The National Archives hosted the event in conjunction with their centennial exhibit, rightfully hers. American women and the vote. Tonights discussion is part of a series of programs related to our recently opened exhibit, rightfully herself. American women and the vote. Rightfully hers commemorates the anniversary and tells of womens struggles for Voting Rights towards equal citizenship, explores how women across the spectrum of race, ethnicity and class advanced the cause of suffrage and follows struggles for Voting Rights beyond 1920. The decadeslong fight for the vote in the 19th and early 20th century engaged large numbers of women in the political process. A critical part of that campaign was getting their message out to the nation and shifting Public Opinion to support their cause. Tonight well learn about the Suffrage Movement the communication machine and how it contributed to the movements success. To introduce our panelists id like to welcome nancy tate to the stage. Since 2
global, where we bring you the top stories from around the world, starting with the huge certs to find five people on board a submersible gone missing in the north atlantic the huge search. within the past hour, the us coast guard has said that the vessel may only have a0 or a1 hours of breathable air left for the five people on board. ships and planes are scouring the ocean around 6a0 km off the coast of newfoundland in canada. the coastguard says the search area is as large as the us state of connecticut. the titanic, which sank in 1912, lies nearly a000 metres with beneath the surface. about an hour and a5 minutes, all contact was lost. captainjamie frederick minutes, all contact was lost. captain jamie frederick from the first coastguard district gave a news conference around an hour ago, where he recapped the status of the search efforts and detailed the plan for the next 2a hours. l’ll search efforts and detailed the plan for the next 24 hours. for the next 24 hou
Much my brother i am talking about the work that made my mother. I have to be made my brother perhaps a few. We dont find many nigeria have different lives, ive been changed that well thats not change. Then my name is not road now. Hello and welcome back to the 77 percent sweet debate this week. We anybody in africa nor on the streets . Were home to the global medial floor. Im one of the leading medium firms globally. Its mostly correct. For those of you who live in africa, the media space is usually either not 3 or independence. And for that reason, some generally a forced to do a work that they did not sign up for activities. So today were going to ask, where is that line if there is one in africa between journalism and activism . And today i have a girl i just found out here with me look at those applicant kind of on us. Lets start with you. What is activism in your mind and how does it differ from generally a cut, those to always be separated . Gen im of them, it puts you in that s
Panel discussion featuring all seven speakers. Coverage on American History tv on cspan 3. [no audio] everybody. Ning, were ready to get started. Welcome back to the last day of our conference. And also welcome to our cspan viewers. Were live. Just a couple of announcements before i introduce the speaker. We still have some Tickets Available on our wonderful plan k, that you will be able to take him today if you want. Weve also got some other raffles going on, and at your table you have been given a notecard that we would like you to write down a question for our panel this afternoon. If you have a question for them, and what i will do, i will take up the most objectionable ones [laughs] well proceed from there. But, so if uyoyouve got a question, write it down, and we will ask our wonderful speakers today. Also at the break we are going to bring in my staff and were going to have a chance to make knowledge them. Our Panel Discussion is after lunch at 1 00. So, thatll be the end of our
Lobster boats going back and forth all the time, you see the islands, sailboats, all the activities that probably people think of a maine visit would be. We take a boat to fort gorgeous, a civil war era just off the portland kos. We are on hog island ledge. Where they built for gorgeous in 1858 to help defend portland harbor. We have completed an 18 6 it was completed in 1865 and was built with two sister forts off to the south. Its camel on how silent. They were designed to work in conjunction with each other to defend the harbor. Everyone thinks for gorgeous is a civil war fort when it was funded long before, and it was approved by congress. Things that occurred much earlier. We begin our feature on portlands history, talking about lobstering. In 2016, the Maine Lobster industry generated over 500 million. Next, we learn about its history and economic impact. Over here is my gps and radar. Here in the fog, it helps us figure out where we are. Traps with amy gps. I kind of do it by fe