la follette? >> i'm delighted to comment on any tidbits about the relationship between bella la follette and alice paul, because they're fascinating. alice paul as many of you may know is an american she sort of got her suffrage training in britain where she was shouting out at politicians and getting arrested. and they were force feeding her and so forth. she really believed this was the way to go. you had to get attention, you had to get headlines. belle la follette is so polite. that just seems so -- she doesn't approve of this method. then she says every day she's going to congress to, you know, sit in the galleries and listen. she walks by what are called the silent sentinels. i showed you that one slide of the women standing in front of the white house with their sashes, indicating where they got their university degrees. and she starts thinking maybe alice paul is on to something. and she admires them and her writing goes from sort of a scolding tone of this is going to put people off and d

la follette? >> i'm delighted to comment on tidbits between la follette and paul because they're fascinating. alice paul as many of you may know is an american she sort of got her suffrage training in britain where she was shouting out at politicians and getting arrested. and they were force feeding her and so forth. she really believed this was the way to go. you had to get attention, you had to get headlines. belle la follette is so polite. that just seems so -- she doesn't approve of this method. then she says every day she's going to congress to, you know, sit in the gallery and listen. she walks by what are called the silent sentinels. and she starts thinking maybe alice paul is on to something. and she admires them and her writing goes from sort of a scolding tone of this is going to put people off and don't do it. to more of a perhaps we do need to be more aggressive. so she does come to admire paul. then after women get the vote, they have a bit of a break. because alice paul wants only th

la follette's efforts also generated support. a white employee of the government printing office and a civil war veteran concluaddress follette directly. i thank you the black race needs such as you to aid them and the white race needs you to bring it to its senses. navy department arbiter ralph tyler an organizer for the national business league. wrote he read her article with renewed inspiration and courage. because it clearly indicated to me that my race still has good, strong and imminently fair white friends in this day of threatened segregation. just as we did in the dark days of subjugation before our emancipation. i thank you for your article and i know i but voice the sentiment of my race in doing so. in 1914, la follette spoke to a predominately black audience at the national trade and professional school for women and girls in washington, d.c. and when she was introduced by african-american anctivists as the successor of harriet beacher stowe lawyer james hayes bowed his head and said amen. speaking for his race, hayes

la follette opposed her husband. she devoted herself of l la follette magazine. it is published today as a progressive. she concluded lets fool these men publishers and put our time on the world's events in count less columns. belle la follette introduced and celebrated and promoted reforms. >> women responded with gratitude and others journalists celebrating her approach. >> one of the most readable women pages is edited by belle. la follette is always independent and fear less in her expression of women. >> in 1911, her series thought for the day covers thoughts of suffrage and economics and dress and women and health, appears in 57 newspapers in more than 20 states. >> lesson 11. fight for what's right even if it violates time and tradition. >> in addition to the standard slaves of progressive roles including labor protection and natural resource and tariff and tax reforms. >> a wide range of less conventional, she supported not taking her husband's name upon marriage. >> opposed corporal punishment for children and supported sex education for children. >> she

of course she wasn't belle la follette. she was mrs. robert la follette. i put that in, i got 708 hits. lesson 22 -- strategic long-term thinking usually beats knee-jerk reactions. following the death of robert la follette in 1925, a petition circulated asking belle la follette to become a candidate to fill her husband's unexpired term. she could easily become the first woman senator, but she chose not to run. a petition signed by hundreds of women asked, dear mrs. la follette, will you, can you turboturn away from your heritage, your people, your shepherdless flock. belle la follette will stand as one whose ambitions for her husband and their sons was ambitious first of all that their shared ideas of social justice, which were also her ideals, should prevail. his mother recognized that her term would be granted more as a tribute to her late husband than as a serious political investment. by virtue of his sex as well as his age, robert junior would be far more likely than his mother to be repeatedly reelected and could therefore lead the la follette progre

la follette? >> well, i'm delighted to comment on any tidbits about the relationship between belle la follette and alice paul because they're fascinating. and alice paul, as many of you may know, is an american, but she sort of got her suffrage training in britain where she was shouting out at politicians and getting arrested and they were force feeding her and so forth. she really believed this was the way to go. you had to get attention, you had to get headlines. and belle la follette is so polite. that just -- she doesn't approve of this method. by then she says every day she's going to congress to sit in the gallery, the galleries listen. she walks by the silent sentnals. i showed you that one slide of the women standing in front of the white house. she starts thinking that maybe alice paul is onto something. and she -- she admires them and her writing goes from sort of a scolding tone of this is going to put people off and don't do it to more of a perhaps we do need to be more -- more aggress

la follette? >> i'm delighted to comment on tidbits between la follette and paul because they're fascinating. alice paul as many of you may know is an american she sort of got her suffrage training in britain where she was shouting out at politicians and getting arrested. and they were force feeding her and so forth. she really believed this was the way to go. you had to get attention, you had to get headlines. belle la follette is so polite. that just seems so -- she doesn't approve of this method. then she says every day she's going to congress to, you know, sit in the gallery and listen. she walks by what are called the silent centilsentinels. and she starts thinking maybe alice paul is on to something. and she admires them and her writing goes from sort of a scolding tone of this is going to put people off and don't do it. to more of a perhaps we do need to be more aggressive. so she does come to admire paul. then after women get the vote, they have a bit of a break. because alice paul wants o

right to vote, all those wonderful things led by progressives from the state of wisconsin, and bob la follette. that is where it all originated. [applause] wisconsin, second state to abolish the death penalty. think about that, all the way back to the progressive era. you've been there. [applause] doing a little history, we started looking up sort of where i came from, my great-grandfather, daniel harkin came from ireland and settled in a place near mineral point. is that right, mineral point? mineral point. daniel harkin settled there and in -- my sister-in-law doing some research found that he was a delegate to the 1847 constitutional convention before wisconsin became a state. wisconsin became a state in' 48. he was there in in '47. there were some records made, there was records that this daniel harkin from mineral point, a recent immigrant, had spoken against a proposal to say that all immigrants had to be in wisconsin for 10 years before they could vote. daniel hark kip spoke against that and said he was as good as any person in wisconsin. he had just come there from ireland he should ha