Compared options for women in service with each military branch. Its good to see everybody today. I appreciate you coming to our space here. Today were going to talk about american women and world war ii. This is obviously a huge topic. We could spend a semester just on this topic alone. Were going to try to break it into three spaces. We will look at a lot of images to fit in with other things we have talked about. Were going to talk about american women. Were going to talk about women at home. Women at work. And women at war. Were going to organize our ideas this way. Were going to look at a lot of the propaganda. We have been talking about propaganda throughout the semester and watching videos and things like that. We will get a chance to talk everybody found the video okay . Its a good one on women at work during world war ii. You can find it on the National Archives website. We will talk about these different parts of women during american women during world war ii. Were just hitt
Blackness but not talk about what the responsibilities are. Nobody wants the burden, the loathing. But the lure is a billion dollar global industry. Walters pushed back against that. I think in a lot of ways, thats going to be his legacy. He is one of the most important black political figures of the postwar period as an intellectual, policy advocates, someone willing to speak truth to power and not just to white conservatives and white people, but really to black leadership and black people. Thats it. Thank you. Thats it for this week. We will meet again next week. Were featuring American History tv programs as a preview of whats available every weekend on cspan3. We spinniwing through the south emory university. A professor discusses efforts in the early 1960s to register africanamerican voters in mississippi. American history tv tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan3. American history tv products are available at the cspan online store. Go to cspanstore. Org to see whats new for American
Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. Now on American History tv, a look at the ways american women contributed to the war effort during world war ii. We hear about the expectations for women on the home front to write letters to soldiers, plant Victory Gardens and work in factories and what options were available to women for military service. This is 90 minutes. Fpz well, good to see everybody today. I appreciate you coming to our space here. Today, were going to talk about american women and world war ii. And this is obviously a huge topic, we can spend an entire semester just on this topic alone. So were going to try to break it down into three different spaces and were going to look at a lot of images to kind of fit in with the other things weve talked about. So we are going to talk about american women in three ways. Were going to talk about women at home. Women at work. And women at war. So were going to kind of organize our ideas this way, and again were going to look at
News for thursday, april 23d, 2015. Good morning. Im Alison Harmelin in for annemarie green. Turns out doug Hughes Department as he drove his gyrocopter from gettiesburg to washington, d. C. He was being tracked. He was being tracked by the nations top security agencies. And as he entered restricted airspace near the capitol, authorities aimed multiple weapons aet the aircraft. Next Week Congress will hold hearings to determine why hughes wasnt stopped. Mark alberts in washington. Good morning, mark. Good morning, alison. Last night lawmakers got their first indepth briefing on this that lasted about 45 minutes. The ease with which the gyrocopter was able to penetrate the nations most secure airspace has rattled lawmakers who are demanding accountability. Hes lucky to be alive. He should have been blown out of the air. House Oversight Committee chair Jason Chaifetz had harsh words for postal worker doug hughes who flew a gyrocopter through restricted airspace last week, landing it on t
Annemarie green. Turns out doug Hughes Department fly under the radar after all. He was being tracked by the nations top security agencies. And as he entered restricted airspace near the capitol, authorities aimed multiple weapons aet the aircraft. Next Week Congress will hold hearings to determine why hughes wasnt stopped. Mark alberts in washington. Good morning, mark. Good morning, alison. Last night lawmakers got their first indepth briefing on this that lasted about 45 minutes. The ease with which he was able to penetrate the nations most secure airspace is demanding lawmakers to ask for accountability. Reporter House Oversight Committee Chair Jason Chaifetz had harsh words for postal worker doug hughes who flew a gyrocopter landing on the capitol lawn. But chaifetz was even tougher on norad and the fcc. They chose not to brief us. Reporter during a closed door briefing wednesday officials from the secret service and Capitol Police revealed multiple agencies tracked the aircraft b