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Todays speaker asked me if i could give her only a brief introduction. Lets see if i can. Her subject is and i like to but it is belle la follette who lived a very full life from 18591931. In doing the research for her new book, nancy discovered the work of previous historians have drastically underestimated this great humanist. She discovered the surprising truths about the radical reformer who was denounced by some as disgraceful to the white race. What . Disgraceful . She fought for votes for...

Discusses womens ratings rights activists belle, la follette. Active in the early 20th centuries. She is the author which tell the story of this journalist, suffragist and pacifist who campaigned alongside her husband and son in their own bids for office. The humanist association of the greater sacramento area hosted this event and its about an hour. Todays truly delightful speaker, professor nancy unger, asked me if i could give her only a brief introduction. Lets see if i can. Subject is and i...

They became doctors and lawyers. One became the first female manager of any department at northrop airlines. They became principals, surgeons, politicians, pilots, and they were able to do that because they had access to professional baseball. So when i asked them what did it mean to you to play in the league and they say everything, its exactly right. What did it mean for this country and the efforts of these women to help during wartime . It meant everything. Ive asked a number of these women,...

Of modern civilization. She also according to her youngest child, ultimately, became an anagnostic. They did not attend church which is quite unusual for a u. S. Senator and her family. To protect her husbands in this area. Bob delighted in telling Family Friends that as belle guided a wealthy couple through washington dc, they asked pointblank, which church to la follette. Told them we entered the congregati congregational. This is a lie and as a minister, we have known well and preached in the...

Women were being told to go back to some of those more traditional roles. All of those things, including the arrival of television and Major League Baseball on television helped to bring about an end to the allamerican girls professional baseball league. If we look at the impact of africanamericans, women, japaneseamericans, any other group you could possibly think of, if we start to pick that apart, if we start to look at their actual role in winning the war, in surviving the war in some cases,...

Are your states problems and how is your governor addressing those problems . Here is how you can call and let us know 2027488001 for mountain and specific time zones. If you want to post on this thought about your states problems, you might do so on twitter cspanwj. And you can post on our facebook page. Of currentampling issues involving governors across the United States, we start in louisiana with the new elected governor, john bel edwards. Already addressing the states budget issues. He say...

Ron youre not in kansas anymore. Matt thats exactly right. And have been the executive director of Progress Iowa since it started in spring of 2012, and what we do is we work to advocate for progressive issues all across the board, whether thats in the state legislature, whether thats in congress, but really our focus is on pushing for Progressive Solutions to Public Policy problems and getting iowans involved in the process. So a lot of what we deuce taking is helping people take action, signin...

Announcer this is the steele report. Ron this week on the steele report, our topic as we talk with the executive director of the leftleaning Progress Iowa questioning begins right now. Captioning provided by caption associates, llc www. Captionassociates. Com announcer now from kwwl, this is the steele report. Ron and welcome to this weeks edition of the steele report. Very interesting topic today. Eye like on id like to introduce my guest right now, matt sinovic, hes the executive director of P...

18591931. In doing the research for her new book, nancy discovered the haveof previous historians drastically underestimated this great humanist. She discovered the surprising truths about the radical reformer who was announced by some as disgraceful denounced by some as disgraceful to the white race. What . Disgraceful . Women,ght for votes for she fought for peace, she fought for civil rights. The New York Times hailed her as the least known but the most influential american women who had to d...

Democrats. It includes west and northwest suburbs such as schomberg, bloomingdale, elgin, streamwood and a small portion of chicago. A couple of quick notes before we begin tonight. We are being streamed live on our web site wttw. Com and you can join a live chat. Give a question for the candidates you can ask if there and note the format tonight. Tonight. This is not a formal debate part of the candidates will not give opening or closing statements. Their answers will not beat timed and they wi...