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
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. When rightfully hers opened, guests were offered a yellow rose pin when they entered. That was won by members of the mens league for womens suffrage. For many guests, this not to the role that men played came as a surprise. Tonight we will take a look at the suffragists and their contributions to the voting right struggle. Its my pleasure to welcome nancy tate, she has served as the cochair of the womens Vote Centennial Initiative and is also on the board of the turning point suffragists memorial. She served as the executive director of the league of women voters, and previously she served as the chief operating officer at the National Academy of Public Administration and with the department of ener
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Are here in person with us. Its israel in rockville, maryland. And to those of you numbering at least 500 who were with on zoom, youve joined us from all over the country. Our normal lectures have about 30 states represented, several canadian provinces and people scattered the rest of the world. I also want to welcome the cspan cameras covering a haberman for the first time. For those of you who are new to haberman, a few things about us. For the past 40 years, weve sponsored programs chosen to provide adults with encounters with jewish thought history and culture before covid changed everything. Our programs were inperson and our parties events all from the washington, d. C. Metropolitan area. Today our reach is much broader through zoom. You can learn more about it on the are looking at website. Easy to remember haberman institute dot org. This is our last program for 2022 but we have three major lectures scheduled already for january of next. One by dr. Jeremy englund, georgia tech.
Youve joined us from all over the country. Our normal lectures have about 30 states represented, several canadian provinces and people scattered the rest of the world. I also want to welcome the cspan cameras covering a haberman for the first time. For those of you who are new to haberman, a few things about us. For the past 40 years, weve sponsored programs chosen to provide adults with encounters with jewish thought history and culture before covid changed everything. Our programs were inperson and our parties events all from the washington, d. C. Metropolitan area. Today our reach is much broader through zoom. You can learn more about it on the are looking at website. Easy to remember haberman institute dot org. This is our last program for 2022 but we have three major lectures scheduled already for january of next. One by dr. Jeremy englund, georgia tech. One by Georgetown Professor Audrey Soltis and one by dr. Arias supported network of Bengurion University of the negev. You can l