Todays speaker asked me if i could give her only a brief introduction. Lets see if i can. Her subject is and i like to but it is belle la follette who lived a very full life from 18591931. In doing the research for her new book, nancy discovered the work of previous historians have drastically underestimated this great humanist. She discovered the surprising truths about the radical reformer who was denounced by some as disgraceful to the white race. What . Disgraceful . She fought for votes for women, she fought for peace, she fought for civil rights. And for so much more. The New York Times hailed her as the least known but the most influential american women who had to do with Public Affairs in this country. Professor nancy unger will help us know belle la follette for who she really is. A marvelous model of progressive reform. Nancy . [applause] ms. Unger hello. Thank you for that lovely introduction. I have given 8 talks to the humanist community of Silicon Valley and they are one
Next, mers he University Professor Chester Fontenot examines the life and legacy of booker t. Washington. He talks about washingtons early years at Tuskegee University and looked at his ideological platform which encouraged africanamericans to establish their own economic base while washington helped create many institutions for africanamericans such as the National Negro Business League, he also had opposition to his ideas, both during his lifetime and since. Fontenot also compared ideas and tactics of booker t. Washington and mgartin luther king jr. I made a statement in class that many of you disagreed with when i said that booker t. Washington was the most important and the most influential africanamerican leader until the election of president barack obama. He is even more significant in some ways because booker t. Washington was never elected to a public office. Barack obama president barack obama, is elected president of the United States and he is not a black leader. He is a le
Selfdefense selfdefense. The argument is that celia while she killed newsom, did so defending herself against newsoms commission of a felony, the felony of rape or defilement in missouri. Here the statute that is key to determining whether or not celia was in fact in imminent fear of being raped. Lets read it together. Every person who shall take any woman flauflunlawfully and by force, menace or duress compel her to marry him or to marry any other person, or to be defiled, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprizsonment in the pen penitentiary for not less than five years. Any woman unlawfully against her will. How do you read this as applies to celia . That makes assumption that the woman in question has will in fact. I know that as a slave that they are no such will exists and i think thats why the court did not recognize herself defense claim. Good. So it is any woman against her will. I think one of the key questions here that the court must implicitly resolve for itse
When he says let us work until we build the south, because hes here making a critique of those who are arguing that part of the reason why reconstruction failed was because of africanamerican decent did not participate fully the way that they should have. Washington doesnt even address that argument. He simply says let us work and well help rebuild thew south. When he says that, he plays into perhaps this whole notion of blacks as workers and thats all that they really are. So the atlantic exposition address is at the top of the list list. Second we know that booker twa supported plessy vs. Ferguson that established separate but equal in American Society. In fact, strengthened segregation. It was past one year after the atlanta exposition address and many blame the passage of plessy vs. Ferguson on booker t. Washington. He was summoned and asked o to testify before congress about plessy vs. Ferguson and he gave his blessing, you might say to a separate but equal arena or policy by the
And follow us on twitter. Next on American History tv. Lectures in history. Next, university of michigan that are that jones talks about a female slave who killed her owner after repeated Sexual Assaults. The class discusses the options she may have had and looks at involvement of her fellow slaves and white neighbors in the course case. This is an hour and 20 minutes. Today we began the discussion we started a couple of weeks ago and in particular. Enslaved women. We have already had a chance to look at the case of oh Harriet Jacobs, one of the best remembered of the slave narratives. Jacobs introduced us, if you will to the dimension of slavery thats especially illustrated, exemplified. We might say central to the experience of slave women. Thats Sexual Violence. Well come back a little bit to talk about jacobs in comparison to our case today that of celia. We have also looked at the wpa narratives. One of the things we noticed about those narratives is you will recall the extent to