Professor free cites numerous examples of Elizabeth Cady stanton using racist rhetoric in her newspaper writings of the period, arguing that she used racism in an effort to attract allies in a fight to gain Voting Rights for white women only. The Womens Rights National Historical Park in seneca falls, new york is the host of this event. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is andrea. Superintendents of Womens Rights National Historical Park and Harriet Tubman National Historical park over in auburn. On behalf of the National Parks service it is my pleasure to welcome all of you here to your part. Before we start, i want to ask that everybody please silence of their cell phones so that our camera crew does not get disrupted. It is my delight to introduce you to our speaker dr. Laura free. Professor associate of history at hobart and William Smith colleges. Her work focuses on the interconnections of gender, race and politics in 19thcentury united states. Her most recent book, and the books
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. President donald trump is urging congress to investigate whether president Obama Wiretapped trump tower, the place where then candidate trump lived, worked, and headquartered his campaign. President trump launched the controversy in a series of tweets yesterday that said, in part obama had my wires tapped in trump tower. In a written statement this morning, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said, president donald j. Trump is requesting that as part of their investigation into russian activity, the congressional intelligence committees exercis
Figure, Harriet Tubman. Its a name we know, its a name we affiliate with the underground railroad, but we sort of forget after that she lived another 50 years, some remarkable 50 years after the civil war. Tonights speaker is here to bring us up to speed and date on that in a lecture thats sponsored by sa dechlio, so well thank them for that tonight. As you probably know, Harriet Tubmans face is due to grace the front of the 20 bill very soon and our speaker Catherine Clinton [ applause ] and our speaker Catherine Clinton is one of the people that helped to put her there. In fact, her biography of Harriet Tubman was praised a revelation. Not bad. Harriet tubman is probably an appropriate subject for her because im going to tell awe little bit about catherine and shes been in perpetual motion her entire life as well. She grew up in kansas city, missouri, and sefd her undergraduate from Harvard University followed by a ph. D from prince ton, university. She specialized in American Histor
Words. And what i am doing is offering up thanks to the creator, to all the Representative Energy of the creator, and to our ancestors, especially Harriet Tubman. This is a participatory activity. So, we would like for you to join i would like for you to join me in this. When you hear me say the word ensa, i would like for you to respond ya. Ensa . Ya. Beautiful, beautiful. [ call and response ] you are the Divine Energy of the creator, we call on you. Ensa. Ya. To our beautiful queen mother, nan a Harriet Tubman. We call for you ensa. Ya. Harriet tubman, the daughter of a farmer, we call you to come and drink ensa. Ya. Nan a Harriet Tubman, masterful conductor, we call you to come ensa. Ya. Nan a Harriet Tubman, divine warrior woman of righteousness, of justice, of freedom, of liberation, of truth, we call you to come and drink ensa. Ya. The one who said i could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were enslaved. We call you to come and drink ensa. Ya. The one who never l
Figure, Harriet Tubman. Its a name we know, its a name we affiliate with the underground railroad, but we sort of forget after that she lived another 50 years, some remarkable 50 years after the civil war. Tonights speaker is here to bring us up to speed and date on that in a lecture thats sponsored by sa dechlio, so well thank them for that tonight. As you probably know, Harriet Tubmans face is due to grace the front of the 20 bill very soon and our speaker Catherine Clinton [ applause ] and our speaker Catherine Clinton is one of the people that helped to put her there. In fact, her biography of Harriet Tubman was praised a revelation. Not bad. Harriet tubman is probably an appropriate subject for her because im going to tell awe little bit about catherine and shes been in perpetual motion her entire life as well. She grew up in kansas city, missouri, and sefd her undergraduate from Harvard University followed by a ph. D from prince ton, university. She specialized in American Histor