Makes this collaboration so important to me. My book is a snapshot of a. Ingular moment in history almost exactly 100 years ago. As the world finally began exiting from the devastation of the First World War and was able to begin the dreaming and planning for the peace and the new world that would come afterwards. Mythis moment, i show in book that women from farreaching and incredibly diverse parts of the world began stepping onto the global stage and asserting inserting an agenda of womens rights and gender equality that at the core demanded the rights for women to help shape this new world order and transform it into something that was fundamentally different that then what had given way to world war i. Ibook is a story of women from north america, europe, asia, and the middle east. It is a story of white, wealthy women and also sometimes desperately poor, workingclass women. It is a story of women that were married to tremendously supportive husbands and also women that engaged in
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,
Rightfully hers begins with the struggle for suffrage but doesnt end with the 129th the 19th amendment ratification. Both the Immediate Impact of the suffrage amendment and struggles that persisted into modern day. Up, is theer, stand curator of that exhibit. [applause] one of the goals of the exhibit is to recognize both the broad diversity of the suffrage activists, the american many faces of women barred from voting. As susan ware does in why they marched, the exhibit looks beyond the familiar names of susan b anthony, elizabeth caddy stanton and alice paul and brings to our attention activist from a variety of backgrounds showing across race and class. Susan ware, a pioneer in the field of womens history and leading feminist biographer, is the auditor and editor of numerous books on u. S. History, including american womens history, a very short introduction. Still missing, Amelia Earhart and the search for modern feminism, and letter to the world, seven women who shipped the americ
A in 1915, a group of women gathered in europe to try and find a way to stop world war one. It was the birth of the oldest womens Peace Organization in the world, the Womens International league for peace and freedom. This is theirtory. The end of the victorian age and the beginning of the 20th century brought about a flood movement for social change. Many people began actively struggling for control over their own lives. Settlement communities, labor unions and Civil Liberties organizations all grew out this tremendous and dynamic period. Women were profoundly in all these movements as well, fighting for their own rights. These feminists became formidable to the male dominated world of the early 1900s. Mildred Scott Olmsted has been a of the Womens International league since 1921. She has held variety of positions in the league include. Executive director of the United States section. I grew up a strong feminist. I grew up in a victorian type as i grew up my first ten years in victori