Information on our schedule, upcoming programs, and to keep up with the latest history news. Each week, American History artifacts visits museums and historic places. Next we take you inside the u. S. , capitols house where Matthew Wasniewski and curator Farar Elliott use photographs to trace the history of women in congress. This is the first of a twopart program. The story of women in Congress Begins with Jeannette Rankin, who is elected to the house in 1916 from montana. She is elected to the house four years before women have the right to vote nationally, and in a way, she is really a bridge from the Suffrage Movement to women attaining full rights. She was active in the National Womens suffrage organization. She helped women get the right to vote not only in montana but a couple of states west of mississippi. And she runs, in 1916, she is elected to one of two districts. Part of her platform is that she is a pacifist or she does one into the house on april 2, 1917. And the house h
The very first JACL lobbyist was Suma Sugi. Although largely forgotten to history, Sugi played an important role in the early days of the JACL. (One of the neglected but fascinating aspects of the JACL, an organization historically dominated by men, is that many young, talented women played central roles in its history.)
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