This has been a journey of love for me. I grew up in southwest iowa in a very rural part of the state and the perseverance, the dedication, the hard work my parents taught me really has carried me through so many different challenges in my lifetime, opportunities in my lifetime and i wanted to tell a story that could be uplifting certainly. People will face challenges through their lifetime, but we all should understand those challenges dont necessarily have to define us. Im just blessed to live in the great United States of america and to have these opportunities presented to me and that is what i hope to share in the story with other people. Host the book is relatively revealing and we will go through some of those things you thought was that tough to expose your self like that . Guest it was. It was very hard. I went through a number of challenges in my lifetime. I was raped when i was a young woman with my first boyfriend and really suffered from that, but then moving on, going thr
Interview with Joan Trumpauer mulholland. She recalls taking part in the 1961 freedom rides, attending tougaloo college, and serving at the Mississippi State penitentiary with other activists. This interview is part of a project on the Civil Rights Movement initiated by congress in 2009, conducted by the Smithsonian National museum of africanAmerican History and culture, the american full like american folklife center. Joan i was born in washington, d. C. And raised in arlington, virginia, basically a mile down the road in apartments, which at that point was the only place in Northern Virginia that would rent to jews. This was the early 1940s, folks had come from new york, looking for government jobs. They wanted out of the boarding houses and they can move to buckingham and that was about it. What did your dad do . Joan they had those government jobs. My father came from southwest iowa, during the depression. My folks met at the midnight shift at the post Office Building in the elevat
Times. She is well known for her work knapsacks and to make weapons and all sorts of machinery for on Abraham Lincoln. In fact, her book team of rivals the war and obviously middlemen was the inspiration for steven made a way and produced spielbergs film lincoln in [inaudible] that fell apart in the rain and produced pistols that didnt 2012. Dr. Goodwin earned her ph. D. Work. You could see some of the at harvard, so coming up were worries that we might have going to reair her in depth evened today. But the interesting thing ias te secretary of war, was about to appearance where he discussed her entire body of work and took be censureed, and his whole viewer phone calls. Well also be showing you career, he felt, would be destroyed forever. Lincoln stood u fir of war and f excerpts from her books, but well tart with her january 1, ca are at fault, myself and my 1995, appearance on the cspan entire cin something totartponsd series book notes. She discussed franklin and ad question that w
Been following all week here in the bay area are calls to defund the Oakland Police department and joining us to talk about the latest on that as well as the citys continuing fight against the coronavirus is oakland mayor libby shaft good morning there. Good morning marty good to see you lets begin by talking about the new Community Task force that is centering on reconstructing the Oakland Police department this is a big task force 17 people i can you tell us to give some insight on how its going to work. Well its a big job and oakland is doing it right we didnt respond to immediate requests by cutting 14 Million Dollars out of our Police Department but we believe that any further cuts need to be done with full analysis and full Community Participation and transparency and so the 17 Member Task Force will over the next 6 months really analyze what a 50 cut would look like how it would Impact Services how we could replace those services and also during that time oakland will be startin
She was close to being broken by the time she went to the white house. Female this is the earliest existing house. They lived here through the 1830s and 1840s. Male she was educated and she had taught school. Female eliza would read to him in this shop while he worked making suits for the men of town. Female the north and the south fought over the occupation of greeneville all through the civil war. It changed hands over 26 times. Female andrew and eliza did purchase slaves. So they did have domestic help. Female it was used as a hospital. It was used as a place to stay, and it was basically destroyed. Female eliza being ill with tuberculosis wasnt able to get out much. Female eliza received many gifts that she brought home with her. Female this is the room she returned to after their years in the white house. Male shes just obscure, as she probably wouldve wanted it. But shes who he needed. end video clip Abraham Lincolns assassination, just weeks after his second inaugural shocked a