Discussion. Relive your history here on American History tv on cspan three. My name is stewart and i am president of the White House Historical so season, it is my privilege to welcome you back to Historic House and white house to store Coal Association for another one of our wonderful lectures. Tonight is one of the annual National Heritage lectures that we do in partnership with the u. S. Capital Historical Society and the u. S. Supreme court Historical Society. We have our wonderful colleagues from both here tonight and my great friend jane campbell, the new president of the capitol Historical Society. And i like to welcome her tonight. On june 4th, 1919, the 19th amendment was passed and sent to the states for ratification. The sufferagists used the white house as a backdrop to challenge inequity and bring attention to the cause and tonight we look forward to hearing more about their successful efforts to secure womens rights to vote. Before i introduce our speaker, i have a couple
This discussion. Watching on cspan three. My name is stewart mike lauren and im the president of the White House Historical association. Its my privilege to welcome you, many of you back to historic deindicate historic Decatur House and another one of our wonderful lectures. Tonight is one of the annual National Heritage lectures that we do in partnership with the u. S. Capitol Historical Society and the u. S. Supreme court Historical Society. We have our wonderful colleagues from both here tonight and my great friend jane campbell, the new president of the capitol Historical Society. And i would like to welcome her tonight. On june 4th, 1919, the 19th amendment was passed and sent to the states for ratification. The sufferagists used the white house as a backdrop to challenge inequity and bring attention to the cause and tonight we look forward to hearing more about their successful efforts to secure womens rights to vote. Before i introduce our speaker, i have a couple of other intro
And how women gained the right to vote. He she is the author of suffragits the 19th amendment. Im the president of the White House Historical association. Its my privilege to welcome you, many of you back to historic deindica historic Decatur House and another one of our wonderful lectures. Tonight is one of the annual National Heritage lectures that we do in partnership with the u. S. Capitol Historical Society and the u. S. Supreme court Historical Society. We have our wonderful colleagues from both here tonight and my great friend jane campbell, the new president of the capitol Historical Society. And like to welcome her tonight. On june 4th, 1919, the 19th amendment was passed and sent to the states for ratification. The sufferagists used the white house as a backdrop to challenge inequity and bring attention to the cause and tonight we look forward to hearing more about their successful efforts to secure womens rights to vote. Before i introduce our speaker, i have a couple of oth
Tonight and my great friend the new president of the capitol historical society. On june 4, 1919, the 19th amendment was passed and sent to the states for ratification. The suffragists used the white house as a backdrop to challenge inequity and bring attention to their cause. And tonight we look forward to hearing more about their successful efforts to secure womens right to vote. But before i introduce our speaker i have a couple of other introductions and things id like to share. First of all we have guests from Smith College here tonight, the Washington Club of Smith College. Stand up the washington Smith College crowd. Theyre our special guests tonight and were honored to have them. Id also like to tell you a little bit about the White House Historical association. And for those of you who have been with us before know i love to talk about our wonderful mission begun in 1961 by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy. And remember she was only 31 years old when her husband was inaugurated p
Professor free cites numerous examples of Elizabeth Cady stanton using racist rhetoric in her newspaper writings of the period, arguing that she used racism in an effort to attract allies in a fight to gain Voting Rights for white women only. The Womens Rights National Historical Park in seneca falls, new york is the host of this event. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is andrea. Superintendents of Womens Rights National Historical Park and Harriet Tubman National Historical park over in auburn. On behalf of the National Parks service it is my pleasure to welcome all of you here to your part. Before we start, i want to ask that everybody please silence of their cell phones so that our camera crew does not get disrupted. It is my delight to introduce you to our speaker dr. Laura free. Professor associate of history at hobart and William Smith colleges. Her work focuses on the interconnections of gender, race and politics in 19thcentury united states. Her most recent book, and the books