War and the movement for gender e. Quality. And admiration of history i was curious about the state september 8. What happened on this date . September 8 the surveyor site launched. Margo lee launches her book Hidden Figures into the literary world. [applause] she graduated from the university of virginia with a degree in finance. A journalist from independent researcher, entrepreneur and cocreator of the english monthly magazine with her husband margo is the daughter of one of the first black male engineers so she grew up knowing many of the figures. Of the computer project and be Foundation Fellow and recipient of the Virginia Foundation of the humanities grant for her research. She lives in charlottesville virginia. Virginia woolf once said anonymous and history was usually a woman. Let me say that again. Anonymous in history was usually a woman. Tonight these brilliant women are anonymous no more thanks to her book Hidden Figures. May the names of Catherine Johnson, mary jackson, d
From. Tonight youll hear the author of Hidden Figures. The American Dream in the untold story of those who helped to win the space race share the journey that combines laugh rich intersection of the civilrights era and the space race the cold war and the movement for gender equality. I am curious what the date september 81967 and 1983 defcon seven lunch. Said to rate 2000 when 06 launched and todays a template, 2016 publicly on schists her book hit in figures to the literary world. [applause] i know many of you know, margaux many said they run the tennis team with her and could not wait to see her again she was raised here credited from university of frigid new with a degree in finance the journalists and independent researcher. Creator of an englishlanguage monthly magazine the daughter of one of the first nasa blackmail engineer so she grew up with the abandon of Hidden Figures. She is a Slum Foundation fellow and recipient of the and Virginia Foundation for humanities grant and live
Womens baseball leagues. Her class is about an hour and ten minutes. All right, you guys ready to talk about world war ii on the home front . Last time you guys saw a part of a documentary called total war. I know some of those images were probably pretty gruesome. One of the reasons i show that to you is to give you a sense of what that concept total war means. I dont care what we were talking about, war is never about two armies fighting one another on a battlefield. It is allencompassing and i hi that video probably helped to show that. It gives you an opportunity to see and i think the news reels a remember at the beginning of the semester i told you guys my mantra. I dont know if you remember that or not. But its all about perspective. That he was how i teach, thats how i teach history, thats the my mantra when it comes to my own research and scholarship, its all about perspective. And when i talked to you about that at the beginning of the semester, i used world war ii to illustr
Cutting out, as you remember, africanamericans with the idea that africanamericans are corrupting the vote because they want handouts from the government. Theyre cutting out laborers because of the idea that organized labor also wants a handout from the government. Theyre not always even so sure about the robber barrens because theyre concerned they are the industrialists are switching the congress and legislatures to unfairly benefit them. Theres a lot of people like susan b. Anthony said that maybe shouldnt have a say, maybe they shouldnt they should be taken into consideration. Maybe class should be taken into consideration. Maybe education should be taken into consideration. But women are good wives and mothers. Theyre going to vote the right way, so long as they are wives and mothers. In 1890, the year after that, mind you, theres no direct correlation. Im just giving you the line here. The National Womens Suffrage Association, american National Womens Suffrage Association merge t
I think that video probably helped to show that. It gives you an opportunity to see, and i think the news reels and things, the images on there, give you an opportunity to see what that was like. What the beginning of world war ii was like in europe, specifically, and of course in japan as well. At the beginning of the semester, i told you guys my mantra. I dont know if you remember that or not, but its all about perspective. Thats how i teach. Thats how i teach history. Thats my mantra when it comes to my own research and scholarship. Its all about perspective. When i talk to you about that at the beginning of the semester, i used world war ii as an example to illustrate that. Were going to come back to that now. The images you saw from the battlefield and from the bombings in europe, thats one perspective. If all you do is see that video, if all you do is hear the stories of the infantry men who were on the beaches in normandy. If all you do is talk about the impact of war on sailors