Student, student of International Affairs who took a an interest in public issues. She could not vote yet that tenant farmers on our farm, some of whom were illiterate could vote. Host who was harry byrne and why does he play a central role in your story . Guest Harry Thomas Byrne was the youngest legislator in the tennessee General Assembly in 1920. He was a freshman delegate. He was up for reelection in the fall. He represented a small hill town in east tennessee, the republican part of tennessee. And he, although he voted with the antisuffragists and the nt ratification nests from the 19th amendment, was upper ratification and that tennessee General Assembly that summer, he changed his mind because of a letter he received from his mother we described in that clip. That change of mind tilted the vote by one vote and that is how the 19th amendment was finally ratified. Host how did the vote for ratification of the constitutional amendment come down to tennessee . Guest a convoluted pa
Start our conversation on the centennial of womens suffrage with a clip of someone whose story you tell in your book, the womans hour. My mother was a college student, student of International Affairs who took a an interest in public issues. She could not vote yet that tenant farmers on our farm, some of whom were illiterate could vote. Host who was harry byrne and why does he play a central role in your story . Guest Harry Thomas Byrne was the youngest legislator in the tennessee General Assembly in 1920. He was a freshman delegate. He was up for reelection in the fall. He represented a small hill town in east tennessee, the republican part of tennessee. And he, although he voted with the antisuffragists and the antiratificationests, when the 19th amendment was up for ratification in that tennessee General Assembly that summer, he changed his mind because of a letter he received from his mother we described in that clip. That change of mind tilted the vote by one vote, and that is how
Next, a visit to the Smithsonian National portrait gallery, in the second of a twopart program, historian Kate Clark Lemay gives American History tba guided tour of an exhibit marking the centennial of the 19th amendment using political cartoons and images of suffragists picketing the white house. She explores the National Womens Party Tactics under the leadership of alice paul. Hello. The curator of an exhibit on view, votes for women, on view at the National Portrait gallery at the Smithsonian Institution and i am standing in front of what we call our title treatments. It is a large blowup of hedwig riker, a german born actress. , theas acting as columbia allegorical figure which duringnts United States the finish or conclusion of the 1913 parade in washington, d. C. And that is one event of the long Suffrage Movement this exhibition highlights. Go into124 objects that the long history beginning in 1832 and bringing it right up to 1920. Then also the 19th amendment and what it did no
Or on our free cspan app. Creators from the National Portrait gallery, National Archives and the library of congress discuss their institutions exhibits commemorating the nineteenth amendment, which gave women the right to vote. They talked about the Creative Process behind the exhibits, including determining goals and selecting objects. The berkshire conference of women historians and womens Suffrage Centennial commission hosted this event online and provided the video. Hopkinsjohnson university, a copresident of the berkshire conference. Im happy to be welcoming all of you to this evenings conversation. I have to extend a special embrace to our members who are tuning in from all over the world today. With this event, we begin a conference weekend, the big berks 2020. Not at the plant for in baltimore at johns hopkins, instead we are knit together with digital sound and image. 2020 marks 100 years since the 19th amendment, and Legal Protection for womens votes became part of the u. S.
Current special exhibit, rightfully hers, american women and the vote. Our partners are here tonight and we thank them for their support. Our special exhibit, rightfully hers, tells the story of the woman struggle for Voting Rights. Women activists had to win allies among men in influential positions. It was men who sat in state legislatures that would ratify or reject the 19 amendment, whose centennial we celebrate. When rightfully hers opened, guests were offered a yellow rose pin when they entered. That was won by members of the mens league for womens suffrage. For many guests, this not to the role that men played came as a surprise. Tonight we will take a look at the suffragents and their contributions to the voting right struggle. Its my pleasure to welcome nancy tate, she has served as the cochair of the womens Vote Centennial Initiative and is also on the board of the turning point suffragists memorial. She served as the executive director of the league of women voters, and prev