or@booktv.org. tears history professor martha jones who explores the efforts by black women to win the right to vote. good evening, everyone and welcome. thank you for joining us tonight. my name is hilary carr and i m very pleased to introduce this event with professor martha s. jones presented her brand-new book vanguard: how black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all. join a conversation by nikole hannah-jones. thank you for joining us virtually tonight. virtual events tonight we bring authors and the work to our committee at our new digital community through these unprecedented times. we will be hosting events on our account. our event schedule appears on a website@harvard.com/.com/events where you can sign up. this will conclude with time for your questions. after, if you have a question at any time during the talk click on the q&a button at the bottom and will get to as many as time allows. in the chat i will be posting a link to purc
have advised us in the opening of our new gallery, civil war and reconstruction: the battle for freedom and equality. [applause] who has seen the new gallery? and everyone who has not can vibe about vision 2020, which is really important and is cosponsoring our event this evening. isn t it wonderful? it s so inspiring and so meaningful to tell the story of how the equality promised in jefferson s declaration was thwarted in the original constitution, resurrected by lincoln at gettysburg, and frederick douglass, and enshrined in post civil war amendments, thwarted again, and then resurrected by king. and thavolia glymph and kate masur are two of the scholars who were on our scholarly advisory panel. you ll hear from them as well as catherine clinton tonight in a conversation moderated my colleague lana ulrich, our head of constitutional content who worked with the incredible team to create that exhibit. if you haven t seen it, i want you to go down as soon as possible and see
so actually to start off with is to think about the ways that these images are part of our culture today, and one is the way that por chaits like susan portraits like susan anthony s portrait which we see in this parade, she s the closest head to us with the circle glasses. and you see this march down pennsylvania avenue and this emphasis on the very celebrated 19th century women s rights leader. and we ll talk today about how she became such a famous sufficient is rangist not only sufficient is rangist not only in the 19th century, but also today suffragist. in 1913 we had the same street in washington, d.c., pennsylvania avenue, and one of the reasons why i m pointing to this image and how it connects to our current, you know, political and social movement culture is because of this image that was very popular in june of 2020 which was related to the black lives matter. it s briann a that noble riding on a horse in oakland, california. and this image became a viral se
extensive conversations with historians about their lives and work. many of our television programs are also available as podcasts. you can find them all on the c-span now mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. up next, another class from our series lectures in history. so throughout the seminar you ve been thinking about images in the period and today we ll think about the way images constructed gender roles particularly in the 19th century and the ways that activists use images to shape, alter, change gender roles during this time period too. so i would like actually to start off with, just think about the ways these images are part of our culture today. and one is the ways that portraits like susan b. anthony s portrait which we see in this 2017 women s march parade, we see susan b. anthony s portrait. she s the closest head to us with the circle glasses. and we see this march down pennsylvania avenue, and this emphasis on this very celebrated 19th century wom
which we see in this 2017 women s march parade and we see this march down pennsylvania avenue, and this emphasis on this very celebrated 19th century women s rights leader, and we ll talk today about how she became such a famous suffragist not only in the 19th century but also today. and i want to also think back to another parade in 1913 where we have holland down the same street and one of the reasons pointing to this image and how it connects to our current political and social movement and culture is because of this image that was very popular in june of 2020, which is related to the black lives matter movement. it s briana noble riding on a horse in oakland, california, and this image was a viral sensation. perhaps you all saw it, but there s really interesting similarity between these two women who are riding horses and these urban areas as symbols of these political causes and that really gives us a sense of how the similarities that were so famous and images that real