1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,600 Speaker 1: Hey, y'all, Eve's here. We're doubling up today with two 2 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 1: events in history on with the show. Hey, everyone, welcome 3 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:10,480 Speaker 1: to this day in History class. Today we're gonna do 4 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 1: something a little bit different than we've been doing. We're 5 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 1: bringing on a guest to talk about Delta Sigma Theta's 6 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:20,080 Speaker 1: first public act and that was the Women's Suffrage March, 7 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 1: and that was in nineteen thirteen. So I hope that 8 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: you all enjoy today's episode. We're doing this in celebration 9 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 1: of Women's History Month. March is Women's History Month, so 10 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: we're gonna do this throughout Sundays of this month. So 11 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 1: I would like to welcome Katie Mitchell to the show. 12 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 1: Katie is a technical writer at a cloud computing company. 13 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 1: She's also a freelance writer, and she's a member of 14 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:49,880 Speaker 1: Delta Sigma Theta. Welcome Katie. Hey, thanks for having me. Yeah, 15 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 1: I'm glad you're here today. So we're gonna talk about 16 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 1: Delta Sigma Theta's first public act when they went to 17 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 1: the Women's Stuffrage March in nineteen thirteen. Can you tell 18 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 1: us a little bit about what happened on the day, 19 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 1: how it started, anything you want to say about it. Sure, 20 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 1: So this happened in nineteen thirteen March three, UM. But 21 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 1: before the first public act, Delta Sigma Data had to 22 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 1: be an organization to start with. So on January thirteen, 23 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 1: nineteen thirteen, twenty two undergraduate students founded Delta Sigma Data 24 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: at Howard University h U. And then less than two 25 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: months later, these twenty two young women decided to participate 26 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:31,039 Speaker 1: in the Women's Suffrage March. Suffrage, meaning that they were 27 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: marching for the right to vote. Obviously, UM, that didn't 28 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 1: happen until decades later for black folks and um around 29 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 1: seven years later for white women. But it was like 30 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 1: a very radical thing to do for these undergraduate students. 31 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 1: Say they're nineteen through twenty two and they're participating in 32 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 1: this march that a lot of people didn't want them in. 33 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 1: As most people know, the women's suffrage movement was segregated itself. 34 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 1: White women felt that they need the right to vote 35 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 1: more than black women, more than black men, and that 36 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 1: was kind of the catalyst for their movement. For so 37 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 1: for these twenty two black girls to show up at 38 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:12,639 Speaker 1: this march, that was a very large march at the time, 39 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 1: over two fifty people showed up in d C to 40 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:18,640 Speaker 1: march for this was very radical and dangerous thing for 41 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 1: them to do because they weren't wanted by the white women. 42 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 1: The men attacked the entire UM march itself, including the 43 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 1: white women, So being black in that space was particularly 44 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 1: dangerous for them at the time. Can you tell me 45 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 1: anything about why this was the first public act, Like 46 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: what's the significance of them doing this before anything else, 47 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:40,120 Speaker 1: or this being the first thing that they did that 48 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 1: the public was able to see dust stigma. Thetas started 49 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,679 Speaker 1: because these women wanted to change. There was already a 50 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:49,679 Speaker 1: sorority on campus that they had previously been a part of, 51 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 1: but they were unsatisfied with what that sorority was doing 52 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 1: as far as making UM making political and social change 53 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:01,480 Speaker 1: in the community, UM in the black community. So they 54 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:04,640 Speaker 1: decided to break off and start Delta Sigma Data. And 55 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 1: one of their core tenants was political awareness and involvement. 56 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:10,520 Speaker 1: And so for them to have this to be their 57 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 1: first act, I think was very intentional. They weren't trying to, 58 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:17,080 Speaker 1: you know, just slip in quietly. They were told to 59 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,399 Speaker 1: UM go to the back black section of the parade basically, 60 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: and they showed up in full force because they knew 61 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:27,920 Speaker 1: that political awareness and involvement was a big thing for 62 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:30,840 Speaker 1: this new organization and they wanted to make that statement 63 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:33,920 Speaker 1: for the world. Is there anything notable that happened at 64 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: the time in terms of the reaction that people had 65 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 1: to their presence at the march, They definitely weren't wanted. 