Well, good evening. Welcome to the william g. Mcgowan theater at the National Archives. Im debra wall. Deputy archivist of the United States and im pleased you could join us for tonights program, whether youre here in the theater or joining us through facebook, youtube, or cspan. Tonights discussion of womens suffragists and the men who supported them, the suffragents is part of the series events related to our current exhibit, rightfully hers, american women and the vote. Our partners are the 2020 womens Vote Centennial Initiative, and the one woman one vote 2020 festival, and we thank them for their support. Our special exhibit, rightfully hers, tells the story of womens struggle for Voting Rights, to secure these rights women activists had to win allies among men and influential positions. It was men who sat in the state legislatures that would ratify or reject the 19th amendment. Whose centennial we now celebrate. When rightfully hers opened in our Lawrence Obrien gallery last may,
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Mcgowin theater at the National Archives. Im debra wall, deputy archivist for the United States and im pleased you can join us whether youre here in the theater or joining us through facebook, youtube, or cspan. Tonights discussion of women suffragists and the men who supported them, the suffragents is part of our series rightfully hers american women and the vote. Our partners are the 2020 womens vote seicentennial initiative and the one woman one vote initiative. Our story tells the story of womens struggle for Voting Rights. To secure these rights, women activists had to win allies in men in influential positions. It was men who sat in the state legislatures that would ratify or reject the amendment. When rightfully hers opened in our Lawrence Obrien gallery last may, guests at the opening reception were offered a yellow rose pin as they entered the museum. That evoked the badges worn by men. This nod to the role that men played came as something of a surprise. So, tonight were goin
Bookstore and other independent sellers. Also the incredible Boston Review and the editors all of us have been proud by what has been curated by Boston Review but in this moment before the countrys more famous publications were willing to run racial capitalism and the ethics of resistance Boston Review provided one of the major forums for these ideas to be debated and it still does theres not many publications who can match the commitment to get space to debate across the political spectrum or insisting on the significance of race as a broader question of justice and democracy and citizenship. Its a real honor to be here at a panel cohosted by Boston Review. As a reminder the contributions all go to three important organizations critical resistance National Bailout devoted to attending mass incarceration with pretrial detention or one womans love to empower black women and girls in stockton california. The format today is 40 or 45 minutes of discussion i will moderate before he take qu
Definitely worth every penny. She is here today and afterwards she will answer it questions after the presentation. We even have a table setup for her here to answer more questions or even sign one of the books if you purchased one here today. All right, we are going to go ahead and get started here. Again, thank you for coming and thank you Charlotte Waisman for being here today. applause its great to be here with all of you and thank you for many of you who i know who are coming. Its good to have that smiling audience right in front of you. I was asked to talk about women of the west and i was told to top 45 minutes and take 15 minutes of questions. So i have a timer for myself and i will start it. I will stick to a script so that i can stick to time because those of you who know me know that i also could just talk forever and i dont want to do that now since you probably have other things to do as well today. We are having this filmed so it is very exciting. It will be on cspan thre