but when i was reading douglass, especially, douglass wrote volumes. his writing is some of the most amazing writing you'll ever read about this country. what caught me then about what does exist, it takes on different forms and reactions. they both love this country very much. they were both patriots in the best sense of the word. they differed as to what needed to be done about that, but lincoln loved this country and he felt responsible for the whole country. he said, i was born in kentucky, i was raised in indiana, i live in illinois, and now it's my responsibility to take care of all the people of the united states. and frederick douglass said, every stripe on my back testifies of my right to be here. the grave of my child testifies of my right to be here. we love this country, we believe this country, and we will not leaving this country. lines from the play. so we're in this. now what do we do? how do we solve this? that question was interesting and vital to me 10 years ago. and it's interesting and vital to me now. it's because the confluence o

douglass. because he wrote a couple of letters. he mentioned the first meeting in a speech. very proud to go out and speak and tell about stories. he was a storyteller. feeling lincoln and how he felt to go to the wuhite house. he wrote about it extensively in his third autobiography and by that time boosting up his image. lincoln never wrote an autobiography or spoke about it. all we know what douglass said and contextual things we can find out about policy at the time. so i had just the barest bones that there were these two meetings. they did happen. i did historical research to find out about those meetings, but obviously no one was in the room. so you can't know what they said. it wasn't recorded. that's why i say the intersection is drama. has to be drama, but you do have a sense of history kind of hanging over back here. >> right. >> you're not outraging it too much. it's really an interesting box to be in. >> right. >> historically. >> listen, we have a very special treat today that cra

douglass. one was the summer of 1863, and the other one was the summer of 1864, a year later, at which they basically went at it. first over how to get the country through this crisis. in the way that was best for everybody. and then, secondly, when the crisis was over, try to envision what kind of country we wanted when the war was over, because we couldn't wait until then to start shaping that. so first, it's about douglass trying to convince lincoln to make the war an abolition war and not the war of the union, and then it's about when lincoln finally agrees to that, both of them realizing that they have to face the implications of that, what that's going to mean in terms of black citizenship and equal rights. it's kind of a push/pull between the two of them. douglass is an outsider. he's an instigator, an agitator. he's agitating for what he believes needs to happen. lincoln is an insider. he's trying to say this is going to be harder than you think it is because there's politics involved a

so, in the story of this petition, our object, frederick douglass makes an appearance. he chides lincoln at that moment, summer of 1862, for using blacks as laborers as opposed to soldiers. he called out lincoln for a quote, fatal capacity to do better. he's very forceful in that regard. as you said, on january 1st, 1863, lincoln issues the emancipation proclamation. and how does this change? >> it changes it with the sentences in the proclamation. one of the sentences says i admonish all enslaved people not to turn to violence against their masters. then in the very next sentence, lincoln says, i encourage african-americans to join the military service. so, i mean, if you do join the military service, you're obviously going to take up arms against your former owners. but that was the prevailing message. so, it's encouraged. and then wayithin a month or tw congress passed a law authorizing the military services to accept african-americans in service. african-americans had been in the navy for decades as laborers. and they had, as you mentioned, some had been employed in

speech as well, and why not have a douglass statue? jim: would that be your solution? let's extend this problem. i started off by saying that what is wonderful about the work you do is the two of you present historical figures as complicated people. annette: yes. is two, here complicated people, general sheridan and general oliver otis howard, both heroic figures in terms of their role in the civil war, although somewhat less heroic in terms of their role in killing and removing native americans after the civil war. david, your solution would be anytime we have a statue of sheridan, we put another statue next to it that somehow commemorates or helps us to remember the other things -- how do we deal with complexity people lived 5, 6, 7 decades? how do you deal with the complexities of their lives? annette: it is tough. david: first of all, i am not even sure phil sheridan merits that kind of worry and concern. [laughter] there are sheridan monuments clearly. there is a sheridan's square in d.c. and one in new york as well. annette: ther