66 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: The organizer of the march was named Alice Paul and 67 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: she told editors the papers that she didn't think that 68 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: the march should be integrated. She said, either there's needs 69 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 1: to be a white march, or there needs to be 70 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 1: a black march, or no march. And they were aware 71 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 1: of this um. Their advisor, Mary Church Terrell, who was 72 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: a civil rights activists as well, came and advised the 73 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: twenty two women to still um participate and their presence 74 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 1: was agitating even more to the men um the white 75 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 1: men who were there. So when violence erupted like the 76 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:18,159 Speaker 1: march was covered very heavily in the papers. In the 77 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 1: papers at that time, they mentioned that there was this 78 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: group called Delta Stegment Data that was at this march, 79 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 1: and it was a group of black young women also 80 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: demanding the rights to vote. Can you tell me what 81 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 1: the significance is of Black Greek organizations in general. In general, 82 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:40,920 Speaker 1: there are nine mph C organizations National Panel in It 83 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 1: Council and their community service oriented. They do a lot 84 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 1: in the Black community and on college campuses. A lot 85 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,840 Speaker 1: of them started at HBCUs Historical Black Colleges and Universities 86 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:59,239 Speaker 1: UM to be organizations that uplifts black college educated people 87 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 1: and even just their members who have to be college 88 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 1: educated because you can't get into the organization unless you're 89 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 1: in the college. But also UM, like the elderly children, 90 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: whatever the organization is focusing on, that part of the 91 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 1: community benefits as well as the members. So for example, 92 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 1: one of the things that my organization, my chapter did 93 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 1: zai Alpha Georgia Tech. Hey yeah, UM, we focused on 94 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 1: food and security. That was a term back into thousand twelve. 95 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 1: Then not a lot of people were saying like what 96 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: is that? UM, And I was able to educate the 97 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 1: college campus but then also go out into the community 98 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 1: to food insecure places and make a difference in that 99 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,720 Speaker 1: way too. So March is Women's History Month, which is 100 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,039 Speaker 1: the reason we're talking about this today. So I want 101 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 1: to know what you think the significance is of talking 102 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 1: about like Greek organizations and the women in them in 103 00:05:55,640 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 1: march Um. So before I joined Delta, I've really looked 104 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 1: up to certain women, and some of those women included 105 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 1: like Ida b Wells, Fanny lou hamer Um not realizing 106 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 1: that they were Deltas too, and I was like following 107 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 1: in their footsteps. So chances are if you look up 108 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:17,720 Speaker 1: to a black woman, several black women, some of them 109 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:19,840 Speaker 1: are going to be in a sorority and you might 110 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 1: not know it. A lot of them, you know, that's 111 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 1: not the first thing that they're saying when they introduce themselves, 112 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 1: because they stand on their own and are doing great 113 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:29,839 Speaker 1: things in the community. But if you look back into 114 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 1: their past, a lot of the time that foundation comes 115 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: from the sorority that they're in. And just with times 116 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:42,920 Speaker 1: like these, with the Me Too movement, with um things 117 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:46,360 Speaker 1: going on at the border, women getting separated from their children, 118 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 1: folks getting locked up on drug charges, but then other 119 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: people getting to be millionaires because of drugs. Like I 120 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 1: think it's important to look at women who are in 121 00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:01,799 Speaker 1: the community doing what they're passionate about, whether that's immigration policy, 122 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 1: whether that's prison abolition, whether that's voting rights, and to 123 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 1: figure out what you're passionate about and get gets moving, 124 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 1: because girl, it's crazy tax out here, Like it's wild 125 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 