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,
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
Us online. Tonights discussion of womens suffragists and the men who supported them, the suffrage gents and their role is part of the series related to our special exhibit rightfully hers. Our partners are the 2020 womens Vote Centennial Initiative and the one woman, one vote 2020 festival. We thank them for their support. Our special twibt tells the story of womens Voting Rights. To sure these they had to win allies among men in influential positions. It was men who sat in the state legislatures that would ratify or reject the 19th amendment whos centennial we now celebrate. When it opened in our gallery last may guests at the opening reception were offered a yellow rose pin as they entered. That evoked the badges worn by members of the mens league for womens suffrage. To many guests this nod to the role that men played came as something of a surprise. Tonight were going to take a look at those suffrage gents and their contributions to the Voting Rights struggle. And its my pleasure t
Local organizations provide programs and support for adults with disabilities.
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On March 24, 1911, the day before the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in New York City which left 147 dead the New York Court of Appeals had declared the state’s compulsory worker’s compensation law unconstitutional. Largely because of the fire, that law was back in force in 1913.
Elmira’s own Crystal Eastman had drafted that worker’s compensation law.
According to the National Women’s Hall of Fame, Eastman was one of only a few hundred women lawyers in the early twentieth century. . Her pioneering report, Work Accidents and the Law (published in book form in 1910), led New York Gov. Charles Evans Hughes to appoint her the first woman on New State’s Commission on Employer’s liability and Causes of Industrial Accidents, Unemployment and Lack of Farm Labor in 1909. As a member of that commission, Eastman drafted the country’s first workers’ compensation law. That legislation became the model for workers’ compensation throughout