your current frederick douglass and taken ill and were booed to go into tech. long story short, i arrived on a thursday attacks that we can and the next weekend we had an audience. it was exciting and terrifying all at the same time. but thanks to everybody affords and david in particular and richard patients, i got to know the play, learn the play and ultimately do it. and i enjoy doing it. >> regular not only, now it's one thing to sort of step in and say well i'm just gonna plop in infill in here. you not only came from afar and dropped in and what a life saver you are, but you actually embodied the character and the role so brilliantly. you really by the end of it, oh my god, could we have ever imagine anyone else doing this playing? watching you and david onstage was really just a treat and a dream and a great place to go. a whirlwind for you. >> thank you and you know it was already strong going in so they had already built it. i just move my stuff in. (laughs) >> if i remember correctly with the scripts. >> james kranz rub leaves our set designer. he mad

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what does that mean to be free and frederick douglass time? what does it mean to expand the notion of freedom today cracks immigrants you are talking about the wall the palestinians how to bring the freedom of immigrants and transgender people gays and lesbians in bisexuals and what does that tell us the extent to which and that is quite restrictive. i ask missiles sometimes 100 years from now and to talk about the struggle i don't think we'll ever get there. that we can stop now. we one. so in the process to reflect on freedom we constantly challenge a framework that we develop an imaginary freedom. >> it was powerfully imaginative in a certain period. it's a major part of it for me. mr. and the knowledge the acquisition of knowledge they get another little kindergarten they were in. and that little transition they may become wise. that. they knew and in those religious forms that's my faith and belief is so important and i am just suggesting there is something so powerful and attractive and liberating you can have it. from the texas correcti

frederick douglass. did lincoln have high regard for douglas is in flint. >> i think he came to. he had read douglas. before the war, people who visited niagara falls, tourists, would often take an excursion to rochester to see frederik douglas, because there were white people who did not believe that there was an african-american ran a newspaper, wrote editorials. he was a tourist attraction himself to prove that he was actually -- lincoln had heard of him. when he made his way to the white house for the first visit, douglas comes into the office and says i'm frederick douglass. lincoln says i know who you are. that is a little chilling, but douglas writes a wonderful story about how lincoln unfolded himself from a lower chair. howard over him. but never in any of their meetings that he treat him in any way that suggested there was a difference of color, and douglas always reckoned that it was because they had both risen from poverty and formed a common bond. one thing lincoln did and it was part of the story that he did not tell. he trusted douglas to map out a plan to liberate

douglass: thank you for the question. realize that they need to really adopt our stricter policies in the banking sector to account for money laundering, etc., and the irregular transfer of moneys that may be endo's bank accounts. -- may be in those bank accounts. i would push for them to adopt our policies. thank you. let me pivot to china. and over utilized phrase. but when appropriate here. is coming toative america's doorstep, in the caribbean basin, but the bahamas have not signed a cooperative agreement with china. chinese controlled firms have undertaken major infrastructure projects, including the container facility in freeport. do you have concerns about chinese investments this close to home? mr. douglass: absolutely. it is a significant concern for the united states security. of the first port entry for the united states. aving the chinese funding port of first entry into the united states that is 60 miles from our border is a concern. sen. young: how do you look at such issues? the fact that a port is being bu

susan b anthony, elizabeth cady stanton, and frederick douglass. you write in your book these three people, extraordinary 50 year partnership, change the course of our history. what is important for people to know about how the three of them worked together to advance rights in our society? guest: you're very right. i would say that they are very important names. i will make one small correction, which i did not know this until i had to delve into it. frederick douglass is at the seneca falls meeting in 1848. susan anthony is not. susan anthony joins the movement a few years later. she is working as a temperance, she is a teacher, and she is working in temperance and abolition. those three notables come together through the abolition movement. that is a really important thing for us to understand, that the women's rights movement, the women's suffrage movement, is a direct outgrowth of the abolition movement. and the women we think of as the foremothers, elizabeth stanton, susan anthony, lucretia mott, lucy stone, or actually abolition workers. ver

