and let me tell you what she s lit again. she s litigated for the southern poverty law center in alabama the community legal services in philadelphia the national. naacp legal defense fund she addresses issues of law and justice nationally and internationally. she s been to god and rwanda and and england and wales and canada and south africa and before the united nations in geneva. she has addressed issues of law and justice. all of that gives her the credibility to write the books that she writes and speak on the topics that she speaks on. so, thank you. thank you, gloria. as an attorney as a professor as a playwright as an author. for being here thank you. and that long introduction makes me feel tired, but i want to make you feel tag as you did all that but i but it s to god be the glory and i i disappreciate the opportunity to use the skills as we ve done throughout all of our legacy and history the user skills. we have to to take our community forward. so i want to know
perfection intact. watch this program and it s entirely online, anytime, at c-span.org slash history. york there. she gloria brown marshall is a professor of constitutional law at college of constitutional justice in new york. there, she teaches constitutional, lot race in the law, evidence, gender and justice. before, that she was advancer college, teaching african honest i.d.s. she is a civil rights attorney and let me tell you when she s litigated. she s litigated for the southern poverty law center in alabama. the community legal services in philadelphia. the national naacp legal defense fund. she addresses issues of law and justice nationally and in internationally. she s been to ghana, rwanda, england, wales, canada, south africa. before the united nations in geneva, she has addressed issues of law and justice. all of that gives her the credibility to write the books as she writes and speak on the topics that she speaks on. so, thank you, thank, you gloria. as an atto
Time 6 00 a. M. In the east coast we might as well start another show. Its wednesday, may 15th. And this is fox friends. I just checked my daily planner. Now the news. President biden caught in another Inflation Fib as he and vp harris embark on blitz to sell the agenda. Speaker johnson tells me too little too late. No matter where we are, southwest, the east coast, north, south, mid south, doesnt matter, having a hard time getting by because of what joe biden and the democrats have done to the economy. Ainsley plus, pooling resources. New yorks mayor eric adams has an idea to solve the citys Lifeguard Shorgt damage. Brian this is a great one. Ainsley use the migrants. How do we have a large body of people that are excellent swimmers and at the same time we need lifeguards. Brian they swam over the rio gram. Lawrence shallow water. Brian the one with the net tattoo to save me. Steve Caitlin Clark made her wnba debut last night. Three will tip inside and lay it. In there are the first p
Then we are going to zero in on women in the labor market after the war, and follow that through the late 20th century. Today isimportant task to dispel the notion that american women went home after world war ii. American women workers did not go home after world war ii and we are going to do our best to wipe that notion out of our minds. Primary goal. If we can accomplish that we have done a lot. Before we dive into the arguments, i want to do a Free Association exercise. This is going to involve having you close your eyes, relax for a second, and im going to speak a phrase. I want to see what images walked into your minds eye. What images pop up . Is american women in the 1950. 50s. Can women in the 19 do any images come into your mind . Would you share . June cleaver. Great. We will come back to that area . Housewives. Anybody else . A different picture. How many of you thought of suburbia . Whennk it is the most we asked that question of most americans, we ask that of most america
Americans, not just college students, what comes into our mind is suburban housewives. The person that comes into my mind is june cleaver. I have been studying womens history for decades in the first image that pops into my mind is june cleaver. She wasnt even a real woman. My gosh, she is a sitcom character in leave it to beaver. That is the name of the show. Can you describe june cleaver . What is she wearing . A dress, prim and proper. An apron. Prof. Muncy fancy dress and an apron. Sometimes a high coller, not too low. It was still the 50s. Prof. Muncy pearls. Coiffed hair. Prof. Muncy when i picture june cleaver, i always picture her, got the pearls, got the coiffed hair, in stiletto heels frying bacon and vacuuming. This is very often the image we have of american women in the 1950s. One of the things we want to do is to shove june cleaver to the margins of our images of american women in the 1950s. We dont want to get rid of her entirely because suburbanization was an important