Saturday, October 13, 2007

In place of original content, I give you links

The Women Behind the Men (from the NYT article)

Bates was invited, of course, to the famous March on Washington in 1963, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. Rosa Parks was invited, too, and Pauli Murray, the lawyer and feminist who had staged the first sit-in at a Washington restaurant during World War II.

When they got there, they were all assigned to walk with the wives of the male civil rights leaders, far away from the cameras. “Not a single woman was invited to make one of the major speeches or be part of the delegation of leaders who went to the White House. The omission was deliberate,” Murray said later.


oh and...

For those going to the Amy Bloom reading on Monday:
An interview
(maybe start in the middle of it)

posted by Halley @ 11:48 AM 2 comments