frederick douglass has to tell them, "the women's hour has not come."t will come eventually but you will have to wait. and this produces a schism, that takes quite a while to heal. and so race is part of the story. from the very beginning. from the abolitionists to the split in the reconstruction. when the women are betrayed. they really are betrayed. so they get very angry. anthony and stanton say vile racist things. the friendship with douglas is repaired, between them, the personal one. and he still attends women's rights conventions, for the rest of his life. in fact, he dies in 1895, just a few hours after attending a women's rights convention in washington. and so the idea that he truly, truly believes in women's rights, is borne out and it is actually a beautiful story. and he maintains that, even when he is betrayed himself, by the suffragists. host: so it seems as though phase two of this after the 14th and 15th amendment, began in the 1870's and 1880's. the first legislation went to congress in 1878. was its fate -- what fate? guest: there wer

even frederick douglass, he says his work was fueled by the work of harriet. sometimes it is really hard in the work that we do when you are lifting up someone who was a historical figure. a little easier for you guys because you have a president. >> not right now. [laughter] >> it is really hard when they only go as far back as dr. king. that is sort of where we are as a culture. there is this whole lot of stuff that happened prior to that. that we forget about completely. so, that is where i spend my time. >> you mentioned liberation theology. i am from central america. liberation theology in the 60's, 70's, 80's played an extra ordinary role in the struggle for liberation. would you articulate how do you as an african american role in the struggle for an african-american context see liberation theology? to integrate and unite? >> so, latin america is so well-known for its liberation theology, particularly through the catholic church. in the african methodist episcopal zion church, liberation theology really took its basis from -- we were founded in lower ma

people like frederick douglass were really offended and attacked lincoln when it became clear that his initial notion was to send these people outside the united states. >> for those who may not be experts on what frederick douglass did in what he was, he was a freed, i guess he was a slave what escaped, eventually bought his freedom, but what was his role in society? >> frederick douglass was someone who escaped slavery from the eastern shore of maryland, ended up first in philadelphia philadelphia, the new york, than in bedford, and he became someone, who became one of the leaders in the abolitionist movement. a brilliant speaker, he was befriended by abolitionist leaders like william garrison, and douglas becomes the voice of black america. he creates newspapers, he debates with lincoln. he really was seen as somebody who would sort of demand that america live up to its stated identity. stated ideals. he is not the only person to do that, but he was considered the most visible african american in the 19th century. >> he was very articulate, very eloquent and many people were surpris

even frederick douglass, he says his work was fuelled by the work of harriet.you know, and sometimes it's really hard in the work that we do when you're lifting up someone who was a historical figure. a little bit easier for you guys because you've got a president, okay? but, you know, it's really hard when someone, you know, when they only go as far back as dr. king. that's sort of where we are as a culture. and there's just -- there's a whole lot of stuff that happened prior to that that we forget about completely. >> yes. >> so, that's where i spend my time. >> you mentioned liberation theology. i'm from central america. >> yes. >> and liberation theology in my formation personally indeed '60s, '70s, '80s played an extraordinary role in the struggle for articulation. would you articulate in the african-american context how you see it. i think it would be a very fascinating and important thing to integrate, to unite. >> so, latin america is so well known for its liberation theology, particularly through the catholic church, okay? in the african-american metho

it was these differences that frederick douglass had in mind when he very famously said in 1878 speech it was a right site and wrong side in the late war. the war was as he described it a war of ideas between the old and the new, between slavery and freedom, between barbarism and civilization. douglas the course was under no illusion that northern society was perfect. he was in the vanguard movement to reform northern society but douglas knew that union ideology with its emphasis on free labor as opposed to in slave labor with an emphasis on majority rule, emphasis on moral reform. union ideology created a framework in which change and progress were possible, not inevitable, not by any means easy, not even likely but possible. activists like douglass pushed open the door and gave great in the face of great diversity, pushed open the door to change and progress. douglass also new that confederates would be the about enemies the change and progress, that they were intent on polling the door shut and locking it, change it shut and throwing away the key. and so it's important to understand

