History. Learn more this weekend on American History tv. The Third National Womens Rights Convention was held in syracuse in 1852. Matilda gage is 26 at the time and had 4 children already. She learns that the convention is going to occur. She writes a speech. She travels to syracuse, bringing her oldest daughter with her. Gage hadnt contacted any of the organizers. She wasnt on the program. She hadnt written to say, may i be involved in this . She just shows up. She waits in the crowd. When there is a quiet moment, she marches up on stage and, trembling, takes the podium and begins to speak. She gives this incredibly moving speech. Afterwards, lucretia is so impressed that she has speech published. That is the only speech from that convention that was published in the paper. And from that early speech, that signal moment of a young woman scared to go up on the podium, but overcoming that because she has something to say. From that moment, she goes on to become a leader in the Womens M
Back. Im sure none of you remember what happened 60 years ago. Emmett till was a 14yearold boy from chicago, spending the summer with his uncle in mississippi. He had a son who was his age. They were done in mississippi, having a good summertime, two days before this day. 60 years ago on august 24, emmett till had gone into a local Country Store called meats and grocery. He was hanging with other guys. And he goes into the store to purchase something. He was that the he was at the cash register. He sees the Grocery Store owner with her husband. Something happened at that point. Theres only one person who is alive today who knows what happened. And that is carolyn bryant. Ok . And he purchases something, and he either whistles at her in a sassy way, a wolf whistle, that construction workers and others are known to do with women walk by, or, as he is leaving, he says Something Like, bye, baby, or, as his mother says, he started to Say Something and stutters. He would blow air out, stutte
<p>This event looks at historical moments where strident expressions of political thought, widely perceived to be anti-democratic in their own place and time, provoked new strictures.</p>
In a Winona, Mississippi jail cell in the 1960s, a young Black woman sat for three days after an unsuccessful attempt at voter registration. Her name was Fannie Lou Hamer, and the 19th Amendment failed her. Johns Hopkins University Prof. Martha Jones, who addressed the Northwestern community Monday, explored how Black women such as Hamer.