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[inaudible conversations] good evening i am Bradley Graham coowner of politics and growth. Thank you so much for coming out on this rather damp summer evening. Hopefully the will of the time we are ready to go home. We are coming up in a few years on our 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment. The course gave the men nationally right to vote. Anticipation centennial, Angela Dodson has put together a table sort of almanac titles remember the ladies. A documents the long struggles for suffrage for women in this country. How long with from the very title of the book calls what Abigail Adams said to her husband. A drawing on a range of sources including letters, speeches, newspaper accounts, photos, drawings. Angela highlights the milestones in historic push for womens voting rights. Her book provides port ....
She urged him to remember to write, rights for women, into that seminal document. A drawing on a range of sources including letters, speeches, newspaper accounts, photosdrawings, angela highlights the milestones in an historic push for womens Voting Rights. Her book provides portraits of a number of the leaders of the womens Suffrage Movement. And places that movement in the context of other major social request and Political Developments that were unfolding. Today, more women than men attend a turnout to vote, but lest anyone think the fight is over, just recall the massive turnout on the mall last january. A reaffirming womens rights and effectively protesting Donald Trumps election. Angela has lots of experience herself, report reporting and telling news ....
And again i want to thank politics and prose and also cspan for thinking enough of this series to come out and continue to cover. You dont get these kinds of people in this kind of room without getting this kind of coverage. I want to thank you all for being here tonight for our fifth installment. I want you to feel free, feel welcome, feel like home. Come to the microphone, ask a question, intelligent, civil, and we will answer. And i want to come without further ado, introduce this great great pedal because were going to get into some bullet points on their career and were going to get into the discussion. Discussion. I want to start off with someone who i have such respect for, such apparition, love four. Dr. Mary Frances Berry. Shes a former head of the civil rights commission, you civil rights commission. Shes also, shes got a list of things shes done. Shes been jailed for fighting against apartheid in south africa. The list g ....