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Took until 1920, over 72 years later for women to earn the right to vote. During those years, organizations would form creating a national movement, yet it was women in every community who led the effort in their towns and states to demand rights. Through the work of cspans cities tour, we will introduce you to some of these women who dedicated their lives to this cause. From a Newspaper Agency to a woman for protesting on the white house lawn. You will learn how western territories and states were on the leading edge of the movement and you will hear how a letter from a mother to her son would lead to the ratification of the 19th amendment, giving women the right to vote. We begin syracuse, new york, where an author talks about one of the movements lesserknown figures. Lucretia mott is the most important female white abolitionists and one of the most important women in American History, yet she has not received the same amount of historical attention as others. She is not a household
Cspan3. Next, a visit to the Smithsonians National portrait gallery. In the second of a twopart program, historian Kate Clarke Lemay gives American History tv a guided tour of an exhibit marking the centennial of the 19th amendment using political cartoons and images of suffragists picketing the white house, ms. Lemay explores the National Womens Party Tactics under the leadership of alice paul. Hi, im kate lemay, and im the curator of votes for women, a portrait of persistence, which is an exhibition on view at the National Portrait gallery at the smithsonian institution. And im standing in front of what we call our title treatment. Its a large blowup of headwig lik riker who was a german born actress. During the finnish or the conclusion of the 1913 parade in washington, d. C. , andst that just one event of the long Suffrage Movement that this exhibition highlights, and we have 124 objects that goes into the long history beginning in the 1832 and bringing it right up to 1920, but the
Tour the exhibit rightfully hers american women and the vote. With Museum Curator corinne porter. Hi i am corinne porter, i am a curator here at the National Archives museum. Im going to show you around the rightfully hers exhibition today which is at the lawrence f. Bryan gallery. Before we head into the gallery, i want to talk about this particular that is out in the lobby in front of the entrance. It has a photograph of the 1913 womens suffrage march. Looking a pennsylvania avenue towards the United States capital. It is overlaid with a photograph from the 2017 womens march from pennsylvania avenue as well. What it was is a lenticular, which has a special effect so that as you walk by, the image changes between the two and we really wanted to have it in the exhibit to help grab the publics attention and also to signal that this is a historic exhibit but one that continues to have contemporary relevance today. So lets head now to the lawrence f. Bryan gallery where rightfully hers is
Good afternoon and welcome to the august 25, 2020 regular meeting of the board of supervisors. Madam clerk, please call the roll. [roll call] mr. President , all members are present. Please place your right hand over your heart join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] thank you. Behalf of the board, i like to acknowledge the staff of sfgov tv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Colleagues, i like to take a few meetings to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment. The 19th amendment which guarantees and protect womens constitutional right to vote was ratified on august 18, 1920. Hundredth anniversary of this historic milestone is to reflect on incredible efforts to secure womens Voting Rights. It is a reminder of the unfinished work ahead of us to fulfill the promise of our democracy. For decades after the ratification of the 19th amendment, many women of color were preven