Tour the exhibit rightfully hers american women and the vote. With Museum Curator corinne porter. Hi i am corinne porter, i am a curator here at the National Archives museum. Im going to show you around the rightfully hers exhibition today which is at the lawrence f. Bryan gallery. Before we head into the gallery, i want to talk about this particular that is out in the lobby in front of the entrance. It has a photograph of the 1913 womens suffrage march. Looking a pennsylvania avenue towards the United States capital. It is overlaid with a photograph from the 2017 womens march from pennsylvania avenue as well. What it was is a lenticular, which has a special effect so that as you walk by, the image changes between the two and we really wanted to have it in the exhibit to help grab the publics attention and also to signal that this is a historic exhibit but one that continues to have contemporary relevance today. So lets head now to the lawrence f. Bryan gallery where rightfully hers is
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Hi, i am corinne porter, i am a curator at the National Archives movie is him archives museum. Before we head into the gallery i want to talk about this lenticular out in the lobby in front fo the entrance. It has a photograph of the 1913 womens suffrage march, looking up pennsylvania avenue toward the United States capitol. And it is overlaid with a photograph from the 2017 womens march from pennsylvania avenue as well. And it is in a lenticular, which has a special effect, so that as you walk by the image changes between the two. We wanted to have it in the exhibit to help grab the publics attention, and also to signal that this is a historic exhibit, but one that continues to have contemporary relevance today. Lets head now into the gallery, where rightfully hers is on display. This is a National Archives exhibition to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment. But it is more than a 19th amendment exhibition. Thats because the 19th amendment, landmark voting right victor
History. The archives launches a new exhibit called rightfully hers comemorating the 100th anniversry of the 19th amendment. Ratified by 36 states in 1920, the 19th amendment prohibited states from denying the vote on the basis of sex. It was a victory for womens rights, but not for all women. For some perspective, i sat down with three historians, ann gordon, the preeminent scholar on the Womens Suffrage Movement and the editor of the Elizabeth Cady stanton and susan b. Anthony papers at rutgers university. Marcia chatelain, an associate professor of history and africanamerican studies at Georgetown University, and maggie blackhawk, a law professor at the university of pennsylvania and a member of the ojibwe tribe. Talk to me about the long, very long fight for women who were trying to get the right to vote, and who were some of them the boldface names if you will who were leading this charge . Ann well, the central people from the early stages of themom Elizabeth Cady stanton would b
That they also thought it was important for women to talk about their own rights. , the question of the right to vote in 1848 was probably of the many items on the agenda was the most controversial. It was a very close vote. People were women at the focused onwere more other aspects of womens rights at the time but that really is the date that we highlight as the start of the womens movement. What is happening in other countries at this time . Start i would say it is important to note that women in new jersey voted from 1776 until about 1807. Women in at least part of the United States had a right to vote. It was taken away as the constitution was revised. In point of fact, the first country to give women the right to vote to was new zealand and that was in 1893. Much earlier than in the United States. Although 1890 is the first date giving women the right to vote. Earliest of not the the countries to give women the right to vote but it was also late. Rticularly in addition to new zeal