Murder of a saudi journalist. The globe with amounts of transparency. With the show never seen just the. Job you can. On a just. A welcome to the final episode of the stream add on get United Nations General Assembly the u. N. And the string teamed up this week to bring you some of the most important global issues being discussed at the United Nations General Assembly so these are a big conversations important conversations were not intending to have them without say we are on t. V. We are on instagram a hour on you jump into the comments section and you can be part of out the scotian so today were looking at activists musicians who are determined to make sure that Paris Agreement actually happens the engine. Of paris uses musicians and art and culture to try and move the needle on Climate Action take a look. Climate change is an issue that affects every person and. Music breaks down and redefines geographical borders. Music is a universal language in Climate Change a global concern. O
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Marking the centennial of the 19th amendment, an abolitionist Harriet Taubman and how she joined the Suffrage Movement later in her life. On august 18th, 1920, tennessee became the 36th and lasting to ratify the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote. The decades long fight, and its legacy. The organized Women Movement dates when the convention to consider the rights of women devote wasnt cynical false, new york. A Committee Found their grievances against the government of men to be the same number that men have had and endured. It took George Washington 60 years to make amends grievances by war. It took 72 years to establish womens rights by law. At least 1000 legal enactments were necessary, and everyone was a struggle against abolition. Womens suffrage is hard work and party, crowned by victory. Colleen shogan its the vice chair of the centennial commission, also the Senior Vice President of the White House Historical association. Joining us here in washington. Thank you s
On the pedal today its a roundtable conversation. Beccah, colleen, marcia weinstein, megan spring gate. The way this is want to go is we will give you a little context about the womens history work happening at the National Level. Then we will have a roundtable discussion about how the messages came to be so you can take that practice back to your community for 2020 to build into your communities. That is the intro. I am the associate director for publications and program at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. I help build the Digital Content for preservation leadership forum. I spent a lot of time thinking about how we can tell the full American History for underrepresented communities across the United States. Im a public historian by training and Historic Preservation by way of being at the trust for 13 years. I believe they work handinhand. I thought i would start by telling a few of the things we have been doing at the National Trust over the years for women to history.
Just trying to get some fix on where we were and what we were about to do. I was trying to be slow and heavy so my anxiety would not get too high on me. I felt my temperature increase. I could feel my collar sweating, coming off the side of my face. I did not have to always ask joe what he was thinking. We looked at each other and both of us looked at the calendar at the same time. We just started to walk towards the counter, without a single word. That is how it happened. And we took our seats. University of massachusetts hammers professor, Tracey Parker, joins us now on cspan and cspan 3 for a discussion about the lunch counter citizens of 1960. Tracey parker, who were the greensboro for and why did they decide to sit down at that woolworths lunch counter on that february day in 1960 . Thank you for having me. Those greensboro four were four young men who were just College Freshman at North Carolina and tea state university. The three of them had met and high school, and so they alre