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The brave women and men who started the National Organization for women and it was june of 1966 that they first got together. We dont have anyone living who is at that first meeting, at the , here is someton of the history. There was a very active womens bureau in the department of labor. In 1966, the democrats were in charge. President kennedy had been elected. Were very active in the department of labor and womens bureau and was led by feminist. They persuaded the president to call a meeting of commissions on the status of women there. Were i dont know if all states had them but the commissions on the status of women were kind of an organizing that was going on in the states, without a feminist movement to kind of pull everybody together. The commission often served as a place where women met and came together. Dr. Catherine was the head of the commission in wisconsin and she was also head of the organization of the commi ....
I am going to be the moderator of the workshop today. [applause] nothing but stars on the panel here. [laughter] i feel very honored to even be here today and be remembering the brave women and men who started the National Organization for women. 1966 that they first together. Living whove anyone was at that first meeting. At the washington hilton. Second meeting. Some of the history. Very active womens bureau in the department of labor. In 1966, the democrats were in charge. President kennedy had been elected. The women from unions were very active in the department of labor and the womens bureau was very led by feminists. They persuaded the president to call meeting of commissions on the status of women. The commissions on the status of women were organizing going on in the states without a feminist movement to pull everybody together. The commissions often serve as a place where women met and came together. Enbock wasine ....
Undergird us. We want to look at the event that i think most people would agree is the most traumatic event of the last half century of American Life, the assassination of jfk. Even if we judge september 11 more consequential. At almost 50 years removed, is there anything new to be said about this grim episode . Surprisingly there is. Jim pearson argues in camelot and the cultural revolution that the trauma of his killing went beyond the nations grief and outrage and led to the d deformation of our political consensus. It was the catalyst for transformation of liberalism in the 1960 s and should be regarded as a key turning point of the end of americas long liberal tradition and the beginning of a new kind of liberalism that represents a repudiation of the older tradition. Whether this older tradition was too brittle because of its predecessors is a matter that the panel will take up. We have david brown and the author of a biograp ....
We want to start the conversation by talking about rosa parks. What do we know about rosa parks, jane . I wanted to start today with an evening meeting. That evening is november 27, 1955. On that november 27 rosa parks came to a meeting at dexter Avenue Baptist Church to hear tm howard, dr. Tm howard talked about the recent acquittal of the two killers of emmett till. Dr. King introduce fascinating and howard was there to spread the word. Howard had been one of the key organizers in trying to get even a trial of those two men and after those men he had been acquitted was on a tour through the country to spread the word and to continue the organizing after that travesty had happened as the two men who had lynched emmett till have been found not guilty. So this is november 27, 1955. Rosa parks sits there and she is talking about the lynching of emmett till and he is talking about the deaths of two other organizers in mississi ....
Not talk a lot about race. I said because i am a neurosurgeon. And [applause] so i thought that was pretty strange. I said, when i take some into the operating room and get this guy up and pull it down and take off the bones and open, im operating on the thing that makes that person who they are. The cover does not make them who they are. When are we going to understand that . [applause] surgeon and author dr. Ben carson takes your calls, emails, facebook comments, and tweets theories three hours live sunday at noon eastern on book tv on cspan2. On july 19th book tv attended the 20th annual Eagle Forum Collegians Leadership Summit from the Heritage Foundation in washington d. C. For the next five hours, we bring you several of their presentations from that event. Our coverage includes talks from james antle, benjamin wiker, greg autry, jerome co ....