America, sunday at 4 00 p. M. Eastern, only on American History tv. Next, from the society for of american formulation annual conference, 99 years after the 19th amendment. The audiencens in to discuss the influence women have had on Foreign Relations its obtaining the vote in 1920. Coming toou for this panel, 99 years after the 19th amendment. , and you to our panelists caitlin mystery and jason x 10, who put this panel together and where the cochairs of the Conference Program committee, and are responsible for the Wonderful Program we will be enjoying over the next few days. Thek you as well to cosponsors of this event, the coordinating council for women the history and American Studies Department at the George Washington university. Scientists tell us that women played a bigger role in the 2018 elections than they had in any other election in American History. A Record Number of women are running for office, taking up seats in congress, and heading out on the president ial campaign
Cspans series first ladies. Washington to michelle obama. Sundays at 8 00 eastern on American History tv on cspan 3. Recently, American History tv was at the society for historians of American Foreign relations annual meeting in arlington, virginia. Professors,h authors, and graduate students about the research. This interview is about 15 minutes. Keisha blain, a graduate of princeton, and you studied at penn state. The premise of your research is really working and looking at women at the margins. Africanamerican women. Why . Dr. Blain i have been interested for a while in capturing the voices of women who have just their voices have been lost, and really hidden in the crux of u. S. History. I wanted to excavate their stories. I wanted to help us better understand africanAmerican History, the lack freedom struggle, and the complexities of that struggle. I wanted to add to the discussion, beyond mainstream narratives of the civil rights movement, for example, or womens involvement. I w
Camps of building all the Cancer Hospital and airfields in the United States and the pentagon. I became one of the five to the bossofficers of the pentagon job. He supervised 40 or 50 architects, and a great big team of general contractors. Our job was trying to stay on top of all that. When the contract was finished, the general picked me up and i went to the manhattan district, it was a very quiet, very secretive project. Secretive, it so was five or 10 years after the war that i began telling people what i really should have told them at the outset. After the war, i went into the Construction Business on my own. I worked at that for 50 years. Built about 800 buildings. If one of them was leaning, we would go profit up. Trying and keep it from collapsing. We quit that just recently, i do for the general contracting work. At the time we had 250 people on the payroll. Most of the time it was more like 70 or 80. We built churches and hospitals, whatever came along. Schools, lots of scho
Studying history. Your research is looking at women on the margins. Why . It has been interesting for a while, capturing the voices of women who you know, their voices have been lost. Hidden in the cracks of u. S. History. I really wanted to excavate their stories. I wanted to help us better understand africanamerican history, the black freedom , the communist party. I won it to look at women most people had never heard of. Paper what did you learn . Ms. Blain so, that paper i shared based on the life of a woman i spoke about her. She is a workingclass white woman from detroit. I spoke about the way she engaged in this concept of lacking to nationalism. Forging alliances with asian activists in particular. Part of it this particular panel were trying to think about ways these actors who we talk about workingclass black women or working for black women, can be thought of as key political shapers of the 20th century. Steve these are people who would not come to mind if you talk about thi
Wont go unpunished. Today is a day of mourning. And the day is coming soon, i am confident, when justice will be served. George floyd was 46 when he died his familys lawyer says todays memorial will be a celebration of his life as well as a plea forjustice. This is the scene inside the sanctuary at North Central university, where the service is taking place. The city of minneapolis is hosting a Memorial Service in the next hour to remember george floyd, the unarmed black man who died in the city last week at the hands of a white Police Officer. Mr floyds killing has sparked a wave of anger across american cities, with protests in all 50 states, and a level of civil unrest that in some cities has brought the National Guard onto the streets. Prosecutors in minneapolis have charged three more officers over his death, and strengthened the charge against the policeman at the centre of the case. These are the live pictures from minneapolis. It will be a closed Memorial Service this afternoon