>> i think the only names anybody ever knows in this area are susan b. anthony and elizabeth cady stanton. if you go deeper than that you don't know anyone but it's like the founding fathers. we don't know the names of two of them, we know the names of many of them and the names of generals in the civil war. it's women's history hasn't gotten a fair shake it should have gotten and it's beginning to get -- it hasn't gotten the same kind of coverage. history has been written with the idea of laws in mind and borneman have a different story to tell so there are not very many women and that the original antebellum movement who are well-known besides the two mentioned. >> in your opinion of what clarita nichols think of women's rights today? >> good question. i would say she would think we have come a long way in certain areas. certainly educational and vocational the women have come a long way. they are involved in the professions and slightly involved in politics, although only 16% of the congress these female and she wouldn't like that. she would have think that w

guide of the 15th amendment does not place sojourner on the side of elizabeth cady stanton and susan b. anthony as other writers do. while sojourner's greatest personal triumph was probably winning the hearts of her own people, her activism was broader than that. and her sacred ethos had large, secular aims of human progress. religion without humanity, she said, is a poor human stuff. thank you. [applause] >> we are next going to hear from the two authors of "black maverick" the biography of trm howard and his fight for civil rights. and the first of those two authors professor linda beito. [applause] >> one benefit of the book is that it allows for those hard-working lovers of freedom to be known. dr. howard is an example of success in a time where few african-americans can make such a claim. he was by the 1950s a millionaire banker, on the board of tristate bank in memphis, a successful surgeon, a plantation owner, owning over 1,000 acres and a freedom fighter. he controlled and started successful boycotts. when he walked into a room everybody knew it. the wife of slain civil rights leader

terms of the big stuff happening, the historic moments, the colonial period, the immigration, susan b. anthony suffrage, the whole thing. but also have on the bottom the story of how regular when in lived and how their lives changed as all of these things happened. i'm a very big believer when i see a picture of the signing of the magna car or the first thanksgiving or joan of arc in the field or whatever. i always want to know where the people went to the bathroom and what kind of shoes they had and were they comfortable. those things about interest me. what happened with this book, it was a wonderful book to write. i was so happy to do it, but i know you've all had the experience of taking history courses, a survey or what ever and get a great information but by the time you get to world war ii there's no more time. it's the end of the year. i went through all of my education and never found out how world war ii got started, just never got to it. and that's sort of what happened with this book. by the time i got to build or to i was out of time and out of pages and out of energy. so as the g

and, in fact, today is the anniversary of susan b. anthony's death. >> that's right >> at age 86. she and all the sufficientists -- suffragists were republicans. and how do we emphasize the incredible role republican women had in america's history? >> and we have such wonderful women that we can go back to. i put a small appendix in the book off some of history's mentors. you can go back into the old testament. you can find wonderful mentors there. you can find so many women, good godly women and i think god calls forward godly women to lead. and to lead his people. and how important it is for us to remember that. that we do bring a wise perspective to so many debates, company debates, church debates. we need to be more vocal. not be risk-averse and step into that arena and accept those -- look for those open doors and lead and then we all need to be building that network and this is something i would -- i would hope that at some point the history museum could do. outstanding women, ordinary, everyday women that do extraordinary things and i know that some of -- there are some mag

elizabeth cady stanton, susan b. anthony, and louise slaughter. with this bill that she authored, she is one of the strongest links in leading women and this country and protecting our rights. we thank you, louise, for your continued leadership. the horror that played out inside a wichita church, the murder of dr. tiller, is a wound to the conscience of this nation. he had long been a target of violence and hate because he provided legal abortions. he provided medical care to women in need. any time a doctor has to put his life on the line to provide medical care, it has a chilling effect on americans' ability to get the medical care that they need. the consequences of dr. tiller's murder are a tragedy not only to his family, not only for women in kansas, but for women everywhere, especially in areas of our country where there are relatively few medical providers. dr. tiller is the eighth abortion provider to be murdered since 1977. and he was one of just seven doctors in the entire state of kansas. where will women go for the medical help that th