1: out here. So I think that's why it's important and 126 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 1: relevant to look at the past, learn from these women, 127 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 1: look at women doing stuff right now and seeing like 128 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 1: what's what's the thing that you're going to take up 129 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: and what's the thing that you're going to push forward 130 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:31,559 Speaker 1: for the next generation. Can you tell me anything about 131 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:35,120 Speaker 1: delta stigma data, their presence at the Women's Stufferage March, 132 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 1: anything relevant to this topic. Yeah, So taking it back 133 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 1: to math class, you know, delta means change and these 134 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 1: women were really um intentional about making that change. Like 135 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 1: nobody would have batted an eye if they would have 136 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 1: made a sorority that all they did. You know, it's 137 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 1: nineteen They sit around drinking see in their big hoop 138 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 1: dresses and no one would have blinked to eye. But 139 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: they saw a different path of themselves and they saw 140 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:03,960 Speaker 1: something different. So one thing that I want pupil to 141 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 1: take away is that when you're doing things in the present, 142 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: there's a legacy that you may be laying down that 143 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: you don't even realize, or maybe you do realize it. 144 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe they did envision that over a 145 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 1: hundred and six years ago or years from their founding, 146 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 1: that someone like me would be on a podcast talking 147 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 1: about them. Who knows, maybe they had that vision. But 148 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: a lot of times people are fighting for things that 149 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: they don't even know if it's going to come to 150 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: fruition in their lifetime. You know, Black the voting rights 151 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:38,439 Speaker 1: acting in past the nineteen A lot of these women 152 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 1: were deceased by then, so they were out here marching 153 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:45,680 Speaker 1: for something that they wouldn't even get to enjoy. But 154 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 1: they did it because they realized that it was important 155 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 1: for future generations and not just people that they knew, 156 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 1: like people that they didn't know, people who didn't have 157 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 1: the opportunities they had. Like, remember this is nineteen thirteen. 158 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:01,320 Speaker 1: These are black people going to college, the first people 159 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 1: that went to college, and my family was causing the eighties. 160 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:06,680 Speaker 1: So like they were very privileged, and they used that 161 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 1: privilege to make a difference and to help other people 162 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:13,680 Speaker 1: and to like move women forward, move black people forward, 163 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:16,319 Speaker 1: move the country forward, because it's really a staying on 164 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 1: this country that everyone didn't have the right to vote 165 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:25,200 Speaker 1: from drump get on my soapbox, but yeah, it's just 166 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 1: like they were aware that they weren't wanted and they 167 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 1: went anyway. Like there's times right now where you know, 168 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 1: I feel like I'm not wanted in places, but I'm 169 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: going to show up because I know it's the right 170 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:40,440 Speaker 1: thing to do. I think it was like summer, we 171 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:43,560 Speaker 1: were on the highway shutting get down, and you know, 172 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:45,600 Speaker 1: a lot of older people kind of look down on that, 173 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:47,440 Speaker 1: saying like this isn't the way to do it. But 174 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:50,439 Speaker 1: if we look at our four mothers and four fathers, 175 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 1: it was on the highway shutting it down. So we 176 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 1: use the tools that we have to do what we 177 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 1: have to do and to make changes that we see fit. Yeah, 178 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,440 Speaker 1: I think it's really importan into put history in context 179 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 1: because I think the farther away that it gets, we 180 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:07,080 Speaker 1: really forget some of the things that we did. And 181 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:08,960 Speaker 1: when we look back to things like this, we can 182 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 1: understand that what we're doing today, the ways that we're moving, 183 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:14,960 Speaker 1: and the things that we're doing in the ways that 184 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:18,839 Speaker 1: we're organizing, really have precedence. There's a reason that we're 185 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 1: doing what we're doing today. It's not because people before 186 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:23,560 Speaker 1: us didn't do it. It had to have come from somewhere, 187 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:26,720 Speaker 1: and this