Stewart my name is stuart, the president of the White House Historical association. It is my privilege to welcome many of you back to the historic Decatur House and the White House Historical association for another one of our wonderful lectures. Tonight is one of the annual National Heritage lectures that we do in partnership with the u. S. Capitol Historical Society and the u. S. Supreme court Historical Society, and we have our wonderful colleagues from both tonight, and we would like to welcome you here today. On june 4, 1919, the 19th amendment was passed and sent to the states for ratification. The silver just used the white house as a backdrop to challenge inequity and bring attention to their cause. Tonight, we look forward to hearing more about their successful efforts to secure womens right to vote. Before i introduce our speaker, i have a couple of other introductions and things i would like to share. First of all, we have guests from Smith College tonight, the Washington Cl
And how women gained the right to vote. He she is the author of suffragits the 19th amendment. Im the president of the White House Historical association. Its my privilege to welcome you, many of you back to historic deindica historic Decatur House and another one of our wonderful lectures. Tonight is one of the annual National Heritage lectures that we do in partnership with the u. S. Capitol Historical Society and the u. S. Supreme court Historical Society. We have our wonderful colleagues from both here tonight and my great friend jane campbell, the new president of the capitol Historical Society. And like to welcome her tonight. On june 4th, 1919, the 19th amendment was passed and sent to the states for ratification. The sufferagists used the white house as a backdrop to challenge inequity and bring attention to the cause and tonight we look forward to hearing more about their successful efforts to secure womens rights to vote. Before i introduce our speaker, i have a couple of oth
Tonight and my great friend the new president of the capitol historical society. On june 4, 1919, the 19th amendment was passed and sent to the states for ratification. The suffragists used the white house as a backdrop to challenge inequity and bring attention to their cause. And tonight we look forward to hearing more about their successful efforts to secure womens right to vote. But before i introduce our speaker i have a couple of other introductions and things id like to share. First of all we have guests from Smith College here tonight, the Washington Club of Smith College. Stand up the washington Smith College crowd. Theyre our special guests tonight and were honored to have them. Id also like to tell you a little bit about the White House Historical association. And for those of you who have been with us before know i love to talk about our wonderful mission begun in 1961 by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy. And remember she was only 31 years old when her husband was inaugurated p
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