And its my privilege to welcome many of you back to historic Decatur House in the White House Historical association for another one of our wonderful lectures. Tonight is one of the annual National Heritage lectures that we do in partnership with the Us Capital Historical Society and the Us Supreme Court historical society. We have our wonderful colleagues from both here tonight and my friend Jane Campbell who is the president of the National Historical society. On june 4, 1919 the 19th amendment was passed and sent to the states for ratification. The suffragists used the white house as a backdrop to challenge an equity and bring attention to their cause. Tonight we look forward to hearing more about their successful efforts to secure womens rights to vote. Before i introduce our speaker i have a couple of other introductions and things i would like to share. First of all we have guests smith college, the Washington Club of smith college. Stand up. [ applause ] they are special guests
History tv. Announcer next on American History tv, author Rebecca Roberts talks about the decade leading up to the passage of the 19th amendment and how women gained the right to vote through marching, picketing, and persistence. Ms. Roberts is the author of suffragists in washington, d. C. , the 1913 parade and the fight for the vote. The White House Historical association hosted this discussion. Stewart my name is stuart, the president of the White House Historical association. It is my privilege to welcome many of you back to the historic Decatur House and the White House Historical association for another one of our wonderful lectures. Tonight is one of the annual National Heritage lectures that we do in partnership with the u. S. Capitol Historical Society and the u. S. Supreme court Historical Society, and we have our wonderful colleagues from both tonight, and we would like to welcome you here today. On june 4, 1919, the 19th amendment was passed and sent to the states for ratif
Us. Im adam tuss. Im jennifer fitzgerald. Our former colleague tom where say a orange sherbert sunrise. You know, lauryn has some good s descriptions awell. We are happy to have her with us. Lauryn, this weather has been aioss the last couple of days. Once ag you walk outside and you are going to feel the humidity and mugginess yeah, tom had a great way of describing things out there. Lets show you guys the sunrise out there rightus now beca it is absolutely gorgeous out there. And we are go g it continue to see some beautiful conditions you see the banner, weather alert. It is red because we have got so more storms on the wayfor today. Currently that i temperature 76 degrees. 76. It is so warm out there right now. Winds are calm right now. Not seeing any rain out there right now, so that is the good eews. But we have mor rain on the way. It will be a little different than yesterday. You what to expect in just a littl bit. Guys. Lauryn, thank you vermuch. Video and pictures of the stor
Shenandoah valley and eastern panhandle of west virginia. Any showers we seeefore noon look to stay westf the district. 80 degrees is our temperatureri t now. If you have not walked outside yet, its really humid. That humidity hits you like a ton of bricks. I think its more steamy today because of the rain we got overnight last night. Wever, thats going to translate into heavy rain later on today. Lets talk about that flooding threat today. More storms coming your weay. Ill time them out in just a little bit. Thank you very much. Meantime, i want to tell you about a deadly crash. It has shut down traffic on the enter loop inaranham. C are getting by on the shoulder. Traffic is backed up because of this two car crash. One person was killed. Another rushed to the hospital. We have a crew on the way to the scene and we will have more on n this situatiater in the morning. But stay up to da on that. And backo the storms. Video and pictures of the damage have been rolling in since the storm
Day like yesterday. Yeah. Its going to be hot, hot, and even hotter. So, lauryn ricketts, when can wet get some relief around here . I think thats coming lat tomorrow, guys, and into tuesday. Y. D wednesda but its going to be hot around the area. Maybe just not quite as humid. It will definitely be on thee. Drier sid but we are dry right now. For now, i mean, it feels steamy when you walk out there. Lets take a look outside. We have got the cloud cover and thats the way its going to be today. Not the best pool day out there, but definitely feeling like you need to take a dip somewhere only because it is so steamy and its already warm. 80 degrees is our temperature right now already. We are dry across the ara, but then we are also looking at a few showers just trying to scoot own really coming out of the frostburg area. This has been moving rally slowly out of pittsburgh as we t saw ithe last couple of hours. A few showers possible into western maryland as we continue through the mornin