thought bakery is suing oberlin for destroying reputation.atest on this tonight, trace. >> this trial could last a month with up to 100 witnesses. at issue is an incident from november 2016 where three black oberlin, ohio college students went in to gibson's bakery, tried to use a fake i.d. and stole some bottles of wine. the son-in-law of the bakery's owner confronted the students and police say by the time they arrived gibson was on the ground being punched. the students initially claimed they were racially profiled but then admitted they did use fake ids, did steal the wine and there was no racism. a follow-up police investigation also found that accusations of racism were baseless. but lawyers for the bakery say that did not stop oberlin college from, quote: declaring war on gibson. including a boycott and several protests involving hundreds of students chanting no justice, no peace. watch. >> we are here today because yesterday three students from the community were assaulted and arrested as a result of a history of racial profiling and

and, yet, oberlin college tried to crush this business because, why?well, i think this was the worst of identity politics. that this was the day after donald trump's election. and may have had something to do with it.t. the student body was upset. three black students get arrested for shoplifting. they were, in fact,, shoplifting. yet, the entire oberlin college community viewed this exclusively through a racial prism. through a racial lens, a white store owner arrest or has the police arrest three black students. and that really set the tone for the last two years. there were protests organized outside the bakery that were so aggressive and hundreds ofle, people that there has been testimony at the trial that the policeee considered calling in the riot squad to quell the t protests. and as you -- as was reported, there were also indications that college officials if not participated in these at least fostered them. so what you had was the worst of identity politics reallied worst of other politics which judges everything not based on the facts of what

. >> next, oberlin college professor talks about the role african-americans played in the civil war.he also talks about their attempts to become soldiers. this talk was part of a daylong conference hosted by the university of virginia's center for history. >> our next speaker is tamika nunley, a professor of history and comparative american studies at oberlin college. we are glad to claim her as one of our own, receiving her phd from uva. she will speak on "i wore the uniform of blue: making the case for african-american enlistment." [applause] tamika: i have the very difficult task of going after gary. i would like to thank you for inviting me and for will for accommodating me. being so gracious. i would like to thank liz, my former advisor, and gary, also a dear mentor of mine, for not only having me here at the conference but also for years and years of mentoring that don't seem to end. i'm going to begin with the battle that gary does not think is important because it is in north carolina. [laughter] to be fair, i don't think many people think that the battle of new bern is incre

. >> next, oberlin college professor talks about the role african-americans played in the civil war.he also talks about their attempts to become soldiers. this talk was part of a daylong conference hosted by the university of virginia's center for history. >> our next speaker is tamika nunley, a professor of history and comparative american studies at oberlin college.

doris stevens six is older than to dominguez was born in 1888 in omaha, nebraska, and attended oberlincollege. by the time to graduate from college in 1911 she was deeply involved in the u.s. suffrage movement. she is pictured with a group of women in the 1913 suffrage era, this was the first organized march on washington for political purposes. alongside alice, doris stevens became a leader and a cofounder of the militant wing of the suffrage movement, the congressional union for women's suffrage which was later renamed the national women's party. stevens became famous in user publishing a book about her and other suffragist imprisonment for picketing the white house in 1917 called jailed for freedom. in the 1920s after passage of the suffrage amendment stevens began to focus on international work. dominguez and stevens first met each other when they and the number of other u.s. and cuban feminist essentially gatecrashed the six pan-american conference in 1928 in havana cuba to demand women's rights. during this gathering a statement from the americas, feminist and use them to help ma

and she had earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from oberlin, studies in europe, spoke five languages and usually wore a cloak. not every woman endorsed suffrage campaign. the wives of wilson's second secretary of state, eleanor foster lansing, a democrat, and of new york republican senator james wadsworth, alice hayes wadsworth's daughter was the daughter of john hayes, led the national association opposed to women's suffrage, isabel anderson, anderson house on massachusetts avenue, was another one, wealthy women who thought that they had plenty of power without having to go to a polling place. women want the right to vote, for many reason. because of a broad-based and inclusive diverse alliance. because if two votes for ratification in the tennessee legislature, in august 1920. one cast by democrat frank turner, after the governor pleaded party loyalty to the democrats did not want to be blamed for the defeat of suffrage. one cast by 24-year-old republican harry burns, who switched as well because his mother asked him to. it took two votes because had it been a tie, the legislator w