Thank you for coming out. I hope the rain will let up. This is the 100 anniversary of ratification of the 19th th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment. Angela dodson has put together a table sort of almanac titles remember the ladies. A documents the long struggles for suffrage for women in this country. It recalls what Abigail Adams said to her husband at the time of the drafting of the constitution. Letters,n sources, speeches, newspaper accounts, photos, drawings, angela highlights the milestones in historic push for womens Voting Rights. Her book provides portraits of a number of the leaders of the womens Suffrage Movement. It places that movement in the social of other major and Political Developments that were unfolding. Men turnre women than out to vote, but lest anyone think the fight is over, just recall the massive turnout on the mall last january, reaffirming womens rights in effectively protesting donald trump selection. Angela has lots of experience reporting stories. She is a veteran journalist, with stints at the washington star and courierjournal, landing at the new york times. Became the first africanAmerican Woman voted to a Senior Editor position. She left the paper about two decades ago. She has written for various publications, including a black issues book review. Ghostwritten aor number of books. Angela will be in conversation here this evening with two other accomplished journalist, carol richard, a Founding Editor of usa today, and currently a lecturer at George Washington University School of media and public affairs, and dorothy who has been a longtime columnist for the Washington Post and herself is writing a memoir at the moment that is due out a little more than a year from now. So we hope to see her back for that. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming angela, carol, and dorothy. [applause] dorothy good afternoon or good evening, everybody. Im glad you weathered the rain to join us. [inaudible] [laughter] will have my friends at cspan edit that out. Good evening everyone. My name is dorothy knows who just heard it is a pleasure to be here at politics and prose. It is very good to welcome all of you. We are excited about angelos new book, remember the ladies. Before i turned it over and ask angela some questions, i want to introduce someone else that was very important in the production of this book, angelas editor from her book group, adrian ingram, would you stand for just a moment and wave your hand . [applause] thank you. Thank you. Angela, i think like many people, i thought i knew something about the Suffrage Movement until i read your very riveting book. Of the give five or six key moments in the Suffrage Movement . Angela yes, i thought i knew something about the movement until i started writing about it. The key moments are these, considerednt always the first Womens Convention of the Antislavery Movement to be the beginning of the movement. That was in 1938. The other seminal moment would have been when women start 1838 in public, saw somebody shaking their heads. Seminal moment would be when women started addressing public audiences. Because women were not supposed to and were not allowed to speak in their churches except for quaker women, but a free woman of color began speaking out on the Antislavery Movement, the education of girls, and other public issues around 1831. She was followed by two white women who had been born into slaveholding families in South Carolina and became quakers and moved to philadelphia and became active in the Antislavery Movement. They had to fight for the right to speak in public. Criticized. Dely ministers wrote encyclicals condemning them for doing so. Conventionneca falls , which was mostly quaker women, but also another woman, within a week and i have, conceived, cold, and publicize the meeting ed, and publicized the meeting. 1850 tonal moment was 1860 when women met annually in conventions. They had not settled on the vote as a key issue, so they were not calling themselves suffragists, but they kept meeting to talk ,bout property rights, custody divorce, and a lot of these women were simultaneously involved in a temperance movement, which became a womens issue. The next seminal moment was after the civil war, because some of the women want to support the 14th and 15th amendments giving black men who had been slaves the right to toe, and some did not want work for that unless the womens void was going to be included, and vote was going to be included. They were told that was not on the table. Some people, like Susan B Anthony, did not take it well and formed an organization to fight for womens suffrage. Faction stayed with the 14th amendment and 15th unlimited issue, as well as the womens vote. The next seminal moment was when those two groups get back together 20 years later and finally have some energy to move. Period whenis a the states, more states, begin to give women the vote and beginning in 1917, new york womens suffrage for voting in new york. Then there are some states that follow after that. Ratification, is which occurs with the final vote in tennessee. I devote a chapter to just winning in tennessee. I think that thing that struck me the most about this vastwas the fast expanse of time. 1776. Tter was written in years latert 150 that women got the vote, 150 years. That is a long time. It has been almost 100 years since hillary ran for president and won the popular vote. I will tell you the number of times, a program angela was talking about, the number of times they got hope above hope they were going to get there and their hopes were dashed. ok, i gett that that. There were all these things that disturb them. Did that help . In. Y didnt w n in 2016dnt wi even though we won the popular vote, which means there is more work to do. Another thing i want to point out about angelos book, the majority of