Blue and Herbert Hoover came to the white house is trained geologists, an experience world travelers who were successful in both the private and public sectors. But just months into hoovers term, the market crashed. First Lady Lou Hoover used her office to advocate volunteer is a man charity, but as the Great Depression deep into, theyre one term and it amidst great public frustration. Good evening, and welcome to first ladies influence an image. Tonight the story of Lou Henri Hoover the. Hoover administration in 1929 to 1933 and what an interesting life she had. Here to tell us about her years before the white house as we get started tonight is annette dunn lap. Historian author first ladies biographer scholar with the Hoover Institution and working on a biography of Lou Henri Hoover. What is to just interested you to dispensable years of your life looking into this one. I got interested in her with talking with a friend of mine through the library up in canton ohio and when i started
The helm of five president ial libraries and Centers Across this country and throughout his career. He appears regularly, as many of you know, im sure, on newshour and is cspans inhouse historian. Next month he will leave his semiannual president s and patriots history tour. He travels through the american heartland and focuses this year on truman, eisenhower, and churchill. Both in his tours and in his writing, he is able to bring history to life. The boston globe praises his scholarship as compelling and provocative, and the New York Times says his writing has perception and authority and is immensely readable. We are so pleased to have him here tonight, and ladies and gentlemen, i hope you will join me in welcoming Richard Norton smith to the free library of philadelphia. [applause] mr. Smith thank you for that morethangenerous introduction. We may agree or disagree about what is a failed president , but this is a successful introducer, without a doubt, so thank you. [laughter] [app
History tv is featuring hattiesburg, mississippi, home to the university of southern mississippi. Was founded in 1910, originally as a Teachers Training School called mississippi normal college. Staff cities for r staff recently visited many sites showcasing hattiesburg, mississippi. Earn about it here for what reason did anybody want to come and kill my daddy . It came as a result of orders from the head of the klan, go annihilate him. And they came to kill a whole family. My husband was a civil rights activist in hattiesburg who worked to try to get africanamericans registered to vote. He was a pastor at the shady grove church, he was a teacher of the sunday school and also sang in the choir. He owed a Small Grocery store, a sawmill, and he grew commercial cotton. We planted as much as 70 acres of cotton, a lot of cotton. My dad, vernon senior, was one of the founders of the naacp. It was nine men who established the naacp. At that time, it was definitely an underground organization.
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