Might have been making a couple of hundred you know, a dime was a significant amount of would especially when he hand it to children. Hildren were able to then go out and buy things and it was all because of mr. Rockefeller. Good guy rather than this bad businessman everyone has come to know him as. Oil, the company that rockefeller founded here in leveland, quickly became successful. Obviously making rockefeller the it also an he was but impacted cleveland economically. Brought money into the city ut also the ability of rockefeller to be able to pay decent wage, and llow them to live a good life here in cleveland. It was just another one of those cleveland at e in the time that was doing so well that theauto industry, citizens of cleveland had a you know good, quality of life in the city at the time thanks to these major be it the auto industry, bringing that wealth into the city. Our citys tour staff recently traveled to cleveland learn about its rich history. Learn more about the ci
The brave women and men who started the National Organization for women and it was june of 1966 that they first got together. We dont have anyone living who is at that first meeting, at the , here is someton of the history. There was a very active womens bureau in the department of labor. In 1966, the democrats were in charge. President kennedy had been elected. Were very active in the department of labor and womens bureau and was led by feminist. They persuaded the president to call a meeting of commissions on the status of women there. Were i dont know if all states had them but the commissions on the status of women were kind of an organizing that was going on in the states, without a feminist movement to kind of pull everybody together. The commission often served as a place where women met and came together. Dr. Catherine was the head of the commission in wisconsin and she was also head of the organization of the committee. She was a big deal. She along with other women came to th
Joining us this evening to talk about Eleanor Roosevelt is allida black, the editor of the Eleanor Roosevelt papers project at George Washington university and an historian. Another historian, Doug Brinkley who is an author from rice university. Thank you for being here with us. Doug brinkley, its march 1933, inauguration and entered the white house. What are they walking into . Fdr did not get to walk in. He came in a wheelchair. The fact that somebody was crippled in the lower half said theres nothing to fear but fear itself. Thats perhaps the most famous phrase of the inauguration. What people were fearing was unemployment, chaos, hoovervilles, unemployment, agricultural angst. Dust bowls, october 1929 crash of the stock market. Our country was in tatters. And there is Franklin Roosevelt, this man has overcome such odds in his personal life, dealing with polio and now ushering in a new progressive era and offering 100 days of the new deal programs right off the bat where what people
Now on booktv from the 13th annual National Book festival on the National Mall in washington, d. C. , Harvard University law professor kenneth mack presents his book representing the race the creation of the civil rightsr lawyer. Kennet thank you. Thank you to the library of congress for inviting me. And thank you to all of you for coming. What i would like to do today is talk a little bit about the bitt book, lived about how i came to little bit write it and ill be just ae to little bit also. And then we will tak e questions. Will take questions. So the book, the book is a biographical account of men and women to change america, men and women who helped transform america from a country that denied basic Citizenship Rights to a portion of its citizens based on race to the country we know today that embraces racial equality as one of its core principles. Is a collective biography of africanamericans who practiced law during the era of jim crow. Lawyers like Thurgood Marshall and lesser
Possibility of revenue we always have been open to the possibility of looking to ways to expand revenue including as bruce said all of the things you can do if you move in a sensible way on energy and the things you can do if youre going to look at some ways to alter the tax Collection System that make it better for companies by giving up some deductions to get some benefit. Look, were wide open to talking about fixing this country. Were just not wide open to continue this deal harry reid said we wont talk to anybody unless we get 1 billion 1 trillion of new income tax. Good luck, harry, aint happening. A quick one. You talked about the studies recently that showed growing inequality of income this access in the country. And i wonder is there a certain point where it might be bad for business if the middle class is so hollowed out and theres increase wealthed all in one end . By the way, i think i was listening to your question very carefully and then you got to the right question. Am