Stealing money and stamps from the post office where she worked. Susan knapp, who is from readlyn, was convicted of seconddegree theft. Knapp took more than 2 thousand dollars worth of cash and stamps from the dunkerton post office in 2015. A crash involving an atv has killed a woman from kalona. 22yearold Elizabeth Lenton died in the crash at 100 shiloh drive early yesterday morning. She was a passenger on the atv with driver alex merritt. Investigato lost control, causing the atv to roll over. Lenton died on the way to the hospital. Merritt went to university of iowa hospitals and clinics. And an overnight fire destroyed a home in evansdale. Firefighters went to 246 5th street around 1 30 this morning. They found the house engulfed in flames. They believe the fire started in the drier. Everyone got out safely. If you see something happening and you think we should know give us a call. You can also send pictures and video to newsroom at kcrg dot com. Hermine is now threatening the eas
York city was hurtful and helpful to the union you during the civil war, and the positive and negative aspects of studying abroad. Now, thats just a few of the programs youll see on booktv this weekend. For a complete television schedule, go to booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Its television for serious readers. And now we kick off this weekend with a panel on history of civil rights. This is from last months mississippi book festival. [inaudible conversations] welcome, everyone. Im Chris Goodwin with the Mississippi Department of archives and history. F if youve not already, please silence your cell phones. Welcome to the civil rights History Panel number two. Sponsored by the mississippi humanities council. We thank them, we also thank the Mississippi Legislature who lets us hold this book festival in this beautiful state capitol. We could not ask for a grander setting for it. Thank you to the authors, theth panelists. They are all authors. Their books a
Thank you so much for joining my class today at Saint Josephs university today. Were going to explore five women who use their writing and singing to create a Better Future for black people in our country polymari Billie Holiday Lorraine Hansberry, nina simone and anne moody. Why choose these five women you may ask as writers their work highlights a significant element of the civil rights movement, and it also broadens the more wellknown narrative on the key participants from this time. Some of these women participated in sitins and other actions to be sure but even when their own work was very visible such as holidays and simone songs hansburys plays and moodys encounter at woolworths as we talked about last time. There are full contribution to the civil rights struggle is not always widely appreciated as those who have used the power of words. They are also a time together the expanding protest of our time and of their era interestingly too all of them spent some time in new york cit
Thank you so much for joining my class today at Saint Josephs university today. Were going to explore five women who use their writing and singing to create a Better Future for black people in our country polymari Billie Holiday Lorraine Hansberry, nina simone and anne moody. Why choose these five women you may ask as writers their work highlights a significant element of the civil rights movement, and it also broadens the more wellknown narrative on the key participants from this time. Some of these women participated in sitins and other actions to be sure but even when their own work was very visible such as holidays and simone songs hansburys plays and moodys encounter at woolworths as we talked about last time. There are full contribution to the civil rights struggle is not always widely appreciated as those who have used the power of words. They are also a time together the expanding protest of our time and of their era interestingly too all of them spent some time in new york cit
For war against a major power. President wilson had just given an ultimatum to that nations head of state, but we didnt go to war. At least not them. That major power was on the side of the atlantic. It was mexico. And the menace posed by its president , general victoriano huerta, was the great menace of that moment. So i found this on the front page, where else, of the new york times. Annex 17 pages of that days paper, there was not a single mention of europe, whether there was any menace from europe, where as our two featured office today have so masterfully chronicled, a quartercentury report, but nevertheless very currently, the seeds of a realworld war were already terminating. The second baltimore had just concluded, set the stage of it, and now europe was building toward a far broader and more deadly confrontation. So to examine all these roots, its my great pleasure to welcome margaret, as master a chronicle of the lead up to the conflict in her new, the war that ended peace, a