it positioned a black family is traditional. they brought you inside a nuclear black family in a way that was pathology is our caricatured in american literature and popular culture but also did not show in the difficulties in dealing with the challenges of stigma inequality command race in general. continuing the tour. this is a kind of interesting story. currently as i mentioned a part of the collection includes amazing fine art and represents the can of like raise. aa year and a half ago from the bronx reached out to the curator and said i want to give the schaumburg. come check it out. this was purchased by the gentleman father in1941 with the original bill of sale for $125 still on the back of this panel. whatwhat makes it even more interesting is this panel was done during the same year as the great migration series. this series is now exhibition in collaboration with the philips. new york. all 60 panels come together. jacob lawrence himself here s the thing, not o
african-american history is how bad it is. so the history piece is one thing, but also even in this moment. that s how i started off right? in this moment it s all a about how we are diagnose, right? slow death dying right? at what point do i have any agency to do anything you know, there s a distinction in the world between optimists and pessimists. turns out that optimists get things done. optimists succeed. it turns out that pessimists are right about the world. right. [laughter] right right right right. and i just want to, i want to introduce a term. this is not an academic term, but it s a term that i got from some of the black women that i worked with in detroit who were around 16 years old. and they said there s a difference between a struggle, the struggle and struggley with an ly, and they say a struggle is what we go through as human beings on this planet. the struggle they define as specific to the african-american experience in this country. and they s
member of the roosevelt library and become a member of the information table just outside the door. at this time i would like to ask you to turn off your cell phones and thank c-span for covering this today and quickly go over the format for this session. we will start with our speaker in just a moment. then i will follow that up if you have questions make your way over to the microphone so we are able to pick up the question in the author will move down the hall to the table outside of our new deals bookstore where you can purchase the book and have the author signed them. .. 2012 is an adjunct member of the arizona state university and his fields of study include public policy, political history, latin america, u.s./mexico border land and sanford, arizona, i want to introduce patrick lukens. [applause] thank you. i want to thank bob clark and the rest of the staff and the presidential library to be one of today s presenters. and preparing this presentation and headline ne
the program hosted by new york university in new york city is about an hour and 20 minutes. [applause] good evening. i am delighted to be here. moderation is not really my strong suit. [laughter] i m very glad to be here tonight as the moderator and the book launch of feminism unfinished a short, surprising history of american women s movements. i will introduce the authors and a little while so let me first tell you what the format will be and then i will introduce our three speakers. we will have short ten-minute presentations by the three speakers and then we will give the authors of five minutes or so to respond to their comments and then we will open up to the audience for questions and comments. and then of course at the end at 6:30 there will be a reception with wine and chiefs. let me start by introducing in the order that they will speak the three speakers for this evening. michelle chen a remarkably prolific journalist writes on economic social and political iss
york university in new york city is about an hour and 20 minutes. [applause] good evening. i am delighted to be here. moderation is not really my strong suit. [laughter] i m very glad to be here tonight as the moderator and the book launch of feminism unfinished a short, surprising history of american women s movements. i will introduce the authors and a little while so let me first tell you what the format will be and then i will introduce our three speakers. we will have short ten-minute presentations by the three speakers and then we will give the authors of five minutes or so to respond to their comments and then we will open up to the audience for questions and comments. and then of course at the end at 6:30 there will be a reception with wine and chiefs. let me start by introducing in the order that they will speak the three speakers for this evening. michelle chen a remarkably prolific journalist writes on economic social and political issues a