She sits in the Domestic Violence court. She spent 10 years as a prosecutor. She is an adjunct professor of law. Before graduating from law school, she was a journalist in washington dc where she one copy number of prizes. Tonight, she will be speaking about Dorothy Ferebee, a civil rights activist. Although dr. Fairly grew up in virginia although dr. Dorothy ferebee grew up in virginia, she attended Simmons College. A number of you are from Simmons College. Thank you for coming. [laughter] she became the president of the National Council of negro women. She is Vice President s and congress. She was a household name, but today is almost forgotten. Discuss her will and her and a national context. Thank you for coming. [applause] that lovely for introduction. Can you all hear me . Ok. Thank you all for coming. On june 11, 1963, president kennedy appeared on National Television to ask congress to enact landmark civil rights legislation. Now remember, this was not the you have towhere fill
History tv. 48 hours of programming on American History every weekend on cspan 3. Follow us on twitter at cspanhistory for schedule, upcoming programs and keep up with the latest history news. Each week American History tvs reel america brings you archival films to help tell the story of the 20th century. Hurricane hilda blows in the town of franklin, louisiana, only to find the streetsdy serted. 3,400 outside residents were evacuated covering 75 square miles. Hilda hit the states with winds up to 150 miles per hour. Police and National Guard and Civil Defense workers go on disaster alert. The rescue work goes off like clockwork. Schools, courthouses and other stormproof structures became emergency shelters. So well prepared for evacuation and shelter plans when the full force of the hurricane hit all the residents of franklin were safe and sound. Along the coast, more than 150,000 people left their homes for safe havens. Seven states felt the fury of hilda but the damage was was missi
Something wonderfully in common with the author aisle but introduce. Im a graduate of the universe of wisconsin, milwaukee. Begin the university of wisconsin. I say the university of wisconsin milwaukee we should not be confused with madison. People from the madison campus have to sit there for the nrc of wisconsin madison. That is this, the legendary former editor of the Washington Post once said that news is the first rough draft of history. News is the first rough draft of history. We barely mentioned this guy off. We did not put the i have a dream section of the speech and that. Ec steel explain more this tree of leading up to seven and which we have memorialized. Not just a historian and expert on labor patterns and other things that should be of great interest to us now because within the next ten days we could see a major labor shut down at the government shuts down. The originators of the march to get the federal government into their employment practices. He also talks about t
Rights leader who organized the union. Hosted by the association for the study of African American life and history, this event is about two hours. Thank you, everybody, for coming here. My name is alan spiers, im the npca has served as leading voice of the American People on behalf of their National Parks since we were founded in 1919. Its our mission to protect and enhance americas parks for current and future generations. We are a very proud partner of the association. They are hosting their 99 conference. I look forward to celebrating their centennial next european we have a couple of objectives today. About two hours to chat with you about some important topics. Adding a unit to the National Park service on Chicagos Southside would commemorate the industrialist capitalist. Merchants of the brotherhood of sleeping car porters. Connected topics. , if peopleet started could make sure if you have a cell phone, please place it on silent or vibrate or turn it off so we dont have birds c
Asked earlier, do you think she could have imagined this day . And dr. Janetta cole said sure, she could imagine this day, but she would probably imagine it for someone else. But then dr. Black said, but she would claim it because she knew to claim it. So we really want to take a moment to just say how incredible it is that we are here to celebrate the fact that a woman whose parents were enslaved has replaced a confederate general in the National Statuary hall. [applause] you know, we all get so frustrated and think, oh my goodness, is there any progress ever to be made . And today gives us a sense of hope and a sense of promise. Included in this audience are the people who provide hope and promise. There are students from bassoon cookman from Bethune Cookman university. [applause] i see our sisters from the National Council of negro women. [applause] and i especially want to introduce to you the John Robert Lewis scholars who are here. They had just started. [applause] and they are d