The ratification of the 19th amendment in the World Affairs 1920. Council of dallasfort worth hosted this online event. Jim hi, everyone. I am jim falk. Thank you so much for being with us this afternoon. Joining us this afternoon is dr. Ellen carol dubois. She is the author of suffrage womens long battle for the vote. I am so pleased the conversation be with lee column a very dear , and special friend and supporter of the World Affairs council. Let me remind you, you can purchase a copy by going to dallas independent bookstore. Please be sure to type in the code dfw world and you will get , 10 off not just on suffrage but any book in your shopping cart. I why give special thanks to our director maisie high ken for , being a sponsor of todays program. And so much thanks the league of women voters of dallas, for being our promotional partner. There were could not be more important. To keep up with our part our programs go to dfw world. Org or if you missed a program go to our Youtube Ch
Whether you could do it all, and your fatherinlaw, martys father, was actually. You could tell the story better than i could. Tremendously supportive always. He said, ruth, if you dont want to go to law school, you have the best reason in the world and no one will think the less of you. But if you really want to go to law school and become a lawyer, well, stop feeling sorry for yourself, and you will find a way. That advice has stood me in good stead my entire life. The question is do i want this enough. If the answer is yes, i find a way. [ spectators murmur ] when you think about your life as a new yorker up until the time you went to washington, are there particular artists or political leaders or activists that influenced your thinking or who you are over the course of time . Well. The writers i think every girl of my age read and loved a tree grows in brooklyn. Mmhmm. Then there was that kind of risque, nastyboy book, j. D. Salingers catcher in the rye. [ laughter ] and another pe
This was the first of a twopart program. You can view this and all other american artifact programs on our website, cspan. Org history. Each week, American History tv is american artifact visits museums and historic places. Next we take you inside the house wing of the u. S. Capitol to learn about the history of women in congress. In the second of a twopart program, we continue the story into the 1940s with republican congresswoman clare booth luce. I am sarah elliott. I am the curator for the house of representatives. I take care of a lot of the artifacts, artwork, objects that document the houses rich heritage. I am the historian at the house. My job is to collect biographical information on members, to gather data and historic lists and to conduct oral histories. We answer reference questions in our office that come from on the hill and off the hill. We try to tell the story of the house. Which is this very big, very Old Institution in a way in which people can connect with it at a
Biographical information on members, together data and historic lists and to conduct oral histories. We enter reference questions in our office that come from on the hill and off the hill. We try to tell the story of the house. It is this very big, very Old Institution in a way in which people can connect with it at a humanly level. We do that through telling biographical stories or with clips from oral histories that give people a humans sense of a very large institution. Today, we thought we would try to do that by telling you about the history of women in congress. That is a this is a nifty piece of campaign ephemera. It is for clare booth luce, her reelection campaign. It is quite handy. It tells you what to do. Use this column when voting for clare booth luce. It has a little arrow, and how to make sure that you are pulling the levers. And Clare Boothe Luce wouldve been the republican counterpart of helen douglas. Her career had started as a writer and editor. She was a managing e
Congresswoman claire booth luce. Im a curator for the house of representatives and that means i take care of a lot of the artifacts, the artwork, the objects that document the houses rich heritage. Im the historian at the house and my job is to collect biographical information on members, gather data and historic lists, we answer reference questions from our office that come from on the hill and off the hill. And we try to tell the story of the house, which is this very big, very Old Institution in a way in which people can kind of connect with it at a human level. So we do that through telling biographical stories or clips from oral histories that give people kind of a human sense of a very large institution. Use this column when voting for claire booth luce and make sure youre pulling the levers to reelect claire booth luce. She would have been the republican counterpart. She was someone who was wellknown to the general public. Her career really had started as a writer and editor. So