Convention, and i found this and couldnt resist giving it to you, because here in this convention, when theyre talking about womens suffrage, mr. King says, im in favor of allowing the largest liberty to every citizen of the United States. Now, this is interesting because they have just blanket, without discussion, said chinese and indians cant vote, cant hold office, and cant sit on juries. No discussion. They let that one through. Here, he says, i firmly believe that a majority of women of this territory, or in any state of the union are just as well qualified for the right of suffrage as the average man, and here you go. And there are thousands, tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands of women, 10,000 times Better Qualified than one half of the men who vote in these United States. So while im setting up here is the idea that at the very moment that americans are trying to figure out who should have a say in American Society, theyre cutting out, as you remember, africanamericans
This is a closed captioning test. This is a closed captioning test. This is a closed captioning test. This is a closed captioning test. This is a closed captioning test. This is a closed captioning test. A guy named pig iron kelly, who is very important during the civil war. If anyone is interested i always like pick iran because he wasnt the brightest crown of the box, but what he was really good that was listening to what everyone else so it. So if you want to know what people thought, and you are in a hurry, in the civil war, you can read pick iron because he just enough sizes where people set. But what this means is that he is very involved in the Republican Party and industrialization. And then he has this daughter. And she has issues of her own that she wants to address in American Society. She had been at hall house. She had seen the terrible conditions especially if garment workers, and she wanted to take that on. She wanted to take on industrialization. But how do women take o
Way to talk about it because today is the anniversary of the firing of fort some tour. Everybody has different ideas about what the nation is supposed to become, and we have gone through a lot of that with the idea that African American men had fought for the union. White southerners had ideas about what america should be as well, the northerners who had won the war had ideas about what the americans should be. The indians and chinese who are out west had ideas about what america should be. And certainly the northern men who had fought and won the war had ideas about what the country should be. But the critical question as to what it was going to be, was who was going to have a say in it. And we have and gone through a bit of that. But who had a say in what the nation can view would have a dramatic effect on what eventually became. So, today i want to talk about women and womens lives in the late 19th century. And their role in what was really the reconstruction, the true rebuilding of
Gladys Muhammad, a South Bend native, is a stalwart Harriet Tubman champion who portrays her at events and campaigned for a statue of the freedom fighter in her hometown.
I first met a young student and basketball player named Romeo Famous while teaching, counseling part-time coaching at Harris-Stowe State College in St. Louis in the mid 1970s.