Hosting us this evening. A big round of applause. [applause] some great partner ships with them over the year and. How many of you is your first time here . Okay. Thats a great sign. Those who just raised your hand please come back and visit the place. All great exhibitions. Those who did not raise your hand you know what a special place this is in our community on. June 6th, the annual she tack would event is coming back, if you dont know what it is, its living history, people and usually academics bringing history to life. This is years theme is the chisolm trail. Its free and open at the think. At tulsa history. Org. If you have not been there before, check it out. If you have been you know how great it is. A couple of other fun thing is wanted to mention. Thank you to friends at the barbecue for all the beautiful ribs. [applause] and we have a lot of fun things this year. Dont want to go through the whole list. You can find out more at book smart tulsa. Com. Everything from David S
Hosting us this evening. A big round of applause. [applause] some great partner ships with them over the year and. How many of you is your first time here . Okay. Thats a great sign. Those who just raised your hand please come back and visit the place. All great exhibitions. Those who did not raise your hand you know what a special place this is in our community on. June 6th, the annual she tack would event is coming back, if you dont know what it is, its living history, people and usually academics bringing history to life. This is years theme is the chisolm trail. Its free and open at the think. At tulsa history. Org. If you have not been there before, check it out. If you have been you know how great it is. A couple of other fun thing is wanted to mention. Thank you to friends at the barbecue for all the beautiful ribs. [applause] and we have a lot of fun things this year. Dont want to go through the whole list. You can find out more at book smart tulsa. Com. Everything from David S
Many highways and streets and especially in this country as well, you know . Phillips 66 has become as familiar to many people out here as a coke bottle. Its that iconic in the minds of many motorists. Well frank got his start in the oil business in a sort of convoluted way. He was actually, he was not from oklahoma. He was actually born on the nebraska frontier out in the loop valley. His father was a civil war veteran, fought in the union army, and his parents moved out into nebraska territory. And thats where he was born in 1874. And they came back short will have a that shortly after that the phillips, to their home country in southwestern iowa. And thats where frank grew up. So he had those basically midwestern roots. Came from a big family, big family, many brothers and sisters. He was the oldest and he was the dominant sibling by far. His ambition was strong but it wasnt necessarily pointed towards the oil business because there was no oil business to speak of when he was a youn
Which is getting the best possible education for your kids. But we will see. People disagree. We have time for one more question. That was good a good one to end on. Thanks. [applause] she will stay for a few more minutes if anyone wants to ask a question personally. Thank you so much for coming today. You are watching 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on cspan2s booktv. Television for serious readers. This land is your land, this land is my land from california to the new york eye lens from the redwood forests, to the gulf stream waters this land was made for you in the a note of welcome to tulsa, oklahoma on booktv. Locator on the arkansas there its the second largest city in the state with a population of almost 400,000 in the early 20th century it thrived as old town oil town. With help of our documentation cable partner we learn about its history and literary scene from local authors. We begin our special feature on tulsa with oil magnate Frank Phillips and the founding of
Party appeared in the journal of womens history radical teachers and many collections of essays on the 1960s. She is completing a book on gender and organizational evolution of the black Panther Party in oakland, rebuking the risk the press and starting a second book product on the intersection of the movement for black liberation and the anti vietnam war movement. Next to her is barbara winslow, professor in the womens and gender studies program, the department of secondary education at Brooklyn College and one of my oldest and best friends. Theres a little message involved in my selection, not because they are my friends but because i know them well enough that i know they write well they want to communicate with College Students and the general public and they are interested in womens history. Barbara is founder and director of the Shirley Chisholm project 1945present and she is the author of Shirley Chisholm catalyst for change. Next to her is lara vapnek the author of Elizabeth Gu