act of Delta Sigma Theta is I think 188 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 1: is a good way of framing our lives today and 189 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:34,720 Speaker 1: framing what people in Delta Sigma Theta and also people 190 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 1: who organize in the community and take part in their 191 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:40,199 Speaker 1: community the things that they do. So yeah, thank you 192 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:42,600 Speaker 1: for putting it that way. Is there anything else that 193 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:45,680 Speaker 1: you want to add about this event? I will say 194 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:48,600 Speaker 1: that I mentioned Mary Tris Terrell was there. She was 195 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 1: UM an honorary member of Delta Sigma Data. Ida b 196 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 1: Wells was there also, she was a lynching anti lynching 197 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:58,680 Speaker 1: activists UM a very i think, the most famous woman 198 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 1: at her time. So I think it just shows that, 199 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 1: like the connections that we're seeing starting with the very 200 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,720 Speaker 1: early days of this organization and going on too now, 201 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:10,440 Speaker 1: they were marching for something that they didn't know if 202 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:12,440 Speaker 1: they would actually ever see this, but they were still 203 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 1: doing it. So I think a takeaway from that for Delta, 204 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:20,079 Speaker 1: for the other n pH D organizations, for people in general, 205 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 1: is people might say, like, what you're marching for, what 206 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:27,559 Speaker 1: you're fighting for, it's probably a moonshot. It's not gonna happen. 207 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 1: Like people want reparations. People want open borders. Like it 208 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 1: might sound really out of this world now, and we 209 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 1: might not be able to live to see the day 210 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:42,320 Speaker 1: that that is actually a reality, but like the twenty 211 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 1: two Founders still do it anyway, because people in the 212 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:49,320 Speaker 1: future will benefit from the audacity of you to think 213 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:51,680 Speaker 1: that we can have reparations, that we can have open borders, 214 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:53,400 Speaker 1: or we can have you know, the thing that you 215 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 1: know that we should have. Yeah, you know, it's really 216 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:00,360 Speaker 1: unfortunate how many times I've heard people say, you know, 217 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:03,600 Speaker 1: this isn't gonna get done, like, you know, this is ridiculous. 218 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 1: I've heard so many people and black people and black 219 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 1: women shut others down because something seems impossible. This is 220 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:13,199 Speaker 1: not just black people, this is you know, everybody. But 221 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 1: since we're talking about black women specifically today, I've heard 222 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,960 Speaker 1: that so much and it is it's sad, but it's like, 223 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 1: because we've had to fight so long, because we've struggled 224 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 1: so long and had to go through so much to 225 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 1: get the things that we have today, um, we lose 226 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 1: sight of it. And I think that this event in 227 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:33,319 Speaker 1: history is also another way of reminding us that sometimes 228 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:36,440 Speaker 1: things take a long time. A lot of times things 229 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:39,320 Speaker 1: take a long time, and because our lives are so short, 230 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:44,960 Speaker 1: we don't recognize the scale of things and we don't 231 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 1: recognize how every little piece is a layer that's built 232 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 1: onto a foundation and in the end creates the building 233 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:54,760 Speaker 1: that you know, we can all be proud of. Yeah, 234 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,880 Speaker 1: we definitely have a myopic views, like well I got 235 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 1: eighty years here and then they have an any But yeah, 236 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:03,800 Speaker 1: like people said, slavery whenever end, Like can you imagine 237 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: like you are enslaved your whole life and that's it. 238 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:07,640 Speaker 1: So that's all, you know, that's what you think the 239 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 1: condition of the world is always going to be. But 240 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 1: then you know your grandchildren are emancipated and you know 241 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 1: they well they start share cropping, buzzing. You know, it 242 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:30,599 Speaker 1: wasn't that girl, you know, I saw Isabella, Agnes Hey Isabella. 243 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,720 Speaker 1: But yeah, so like people say, it's impossible, it seems impossible. 