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
Men whosts and the supported them as part of a series of events related to our Current Special exhibit, rightfully hers, american women and the vote. Partners are here tonight and we thank them for their support. Our special exhibit, rightfully hers, tells the story of the woman struggle for Voting Rights. Women activists had to win allies among men in influential positions. It was men who sat in state legislatures that would ratify or reject the 19 amendment, whose centennial we celebrate. Opened,htfully hers guests were offered a yellow rose pin when they entered. That was won by members of the mens league for womens suffrage. Not to theests, this role that men played came as a surprise. Tonight we will take a look at theirffragists and contributions to the voting right struggle. Its my pleasure to welcome nancy tate, she has served as womens votef the Centennial Initiative and is also on the board of the turning point suffragists memorial. She served as the executive director of the
Copper, all getting caught up in this risk off seer. Time for Global Exchange where we bring you market moving news. From hong kong is reporter ian marlowe. From london is emma chandra. From new york and miami. Over the weekend, you had protests continuing in hong kong. However, china is seeing some positive signs the hong kong and Macau Affairs said a consensus has emerged to put an end to violence and chaos. Positive changes are emerging in hong kong, most importantly, putting an end to violence and chaos has well as restoring the order has become the strongest and broodest consensus of the hong kong society. Alix we welcome marlowe ian. Is that true or is that violence a reality . Yeah, i think its a bit of both. The violence over the weekend is certainly something that transfixed the city. You had a huge roadblock that was set on fire throwing molotov cocktails. And monday and tuesday, we had a little bit of comments coming from both the hong kong local government and today from Be
Of akron, Portage County and the snowbelt. A few heavier snow bursts from Broadview Heights into the peninsula and richfield and northern part of Summit County, twinsburg. It wont add up to more it will be an inch or less of accumulation. All right, the lakeeffect snow warnings are canceled for now. But then a new lakeeffect snow watch goes into Effect Tomorrow afternoon through saturday now only for Ashtabula County and i expect more lakeeffect snow as the mother load of arctic air comes in here tomorrow night and saturday. Temperatures tonight will be cold and dropping well into the teens. Future view at midnight downtown has us at 11 00 but thankfully, the wind will be dying down and there you see the current numbers 16 ashtabula, 18 cleveland. That is cold and for more on that we will go to medina and dani carlson is there. County, dani . Reporter you know what, jeff. You mentioned the wind and we have been out here all day and the wind definitely died down in the last few hours. T
We can achieve together. Let me thank you again for all of your being here. An evera. I. D. Is evolving institution. For too long, it has been viewed as the u. S. Agency for foreign assistance. Theas long since abandoned notion that the solution to development is assistance alone. Trust me assistance is important. Im cramming for my first Budget Hearing and i will make a very strong case. But weve also learned that how many dollars we spent is measure of our commitment nor the means by which we measure our success. Because we have adjusted to a new landscape. Founded 50i. D. Was years ago, donor governments were responsible for three quarters of all finance flowing to the developing words. No we account for less than 10 . U. S. A. I. D. Is acted on the fact that it take multiple streams of capital to finance sustained development and we can make much more of our system as the senator has said. We are making smarter investments with our assistance, leveraging private capital and support