In the lobby in front of the entrance. It has a photograph of the 1913 womans suffrage march looking up pennsylvania avenue toward the United States capital. It is overlaid with the photograph from the 2017 womens march from pennsylvania avenue as well. Its an intellect linticular so as you walk by, the image changes between the two. We really wanted to have it in the exhibit to help grab the publics attention and also to signal that this is an historic exhibit, but one that continues to have contemporary relevance today. So, lets head now into the gallery where rightfully hers is on display. So, this is the National Archives exhibition to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, but it is more than the 19th amendment exhibition. Thats because the 19th amendment landmark Voting Rights victory that it was for women did not give all women the right to vote. Millions of women were already voters by the time the 19th amendment was added to the constitution, but millions of wo
Yes. Jills book tells the story of a woman who would not be put down. The book paints a vivid pore train of Belva Lockwood. And should gain from her life the public attention long overdo. Women in the public eye nowadays are courted by various archives seeking to be the repository of their papers. Not so in lockwoods time. Piecing together her work and days required the relentless pursuit of a determined sleuth and thats just what jill became in this process. A most persistent detective. In the introduction to the biography. I noticed that Elizabeth Stanton had compared lockwood to shakespeares portia and she does resemble it in this respect. They were both individuals of impressive intellect, who demonstrated that woman can hold their own as advocates for justice. Like shakespeares portia lockwood used wit and lockwood used no disguise in tackling the prevailing notions that woman and lawyering, no less politics do not mix. Not only did they became the first woman admitted to the bar
Way to talk about it because today is the anniversary of the firing of fort some tour. Everybody has different ideas about what the nation is supposed to become, and we have gone through a lot of that with the idea that African American men had fought for the union. White southerners had ideas about what america should be as well, the northerners who had won the war had ideas about what the americans should be. The indians and chinese who are out west had ideas about what america should be. And certainly the northern men who had fought and won the war had ideas about what the country should be. But the critical question as to what it was going to be, was who was going to have a say in it. And we have and gone through a bit of that. But who had a say in what the nation can view would have a dramatic effect on what eventually became. So, today i want to talk about women and womens lives in the late 19th century. And their role in what was really the reconstruction, the true rebuilding of
Online anytime at cspan. Org slash history. We lets go ahead and start. As you know the theme of this course comes from the idea that the civil war dramatically changes american history, because what it really does is it destroys everything that everyone believed about the relationship between america and the american government. So once the war is over and this isnt actually really good way to talk about it because today is the anniversary of the firing of fort some tour. Everybody has different ideas about what the nation is supposed to become, and we have gone through a lot of that with the idea that African American men had fought for the union. White southerners had ideas about what america should be as well, the northerners who had won the war had ideas about what the americans should be. The indians and chinese who are out west had ideas about what america should be. And certainly the northern men who had fought and won the war had ideas about what the country should be. But the
This is a closed captioning test. This is a closed captioning test. This is a closed captioning test. This is a closed captioning test. This is a closed captioning test. This is a closed captioning test. A guy named pig iron kelly, who is very important during the civil war. If anyone is interested i always like pick iran because he wasnt the brightest crown of the box, but what he was really good that was listening to what everyone else so it. So if you want to know what people thought, and you are in a hurry, in the civil war, you can read pick iron because he just enough sizes where people set. But what this means is that he is very involved in the Republican Party and industrialization. And then he has this daughter. And she has issues of her own that she wants to address in American Society. She had been at hall house. She had seen the terrible conditions especially if garment workers, and she wanted to take that on. She wanted to take on industrialization. But how do women take o