a number of historic sites. did not play a role? i was interested in stories. i read a lot. i had a terrible high school teacher, i must say. he was horrible, but it did not dampen my interest. i read history and enjoyed it. i had planned to go into the foreign service. i was going to surf my three years in the air force, as a rotc commitment and go to fletcher school. it is connected to georgetown, it was a foreign service officer training school. my experience and being arbitrarily treated by the federal government in the military soured me on working for the government, so i changed my mind in japan, to apply to graduate school and i never graduated at all i ve never regretted it at all. any book you found particularly challenging or found something quite different? i m not sure i found something different. i had a sense of the outline of that we became a much more democratic society by the early 19th century and that this transformed our culture in fundamental way
weekend on c-span3. to join the conversation like us on facebook. c-span3 s american history tv, an interview with dorothy height, who served as president of the national council of negro women from 1957 to 1998. recorded in 2003, this is from the explorations in black leadership oral history collection, a project codirected by university of virginia professors phyllis leffler and julian bond. we are currently airing five of the interviews with prominent african-american women. she discusses wednesdays in mississippi, a group eco-organized in the 1960 s, and her work alongside martin luther king jr. on the 1963 march on washington. she went on to receive both the presidential medal of freedom and the congressional gold medal. she died in 2010. this is about an hour and a half. welcome to explorations of black leadership. thank you for doing this. i want to begin with questions about brown versus board of education. when you first heard the supreme court had eliminated segrega
experts. that point by which they would have enough enriched uranium to build a nuclear weapon. how far is iran from breakout now as a result of this implementation? sir, over the course of the last three months iran has moved from breakout time of about two months to at least one year. okay. the international atomic energy agency is being asked to do some significant work in terms of compliance with this agreement. and i actually wrote to the president about this urging that we be certain that we provide additional resources to the iaea to do this work. i know the administration s proposal provides a modest increase, but i think the iaea has already indicated that it s not sufficient. would you speak to the importance of making certain that we in a bipartisan way allocate sufficient resources recognizing we don t fund the entire operation but that we meet the financial requests of iaea so they can do the work that we re asking them or requiring them to do. yes, sir. i
university of virginia. it was done with the co-directorship of now the late jeweli i julian bond and myself. it s a project that brought prominent african-american leaders to the university in order to talk about their own personal life histories and also to talk about leadership in general. when did you start the project? we started the project well, i first talked to julian about it in 1998 and asked if he would be my collaborator. we actually invited the first guest in the year 2000. the project ended, we did our last interview in 2014. how did the idea come up? initially, it was my idea. i was creating for the university an institute for public history. and i was trying to design some projects that would fall within the category of public history. of course, part of public history, oral history is a big component of how public historians think of them services going out and collecting materials and stories that would otherwise not be available. and once julian
experimentation candidly happening at the local level across the country. so, you know, we have m.i.t. media lab working with the boston public school district on all sorts of different technology programs that they re doing, longitudinal tracking study of, whether it s working with certain clusters of schools to have everything be moved to tablets and then kids having the right to take those tablets home and those being kind of wi-fi accessible and so they can also learn, explore on their own while still doing their home work to iowa, building kind of networks of teachers who are really interested in helping to ensure that girls engage in the sciences and stay engaged in the sciences. kind of aggregating together middle school and high school teachers to support the same girls as they transition from middle school to high school who have shown and expressed interest and kind of aptitude in the maths and sciences. so, we have so much innovation happening. some which is built