White American women voted for donald trump. You can see this is not going to be easy. That, thereuild on were about 96 of africanamerican women who voted for hillary clinton. Do you think it is possible that women will ever get together and vote as a tribe so they can elect a woman president . I think they will, but it would take maybe this administration that will be a blessing in disguise. The fact that 53 of white women voted for donald trump, particularly given the misogynistic campaigning and phrases, grabbing things and whatever, and that 96 of women could still, black women who voted, could vote for hillary without concern for her race, particularly, people keep saying some people thought that hillary was a flawed candidate and therefore they could not vote for her. Always, and that is we have collected 45 flawed men. One of them was blessedly africanamerican, but he was not perfect either. Women,ave to decide as when is it going to be important enough for us to do one for the girls . I have to put aside Everything Else and say it is more our nation has never elected a woman, and they had never elected an africanamerican male, so if it is ever going to happen, women will have to hold together. One of the lessons of this book was that women could not do it alone. Asy men appear in this book having helped the movement at various times. Many men attended every conference. Frederick douglass publicized the conference at seneca falls, stood up for the right for women to vote when no one else did. No one else stood with her when she put that resolution in to ask for that, and he wrote about it afterwards. There are other abolitionist men involved men who introduced the first legislation, the first womens rightss amendment into the constitution. Men had to ratify it. Wyoming foro example, by the time the they wouldme around, have been able to vote in a few more states, but women were totally dependent on male helpers throughout most of the movement. They had not run meetings. No one had presided over anything. They had never addressed a meeting. One woman at one Convention Goes on to say, i could never speak in front of an audience. I have never spoken. I have never attended a meeting. She goes on to address the audience very eloquently for an hour. What we have learned is there has to be some sort of coalition. Women will have to stand up and decide we are a tribe because we are women. Interested way women related to president wilson. Hed him in anrk upward manner. Can you talk about that . The recordas on being opposed to women suffrage and was on record for saying horrible things about his students, what a waste of time it was to educate women, so one woman and a few of her friends organized a march before Woodrow Wilsons inaugural, the day before in 1913, and their whole campaign was to work on him specifically to get him to turn around and support womens suffrage. After a while, they began picketing him and being at the white house every single day, and that in turn led to their arrest after world war i started. There was intolerance for their picketing. They were arrested, some rearrested. Some went on hunger strikes, forcefed, let go, and that went on for a couple of years, but the whole impetus was to work woodrow wilson, get him to turn around. Meanwhile, the other part of the movement was playing the good routine, and one woman and her faction were meeting with him and talking with him and trying to bring him around, and they led efforts during world war i to do womens work, whatever women do during war. And that seems to be what turned him around towards the end, or at least that was the excuse he used when he finally came out before congress in support of women. He was a stinker. Woodrow wilson was not good for afferent americans or women for africanamericans or women, and he finally came around after this terrible publicity of women being forcefed in jail. The treatment was just appalling. I think he came around because he had to come around. I am no fan. I can understand. I would not be that fan. I think the way the women handled that, just the constancy of imparting the white house, the picketing. It was wartime, they got so much criticism from americans who said White American saying you know, you are interrupting the war, but they were so persistent, and that is a great lesson. They learned that from the british women. The british women had been much more militant in their movement, she went to jail with him and marched with him. One woman went to observe the british methods. They did not think they would work in total in the u. S. , but they applied some principles. Not justing they did, private meetings in parlors, they decided to organize serious parades of women, women marching down fifth avenue, and that was a turning point. Dont you think . Moment turning point when they occupied outdoor marchingaking noise, down the street. They had seen parades in different societies, but just the sight of women in the fact they would not be silent anymore , would not be unseen, i guess, was a big deal. Things that struck me about your book, it is the first book i have seen on suffrage, and i am not an expert on this, that has talked about intersectionality between africanAmerican History and American History. It did it in the way it talks about how many of the women were abolitionists before they became suffragists, and i think that is a very important departure. Can you comment on that . Tell people i did not set out to write a black book about suffrage, and i did not set out to write a book about white womens suffrage. I set out to write a book about the Suffrage Movement in whatever i found. Early on, i found black characters in here that i was not aware of, but they interacted in ways that we do not think about. The Abolition Movement is the most important. Nearly all of the women who started the Womens Movement , and theytionists were on a first name basis with people like Frederick Douglass. And met with him entertained them in their homes and all that sort of stuff. Everyone heard about the man who had himself shipped in a box to escape slavery. The places they bring them to is one womans house. Not only were these early women abolitionists, they were among the most radical abolitionists in the country. They started a movement where they would not even use a product that was known to have been made with slave labor. Think about it. This takes a lot of trouble. They had stores where you could buy free goods. They did not buy cotton, trade in cotton, sugar, molasses, or else theyanything came from the hands of somebody enslaved on a farm. One of the women who was an organizer at seneca falls, her family ran one of these stores. So that was interesting to me. At the same time, almost all of were known homes stations on the underground railroad. And all through this literature about the womens Suffrage Movement, every now and then there was a letter about someone describing who they were hiding last week. Susan b anthony talks about outfitting a family to take them wright,canada, martha she talks about having hidden someone in her kitchen overnight , then talking to him the next morning. One woman talks about meeting somebody in her uncles attic, taking girls up to meet this young black woman they were hitting ready to take to canada. So it is a big thing in their lives. They are not ordinary women. They did not give lip service to abolitionists. The fact they started the Womens Movement, they were probably reformers to begin with. To quaker women were allowed speak in churches and were used to being treated as equal, so they got this thing they should have their own rights and they should finally start speaking what they believed. Felt theyso, if they had to, they would kick black people under the bus and keep moving on with the suffragist movement. That happened towards the end of the movement. One thing people do remember and know if they know anything about black womens participation was that for instance, during the 1913 march, black women were asked to march at the end of the d. C. , including women in and a group that had just formed two or three weeks before, marched at the back. One person pretended to go along with this and hid in the crowd and when her state delegation passed by, she marched right out among her white friends and kept walking. They discouraged black women from going to the convention in atlanta. This is at a time when they were courting white southern participation. White women in the south had not formed there or in organizations and had not been active. This was about 1900. They were trying to get southern women into the fold, and they askedorried, so they Frederick Douglass to not come to atlanta, because the site of this black man with these delicate white women would not go over well. They were right. One woman called out Susan B Anthony on her willingness to be able to cast black women aside because of the vote. In some other women did as well. It says in the book that one of the reasons people who were abolitionists became suffragists was because they realized if women could not vote, they could not pass legislation to free the slaves. Yeah, i was interested in how industry banded together against the Suffrage Movement. We still see that in politics today. Can you comment on that . Particularly the liquor industry fought against women because they feared that women, if they got the boat, would boat with the tribe and vote for prohibition, and other things not good for industry, like child labor laws, better salaries for women. The railroad lobbies, whoever had big lobbies at the time, fought tooth and nail, particulate liquor. At that point prohibition had not been passed. When it did, it wasnt the women. It was the Antisaloon League that got it done. We will go to the audience for questions in a couple of minutes, so get your questions ready. Also, i will ask you to come to the microphone on my left so that cspan is shooting this so they can see your faces and can capture your riveting words. , guess my last question was looking at where we are today, and i think carols questions have underscored a lot of that, you said you dont think that we could elect a woman for president now, but things might change. What would have to change within the female population in your view for that to happen . That,ont think i said but something has to change. We have to start thinking as otherand set aside some concerns, if they are not that important, and we have to have the right candidate at the right time, but we also have to raise a heck of a lot of money, and people have to get behind whoever that is. I think the candidate is a big one, the big issue. Italy was, had the experience, the publicity, had the sort of americanasense of that made her a good candidate. Right now i dont think the democrats had anybody in mind now who sounds like a good candidate to run against trump. You cant beat somebody with nobody. You need some great women to come forward. We have some great women in congress, governors, but i have not seen anybody coming forward. Have you . No, but since we are journalists, there was an interesting article in yesterdays Washington Post in which they reference a new study by harvard in which the media was taken to task for the way they covered the election. I thought it was a very good article, because in many ways they suggested that trump had been given a free ride and that andmedia was equivocating flawslly saying that the in hillary equal the flaws in trump. The article went on, actually it was a columnist, the article went on to say to compare those two things was particularly out of line, and asking that journalists start looking again at how they covered the election, but we are getting past