On the one level is about the under grand railroad can be argued that its in the Civil Rights Movement in the history of the United States that predates the 1940s. One of the major things we argue is the underground railroad is a movement that brings different ethnic backgrounds together to fight for freedom in a country that is it based on inequality. The book starts with the founding and we look at how slavery developed. Whats between the between the constitution and the declaration of independence and it brings us to the development of ohio. We tell stories of individuals, multiple stores throughout the book connecting it to the larger story. There theres a story in 1831 where he escaped from slavery in kentucky and ended up in ohio. His owner said, so that phrase become synonymous with the building of the railroad in the United States at the same time. What you have is this merger of that story and other stories linking how the railroad is built because they have people calling the
Jet Fighter Pilots come to texas to train to take off their insignia for their names that indicate if they have anything to do with Taiwan Air Force because taiwan doesnt exist as an official entity. Our way of talking about taiwan we are authorities of what . So neither the chinese are right and part of the american side of the 100 year marathon or they dont involve themselves much with taiwan at all or there is little going on and they are competing for taiwan. Who is going to win that and have mcdonalds hamburgers and everybody learns english aqwex when we are telling them that you are not a country or is china going to do better because they say we are all chinese. They read the textbooks very carefully. But its pretty clear they are part of the history so who is going to win the marathon for the laws of taiwan . Washington or beijing. Thank you very much. [applause] its been a lively discussion. The book the 100 year marathon is available. I will bring him sitting here so that you
Party appeared in the journal of womens history radical teachers and many collections of essays on the 1960s. She is completing a book on gender and organizational evolution of the black Panther Party in oakland, rebuking the risk the press and starting a second book product on the intersection of the movement for black liberation and the anti vietnam war movement. Next to her is barbara winslow, professor in the womens and gender studies program, the department of secondary education at Brooklyn College and one of my oldest and best friends. Theres a little message involved in my selection, not because they are my friends but because i know them well enough that i know they write well they want to communicate with College Students and the general public and they are interested in womens history. Barbara is founder and director of the Shirley Chisholm project 1945present and she is the author of Shirley Chisholm catalyst for change. Next to her is lara vapnek the author of Elizabeth Gu
Pride in being both barbadian and being of african descent. Let me throw out another question. In the 1970s professor Laurel Thatcher ulrich coined the phrase well behaved women seldom make history. [laughter] tell me if you agree. What rules did your women break and what rules did they follow and why . [laughter] well, for angela davis i think despite the fact that her upbringing was really one of the ways in which she was influenced and became amenable to the ideals of communism and the left, her mother being an activist, and she was also politicized in college as well, angela davis sort of coming into her own, she was born in 1944 and so she was growing up at the time of the emergence of the civil rights and black power movements. And in a lot of ways she stepped aside from some of the ideals of nationalism, the strong black identity politics, and she infused that with a sense of deep class analysis. So she was very strong in terms of the connection between to oppression and class,
[applause] if you would like to get a book signed, we are going to line up right here in front of the stage. [inaudible conversations] elizabeth kolbert, author of the sixth extinction and this years winner of the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. You can see this program anytime online at cspan. Org. Remarkable partnerships, iconic women. Their stories in first ladies, the book. She did save the portrait of washington which was one of the things that endeared her to the entire nation. Whoever could find out where francis was staying what she was wearing what she was doing who she was seeing, that was going to sell papers. She takes over a Radio Station and starts running it. I mean, how do you do that . And she did it. She exerted enormous influence because she would move a mountain to make sure that her husband was protected. First ladies, now a book published by Public Affairs looking inside the personal life of every first lady in American History based on original interviews from csp