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:

At 12:24 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Feminist? i don't know....maybe, she has become one, but i remember interviews with her at the time; and she said something to the effect that she had worked hard all day and was just plain tired. she resented the idea of having to give up a seat when she had been there first and was so exhausted (hard work, long travel times to and from, etc.). i am not taking anything away from the symbol that she has become, but i remember her as dazed by the media light that was thrust on her by what came to be her handlers; they took her from interview to interview. she became more polished, less spontaneous and, after awhile, all the interviews were exactly alike. yes, there were many injustices, but i don't think she set out to spark a revolution. she did, became part of it. good for her. good for the country. she never would have put herself out there like steinem, etc, risking her job, etc...afters, being a symbol became her job. she did it well....and, in so doing, helped the civil rights movement.

on the same theme, of not being included, not being considered significant/heavyweight....do you remember the political cartoon when the last supreme court judge was being questioned about his 'second-class' attitude towards women? in the cartoon, he turns to ruth bader ginsberg and hands her a coffee cup and says, 'black, no sugar'.....or something to that effect!

 
At 2:09 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

actually she had been training for years in the nonviolence, civil rights movement. and then the story was just reduced to her being tired. her involvement was belittled in that way.
unfortunately, I heard her involvement the same way, that she was just tired.

 

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