and it was these differences that frederick douglass in mind when he famously said in the 78th speecha right side and wrong side. booklist described it a war of ideas between the old and the new, between slavery and freedom, barbarism and civilization, the illusion that the society was perfect, he was in the vanguard movement to reform the modern society, but douglass knew the union ideology with an emphasis on free labor as opposed to enslave labor and an emphasis on the moral reform, union ideology created a framework in which change and progress were possible, not inevitable or likely, but possible. and activists like douglas pushed open the door to to change and progress. the change in progress. douglas also knew that confederates were they enemies of change and progress that they were intent on pulling the door shut and chaining it shut and throwing away the key. so it's important to understand all this because i wanted students to be mindful to guard against falling into the trap of the false equivalency of the union and confederacy. we are reminded all the time by those events

' children, including frederick douglass jr. and rosetta douglass sprague who signs as mrs. spragrue. i think it's spectacular that a petition that you send to congress today just as these african-american petitioners did in 1877, becomes part of the national archives holdings and we're fortunate to have it here today to help tell the story. so thus far on this tour, we've seen lots of petitions and women, when they were pressing for their voting rights really only had their first amendment rights available to them to press their government for their rights and for political change. one of the other rights, first amendment rights that suffragists used, the freedom to assemble, they used pretty effectively as well to gain greater visibility and public attention in particular for their cause. we have this great wall mural here of one of many suffrage parades that were staged throughout the country. this one is here in washington, d.c., from 1913. it was one of the most consequential marches that was staged. women, more than 5,000

>> frederick douglass was sort of someone who escaped slavery from the eastern shore of maryland, ended up first in philadelphia, the new york, then the bedford, and he became someone who became one of the leaders in the abolitionist movement. a brilliant speaker. he became, befriended by abolitionist leaders -- douglas becomes the voice of black america. he creates newspapers, he debates with lincoln. he really was seen as someone who would sort of demand that america live up to its state identity. stated ideas. is not the only person to do that, but he was considered the most visible african american in the 19th century. >> now he was very articulate, very eloquent. many people were surprised by that because, in those days, if you are slave, you are not allowed to learn how to read. it was considered against lonesome states. is that the case? >> in some states yes. >> so how did he learn how to read, and was that part of his appeal that he was very educated and people were so surprised to see such an educated african american at that time? >> i think douglas, there were two things tha

children, including frederick douglass jr., at the top of the men's column, and rosetta douglass-sprague, who signs as mrs. nathan sprague, second from the top on the women's column. all of the documents that we've looked at so far in this exhibition are in the holdings of the national archives, and the national archives preserves them for future generations. and i think it's really spectacular that a petition that you send to congress today, just as these african-american petitioners did in 1877, becomes part of the national archives holdings, and we're really fortunate that we have it here today to help tell the story. so thus far on this tour, we've seen lots of petitions. and women, when they were pressing for their voting rights, really only had their first amendment rights available to them to press their government for their rights and for political change. one of the other rights, first amendment rights, that suffragists use, the freedom to assemble, they pretty used effectively as well to gain greater visibility and public attention in particular for their cause. we have this gr

children, including frederick douglass jr., at the top of the men's column, and rosetta douglass-sprague, who signs as mrs. nathan sprague, second from the top on the women's column. all of the documents that we've looked at so far in this exhibition are in the holdings of the national archives, and the national archives preserves them for future generations. and i think it's really spectacular that a petition that you send to congress today, just as these african-american petitioners did in 1877, becomes part of the national archives holdings, and we're really fortunate that we have it here today to help tell the story. so thus far on this tour, we've seen lots of petitions. and women, when they were pressing for their voting rights, really only had their first amendment rights available to them to press their government for their rights and for political change. one of the other rights, first amendment rights, that suffragists use, the freedom to assemble, they pretty used effectively pretty as well to gain greater visibility and public attention in particular for their cause. we have

