Freedom to print things and publish things. It is not a freedom for what we now refer to institutionally as the press. Lectures in history, on American History tv on cspan 3. Every saturday, at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Lectures in history is also available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. In 1848 a convention was held in seneca falls, new york to discuss the state of womens rights in the country. The gathering was seen by many as the beginning of the womans Suffrage Movement. However, it took until 1920, over 72 years later, for women to earn the right to vote. During those years organizations such as the National American womans Suffrage Association, and National Womans Party would form. Creating a national movement. Yet it was women in every community who led the effort in their towns and states to demand rights. Through the work of cspan cities tour well introduce you to some of these women who dedicated their lives to this cause. From a prosuffrage newspaper publisher
Of land with locations in every state. More than 325 Million People visited these sites last year. Over the next 90 minutes, well feature a mixture of Natural Beauty and history at eight different parks around the country. We begin outside of cleveland. Well learn how the canal plays a major role in western expansion. The ohio canal is part of a twocanal system that was put in place in the early years of america, built between 1825 and 1832. And basically its a water transportation route that connected lake erie with the ohio river which is part of a large idea, a National Water transportation route. In the early days of america, we had 13 colonies all situated along the atlantic seaboard. And our leaders at that time saw a problem. That problem was we needed that country to expand westward. However, there was a big obstacle. The appalachian mountains. Our first president , george washington, happened to be a canal engineer, had an idea. That idea was to create a transcontinental water
Different approaches to segregation. When we react, does a fiend, you are talking about significant as tlc. Different approaches to reach the same goal. Sometimes it will work, depending on who you are and what the situation is. We need to take time to look at how all those things come together at how all of those things come together, not condemn one way or another way. You have to take in the full context to understand what was happening. So these stories will help us see when we are in our own situation today, it is all right to take different approaches, depending on what was happening at the time. Thank you for that. I wanted to follow up with another question. Can you talk about who Maggie Walker was . She was one of the first africanamerican women to register to vote after the 19th amendment was ratified. Tell us a little bit about who she was and is there anything in her personal papers, anything she wrote or said that gives us insight into how she felt . Clearly she thought it
Terms of economy and in terms of political stability now being on the list of state sponsors of terror has greatly hindered sudans economy and its ability to attract Foreign Investors and to even deal or invest in Foreign Trade outside of a country thats resulted in severe hard currency shortages and we can see that just by taking a walk around the streets of khartoum you can see people lining up for bread due to shortages of wheat you can see people lining up for fuel due to shortage of petrol and thats because the country has been suffering from this hard currency shortage that makes it very difficult to import basic necessities. Of freedom around 900. 00 prisoners from jail in the democratic republic of congo the jailbreak happened in the eastern city of beni the mayor is blaming a local group. Thailands Prime Minister is recalling parliament for a special session next week as protesters continue calls for him to quit thousands have rallied for several days in the capital bangkok th
Identity theft that means they are illegally obtained identifying information including usernames and passwords used by real persons and exploited it to further their hacking activity all of the countries named in the indictment share the ideals of a free society based on National Sovereignty ordered liberty the rule of law and free and Fair Elections for these reasons they also share a Common Threat russia a country that will stop at nothing to destroy those ideals and instill a sense of instability and its adversaries. The indictment unsealed today was only made possible by the willingness of countries to come together and share information and evidence associated with these attacks. In the Western District of pennsylvania in conjunction with our partners at n. S. T. And f. B. I. We continue to develop this new paradigm involving unprecedented levels of collaboration with our foreign Law Enforcement partners in the ongoing fight against cyber crime whether committed by transnational