Amendment giving women the right to vote. The womens Suffrage Centennial commission hosted this conversation. Good afternoon, everyone. And welcome. My name is dr. Colleen show gun and im the vice chair of the womens Suffrage Centennial commission. On behalf of the commission and twitter. Were thrilled to bring you womens fight for the vote, celebrating 100 years of the 19th amendment, conversation with elaine weiss and Hillary Rodham clinton moderated by dr. Carla hayden. This is the 100 Year Anniversary of the 19th amendment and the womens right to vote. And in honor of this milestone of american democracy, congress has officially designated august as National Womens suffrage month. The Centennial Commission is coordinating suffrage month on behalf of the congress and the American People and if this history interests you, please visit the commission at womens vote 100. Org to learn more and engage. But for now lets enjoy this conversation between the three brilliant women as we celeb
As folks are beginning to arrive, good evening and we are talking about the troop 6000 that started in a shelter and inspire the world. You are in for an excellent time tonight and before we start thank you to everyone who made this happen and for all of you are showing up. And we really appreciate that. Housekeeping if you are logging in now you can see the speakers they cannot see or hear you. They can see your name. We want to hear what troop you are with. To ask the question it will be later in the evening use the icon. If you have a good question you can upload it. We are recording tonight look for audio and video versions. This could appear on cspan later and troop 6000 is available at greenlight bookstore. Com. We are working with the supplier warehouse for faster shipping so if you care about supporting independent bookstores tonight is a great way to show your support. We are offering five dollars off when you purchase with coupon code 6000 to get had a copy. Introducing speak
On the pedal today its a roundtable conversation. Beccah, colleen, marcia weinstein, megan spring gate. The way this is want to go is we will give you a little context about the womens history work happening at the National Level. Then we will have a roundtable discussion about how the messages came to be so you can take that practice back to your community for 2020 to build into your communities. That is the intro. I am the associate director for publications and program at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. I help build the Digital Content for preservation leadership forum. I spent a lot of time thinking about how we can tell the full American History for underrepresented communities across the United States. Im a public historian by training and Historic Preservation by way of being at the trust for 13 years. I believe they work handinhand. I thought i would start by telling a few of the things we have been doing at the National Trust over the years for women to history.
Is much larger. You can see it over my shoulder. The hen see fire is moving. It didnt have air support today. Those resources had to go to other areas that need the help even more. First came the smoke. Then a few licks of flames. Then they served notice. After a quiet note, this would be a day for moving and moving fast. Neil and his wife kathleen knew all about that firsthand. Looked down at the window and theres a small area of fire. It was rapidly increasing in size. They live a few yards from the Lightning Strike that started all this. It was thunder and lightning all evening. It really got loud. What had been one fire yesterday became three this morning. With the gamble fire and now the 155. Yesterday toward the end of the day, 155 and gamble were a couple hundred acres. Overnight they yue to 4,500 and 5,000, respectively. From 60 known line strikes yesterday. There are all little spots, smoking up there. Even some trees in the crotch at the bottom where they come out of ground.
Brooklyn troops were 2000. Manhattan troops were 3000. Staten island troops were 5000. This new troop was unique. It belonged to girls who didnt know where they belonged the. It made sense to use numbers normally applied to troops in the other 5 boroughs given they didnt fix the dresses. Wasnt this troop of girls no matter where it was located, in a floating borough in its own right and even a shadow borough but the rest of society is ignorant of or didnt want to acknowledge its residence. For specialized troops like those with special needs were no longer used. The girl scouts of Greater New York settled on a name, troop 6000. Realize this is big. This will be amazing, wanted to jump up and down but as usual, what if she couldnt recruit more girls . What if she couldnt recruit parent volunteers or maintain a little bit of momentum she already achieved. To hit her anxiety as she was on a stage and accepted a proclamation from jimmy who selected her to be honored at his annual celebrati