Weekend on cspan3. To join the conversation like us on facebook. Cspan3s American History tv, an interview with dorothy height, who served as president of the National Council of negro women from 1957 to 1998. Recorded in 2003, this is from the explorations in black leadership oral history collection, a project codirected by university of virginia professors Phyllis Leffler and julian bond. We are currently airing five of the interviews with prominent africanamerican women. She discusses wednesdays in mississippi, a group ecoorganized in the 1960s, and her work alongside Martin Luther king jr. On the 1963 march on washington. She went on to receive both the president ial medal of freedom and the congressional gold medal. She died in 2010. This is about an hour and a half. Welcome to explorations of black leadership. Thank you for doing this. I want to begin with questions about brown versus board of education. When you first heard the Supreme Court had eliminated segregation in schools
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I just realized i didnt know if we did a sound check. If so glad to see everyone here. I love doing book events because weve got to keep us alive. Science books are the best. I want to think of the Simon Foundation for supporting all of our initiatives here where we do light events and private events that are science themed or science inspired. Its really with their support they were able to use these events to shout out to the simon. Woo hoo. I want to mention before i introduce our guest about the amateur Astronomers Association of new york will be out in the garden. [applause] its going to be out in the cold garden tonight with telescopes and helping us to view the skies and the claimant is that the clouds will clear write about exactly as we finish the last question. Will also have a book signing for the glass universe. Well have a book signing over here and do a little q a after our conversation. Let me introduce our guest. Im sure a lot of you have heard of our guest. I want to i
You all can imagine. So im just going to dive right into it. The title of todays talk is subreporters and sob sisters. Because its a new job that emerged for women. And i want to tell you the story of how some pretty bold and r remarkable women sized the opportunities created by the circumstances of their time to carve out a public space for themselves and to make a voice for themselves and for others when womens voices were not welcomed or, or respected that much. So history is always the story of individuals responding creatively to the conditions and circumstances in which they live. And so, to really understand how this unfolded and how this new type of job, that being a newspaper reporter, in some of the biggest cities of the country, to understand how this came about, we really have to back up and talk about the business of journalism in the 1800s. And specifically, i want to talk about a new Business Model that emerged in the 1830s, called the penny press. Okay. This was a new t
You all can imagine. So im just going to dive right into it. The title of todays talk is subreporters and sob sisters. Because its a new job that emerged for women. And i want to tell you the story of how some pretty bold and r remarkable women sized the opportunities created by the circumstances of their time to carve out a public space for themselves and to make a voice for themselves and for others when womens voices were not welcomed or, or respected that much. So history is always the story of individuals responding creatively to the conditions and circumstances in which they live. And so, to really understand how this unfolded and how this new type of job, that being a newspaper reporter, in some of the biggest cities of the country, to understand how this came about, we really have to back up and talk about the business of journalism in the 1800s. And specifically, i want to talk about a new Business Model that emerged in the 1830s, called the penny press. Okay. This was a new t