Her book about liberal and conservative factions in the Womens Movement from the 1970s to the present day. Place in new york city. The New York Historical society and the reading room cohosted the event. My pleasure to introduce our speaker, an authority on the womens Rights Movement. She is the professor of history at the university of South Carolina and the author of new women of the new south. She has served as an advisor or many museum exhibitions, documentaries, and feature film. She is the former president of the Southern Association or women historians. Her new book is divided we stand, the battle over womens rights. Ladies and gentlemen, marjories parole. It this is an amazing venue. It is wonderful to be here. This is such a great tradition that this institution has, to get book lovers out here on these warm Summer Nights together and talk about books. I am pleased to be part of it and have a chance to talk about my new book. Is about the role of women and women issues in amer
I want to get a few points across please put your cell phone on silent. If you would like to share on social bdm ago to Literary Lawn Party we want to welcome you to the next session on southern history but also thank our sponsor for this session. I will introduce you to robert who will be our moderator for today and is a member of the board of directors as well as the director at Jackson State University where he is also a professor and is also an author. Glad to see everyone here this afternoon. Digital and Television News outlets such as abc, 20 20 and fox news. Her investigation into the life of an american Bounty Hunter in afghanistan is currently in production as a feature film. Although adrienne was raised in the northeast, she does come from a long line of mississippi women, so well claim you. [laughter] at least five generations long are. Her mother was born here in jackson, and she and her husband jesse live on a farm in norge, virginia. Was that close enough . All right. [la
The move is by a pastor out of georgia but who was talking about that weve gotten so complacent in our churches that we, this is how he explains it. We go to the same place and time even though the last few times weve been going, the fish are not there but were going to do the same thing. Maybe we have to go to deeper waters to find the fish because the fish are moving. Its important for me not just as a christian but as a leader to figure out how to i findthe fish. And not expect for the fish to always be atthe same place or to always come to me. And it struck me as such a great read, very tiny book. So powerful and impactful. We have to figure out how to go into the deeper water and not be afraid to go out further. We want to stay on the shore, sometimes you got to go into deep water so thats why that one. Then james helper is my friend. Is probably one of the most intelligent people ive ever met. Hes a great historian and hes a great experience so i wanted to get some understanding
Mississippi or their hometown in many instances. They were going overseas to fight for a cause. They were really behind it of the most part all of the ones that i found were willing to go and serve and in some cases people wonder why we had not been there before. I had one letter from an individual who fought with the Canadian Expeditionary forces. He went early went early because he thought it was a just cause. We always read about people saying, what if the south had won the civil war . What my question is, what if we had not entered that war . The world would be a vastly different place. As for its relevance today i would not have know this if id not been researching this book, again i was not aware of the consequences. All of this trouble in the middle east that we are having right now, so so many of those countries involved, involved after world war i. Promises were made after world war i and we do not look up to them. Conflict is still resulting today because of that. So if it is
Great depression, other gaps we had, and so i started plunging in the collection and i happened upon this is years ago Works Progress administration papers, the wpa in mississippi compiled county histories, and one of the topics was war. Block. They were. That meant there was a lot more out there. In addition to looking at private collection at world war ii started reading county newspapers from all around the state. I did want to try to cover all areas of the state. I have succeeded to some degree but actually not as much as id like to because some towns where i thought there would be letters to the editor about publication from the boys overseas were not any. There could be just to the addition of the paper to get a microfilm that was not the addition that had the letters. The different additions used to be. I do not know if early on if there are two or three editions of the paper. I did the best i could. I found some wonderful letters. I tried to have men who served, i found a lot o