The Role of African American Women

 

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Tonight at 8/7c The Vote continues on PBS tonight at 8/7c with hour two of the four-hour series. In hour two, explore the strategies used by a new generation of leaders determined to win the vote for women. Internal debates over radical tactics and the role of African American women in the movement shaped the battle for suffrage in the crucial period between 1906-1915.  The Vote is also available to stream in full on our website and the PBS video app.  WATCH NOW

The John Lewis I Knew "As a civil rights historian who has studied Lewis' long career, I know how much he has meant to the ongoing fight for civil and human rights in the United States. For more than half a century, despite numerous beatings and arrests, he has been a rock of strength, a singular moral force prodding Americans of all colors, classes and faiths to live up to the professed national ideal of liberty and justice for all." Ray Arsenault, a historian and biographer of the Freedom Riders remembers John Lewis —the civil rights icon who passed away this summer, in this new article.    READ HERE

Now Streaming In the spring of 1905, the first group of fresh-faced graduates of Yale's Forestry School began to arrive in the bawdy frontier towns of the West. Nothing could have prepared them for the severity of the drought there in 1910.  Fires broke out continually and were fought by the rookie rangers as best they could. In mid-August, the particularly destructive fire season hit its peak: in just 36 hours, a firestorm burned more than three million acres and killed at least 78 firefighters.  The Big Burn provides a cautionary tale of heroism and sacrifice, arrogance and greed, hubris and, ultimately, humility, in the face of nature's frightening power. This film is available to stream now on our website and the PBS video app. WATCH NOW

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