A critical part of the campaign was getting their message out to the nation and shifting Public Opinion to support their cause. Tonight we will learn about the severed the Suffrage Movements communications shane and how it contributed to the success. I would like to welcome nancy tate of the stage. Since 2015 she has served as 2020 womense Centennial Initiative and is on the board of the womens suffrage memorial. She served as015 executive director of the league of women voters. Previously she was chief operating officer for the National Academy of Public Administration at also served in the department of energy, department of education and the office of economic opportunity. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome nancy tate. [applause] tate thank you. Its wonderful to be here at the national archives, especially in light of the exhibit, rightfully hers. I encourage any of you who have not seen it to make a point of doing so. Ofm nancy tate, i am cochair the 2020 womens vote Centennial I
For silence your cell phones. Of course it would use them for social media you are welcome to keep them on. Also during our q a we have microphone, just one this time, so if you could step up to that mike mika would be great because as you can see we have cspan film we also making an audio recording of this event. And feel free to leave your chairs with our. We have more events coming up this afternoon so youre welcome to stick around all day. Im pleased to welcome Johanna Neuman this afternoon to discuss her important new book gilded suffragists about a group of new york socialites who fought for the womens right to vote in the early part of the last century. Among the more than 200 social figures involved in the movement she writes about a host of familiar names including astor, belmont, harriman and vanderbilt, richard might just what a radical explosive notion the womens vote was in the early 1900s and how in her own words theres a moment when generations cross paths and an idea th
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
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