Other stops on our tour at www. Cspan. Org citiestour. You are watching American History tv on cspan3. Next come historians discuss u. S. Foreignpolicy on human rights during the latter half of the cold war. Chileters focus on iran, and cuba. They also examined the american stance on womens rights, torture and oppression in the developing world from the 1960s on. This session was hosted by the American Historical Association at their annual meeting. Its about an hour and a half. Thank you for coming to this session on human rights in the late cold war era. My name is amanda moniz. On the curator of philanthropy at the Smithsonian National museum of American History. Until recently, i was associate director of the National History center of the American Historical Association, which sponsored this afternoons panel. Amanda perry is the new assistant director. We are grateful to sarah snyder for organizing this panel. Panelistsroduce our all together and then we will hear their papers, wh
Anniversary Conference Held in washington dc and is about 90 minutes. Mary ok, we are going to start. My name is Mary Jean Collins and i will be the moderator of the workshop today. [applause] mary nothing but stars on the panel here. [laughter] honored tol very even be there today into the remembering the brave women and men that started the National Organization for women. It was june of 1966 that they first got together. Since nobody, we do not have anyone living that was at the first meeting, at the washington hilton. No, second meeting. Come on. Here is some of the history here. There was a very active womens bureau and the department of labor. 1966, the democrats were in charge, president kennedy had been elected. The women from labor and uaw and other unions are very active in the department of labor and the womens bureau was led by feminists and they persuaded the president to call a meeting of commissions on the status of women. There were many states, i do not know if all sta
The brave women and men who started the National Organization for women and it was june of 1966 that they first got together. We dont have anyone living who is at that first meeting, at the , here is someton of the history. There was a very active womens bureau in the department of labor. In 1966, the democrats were in charge. President kennedy had been elected. Were very active in the department of labor and womens bureau and was led by feminist. They persuaded the president to call a meeting of commissions on the status of women there. Were i dont know if all states had them but the commissions on the status of women were kind of an organizing that was going on in the states, without a feminist movement to kind of pull everybody together. The commission often served as a place where women met and came together. Dr. Catherine was the head of the commission in wisconsin and she was also head of the organization of the committee. She was a big deal. She along with other women came to th
Already have a couple of inches and theres more storms heading towards Ashtabula County. So i put a tracker on this towards jefferson at about 4 15. You know, the ground is just not ready for all this heavy rain. And this isnt the only setup for it. So over the course of the next couple of hours, well continue to watch these storms funnel through sometimes over the exact same area over and over again. You can see another little small setup towards our south heading tos so living in wellington about 4 4 13, just a little bit. If this sticks together, which it probably will towards brunswick, which ultimately will put it into Cuyahoga County. It can be another interesting setup. Giving it a wider look, you can see right now, same scenario from the last couple of days. Same intensity. Youll be looking at heavy rains, downpour of rain. We just dont need it over the last couple of days. Look at our rain totals so far. Some areas up towards 3. And theres more coming for this weekend. Wait un
Heavy downpour. Lightning out there as well. Anyone downtown is seeing this going oh, my goodness and hopefully, people thinking about leaving, thinking about leaving work will put it off for a little bit. Let me update you. Severe thunderstorm warning until 5 15 central and eastern portion of Cuyahoga County. Zooming in, here is downtown. It is just on the fringe of the heart of downtown. Yeah, with you are still in part of the mix, rocky river you are pretty much done with this. And it goes all the way down past parma including the interchange of 480, 71 taking on a lot of water at this point. 90, the innerbelt bridge, all the construction, everything has to come to a complete stop. You cant drivethrough this. The wind alone by the stadium is definitely picking up. Some of the pictures we have the way through. The sweep arm keeps updating this as it moves towards the northeast. Brooklyn, brooklyn heights. You are getting hammered right now. Newburgh heights, if you are not already ta