A portrait of persistence. For this exhibition, i worked 3. 5 years researching, finding all the objects and teach myself this history. For this exhibition we have , about 124 objects, of which there are 63 portraits. 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 that do and what does that not do . And why 1965, the Voting Rights act is considered a mother a , part two of the 19th amendment. If you will follow me, i will take you through the exhibition and show you a few of the objects that tell this history. So lets go. We are in the first gallery of the exhibition. I mentioned we have portraits that drive the narrative. I also wanted to include pieces of art, like the one we are looking at. It is titled the warfare at home and it is by a female artist. Lily martin spencer. She was active in the 18
Hi, welcome to the National Portrait gallery at the civilian institution. I am the curator of votes for women, a portrait of resistance. For this exhibition, i worked 3. 5 years researching, teaching myself this history, and finding all the objects. In this exhibit we have about 124 objects, including 63 portraits. In thisw 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 not do and why 1965, the Voting Rights act, was considered a part two of the voting amendment. I will show you a few of the objects that tell this history, so lets go. Were in the first gallery of the exhibition. And i mentioned we have portraits that drive the narrative, but i also wanted to include in the exhbitionj pieces of art, like the one were looking at which is titled the war spirit at home. Its by a female artist. He was active in th
Welcome all of you attending this symposium in person. As well as our audience on cspan to this Second Annual symposium on constitutional issues. This year, we examine the 15th amendment and invite a conversation as our Program States on suffrage in light of the hopes and realities of american identity and governance. In many ways, this university is the ideal venue for such a conversation. Envisioned as a Great National episcopal institution by a group of founding bishops in the 1850s, the university of the south by 1860 possessed more than 6,000 acres of land on the Cumberland Plateau in tennessee. It had an endowment half the size of harvards. I often think with my regents about what that would mean for us today. We wouldnt be lamenting an 8 return. And saw itself, in that vision, with colleges of different sizes, schools of law and medicine and business and theology. Saw itself indeed as americas first truly comprehensive private university a half generation ahead of Johns Hopkins
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