douglass did a memo on it but it never had to be done. he refuses to go back to cooper campaign a cam pair -- appearance. flag, ig about the believe this was an 1860 flag. some brilliant seamstress sewed andrew johnson on top of the former vice presidential candidate who was dumped on the ticket. i have never seen a relic like this. valerie: exactly. coming up we do have some nasty cartoons from this period. we do see the momentum of the war had shifted. can you describe this? mr. holzer: instead of hadaigning, political clubs events. this was an alleged event in new york city on the anniversary of the emancipation proclamation. it was alleged african-americans and whites danced together. heaven forbid. good eyes can see some white faces peeking in in horror at this clandestine dance. this was part of a series of charges that lincoln was a radical intent on introducing integration. campaigning, he had difficulty answering this in new york. i will say one thing, he did not campaign. one thing he did do, and this got printed in the paper, h

frederick douglass publicized the conference at seneca falls, stood up for the right for women to vote when no one else did. no one else stood with her when she put that resolution in to ask for that, and he wrote about it afterwards. there are other abolitionist men involved men who introduced the first legislation, the first women's rightss amendment into the constitution. men had to ratify it. wyoming foro -- example, by the time the they wouldme around, have been able to vote in a few more states, but women were totally dependent on male helpers throughout most of the movement. they had not run meetings. no one had presided over anything. they had never addressed a meeting. one woman at one convention goes on to say, i could never speak in front of an audience. i have never spoken. i have never attended a meeting. she goes on to address the audience very eloquently for an hour. what we have learned is there has to be some sort of coalition. women will have to stand up and decide we are a tribe because we are women. interested way women related to president wilson. hed him in anrk u

even frederick douglass was there as part -- being a suffragist as well as an abolitionist.going there, it was moving because of the history. but it was also inspiring because you could see how a personal experience translated into policy, action that would eventually change the lives of people in our country. let me say this in closing, what's interesting to me in this 100th anniversary is how some of my friends who are not as -- shall we say involved in all of this as i am, were saying to me recently, they had no idea that women suffered so much in order to pass this amendment. they just didn't know. they didn't know how they were -- just cast aside by their families. how they suffered even bad treatment. they didn't know any of it. they just thought it was a movement. they didn't realize that people paid a price, people paid a price. so that awareness, it makes the triumph even greater and when you think back to what they did, who has the encourage now, leave home and put -- that was like -- there was no way you could leave home without a man accompanying you and all of t

frederick douglass did with the intellect and in prison all of this works into the same thing of what they led us to believe it is knowledge that will set you free. [applause] >> thank you very much. >> all the programs could beyond the tv.org looking at the summer archives with toni morrison to conclude with her last appearance on book tv in 2015 she the war on - - received a lifetime achievement award and the acceptance speech in new york city. >> good evening. thank you stephen in the book critics circle for inviting me for toni morrison for the lifetime achievement award although she certainly doesn't need an introduction with celebratory tributes to the great novelist of their time. you have to rattle off her accomplishments to you tonight by and large you are deeply familiar and then to recognize the rising star in 1977 and that is from her book song of solomon. you don't need me to remind you hear the honorees and those other works. and i assume you don't want me to whittle away moments at the podium with the recitation of previous awards although it is tempting the 1988 pulitz

even frederick douglass was there as being a suffragists and an abolitionist. going there, it was moving because of the history. it was also inspiring because you could see how annex personal experience translated into policy and action that would eventually change the lives of people in our country. let me just say this in closing. what's interesting to me in this 100th anniversary is how some of my friends were not as, shall we say, involved in all of this. they were saying to me recently that they had no idea that women suffered so much in order to pass. they did not know how they were cast aside by their families. how they suffered that treatment. they didn't know any of it. they just thought it was a movement. they did not realize that people paid a price. people paid a price so that awareness makes the triumph even greater, and when you think back to what they did. who has the courage to leave home? there was no way you could leave the home without a man accompanying you at that time. bye-bye. anne >> madam speaker, we thank you for joining us in this con

we've got now two volumes in their with whitman and with frederick douglass because i thought he belong in the american pantheon, and so i would like to do that with thomas wolfe of north carolina who is being to ride of time but -- out of fashion now but will is still a very potent voice. >> i'm wondering if each of you could talk for just a minute about who you would like to write about now. i know you writing about james madison right now. do you have a thought beyond that somebody like him i'm particularly interested if there's somebody would like to write about but you know what your publishers as nobody would care? >> no publisher would ever say that. [laughing] that's cynical california, academic view. the ivory tower people. i don't have a person -- there are any number of event that a think would be lovely. i have a fantasy bucket list. i'm fascinated by the six days between the attack on pearl harbor and hitler's declaration of war on the united states. fdr did not move against germany until germany moved against us. on the 11th of december. the longest five days of winston ch

frederick douglass!h, so the guy you just used as an example of someone who is super black is also, by your metric, not black enough. look, man, you can parse kamala's heritage however you want. but to say she's not black, is she black enough to get kicked out of a restaurant in the jim crow south? is she's black enough to get redlined? is she black enough to be kept out of whites-only schools? you know how you know you're black? if you're dating a white person and before you meet their parents for the first time, they start a sentence with, "hey, listen, so before we go inside..." and what's especially ironic about these people trying to exclude kamala from blackness is that its the reverse of what white america did for centuries-- defining as many people as black as possible, whether they wanted it or not. >> color, and who qualifies as black, who qualifies as white has historically been policed not by those who were the targets of oppression but by those who set up the system of oppression. >> in amer

. >> frederick douglass and others. >> we don't know for sure about douglass. we know he was frightened enough when the raid came up that he fled to europe to get away from prosecution. but william lloyd garrison donated $25. future governor of massachusetts, john andrew, donated money. and he marched to maryland with his sons and abandoned 18 people with his spears. and in october 1859, a surprise attack against the old arsenal in harpers ferry, which still stands, overpowered the guard, took over the arsenal. and from there, everything went wrong. plantation owners surrounded them on the hills which sits on the confluence of rivers. it's a crazy place to build an arsenal. there were 100,000 weapons there. it was an inviting target. and eventually, as history tells us, he was taken prisoner. >> and there was a fascinating cast of characters. i was reading this essay again, that participated in the raid on harpers ferry. even robert e. lee, jeb stewart, they show up in the story. how did that up fold with them? and ultimately, what happened to brown? >> it was

what's interesting enough about this petition that is simon to frederick douglass is children, including frederick douglass junior at the top of the men's column and rhodes was there to douglas sprig who signs mrs. douglas praeger size of the top of the left column. all of the documents that we looked at so far are in the holdings of the national archives and the national archives preserves them for future generations. i think it's really spectacular that a petition that you send congress today, just as these african petitioners did in 1877, becomes part of the national archives. we are really fortunate that we have this today in order to tell the story. so we see lots of petitions. women when they were pressing for the voting rights only really had the first amendment rights. and i was up to them to press a government for political rights and change. one of the other first amendment rights that suffragists used, the freedom to assemble. he is pretty effectively that right to as well to gain greater visibility in public attention as well for the cause. we have this great wall mural here,

she wrote that, was ratified at the convention of 1848 by 68 women and 32 men, including frederick douglass, the remarkable and powerful abolitionist who believed in the quality and expansion of the declaration of independence. imagine 16 sentiments modeled after the declaration that said we hold these truths to be these are fabulous. i want to read you one. in terms of the original declaration saying that the king had done this to men, elizabeth and others are saying men have done this to women. he has not ever permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise, and it ended with 16, the powerful he has endeavored in every way that he could to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life. those are pretty harsh words in 1848. by the time the amendment gets introduced in 1878 and voted on, sent out by an all-male congress to the states, there was really nothing insured about the passage of the 19th amendment. and remember that in order to get this passed, the coalitions that white wom

