As a public service. Up next on American History tv we hear from a panel of scholars about how suffragists as a group outwardly adhered to traditional ideas of marriage and heterosexuality to demonstrate the Suffrage Movements respectability yet many privately engaged in nontraditional relationships the California Historical society hosted this event and provided the video. My name is frances kaplan, and im the reference and outreach librarian at the California Historical society. Thank you all for tuning into our program a little bit about us the California Historical society was founded in 1871 150 years ago its mission is to inspire and empower people to make californias richly diverse past and meaningful part of their contemporary lives. And now to our current program. On january 20th this year history will be made when Kamala Harris becomes the first woman Vice President of the United States of america as well as the first woman of color to hold this position. I think it is safe t
Harris becomes the first woman Vice President of the United States of america as well as the first woman of color to hold this position. I think it is safe to say that this occasion marks the shattering of quite a few glass ceilings. Harris is inauguration comes just months after the us month 100 Year Anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment which gave women the right to vote. Theres a long legacy of women fighting for political empowerment in the United States and in this program, our speakers will discuss their research into women whose contributions to this cause fully deserve recognition. Our first speaker is kimberly, hamlin. She is the associate professor of history and global and intercultural studies at Miami University in oxford, ohio as well as an awardwinning historian speaker and writer her book free thinker sex suffrage and the extraordinary life of helen hamilton gardner reveals the story of hamilton gardner who the same year that suffrage went into law becam
[video clip] my mother was a college student, student of International Affairs who took a an interest in public issues. She could not vote yet that tenant farmers on our farm, some of whom were illiterate could vote. Host who was harry byrne and why does he play a central role in your story . Guest Harry Thomas Byrne was the youngest legislator in the tennessee General Assembly in 1920. He was a freshman delegate. He was up for reelection in the fall. He represented a small hill town in east tennessee, the republican part of tennessee. And he, although he voted with the antisuffragists and the nt ratificationists from the 19th amendment, was upper ratification and that tennessee General Assembly that summer, he changed his mind because of a q a letter he received from his mother we described in that clip. The mind, tilted the vote by one vote and that is how the 19th amendment was finally ratified. Host how did the vote for ratification of the constitutional amendment come down to tenn
[video clip] my mother was a college student, student of International Affairs who took a an interest in public issues. She could not vote yet that tenant farmers on our farm, some of whom were illiterate could vote. Host who was harry byrne and why does he play a central role in your story . Guest Harry Thomas Byrne was the youngest legislator in the tennessee General Assembly in 1920. He was a freshman delegate. He was up for reelection in the fall. He represented a small hill town in east tennessee, the republican part of tennessee. And he, although he voted with the antisuffragists and the nt antiratificationists from the 19th amendment, was upper was up for ratification and that tennessee General Assembly that summer, he changed his mind because of a letter he received from his mother we described in that clip. That changed the mind, tilted the vote by one vote and that is how the 19th amendment was finally ratified. Host how did the vote for ratification of the constitutional ame
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