Mcgowin theater at the National Archives. Im debra wall, deputy archivist for the United States and im pleased you can join us whether youre here in the theater or joining us through facebook, youtube, or cspan. Tonights discussion of women suffragists and the men who supported them, the suffragents is part of our series rightfully hers american women and the vote. Our partners are the 2020 womens vote seicentennial initiative and the one woman one vote initiative. Our story tells the story of womens struggle for Voting Rights. To secure these rights, women activists had to win allies in men in influential positions. It was men who sat in the state legislatures that would ratify or reject the amendment. When rightfully hers opened in our Lawrence Obrien gallery last may, guests at the opening reception were offered a yellow rose pin as they entered the museum. That evoked the badges worn by men. This nod to the role that men played came as something of a surprise. So, tonight were goin
And the Seneca Falls Convention that was called by Elizabeth Cady stanton in new york. And that, there she came out in Public Discourse and what about the idea that people that women should have the vote. And it reminds us of how controversial it was. Her cosponsor said that she feared that this proposal would make us look ridiculous, and her husband, Henry Stanton who was a new york legislator, refused to come. Frederick douglass, the famed orator did, and he defended it. But it was a shock and most newspapers that even covered the event did so with disdain and mockery. There are other historians that position the movement beginning earlier, in the 1840s when people like lucy stone and the sisters from south carolina, began to speak publicly about antislavery and suffrage, womens suffrage. And they were sometimes pelted with vegetables. The idea of women speaking was still some controversy over in any event, the Womens Movement in the United States really came out of abolitionism. It
And the Seneca Falls Convention that was called by Elizabeth Cady stanton in new york. She came out in Public Discourse and what about the idea that people that women should have the vote. And it reminds us of how controversial it was. Said that she feared that this proposal would make us look ridiculous, and her husband, Henry Stanton who was a new york legislator, refused to come. Frederick douglas, the famed order orator, did, and he defended it. But it was a shock and most newspapers that even covered the event did so with disdain and mockery. There are other historians that position the movement beginning 1840s whenthe people like lucy stone and the sisters from south carolina, began to speak publicly about antislavery and suffrage, womens suffrage. And they were sometimes pelted with vegetables. The idea of women speaking was still some controversy over in any event, the Womens Movement in the United States really came out of abolitionism. It was this idea of oppression and right
States, there is dispute among historians on when the movement actually began. Most people position it to 1848. And the Seneca Falls Convention that was called by Elizabeth Cady stanton in new york. And that, there she came out in Public Discourse and what about the idea that people that women should have the vote. And it reminds us of how controversial it was. Her cosponsor said that she feared that this proposal would make us look ridiculous, and her husband, Henry Stanton who was a new york legislator, refused to come. Frederick douglas, the famed orator, did, and he defended it. But it was a shock and most newspapers that even covered the event did so with disdain and mockery. There are other historians that position the movement beginning earlier, in the 1840s when people like lucy stone and the sisters from south carolina, began to speak publicly about antislavery and suffrage, womens suffrage. And they were sometimes pelted with vegetables. The idea of women speaking was still s
States, there is dispute among historians on when the movement actually began. Most people position it to 1848. And the Seneca Falls Convention that was called by Elizabeth Cady stanton in new york. And that, there she came out in Public Discourse and what about the idea that people that women should have the vote. And it reminds us of how controversial it was. Her cosponsor said that she feared that this proposal would make us look ridiculous, and her husband, Henry Stanton who was a new york legislator, refused to come. Frederick douglas, the famed orator, did, and he defended it. But it was a shock and most newspapers that even covered the event did so with disdain and mockery. There are other historians that position the movement beginning earlier, in the 1840s when people like lucy stone and the sisters from south carolina, began to speak publicly about antislavery and suffrage, womens suffrage. And they were sometimes pelted with vegetables. The idea of women speaking was still s