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 suffragists 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 previously she served as the chief operating officer at the National Academy of Public Administration and with the department of ener
Us online. Tonights discussion of womens suffragists and the men who supported them, the suffrage gents and their role is part of the series related to our special exhibit rightfully hers. Our partners are the 2020 womens Vote Centennial Initiative and the one woman, one vote 2020 festival. We thank them for their support. Our special twibt tells the story of womens Voting Rights. To sure these they had to win allies among men in influential positions. It was men who sat in the state legislatures that would ratify or reject the 19th amendment whos centennial we now celebrate. When it opened in our gallery last may guests at the opening reception were offered a yellow rose pin as they entered. That evoked the badges worn by members of the mens league for womens suffrage. To many guests this nod to the role that men played came as something of a surprise. Tonight were going to take a look at those suffrage gents and their contributions to the Voting Rights struggle. And its my pleasure t
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Rightfully hers begins with the struggle for suffrage but doesnt end with the 129th the 19th amendment ratification. Both the Immediate Impact of the suffrage amendment and struggles that persisted into modern day. Up, is theer, stand curator of that exhibit. [applause] one of the goals of the exhibit is to recognize both the broad diversity of the suffrage activists, the american many faces of women barred from voting. As susan ware does in why they marched, the exhibit looks beyond the familiar names of susan b anthony, elizabeth caddy stanton and alice paul and brings to our attention activist from a variety of backgrounds showing across race and class. Susan ware, a pioneer in the field of womens history and leading feminist biographer, is the auditor and editor of numerous books on u. S. History, including american womens history, a very short introduction. Still missing, Amelia Earhart and the search for modern feminism, and letter to the world, seven women who shipped the americ
Stanton. She is a historian of womens history. We are delighted to have her here tonight. Elizabeth griffith, thank you for being here. [applause] hello, everybody. We are making a few adjustments here. The light relates to cspan filming, so we are stuck with the light, which is affecting some of the colors. I hope you have already noticed that the background was suffrage for all. [laughter] hello, welcome, and thank you for being here. Thank you to the smithsonian for the invitation and the opportunity to talk about what im learning as i write a new book. This book is about women in the 20th century between the two betweenon washington, the march 1913 suffrage march, organized by alice paul the day before Woodrow Wilson was a nigra, and the march january here, around the country and around the world the day after president trumps inauguration. Spanhundredyour encompasses economic, legal rights for women, large cultural shift, sexual expectations, as and. As sexism, misogyny, historian