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And because of that doing well and then i did not know how to give in or apply got a letter saying i had a scholarship because a Wonderful Group of women had given me a scholarship. Host how did you get connected with them . Guest i can remember. They probably heard about me through highschool someone said she can make it. Event then it was easy for me to excel and keep going then went on for graduate degrees. I went on to college but then i have come back and helped my own own people, the people who are my people, working class people so i feel like yeah i have had to give up somewhat who i w...

Is a huge thing in their favor, but they have not gone the way of their moms. They said to themselves, we want Something Better for our lives and we dont want to go there and they didnt. Host Deborah Hicks where do you think you were successful and where do you think you would do things differently . Guest i think we were very successful. We had an intimacy. We had a super successful class. We had seven girls who are attaching themselves to school, loving literature and loving books, loving a school like experience in the teacher. I think the biggest challenge i faced was just about the time t...

[applause] questions . [inaudible] s James Taranto points out that the u. S. Supreme Court Decision that essentially outlawed the use of iq tests in lieu of College Degrees to permit people who are not College Graduates to get jobs that matched up with their iqs because in some way they were racially discriminatory i believe. I dont remember the name. It had disparate impact. Disparate impact case. It strikes me that when you speak of credentialing of some sort that is in a College Diploma you might encounter in people for example of taking on line courses and i noticed harvard is starting an ...

Ways. We are well aware of all of these things. What we are trying to think through and in the exhibit is, ok, how do we tell the story . Because it was intense. There were intense restrictions that were enforced because of hartseller. A kid, part is the Civil Rights Act in 1964. And hartseller in 1965. Of this moment not in a positive or negative way. We are trying to piece through what are the things that changed and what other things that did not as letting people make up the decisions on their own as space the all of these kinds of things together. U mentioned that. None of us talked about...

Next, inside the u. S. Capitol to learn about the history of the house of representatives page program. The Program Began in the early 1800s and continued up until 2011 when due to technological and staff changes, pages were no longer critical to the legislative process and the program was ended. One of the oldest parts of the capitols house wing. History going back to the 1800s. We dont know when the first pages served in the house. The tradition of having messengers and a page is simply an messenger, an errand runner. In u. S. Legislative practice it usually has involved in the u. S. Congres...