enters apartment overlooked the detroit river and was on the exact spot john brown had met frederick douglass. i could spend time with her and find old newspapers and show her because she would say that orange soda we used to drink it, because she had a frame of mind only to say the same thing when they read transcripts of december 1, 55. an amazing woman. during world war ii, she tried to get african-american kids to go into libraries. they couldn't even get a book in the public library. she sued alabama for the right to vote and to field reports on women that were raised in alabama by white men and was covered up. i started realizing this very christian woman everything about her, methodist episcopalian church and later in life she adopted them as buddhism with her christianity. she used to tell me i am mixed race. everybody says i'm african-american. i'm scottish, irish, cherokee, and the end she would rattle them all off. getting an opportunity to write about her and i started doing the buck when i turn it into my publisher i got back you are the biographer, what is your dark side? >> the

and for frederick douglass -- and i love that quote too. so, thank you for digging it up. for frederick douglass and for many other people early in the movement, there was a certain nobility in their act. when we get to the modern movement, the league, men's league, i see a couple of groups of people. the first are the -- what are called the bohemian sexual radicals. and these are max friedman and his friends down in the village. max believes that women should have the vote because it will make them better lovers. it will -- you know, there will be an equalizing of gender roles, and women will stop being silly and men can stop being profligate. and they might get to a better relation. floyd dell was another of his friends there who thought that women -- that the woman's movement, really the feminist cause, would liberate men. >> not to have to work. >> because they wouldn't have to work, that there wouldn't be an obligation on their shoulders to support women and children. and they are quite enthusiastic. max friedman calls suffrage the great fight for freedom in my lifeti

but frederick douglass said it best, and harriet tubman and dr. to love the religion of jesus is to hate the religion of the slave master. [cheers and applause] sen. harris: when we have true unity, no one will be subjugated for others. it is about fighting for a country with equal treatment, collective purpose, and freedom for all. [cheers and applause] sen. harris: that is who we are. that is who we are. today, i stand before you -- [cheers and applause] sen. harris: i stand before you today clear eyed about the fight ahead and what has to be done. fidelityh in god, with to country, and with the fighting spirit i got from my mother -- [cheers and applause] sen. harris: i stand before you today to announce my candidacy for president of the united states. [cheers and applause] [chanting] sen. harris: thank you. thank you. sen. harris: and i will tell you , i am running for president because i love my country, i love my country. i am running to be president of the people, by the people, and for all people. [cheers and applause] sen. harris: i am ru

anti-slavery movement and the family home became a meeting place for abolitionists like frederick douglasst 1600 black lives matter plaza who might be confused, is no longer alive. she met elizabeth katy stanton at an 1851 anti-slavery conference. and together they basically became the thelma and louise of abolition. the idea that no one was going to listen to women on banning booze unless the ladies had a right to vote. in 19th century america, white women were entirely the subjects of their fathers and husbands with no right to own profit or to enter into legal agreements with marriage and children being viewed as their only purpose for being alive. now, it's quite -- and black women and other nonwhite women had zero rights of any kind. suz an anthony and elizabeth stanton supported the north and the civil war. sorry, donald trump. but after the war they broke with frederick douglass and other old allies over the 14th amendment opposing it because it placed the word "man" into the constitution for the first time and gave formerly enslaved black men the right to vote but not the white mal

it is a two-person show where frederick douglass and susan b. anthony engage in a dialogue and transcending their relationship and friendship. you will understand the close interception between race and gender in that timeframe and also with the movement. we will be sponsoring -- since it is going to be touring around the united states in 2020, we will be sponsoring high schools to be going -- high school history students to go see that play. it is a great way to engage. we are targeting 11th graders to be able to go and learn a little bit more in depth about history. >> in my presentation, i mentioned the suffrage cat and we have a coloring page for susan b. anthony at her house in rochester, new york, the design your own suffrage star, and all of those have history about why those are there. those are aimed at younger kids or adults who like to color. we had an all hands staff meeting for cultural resources at the parks service and after some trepidation, there were lots and lots of grown adults sticking pom-poms and coloring in cats. one of t