Struggle for equality in education. Without further ado, would you welcome Anne Gardiner perkins, the author. Can you get us started by telling us a little bit about your book, yale meets women. Absolutely. And the history of coeducation in this country. Coeducation in the ivy league in particular. Terrific. Thank you so much, mark. This is so exciting. Over the next hour we are all going to explore together that moment in americas history when yale and its peers, when americas most prestigious colleges, finally admitted women students. For those of you who havent read the book yet, that moment was just 50 years ago. Close enough that we can touch it, which is why we are so lucky tonight to be able to include elizabeth spawn and connie roster, two of yells first women undergraduates, in our program. But before i begin, two thanks are in order. First of all too mark schmidt and the museum whove been terrific sponsors. Its delightful to work with you, mark. I know that in my community ho
Hold and reflected on her governing principles. Here she is at George Washington university in washington dc. This thing has got to come down lower for me. How are all of you tonight. Happy new year and thankyou for being here. Im less of muscatine and im one of the coowners of politicsand prose bookstore. Thank you. And along with my coowner and husband graham was in the front here and are fabulous wonderful staff, we welcome all of you to tonights event here in our Nations Capital and on the campus of George Washington university. I mention our location because well, think about it. We are at an institution named for our nations first president and we are assembled only blocks from the nurse centers of american government, the white house and congress so what better venue for a conversation with the next guest speaker . Better Kamala Harris spends her days on capitol hill and youre not alone if you think in a couple of years she just might be taking up residence at the other end of p
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