They became doctors and lawyers. One became the first female manager of any department at northrop airlines. They became principals, surgeons, politicians, pilots, and they were able to do that because they had access to professional baseball. So when i asked them what did it mean to you to play in the league and they say everything, its exactly right. What did it mean for this country and the efforts of these women to help during wartime . It meant everything. Ive asked a number of these women, so, what was it like to have to play baseball in a dress . Of course their answers varied. Some i can repeat. Some i cant. Basically the message is we would have played naked, whatever it took. We got to play baseball and we truly believe we helped keep baseball alive during the war. As i said, the league ended in 1954. It lasted 11 years. The league expanded over that 11 years from four teams to 12 teams. Its possible that the expansion maybe happened too quickly. I think the fact there was ex
Women were being told to go back to some of those more traditional roles. All of those things, including the arrival of television and Major League Baseball on television helped to bring about an end to the allamerican girls professional baseball league. If we look at the impact of africanamericans, women, japaneseamericans, any other group you could possibly think of, if we start to pick that apart, if we start to look at their actual role in winning the war, in surviving the war in some cases, we start to see a more full picture of what life was like for people involved in the war and those who were involved, even on the periphery. When we started this conversation today, this discussion today, we talked about the fact that total war, that war was this completely allconsuming thing, that it was not just about two ar ms. Shooting at one another. We started to think about that and what that meant and how can we further understand world war ii if we bring all these pieces and parts toge
Center of the center of the universe from many evangelicals. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern pacific on cspan q a. Next, nancy unger, discusses of American History of the 20th century. Unger is the author of bel belle la follette. The humanist of association of the greater sacramento area hosted this event and it is about an hour. Professor unger asked me if i can give her only a brief introduction. Lets see if i can. I would like to pronounce i it it it in research of bell belle la follette. She discovered the truth who was denounced by some as disgraceful to the white race. What . Disgraceful . She fought for women and peace and civil rights. That was so much more. The most influential of all american women who would have to do with Public Affairs in this country. Today professor nancy unger will help us to belle la follette. [ applause ] nancy . Hello, thank you for that lovely introduction. I have given eight talks to the humanists community of Silicon Valley and they are one of my fa
Increase overnight, especially near the illinois border. With lows in the middle 70s. Cloudy, cooler and humid on friday with showers and thunderstorms. Locally heavy rain is possible. Highs in the upper 70s. Rain moves out for the weekend, but dewpoints will hold in the 60s to around 70. Tonight thunderstorms, mainly near the il border. Low 74 dewpoint 73 wind sw 510 mph friday cooler and humid with rain and tstorms. High 78 dewpoint 73 wind ne 515 mph saturday decreasing clouds, still warm and humid. Am low 67 high 80 dewpoint 70 wind ne 515 mph police are investigating after a crash near whitewater leaves one woman dead. Breaking news this morning milwaukee officers are still searching for a suspect in a deadly hit and run crash. Angelica joins us from the newsroom with new information. Police say a 64yearold woman was crossing the street when she was hit by an suv. It happened at 91st and appleton just after 930 last night. The woman died at the scene. The driver sped off traveling
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