My pleasure to be here with the author and really, wonderful person to talk about history and race, and just challenges during this time, Erica Armstrong dunbar. She is the author of one of my new favorite books. She came to sleigh. It is the life and time of Harriet Tubman. Thank you so much for doing this. Your book is really groundbreaking. And cute and first of all let me thank you for inviting me on. I really taken the time to have this conversation. I love to talk about history. But more importantly about the lives of africanamerican women during the 19th century. And harriet have one just became very clear early on that it was time to kind of do a bit of a refresher on Harriet Tubman. And to think about her as a person. Hennepin as an activist bird right now were thinking about about what social justice and activism looks like. I think theres no better representation of it, at least in the 19th century than Harriet Tubman. Its wonderful to be able to talk about her. Host what is
The World Affairs council of dallasfort worth hosted this online event. Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for being with us this afternoon. Joining us this afternoon is dr. Dubois. She is the author of suffrage womens long battle for the vote. Im so pleased the conversation be with a very dear and special friend and supporter of the World Affairs council. Let me remind you you can purchase a copy by going to dallass independent bookstore. Please be sure to type in the off and you will get 10 not just on suffrage but any book in your shopping cart. Thanks to ourcial director for being a sponsor of todays program. And so much thanks the league of women voters being our perversion our promotional partner. Programs, with our please go online, or if you missed program, you can go to our Youtube Channel and one surprise you that the weight to find our channel is typed in d fwworld. Lee is a special friend of the World Affairs council and the host of a program where she interviews local busines
Speaker pelosi good morning. It is the first time we have all been together since losing the notorious Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. Such a sad passing for our country. My understanding from the jewish faith is that when you leave on the eve of rosh hashanah, you special are in a special category of the righteous. She rest in peace. May people ask me some stories about ruth bader ginsburg. You isant to tell remarkable. Tomorrow, we will be gathering at statutory hall. She will be the first woman to lie in state in the capital of the United States. Our prayer will be led by a rabbi, the first jewish person to lie in state in the capital of the United States. For i lot of cause dont want to say celebration, but observance. A historic time for a historic woman. Did more for the equality of women than anybody in our history. A couple of years, we honored in the capital the women members of the Supreme Court. Being the Senior Member, Justice Ginsburg spoke for the group to receive the honor.
I found out that all the media people were distraught, totally distraught over the fact that hillary lost. I discovered something that i never understood. Why did they not fact [inaudible] as a regular person. Guest a regular person. Anybody distraught on election day wanting to be vindicated in the mall we have a president that is that he will not accept the result of the election if he loses, and that would be the end of america as we know it. I dont know what you are referring to specifically though. Host rick perlsteins most recent book is called a reaganland americas write a term 19761980. Its one of the four that hes written about conservatism in america and we thank you for joining us for the callin program on booktv. Guest what an honor. Thank you. Host coming up in half an hour, we have diamond and silk for a call in the program talking about their new book uprising who the hell said you cant ditch and switch. Thats coming up live on booktv. But now we return to the National B
Zoom schedule appears on our website at harvard. Com. I will be contacting a link to support event night tonight possible of the independent bookstore thank you for tuning in we support your support now and always. Thank you for your patience and understanding so now im so pleased to introduce tonight speakers professor jones that the president ial professor at Johns Hopkins university and the organization of american historians for legal history and those scholarships with columbia universitys center for critical analysis. As well as pbs and netflix and others and also the coeditor of the africanamerican culture and the birthright citizen but tonight professor jones of the correspondent for the New York Times Pulitzer Prize vanguard. It was that expensive history of black women and National Book awardwinning author the political historian and this is the commanding history of the struggle of africanamerican women for political power is a without further ado we will go to our guest. Th