Gallery. An exhibit marking the cen ten val of the 19th amendment using images of early suffrage leaders, miss lemay shows how the movement interacted with the abolitionist and tetraum presen movement. Welcome to the National Portrait gallery. Im kate lemay, the curator of votes for women, a portrait of persistence. For this exhibition i worked about 3 1 2 years researching and teaching myself this history and finding all the objects. In the exhibition we have 124 objects of which there are 63 portraits and i was hoping to commemorate the 19th amendment and tell the history of the 19th amendment and how women lobbied to get this amendment passed and ratified, but also ask questions about it and ask what does it do and what does it not do. And why 1965 and the vote rights act is considered another sort of part two of the 19th amendment. If youll follow me i will take you through the exhibition and show you a few objects that tell the history. Lets go. Were in the first gallery of the ex
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