[inaudible conversations] good evening i am Bradley Graham coowner of politics and growth. Thank you so much for coming out on this rather damp summer evening. Hopefully the will of the time we are ready to go home. We are coming up in a few years on our 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment. The course gave the men nationally right to vote. Anticipation centennial, Angela Dodson has put together a table sort of almanac titles remember the ladies. A documents the long struggles for suffrage for women in this country. How long with from the very title of the book calls what Abigail Adams said to her husband. A drawing on a range of sources including letters, speeches, newspaper accounts, photos, drawings. Angela highlights the milestones in historic push for womens voting rights. Her book provides portraits of a number of the leaders of the womens Suffrage Movement. In places the movement in the context of other major social and Political Developments that were unf
She urged him to remember to write, rights for women, into that seminal document. A drawing on a range of sources including letters, speeches, newspaper accounts, photosdrawings, angela highlights the milestones in an historic push for womens Voting Rights. Her book provides portraits of a number of the leaders of the womens Suffrage Movement. And places that movement in the context of other major social request and Political Developments that were unfolding. Today, more women than men attend a turnout to vote, but lest anyone think the fight is over, just recall the massive turnout on the mall last january. A reaffirming womens rights and effectively protesting Donald Trumps election. Angela has lots of experience herself, report reporting and telling newsworthy stories amount veteran journalist who after starting with gannett news landed at the new york times. There she rows from copy editor become the first africanamerican woman promoted to a Senior Editor position at the times. She
Youre watching booktv, television for serious readers. You can watch any program you see here online at booktv. Org. And youre watching booktv on cspan2. We are on the campus of the university of arizona talking with professors here who are also authors. Want to introduce you to Linda Lumsden who is an associate professor of journalism here at the university of arizona and the author of this book, inez the life and times of Inez Milholland. Who was she, professor lumsden . Guest well, she was, one, the sole martyr for womens suffrage in the united states. She was arguably the most famous female political figure of the 1910s. And she was the epitome of the new woman which was a group that really were the first feminists of the 20th century. Among other things, she was as vassar graduate, she was a lawyer who had the fight to be able to practice. She was a free lover, part of the Greenwich Village crowd. She was a war correspondent. She was a socialist. She was an advocate for prostitute
Then i just do it all day long. I have a network of friends out there that im in touch with. Tom from the New York Times and we have changes exchanges back and forth and chuck todd and i talk a lot. He is the moderator of meet the press and our political dress it director in washington and other folks as well. We are not a very large group. The old political journalist and we like to stay in touch with each other. Why arent you on the letterman show . I dont know whats going to happen. Dave and i have been close for a long time and he is kept us very tight. I was on his first show when he went to cvs and we have been talking back and forth about a couple of things. I did send him an email today saying david, tonight tonight all the eyes of america will be on you the departure of an icon and im so proud to have been your friend. If you screw this up i will never talk to you again. [applause] tom brokaw perhaps its odd for me to be speaking to an icon of journalism breaking a journalisti
Then i just do it all day long. I have a network of friends out there that im in touch with. Tom from the New York Times and we have changes exchanges back and forth and chuck todd and i talk a lot. He is the moderator of meet the press and our political dress it director in washington and other folks as well. We are not a very large group. The old political journalist and we like to stay in touch with each other. Why arent you on the letterman show . I dont know whats going to happen. Dave and i have been close for a long time and he is kept us very tight. I was on his first show when he went to cvs and we have been talking back and forth about a couple of things. I did send him an email today saying david, tonight tonight all the eyes of america will be on you the departure of an icon and im so proud to have been your friend. If you screw this up i will never talk to you again. [applause] tom brokaw perhaps its odd for me to be speaking to an icon of journalism breaking a journalisti