It contains all the Contact Information you need to stay in touch with member ovs congress, federal agencies and state governors. Order your copy today at cspanstore. Org. Next, a visit to Smithsonians National portrait gallery. N the second of a twopart program, American History gets a guided tool of exhibits marking the centennial of the 19th amendment. Using political cartoons and images of suffragettes picketing the white house. Kate im kate lemay, and im the curator of votes for women. Im standing in front of what we call our title treatment. It is large low up of this born actress, and she was acting as columbia, the allegorical figure that represents the United States during the conclusion of this parade in washington, d. C. Thats just one event of the ong Suffrage Movement this exhibition highlights. We have 124 objects of this long history bringing it right up to 1920. But then also clearing the 19th amendment and when it did not do was enfranchise all women including women of
A portrait of persistence. For this exhibition, i worked 3. 5 years researching, finding all the objects and teach myself this history. For this exhibition we have , about 124 objects, of which there are 63 portraits. In curating the exhibition i was , hoping to commemorate the 19th amendment and tell the history of the 19th amendment and how women lobbied to get this amendment passed and ratified. But also ask questions about it. And ask, what does that do and what does that not do . And why 1965, the Voting Rights act is considered a mother a , part two of the 19th amendment. If you will follow me, i will take you through the exhibition and show you a few of the objects that tell this history. So lets go. We are in the first gallery of the exhibition. I mentioned we have portraits that drive the narrative. I also wanted to include pieces of art, like the one we are looking at. It is titled the warfare at home and it is by a female artist. Lily martin spencer. She was active in the 18
Exhibition titled determine, the 400 your struggle for black equality. This second section explores the period from the end of the civil war after the civil war, which ended slavery in the united states, through 1950. And this was a period that witnessed both progress and backlash for black americans. After the civil war, as black virginians and americans embraced new opportunities in the form of access to education, new civil rights, political participation, building new communities, starting to businesses and so forth as on the one hand black lives flourished, under the new promises afforded by freedom in american society. Black people also began to suffer backlash from white establishment that wanted to reassert its power, its sense of supremacy and its control over people of color, and at the same time that we see amazing strides and black process, we also see regress in the form of disenfranchisement, and legalized. Segregation in american. Society so, we will look at a few storie
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