The commission to consider the rights of women, the list fileddopting a their grievances. It took George Washington six but it took 72 years to establish womens rights by law. Womens suffrage is a long story heartache crowd by victory. Crowned by victory. Colleen shogan is the vice chair of the womens Suffrage Centennial womens Suffrage Centennial commission. She is also the vice chair of the White House Historical association, joining us here in washington. Thank you so much for being with us. Thank you, good morning. Lets talk about the significance of this week, august 16, 1920, and the key role it played in the 19th amendment. Yes, in august of 1920, 35 states had ratified the 19th but the 36th state was elusive. Thatwere 36 states at time. According to the constitution, there was a three fourths number of states that had to ratify to make the 19th amendment part of the constitution. The last battle came down to tennessee here and there was not another obvious state that could rati
Professor taylor focuses on the 1954 u. S. Supreme Court Decision in brown v. Board of education, the integration of a high school in little rock, arkansas, and the 1960 sit in at a lunch counter in greensboro, North Carolina. Folks, welcome to this class in africanAmerican History. Were going Movement Origin our discussion of the Civil Rights Movement tonight. For those of you in this room who know who i am, but for others im Quintard Taylor and im a professor of history, American History at the university of washington. Ok, well get started. Last time last week we talked about world war ii and one of the things that i tried to emphasize was the fact that ordinary people were becoming much more militants or militant or aggressive in defending their civil rights. Im going to continue that theme tonight and, indeed, i think its even more so the case in the 1950s and 1960s that ordinary people became the engines of the Civil Rights Movement. We tend to think about the Civil Rights Moveme
And with cvs face the nation coanchor of cbss morning and his current role as a 60 minute correspondent he made them one at the journalism gene his mother was a pioneer journalist and pbs first female correspondent. John will be joining conversation tonight by another esteemed authority of the presidency we are so excited to have her here in addition to covering six white house administrations and ten president ial elections and then New York Times bestselling author we can be in more capable hands also including into the chat box thank you for joining us and please tell me to welcome John Dickerson and susan page into your home. It worked. Now he managed to turn our video cameras back on. [laughter] it is such a pleasure thank you for inviting us into your home. John is at his home in new york but it such an honor to be here on the publication date of his wonderful new book. It on are such a wonderful author. Thank you because we have talked about the presidency but thats okay. I will
Cspan. Org or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Senate minority leader Charles Schumer and other democrats held a News Conference to address please reform legislation. Senator schumer indicated democrats would not consider the justice act of republican reform bill written by senator tim scott of South Carolina arguing the legislation does not go far enough. This is half an hour. Okay, hello everybody and thank you for coming, im pleased to be joined by my colleagues, durbin, booker and harris. Let me begin. The Senate Republican justice act is lacking in substance and will to not make the reforms needed to stop Police Brutality against black americans and the reforms that are americans are demanding more from. Since last night, many, most of the leading civil Rights Groups have come out opposing the republican bill and urge the senate to reject the bill calling it a nonstarter. The naacp Legal Defense fund, the urban league, the National Action network, even been crowned, the at
Emphasize was the fact that ordinary people were becoming much more militant and aggressive in defending their civil rights. Im going to continue that theme tonight and, indeed, i think its even more so the case in the 1950s and 1960s that ordinary people became the engines of the Civil Rights Movement. We tend to think about the Civil Rights Movement as Martin Luther king, jr. , fanny hammer and largerthanlife figures. The Civil Rights Movement was made up by ordinary people including and youll find out tonight a lot of College Students. A lot of College Students. In fact, in some ways the driving force of the Civil Rights Movement came from people who were probably no older than you in this room. I want you to remember that. College students were the main force in terms of the Civil Rights Movement. Okay. I want us to keep that in mind when we talk of the evolution of this movement. Ill begin the lecture by discussing the decade of the 1950s because the 1950s really provide, i think,