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
Of the 19th amendment. She shows how the movement intersected with the abolitionists and temperance movements. This is the first of a twopart program. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the National Portrait gallery as the smithsonian institution. Im Kate Clarke Lemay and im the curator of votes for women. For this exhibition, i worked about 3 1 2 years, researching, teaching myself this history and finding all the objects. In the exhibition, we had about 124 objects of which there are 63 portraits and in curating the exhibition, 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 Voting Rights acts is considered another sort of part two of the 19th amendment . So if youll follow me, im going to take you through the exhibition and show you a few of the objects that tell this history. So lets g
Amendment. Today our new exhibit, rightfully hers, american women and the vote, opened up stair in the lawrence f. Obrien gallery. This exhibit is a corner stone of our sentenal celebration of the 19th amendment. Which gave women the right to vote. The 19th amendment is rightfully celebrated as a major milestone made possible by decades of suffrage relentless Political Engagement and one critical piece of the larger story of womens battle for the vote. Rightfully hers begins with the suffrage that doesnt end with the 19th amendments ratification. The final section examines the Immediate Impact and the voting right struggles that persisted into modern day. And corrine porter, stand up, is the curator of that exhibit. [ applause ] one of the goals of the exhibit is to recognize both the broad diversity of suffrage activists and the many bases on which american women have been barred from voting. As susan ware does in why they march the exhibit looks beyond the familiar names such as susa
Amendments ratification. The final section examines both the Immediate Impact and the struggles that went into modern day. And we have the curator of that exhibit. [ applause ] one of the goals is to recognize the broad diversity of suffrage activists and the many b bases which american women have been barred for voting. The exhibit looks beyond the familiar names such as susan b. Anthony and others and brings to our attention activists from a variety of backgrounds showing that the cause of suffrage was advanced by american women across race, ethnicity and class. Susan ware, a pioneer and a leading feminist biographer is the author and editor of numerous books including american womens history, still missing, Amelia Earheart and letter to the world, seven women who shaped the american century. Educated at Wellesley College and Harvard University shes taught at New York University and harvard where she served as editor of the biographical dictionary, notable american women. Since 2012,
And the Seneca Falls Convention that was called by Elizabeth Cady stanton in new york. And that, there she came out in Public Discourse and what about the idea that people that women should have the vote. And it reminds us of how controversial it was. Her cosponsor said that she feared that this proposal would make us look ridiculous, and her husband, Henry Stanton who was a new york legislator, refused to come. Frederick douglass, the famed orator did, and he defended it. But it was a shock and most newspapers that even covered the event did so with disdain and mockery. There are other historians that position the movement beginning earlier, in the 1840s when people like lucy stone and the sisters from south carolina, began to speak publicly about antislavery and suffrage, womens suffrage. And they were sometimes pelted with vegetables. The idea of women speaking was still some controversy over in any event, the Womens Movement in the United States really came out of abolitionism. It