Senate in 1919 and ratified in 1920. Here we are 100 years later. The 116th congress has the highest the percentage of women making up roughly a quarter of each chamber. And we have a female speaker for the second time. And we have four women so far running for president. Todays panel will look at women, the role of women and the key turning points for women in american politics. I want to introduce our panelists and then well come back through and have each of them talk about the books or the period of time they are writing about for about five minutes. And then well open up the conversation to all of you. So when we get to that point for questions, id like each of you to go to the microphone, line up behind the microphone to ask your questions. So let me introduce you to david perry, working at the university of minnesota. Hes a descendant of elizabeth. She was a historian and wrote a boom about book about feminism politics. David helped publish his mothers final book after the vote.
I am sorry about that entrance. I wasnt doing it for theatrics but i do have a brandnew hip. [laughter] [applause] i love it. But the rest of the body hasnt caught up yet. [laughter] we go slow. Nobody is moderating us. We are just talking. We are talking about douglas and liberation . Absolutely. Let me start. To stop, i want other people to know about this. Im interested obviously in literacy. I am impressed with what i only recently discovered, which is this country is unique in the world in terms of the distribution distribution of libraries throughout the country. You cannot go in rural areas in europe or africa asia, rural areas and find libraries the way you can hear. Huge University Libraries that jump up out of nowhere in indiana or someplace. Pennsylvania, go for 100 miles and there it is. Enormous university with more books than cambridge. So its an extraordinary thing. The other thing is, something im interested in is on the one hand, the power of reading and of course, und
Marred the city since jacob blake, a black man, was shot in the back by a Police Officer on sunday. Masks to become compulsory throughout paris. The french Prime Minister laid planse plans as part of to fight covid19. Those are your headldlines. Yoyou are for r joining us. I am genie godula. Hasfrench foreign minister announced measures for covid19. France has seen a resurgence of cases of covid19, an average of about 3000 new cases a day. That number went up to a most 5000 new cases reported on wednesday. A percentage of positive cases among those tested is growing. Lockdown,just after and now it is at 3. 7 . Statistics tell us that the virus is most active among young people, people between 20 and 30 years old test positive at a rate of 6 higher than the national average. The covid19 9 security measures are having a big effect on the france French Business community. To talk more about that, lets bring in our Business Editor stephen carroll. What were business leadeders interested in
The workweek more than 14,000 firefighters are battling more than 2 dozen major fires across california and tonight word of another death th of a 70 yearold man has been discovered in Santa Cruz County good evening. Everybody, im pam moore and im ken wayne thanks for joining us tonight for kron 4 news at 8 oclock tonight were monitoring 3 lightning complex fires across the bay area. Heres the latest information on each the largest one burning acl and you complex fires. Those fires spanned napa a Sonoma Solano and lake counties. Tonights theyve grown to more than 347,000 acres and theyre at 21 containment. The s c you lightning complex fires are burning in alameda contra costa and santa clara counties. Theyve expanded to 343,000 acres and or 10 cothe czu august lightning complex fires are burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Theyve gwn to 74,000 acres and are at 8 containment. And the last time that we have this event which was last weekend. There are some significant wind gust
Name if we have any hope of ending this chaos we have got to vote for joe biden like our lives depend on it because the 1st ever Virtual Convention culminates thursday with idols nomination as donald trump challenger and november. Plus lines form in south africa as alcohol and tobacco go back on sale the government is easing coronavirus restrictions after a 5 month lockdown. Im sumi so misconduct you could join us german chancellor Angela Merkel has urged the government in ballerinas to avoid violence and to start a National Dialogue with the opposition this as the standoff over disputed elections between belarus and president aleksander look i shant go and the growing publics while ago. Enters its 10th day today but despite signs from the question that he might be prepared to hold new elections under certain conditions many people want change now. Demonstrators demand. For the Political Prisoners and arrested protesters after 9 days of unprecedented protests calling on president Alexa