Next we visit the womens Equality National monument to see her work. My name is jennifer krafcic. At the belmont national monument. On capital hill in washington d. C. This house was the fifth and final headquarters at the National Womens party and the National Womans Party ways founded by alice paul as the Congressional Union for womens suffrage. And that became the National Womens party in 1916. This group of women spent seven years actively lobbying the president and congress for a federal suffrage amendment. When they received it in 1920, they wrote and began lobbying for the equal rights amendment. When they were lobbying for suffrage, they were work all over the country. Actively garnering support from western women voters and bringing the fight directly to the president s doorstep. They had headquarters on Lafayette Square where they could walk out their door and be right at the president s doorstep in a matter of minutes and they began picketing the white house. One of the firs
National womens party. The National Party was hounded by a woman named alice paul in 1913 as the Congressional Union for womens suffrage. The Congressional Union for womens suffrage became the National Womens party in 1916. This group of women spent seven years actively lobbying the president and congress for a federal suffrage amendment. At which time, once the received the amendment in 1920, they began, they wrote and began lobbying for the equal rights amendment. During the period where they were lottery lobbying for suffrage, they were working all over the country actively garnering support from western women voters and bringing the fight directly to the president s doorstep. They had headquarters over on on Lafayette Square where they could walk out their door and be right at the president s doorstep in a matter of minutes. And they began picketing the white house, one of the first groups to do so, when the United States entered world war i in 1917. At that pit at that time, the p
He works at the six oldest reform congregation in the United States and has a illustrious history. Ings a rabbi was the lead jewish abolitionist in the United States during the civil war and was known as the abolitionist temple and since then it has a long history of social activism, but in addition to that, he has a phd in history from the university of cincinnati and has written a number of books on americanjewish history and is within a number of scholarly articles as well as articles in the more popular press and i have the honor of coauthoring an article with lance on the Huffington Post this year on the brandeis confirmation which we are also celebrating this year. Lance, thisducing is one of the great virtues of being the conference coordinator. I can add to the program whatever i want and i just wanted to add one footnote to andrews paper because i think it is relevant to what we will be talking about today. That is that in 1866 when , 150 years ago, in 1866 in congress is deba
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How they work and how theyre made. I love American History tv. The presidency. American artifacts, fantastic shows. I had no idea they did history. Thats probably something i would really enjoy. And with American History tv, it gives you that perspective. Im a cspan fan. Nina allender was the political cartoonist for the National Womens party from 1914 until 1927, contributing over 150 cartoons supporting the campaign for womens suffrage. Next we visit the National Monument to see her work. My name is Jennifer Krafcik and i am the Deputy Director at the belmont paul National Monument which was formerly the Belmont House and museum on capitol hill in washington, d. C. This house was the fifth and final headquarters of the National Womens party. The National Womens party was founded by a woman named alice paul in 1913, as the Congressional Union for womens suffrage. And the Congressional Union for womens suffrage became the National Womens party in 1916. This group of women spent seven y