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
Yes. Jills book tells the story of a woman who would not be put down. The book paints a vivid pore train of Belva Lockwood. And should gain from her life the public attention long overdo. Women in the public eye nowadays are courted by various archives seeking to be the repository of their papers. Not so in lockwoods time. Piecing together her work and days required the relentless pursuit of a determined sleuth and thats just what jill became in this process. A most persistent detective. In the introduction to the biography. I noticed that Elizabeth Stanton had compared lockwood to shakespeares portia and she does resemble it in this respect. They were both individuals of impressive intellect, who demonstrated that woman can hold their own as advocates for justice. Like shakespeares portia lockwood used wit and lockwood used no disguise in tackling the prevailing notions that woman and lawyering, no less politics do not mix. Not only did they became the first woman admitted to the bar
Belva lockwood campaigned to be the first woman of the United States. Jill norgren chronicles her life for womens rights. This is an hourandahalf. When jill norgren sent me her manu script and asked if i would write a forward, we were just gearing up for the new term and it was not a time when i welcomed additional extra curricular assignments. But after sampling several parts of the manuscript i just said yes. Jills book tells the story of a woman who would not be put down. The book paints a vivid portrait of Belva Lockwood and should gain for her life the public attention long overdue. Jills was a prodigious effort. Women in the public eye nowadays are courted by various archives seeking to be the repository of their papers. Not so in lockwoods time. Piecing together her work and days required the relentless pursuit of a determined sleuth, and thats just what jill became in this process. A most persistent detective. In the introduction to the biography, i noted that Elizabeth Kaley s
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Brown four out of ten street lights dont work and it takes an hour on average for Detroit Police to respond to 911 calls. Hari sreenivasan looks at the motor citys battle amid bankruptcy. Detroiters are so used to bad news, and they are so used to things not really breaking our way, and theyre used to getting up the next morning and going, well, i cant stop, ive got to keep going, ive got to keep trying. Woodruff david brooks and ruth marcus analyze the weeks news. Brown and yes, those are goats in that graveyard. More than a hundred of them. Kwame holman tells us what theyre doing in this historic washington, d. C. , cemetery. Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations.