Youre watching booktv, television for serious readers. You can watch any program you see here online at booktv. Org. And youre watching booktv on cspan2. We are on the campus of the university of arizona talking with professors here who are also authors. Want to introduce you to Linda Lumsden who is an associate professor of journalism here at the university of arizona and the author of this book, inez the life and times of Inez Milholland. Who was she, professor lumsden . Guest well, she was, one, the sole martyr for womens suffrage in the united states. She was arguably the most famous female political figure of the 1910s. And she was the epitome of the new woman which was a group that really were the first feminists of the 20th century. Among other things, she was as vassar graduate, she was a lawyer who had the fight to be able to practice. She was a free lover, part of the Greenwich Village crowd. She was a war correspondent. She was a socialist. She was an advocate for prostitute
That immediately it became all of these counter activities, efforts not only to not move forward but to push us backwards. I thought that resistance in itself was so disturbing because it confused the picture, and really the action was more like this was about bussing and not about school, that it was not about openness, but it was about trying to get new privilege to people who didnt deserve it. That i thought was very detrimental, not just to the children and parents who were involved but i think to the society. Now, you enjoyed an integrated education. Yes. So in that sense you enjoyed what brown might have meant. Thats right, and thats what i thought. I said, now, because and i have until i was an adult i had never had a negro teacher, and so my teachers were interested in me, the parents, boys and girls all shared things together, and i thought, well, this is what school ought to be like, and i thought at last we had it. Well, the decision didnt have an effect on your education, b
That immediately it became all of these counter activities, efforts not only to not move forward but to push us backwards. I thought that resistance in itself was so disturbing because it confused the picture, and really the action was more like this was about bussing and not about school, that it was not about openness, but it was about trying to get new privilege to people who didnt deserve it. That i thought was very detrimental, not just to the children and parents who were involved but i think to the society. Now, you enjoyed an integrated education. Yes. So in that sense you enjoyed what brown might have meant. Thats right, and thats what i thought. I said, now, because and i have until i was an adult i had never had a negro teacher, and so my teachers were interested in me, the parents, boys and girls all shared things together, and i thought, well, this is what school ought to be like, and i thought at last we had it. Well, the decision didnt have an effect on your education, b
Member of the Roosevelt Library and become a member of the information table just outside the door. At this time i would like to ask you to turn off your cell phones and thank cspan for covering this today and quickly go over the format for this session. We will start with our speaker in just a moment. Then i will follow that up if you have questions make your way over to the microphone so we are able to pick up the question in the author will move down the hall to the table outside of our new deals bookstore where you can purchase the book and have the author signed them. 2012 is an adjunct member of the Arizona State university and his fields of study include Public Policy, political history, latin america, u. S. mexico border land and sanford, arizona, i want to introduce patrick lukens. [applause] thank you. I want to thank bob clark and the rest of the staff and the president ial library to be one of todays presenters. And preparing this presentation and Headline News over the pas
I want to thank the Simons Foundation for supporting all of our initiatives here where we do private events, events that are science themed or science inspired and its really with the support that we are able to using these events, were excited to shout at simon. I want to mention before i do this, our guest is an amateur astronomer, he will be out in the cold gardens, applaud a lot louder. Hes out in the cold garden tonight and helping us and the claim is that the cloud sphere, is right about exactly as we sent it in the last question and also we will have a book signing for the glass universe so we will have signing over here and we will do a little q a after our conversation so let me introduce our guest. Im sure a lot of you have heard of our guests so i want to introduce david sobel. David sobel is a bestselling author, a superb writer. I remember when i heard you speak about your longitude, you said i think it was her son, asked you what you are working on and he started, i didnt