And its my privilege to welcome many of you back to historic Decatur House in 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 Us Capital Historical Society and the Us Supreme Court historical society. We have our wonderful colleagues from both here tonight and my friend Jane Campbell who is the president of the National 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 an equity and bring attention to their cause. 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 other introductions and things i would like to share. First of all we have guests smith college, the Washington Club of smith college. Stand up. [ applause ] they are special guests
Aims to close the gender gap in Political Leadership and we offer academic and practical Campaign Training and we facilitate research and discussions like this on women in politics. So tonight we want to take a look back all the way back 100 years to the arrow right after the ratification and passage of the 19th amendment because understandably the fight for womens equality did not stop with the success of the suffrage movement. There was more to do and thats but our discussion will center on this evening with dr. Rebecca wolfe who has just the wolf. Sorry. Okay was written a amazingly book. Its entitled gendered citizenship the original conflict over the equal rights amendment 1920 to 1963 and dr. Wolfe de wolf is a historian who arent her phd right here at American University and we are proud that she is also a wpi Course Instructor this semester teaching a class on this very subject and im sure we have a few of her students joining us this evening. I want to let everybody know befor
Campaign training and we facilitate research and discussions like this on women in politics. So tonight we want to take a look back all the way back 100 years to the arrow right after the ratification and passage of the 19th amendment because understandably the fight for womens equality did not stop with the success of the suffrage movement. There was more to do and thats but our discussion will center on this evening with dr. Rebecca wolfe who has just the wolf. Sorry. Okay was written a amazingly book. Its entitled gendered citizenship the original conflict over the equal rights amendment 1920 to 1963 and dr. Wolfe de wolf is a historian who arent her phd right here at American University and we are proud that she is also a wpi Course Instructor this semester teaching a class on this very subject and im sure we have a few of her students joining us this evening. I want to let everybody know before we start that were going to say plenty of time for your questions at the bottom of the