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Up next, we take you inside the u. S. Capital south where historical math and we knew ski is artifacts and photographs to trace the history of women in congress. This is the first of the two par program. The story of women in Program Begins with Jeannette Rankin who was elected to the house and 1916 from montana. Shes elected to the house for wears before women have the right to vote nationally. In a way, shes really a bridge from the Suffrage Movement to women attaining full prep political rights. She was active in a National Woman suffrage organization. She helped get women the right to vote not only montana but a couple of states west of the mississippi. She runs in 1916, shes elected to one of montanas two large districts. Part of a platform that shes a pacifist. She sworn into the house on april 2nd, 1917 and the house has come into special session. An extraordinary session because the president that light, Woodrow Wilson delivers a message to Congress Asking for a declaration of
And it is a lenticular, which has a special effect so that as you walk by the image changes between the two. And we really wanted to have it in the exhibit to help grab the publics attention, and also to signal that this is a historic exhibit, but one that continues to have contemporary relevance today. So lets head now into the lawrence f. Obrien gallery, where rightfully hers is on display. So this is a National Archives exhibition to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, but it is more than a 19th amendment exhibition. Thats because the 19th amendment, landmark Voting Rights victory that it was for women, did not give all women the right to vote. Millions of women were already voters by the time the 19th amendment was added to the constitution, but millions of women for reasons other than their sex remained unable to vote. And so this exhibit looks at that story as well. We have this introductory video here that is also meant to grab peoples attention and pull them
The National Constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congresr to increase awareness and understanding of the u. S. Constitution among the American People on a nonpartisan basis. That is a wonderful representation and before we begin, i want to provide quick for the next couple august 4, please join us for the annual Supreme Court review would be Antidefamation League Frederick Lorenz and it will be a wonderful discussion of the important pieces of th cases ofm inferencing must tell you what a great pleasure on august 2 26th house circumstances permitting will open up our new exhibit how women won the vote about the 19th amendment as it is relevant to todays topic that examine exhibit about the history of the expansion of womens suffrage at workteam is hard glimmering behind me on the backdrop of. Throughout the program please put your questions in a box and they will introduce them as sooe as possible. Now it is my great pleasure to introduce our phenomenal
The bombs were a great thing they ended the war they say hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides and thats what my grandfather always said was his reason for the decision. Truman was hoping for a dual strategy one was to drop the bombs and hope that japan would surrender to number 2 the americans were trying to send a message to the soviet union there was american poor planning in october 145 and had chosen 20 targets and russia. There are a lot of lawmakers in the state of missouri that we know huge financial contributions from Agricultural Industry groups those are the groups that opposed proposition b. And there is no doubt in our minds that those same groups pressured lawmakers to overturn proposition and before the session even started there were bills that were pretty filed just that you feel bad because it was repealed but you know all of your work paid off has made a dramatic difference for this i mean just the fact that almost half these facilities are out of business who