244 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:38,960 Speaker 1: It may very well be, but you still gotta try. 245 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 1: You still gotta make your voice known because you never know. Okay, 246 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:45,960 Speaker 1: thank you for being here today, Thank you Eves. Thanks 247 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:51,040 Speaker 1: for having me. Keep up with us on Twitter, Instagram 248 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 1: and Facebook at t d I h C Podcast. Thanks 249 00:13:56,920 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 1: again for listening, and I hope you come back tomorrow 250 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 1: for more delicious morsels of history. Welcome back everyone. I'm 251 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 1: Eves and you're listening to This Day in History Class, 252 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:15,920 Speaker 1: a show where we peel back a new layer of 253 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 1: history every day. The day was March third, ninety eight. 254 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 1: A group of oil prospectors working for an American company 255 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 1: discovered a commercially viable source of petroleum near Da Mom 256 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:40,960 Speaker 1: in Saudi Arabia. Since then, Saudi Arabia has consistently been 257 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:44,880 Speaker 1: one of the world's top boil producers. The Kingdom of 258 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia was established in nineteen thirty two, when even 259 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 1: So combined four regions into one state through conquest. Even 260 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:57,360 Speaker 1: So called for searches for oil, a resource that had 261 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 1: demand and would be a big source of income for 262 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 1: a country that needed a boost in its economy. In 263 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:07,160 Speaker 1: nineteen thirty three, Saudi Arabia signed a contract with the 264 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 1: Standard Oil Company of California, also known as SoCal. SoCal 265 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 1: was granted the right to prospect for oil in Saudi 266 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 1: Arabia's eastern provinces. Side note SoCal is now Chevron. In 267 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:23,960 Speaker 1: September of that year, American geologists arrived in Saudi Arabia 268 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:27,320 Speaker 1: to begin surveys of the land by car and airplane. 269 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: A couple of months later, the California Arabian Standard Oil 270 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 1: Company OUR Cassock was formed. Cassock's name was later changed 271 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:42,240 Speaker 1: to Arabian American Oil Company or ARAMCO. Geologists began serving 272 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:45,680 Speaker 1: an area around a geological formation near the city of 273 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:48,640 Speaker 1: Damm on the east coast of the country. Drilling on 274 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:51,200 Speaker 1: the first whale began in April of nineteen thirty five, 275 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 1: and drilling of the second will started in February of 276 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 1: nineteen thirty six. Soon more wells were authorized in the area. 277 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 1: Those wells did produce some oil, but most of them 278 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 1: eventually produced more water than oil. The mom Oil will 279 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:10,119 Speaker 1: number seven at first seemed like it would also be fruitless. 280 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 1: The well reached more than three thousand feet beneath the 281 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:16,960 Speaker 1: earth and no water or oil had been found. But 282 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 1: chief geologist Max stein a Key thought that they would 283 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 1: find oil in the well, and he told the company 284 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:27,080 Speaker 1: to keep drilling. They did, and on March third, ninety eight, 285 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 1: they struck a significant amount of oil. Within three weeks, 286 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 1: the well had produced over one hundred thousand barrels of oil. 287 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 1: In the beginning, the oil was sent to Bahrain by 288 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 1: barge for export, but in nineteen thirty nine the first 289 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 1: tanker load of oil was shipped overseas. Now that Kassak 290 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 1: had found oil, it continued mapping and exploring Saudi Arabia 291 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:54,600 Speaker 1: looking for more. By nineteen forty nine, Cassock, now a Romco, 292 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 1: had reached a production of five hundred thousand barrels per day. 293 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 1: By nineteen five d the Trans Arabian Pipeline had begun operations. 294 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:08,600 Speaker 1: Aramco already paid Saudi Arabia a fee and other benefits, 295 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:11,399 Speaker 1: but that year ARAMCO began to split its profits with 296 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: the Saudi government. In nineteen seventy three, the Saudi government 297 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:19,879 Speaker 1: purchased of ARAMKO. By the next year it increased its 298 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:23,320 Speaker 1: stake to six and in nineteen eighty all of a 299 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 1: Ramco's oil rights, production apparatus, and facilities came under government control. 300 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:33,119 Speaker 1: By this time, the mom oil will number seven alone 301 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 1: had produced more than twenty seven million barrels. Eight years later, 302 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:41,920 Speaker 1: the company became Saudi Aramco. Over the next few decades, 303 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:45,719 Speaker 1: the company continued to expand its operations and production, fueling 304 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:49,960 Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia's economy. Of course, oil production in Saudi Arabia 305 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:53,399 Speaker 1: has been an issue closely tied to economics, politics, and 306 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 1: the environment. 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