Whether. Bad weather. Membership support and contributions to bring you programs like this. Youou enjoy this, i hope will make a contribution. Our guest is diane kiesel. She sits in the integrated Domestic Violence court before being appointed to the bench, she spent 10 years as a prosecutor. She is adjunct professor of law and author of a textbook, Domestic Violence. She won a number of prizes. She will be speaking about ferebee, a civil rights activist. Dr. Ferebee grew up in virginia. She attended boston latin students college. She graduated in 1924, launching an activist career that lasted until her death. She advised congress on civil rights issues and health policy. Today she is almost forgotten. Judge diane kiesel will speak about her and put her in a national context. Thank you. [applause] diane thank you. Can you hear me . Thank you for coming. I think the massachusetts is Historical Society are hosting me. June 11, 1963 president kennedy appeared on National Television to ask
Up next, author and New York State Supreme Court judge diane diesel discusses the life of Supreme Court activist Dorothy Ferebee. She thought for Womens Health rights, racially quality, and Health Care Improvements for africanamericans. The Massachusetts Historical Society hosted this 45 minutes event. Thank you all for joining us this evening. My name is gavin. I work for the Massachusetts Historical Society. I want to thank you for taking time out of your holiday festivities and battling the bad weather. It seems like we have a decent turnout. Just as a quick note, the Massachusetts Historical Society is an independent, nonprofit organization. We rely on membership support and contributions to bring you programs like this. If you enjoy this, i hope you will consider becoming a member or making a contribution. Tonight, our speaker is diane kiesel. She is an acting justice in the New York State Supreme Court. She sits in the integrated Domestic Violence court. Before being appointed to
Satellite that could answer an old mystery about mars. And we begin tonight in turkey where 130,000 Syrian Refugees have flooded across the boarder just since friday. They are running away from isil as they close in on a key kurder town in syrias north. The growing crisis comes as the u. S. Pressures turkey for more support against the troop. Stephanie decker has more. Reporter frustration is met by force. Turkish forces try to control the few hundred kurds who want to return to defend their hometown. Translator we the syrian kurds and the turkish kurds want to go to fight isil. These clashes here started because the police are not allowing us to cross. We want to go back and help our fighters there and at least to protect our homes. Reporter it has been tense here as the men brought their wives and children into turkey. But they say they do not want to stay in turkey. Syrian kurder fighters have managed to keep isil at bay for now, but no one is sure if that will last. This has caused
In his car. And thousands take their protest to wall street today. 130,000 Syrian Refugees fled to turkey to escape i. S. I. L. Fighters, the Islamic State of iraq and levant. They are threatening to take over a kurdish town as the u. S. Is gathering support to fight the group in iraq. Secretary of state john kerry hoped to get a stronger commitment from turkey. The flood of refugees is straining tensions with ethnic kurds. Stefanie dekker explains from the turkeysyria border. Reporter frustration met by force. Turkey trying to control the if you hundred that wanted to run to their home town. Translation we the syrian and turkish kurds want to fight i. S. I. L. The Turkish Police are not letting us cross. Reporter its been tense as men brought their wives and chin into turkey, to flee from the Group Calling itself Islamic State of iraq and levant. They say they do not want to stay in turkey. Syria kurdish fighters managed to keep i. S. I. L. At bay for now. No one is sure if it will la
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