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have not told you is not a single political leader supported the movement. matt won the crusade for voters. and naacp down. elected leadership down. nobody anywhere supported it so we asked the city council would you at least put the measure on the ballot so that the people can decide whether they want it or not. would you allow the people to vote on it, and they didn t do that. at the time i think tim kaine was the mayor of the city, and i said, tim, can you work something out to at least put it on the ballot that people decide it? he said i can only get four votes. i can t get five votes, the majority to do it. now with that, so what we had to do was to go out and get the people to sign the petition, and if you get the percentage of numbers of people to sign the petition, then it can go on the ballot, so we were able to get about 15,000 signatures to make certain that it had gone on the ballot, and even though the entirety of the leadership was against it, when the pe ....
questions from c-span audience, we tell the stories of american 45 first ladies. ellen edith wilson on first ladies. this is about 90 minutes. susan swain: this is the woodrow wilson house in washington, d.c., the home of our 28th president and former first lady edith wilson after they left the white house in 1921. you ll be seeing more of it over the next two hours as we tell the story of the two wilson administration first ladies, ellen and edith. susan swain: ellen and woodrow met in their 20 s and their love for each other was reflected in passionate letters. an accomplished artist as well as his intellectual companion, she helped guide his career from academia to politics. in adopting causes, she set an example for future first ladies. ellen wilson died in the white house just a year and a half into the president s term. the grieving president soon met washington businesswoman edith galt through a mutual friend. they married after a secret courtship and edith wil ....
met in their 20s and their love for each other was reflected in passionate letters. an accomplished artist as well as his intellectual companion, she helped guide his career from academia to politics. in adopting causes, she set an example for future first ladies. ellen wilson died in the white house just a year and a half into the president s term. the grieving president soon met washington businesswoman edith galt through a mutual friend. they married after a secret courtship and edith wilson served as first lady for more than five years. her unprecedented role in managing the president s affairs after he suffered a stroke remains one of the most controversial efforts of any first lady. good evening and welcome to c-span s continuing series, first ladies influence and image. tonight the story of the wilson administration s two first ladies ellen and edith and we have two terrific guests here to tell you about this two interesting women and the times in which they live ....
there are a lot of hoover street signs in europe. there aren t any memorials to the countless volunteers, nor to the u.s. delegates who did the grunt work. but i think in the centennial year it s important to remember that the work that they did. thank you. this weekend, on the c-span networks, politics, books and american history. on c-span saturday, at 6:00 p.m. eastern, hurricane katrina s tenth anniversary with the live coverage from new orleans. speakers include president bill clinton and mitch landrieu and sunday evening at 6:30 on our road to the white house coverage, speeches from democratic candidates hillary clinton and bernie sanders at the democratic national committee summer meeting in minneapolis. on c ha-span2, book tv. talking to the new york times immigration reporter liz robins about his book undocumented tracing the journey to the top of the class of princeton university and sunday at 1:15 p.m., to mark the tenth anniversary of hurricane katrina, ....
plain. this is another hoover sign. there are a lot of hoover street signs in europe. there aren t any memorials to the countless volunteers, nor to the u.s. delegates who did the grunt work. but i think in the centennial year it s important to remember that the work that they did. thank you. this weekend, on the c-span networks, politics, books and american history. on c-span saturday, at 6:00 p.m. eastern, hurricane katrina s tenth anniversary with the live coverage from new orleans. speakers include president bill clinton and mitch landrieu and sunday evening at 6:30 on our road to the white house coverage, speeches from democratic candidates hillary clinton and bernie sanders at the democratic national committee summer meeting in minneapolis. on c ha-span2, book tv. talking to the new york times immigration reporter liz robins about his book undocumented tracing the journey to the top of the class of princeton university and sunday at 1:15 p.m., to mark the tent ....