An organization founded in 1979 with four core organizational goals to establish a Network Among membership to promote black women in the profession, to disseminate information and opportunities in the field, and to suggestions concerning Research Topics and repositories we are organized and has grown from a handful of women in the 1970s to an organization that counts hundreds of members. We stand on the shoulders of our founders as we come together to share our work with one another, to fellowship, and to remind other why we have all chosen to dedicate our to correcting the narrative, to telling their stories and, to save their names. I have the honor of serving as the moderator of todays conversation. With three Living Legends jesus. Pioneering and historians of black women. Sit with us today. Our conference is shining threads and heavy loads where we and when we exhale black women making history and all attempt introduce each of these iconic who have left indelible marks on the fiel
In a sense it could become even more damaging. At the same time they were incredibly inspirational and uplifting for those that were being held in the gulag. That when he was in the gulag his captors said look. Here is your reagan. Cowboy comedy and a fall. And as soon as they left he could not contain his glee. He was jumping up and down and tapping in morse code Ronald Reagan called this the evil empire the next guy says start stepping we were called the evil empire than the gulag is coming now with the words evil empire. So the president had finally spoken the truth. With a follow up what it you think the Ronald Reagan approach to syria and iran . Great question. I am always larry to apply reagan also with the iraq war. What he had invaded . Iran as a really good example june 2009 and the iranian streets first erupted and abominate merely week carter like statements even the democrats were astounded. He could have made stronger statements but reagan probably would have treated i rea
Era. He is popularizing that term on june 15, 1966 in greenwood, mississippi. And he becomes this icon of the late 1960s. Carmichael is going to be the most influential since malcolm acts. Is friends with Martin Luther king jr. And he also is a black panther. By 1969 he leaves the United States in west africa. And he has this organizer who changes his name to kwame ture in honor of his political mentors in africa. Kwame ture has taken them and he becomes kwame ture. Host what part of the Civil Rights Movement was he involved in . Guest is involved in all of it. And that is what is so interesting. When you think about Stokely Carmichael, hes involved in every major action between 1960 and 1965 with the whole period of civil rights cut in half. He is a demonstrator and involved in the Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and he is a freedom rider and hes arrested on june 8, 1961, and mississippi. Its been weeks and penitentiaries. He is a Howard University student activists and part of this
Watershed iconic activist of the civil rights and black power era. He is popularizing that term on june 15, 1966 in greenwood, mississippi. And he becomes this icon of the late 1960s. Carmichael is going to be stoically carmichael is going to be the most controversial black activist since malcolm x, he is friends with Martin Luther king jr. Civil rights for the next 30 years he becomes a revolutionary organizer who changes his name in honor of two of his political mentors in africa who were both the first president s of their countrys respectively. He takes the first name and third name. Host what part of the Civil Rights Movement was he involved in . When we think about maclean he is involved in every major action between 1960 and 1965 in the Civil Rights Movement, second half, he is a sit in demonstrator involved in the nonviolent coordinating committee, he is a freedom rider, and arrested for the first time on june 8, 1961, in mississippi, spends weeks in parchment penitentiary, the
When Ida B. Wells was 16 years old, her parents and a younger sibling died from yellow fever, an epidemic that felled tens of thousands across post-Civil War America. Bereft