would say that the hand of god was upon him, directing his fortunes and opening up really a way for him to prosper, to achieve, to become self-actualized, but also robert smalls as we all know was a man of great vision, of great vision. and he understood that the direction that his life was moving in was charting a course for a whole people. and he had to have seen himself as a man of destiny, not in an egotistical way, because i don't have that

the country. now 14 countries are under a heat advisory for today. brian todd is in charleston, west virginia, where the temperature is expected to be about 95 today. lack of power, this awful heat wave. and now west virginians are struggling with what i think a lot of people in this country would not have realized, brian, they are having trouble with food and water. >> reporter: that's right, ashleigh. talk about the ripple of crises from these storms on friday. the power outages create problems down the line, and now we have a food crisis in west virginia. we talked to the governor's office not too long ago, they have too main food pantries that basically give non-perishable food items to people in times of crisis, but the food pantries are empty and they are starting a food drive here in west virginia. water is also a problem in many area where is the water pumps are not being powered properly. the water pressure is very, very low. sometimes water is out completely. so national guard troops are moving around trying to make sure people have enough water and steering them wher

friends say the two attended student orientation at the university of charleston and were northbound on interstate 29 when the car crashed the -- crossed the grassy median. tavon frisbee and cameron shields excelled in sports. >> a great earnings great individual, really hard working person. t avon one of the most outgoing kids. really involved in student government, just an awful shame when you lose two kids who could be leaders. it's an awful situation. >> the men in the other cars will lost their lives, 44-year-old steven ranjo of philadelphia and his father who was 88. >>> all right. a few showers primarily in northeastern maryland. for most of the state, including the ballet area, just a brief, brief isolated shower. it is hot and humid. that is the main story right now. late summer classic. you can call it late july classic with heat index values. humidity levels are excessive. by the way, an air quality alert issued as well for the baltimore area. a lot of levels. 80s. will we get a break by the end of the week. we got it coming up. >> how would you could like to win a billion

the plane was on its way to charleston when the sinking feeling sat in. it was able to leave a few hours later. as you watch the storms moved through the area, if you see damage, you can send us your photographs. the pictures could end up on the air or on our web site, wjla.com. more on the storm's coming up in a few. >> in other news, search crews found three children lea creek this morning. the unidentified children were last seen playing in a church parking lot yesterday. their parents reported them missing this morning. crews found the bodies of 212 year-old and an eight year-old at around 10:00 this morning in a nearby creek. officials believe they drowned and do not suspect foul play. >> an early-morning fire has displaced dozens of families. the fire ripped through an apartment building on tiger lily path. residents were able to escape but many units were destroyed. >> you can see behind me how the power -- how the fire gouged out a second -- you can actually see the sky through the roots there. this is considered a total loss for the residents her

out to the west toward charleston, west virginia. re is nothing going on nor will there be. once again it will be another warm monday morning with temperatures into the mid 70's. then tomorrow afternoon i think because of the instability in the atmosphere, there maybe some afternoon showers. temperatures will again be into the 90's. maybe 92 or 93 degrees. as we get on into sunday, a little bit of a refreshing air. at least it will not be into the mid 90's. tomorrow when you get up and get out, temperatures will be in the mid 70's. an uncomfortable kind of morning. once again into the 90's. not 95 or 100 as yesterday, but the risk of afternoon showers and thundershowers. if you are going out golfing or doing anything in the pool, keep a year out for the sound of thunder. the inside and get where it is safe. finally on sunday temperatures only 89 degrees. a bit of a break next week from the incredible heat and humidity. this july will be a second hottest day we have had in washington. if you are curious about those things keep posted o

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