We will finish up our primetime programming at 11 00. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. Welcome to montgomery, alabama on booktv located on the alabama river, population of 200,000 making it the second largest city in the state. We explore the history of the city and state by local authors including a look at alabamas most powerful governors. Go around the entire south, louisiana had the laws, georgia had the challenges, South Carolina had pitchfork intel and strom thurmond. I would say we can say and put ourselves up against theirs. Later we will go inside the home of F Scott Fitzgerald to learn about the importance of montgomery. We show you a house that was the turning point for scott and zelda. You will find out F Scott Fitzgerald is more than just a writer. He is not a genius who can come up with everything on his own. He needed a partner, someone to give him a life full of ideas that he could write the Great American novel. That was elza. We speak with fred gray about t
And economic equality for women here in the United States and abroad. The nationalist party founded in 1913 was in response to sort available in the Suffrage Movement that women have been working for womens rights in this country since 1848 and then throughout that time they had their ups and their downs in the movement after the float for a long time and then by the time we reach the early 1900s when Elizabeth Cady stanton and susan b. Anthony passed away women in the organizations hit a stalling point and the nationalist party came in at a critical point and they carry the movement through to firschein. Alice paul learned her tactics and strategies from the british Suffrage Movement. She worked over in england with the womens socialist Political Union for several years. She was arrested while she was over there. She went on a hunger strike. She gave speeches to she picketed and then she came back the United States in 1912 with a mission. She came back knowing that she wanted to join
Can do to support a piece of legislation that apparently or he has at least 8 supporters on the board of supervisors. We expect that this motion offered by pres. Haney will pass unanimously. We expect nothing of. Thank you. Comments from the board . Commissioner yes, i would like to have the opportunity to discuss this in committee and thats why i voted against the suspension of the rules. I think nobody likes evictions. We understand there is a real housing crisis, but i want to make sure when we opaque on policy we are accounting for not only be attended outcomes. We want to provide protection to families get we want to keep families in San Francisco, but that we also think about the unintended consequences. One of the concerns i have is if we give protection for a very very broad. Its for anyone employed by the School District, anyone employed at any school, charter, private school. Including preschool. Eviction protection, there is nothing to prevent a landlord from not leasing to
Some low clouds forming out there in places this morning that will break apart and well see partly sunny skies today with more clouds later on this afternoon. Temperatures only in the low 50s today with a normal high of 60. A little bit warmer tomorrow and monday, a wind shift and a warmup begins, and well see 70s for the next part of next week. Caitlin new this morning, an overnight shooting near the same spot where a man was fatally shot by a Police Officer earlier this week. This happened on bragg street in Southeast Raleigh just yards away from akiel denkins was killed during an encounter with a raleigh Police Officer. This time, police were not involved. Were told that victim was taken to the hospital in a private vehicle. His injuries are said to be nonlife threatening. Police are still investigating. Anthony meanwhile, the investigation of akiel denkins death does continue. Friday, hundreds of people turned out in Southeast Raleigh for his funeral. Several people wanted to atten
Add the department of homeland security, i. C. E. Has no smaller mission, no smaller mission than the National Security Border Security and Public Safety of our citizens. Like any Law Enforcement agency, we deal with serious and difficult matters every day. In the area of immigration, recent estimates are that there are about 11. 2 million Illegal Immigrants in the country. There are approximately 2 million, 2 million undocumented immigrants who are involved in some form or fashion in i. C. E. s administrative process. There are about half a million, 500 thon of those, who are part of active cases in the immigration court. I. C. E. Detention program booked in approximately 300,000 individuals last fiscal year. As you know, we have been funding at the 34,000 bed level for the last couple years. You, the congress, have not only provided the funds to carry out our responsibilities for which were very grateful, but you have also set forth the framework to execute those responsibilities. An