the Suffrage Movement, arent we . Just one thing. Margaret sullivan is the media columnist in the post. She is awfully good. Her point was that for years, journalist said we have to be fair in every story. Oneurns out there was something bad by hillary, and a million things bad about trump, it made the email thing sound like this in it was a big journalistic problem. I agree. If anyone in the audience wishes to come forward, please do so. Angela will be happy to answer your questions. I will start. I am from the caribbean. I was lucky to grow up around strong and dominant women. But we obviously have all of the problems that exist. This leads to two questions. From the colonized french Dutch Caribbean ok . If you are going to put if you are going to put a list man, woman, man woman, you know, you figure out who you vote for. No, it is going to be in europe, one of the problems america still are lowly represented in politics, even businesses, etc. Believe it would be a good idea for Something Like in france . Like other places in europe, there are minimum levels. The history is, if you dont do it, a certain percentage will get voted in. Would you be in favor of that . En have to be 50 of congress or Something Like that . Yes. Adams, remember the ladies. We know that. [inaudible] right. Ication of women, i remember that. Andd you talk about that this influence . Were there other women doing these type of ideas at that time that had influence on it . Right. Dont know i know that Abigail Adams was very well read for her time. She was glad to read her familys library and she did. She was informally tutored at home. So for her time she was pretty and extremely well educated woman. Announcer she made this remark as he was going to the Second Continental Congress. And as it the Second Continental Congress cannot deal with womens rights at all. Its not specifically drug laws as she thought they would at that time. So it was kind of a loose confederation at that point. She probably also did not really have womens suffrage in mind. It was not because she had so much as to remember that women had no rights at all. And they could not divorce, connect on their own properties, they could not have control over the cut for their own children. Women did not exist as an entity aside from their husbands if they were married. She was more to those kind of things that she hoped they would write into whatever they were at that point. And they did not write those into the constitution later either. Other than new jersey to give women the right to vote initially in 1776 and took it back around 1907. 1807 not familiar with that legislative principle, so i would need to think about it more. I had never thought about that concept but it seems something to explore. I do not know if it would ever pass. I think with the 19th amendment to passage of the states had to adopt individually. And today it was the day that it did finally pass. So im wondering what kind of advocacy they had to do to encourage them to ask the 19th amendment . States could pass a referendum to have women vote in their state. And a lot of the energy from the early suffrage was spent trying to get these battles won. Somewhere after the 15th amendment was passed, there was an argument that it also covered women somehow. Because there were citizens and they were not denied the right to vote so some women went around testing and trying to get vote that way. That not work. But the efforts for state referendums continued. If it up to when this was passed. To pass the 19th amendment, a certain number of states had to ratify and hennessey was the last one that they needed to qualify. On vacation in New Hampshire, i heard just recently about some of the local efforts to get some of the very powerful woman in New Hampshire into office the last couple of years. And i worry a little about the president ial basket. Theres so much work to be done. Not just for women but men also. The politics that some of us might subscribe to. But to get women in at the local and state level. The very local jurisdictional to state levels. I mean we have may have been some is this i miss the beginning but the imprint of in the health vote this summer. I just wanted to know where you stay in this direction and. This direction. I think women have to start getting into the pipeline and local offices are the way to go. Unless they are in the pipeline of becoming legislators and governors in their own states and senators in their own state. They have to come forward themselves but could talk to raise money to go out and vote for them. We all have to go out and vote for them. Friends in the audience had and going to local meetings people are stunned, because suddenly the meeting has 100 women in it. So if this keeps up, pipeline will fill up. You cannot just try it once and get discouraged. It has to be held up also in a very, very strategic way. I appreciate your discussion of strategy and that is what prompted me to raise this question. This book is really good indicator of the strategies that we need. We have to review where we have been and what they did to get those passed. Thank you so much angela. I remember your editing from the book review. My name is rowen. I am a professor. Two points you earlier, you mentioned how forward position women were in terms of abolition. The civil war was happening he , you mentioned the book and for and her daughter sylvia is one of the few women to actually respond the first wife of marcus garvey, amy ashwood garvey. In the last year of her life she was waiting for different people to publish her story and sylvia was one of the few. I appreciate angela what you mentioned about Francis Harper. That very important debate is still so relevant. It is relevant to the decision to go with the era. Theres a big analogy between that and Francis Harper very public disagreement with Elizabeth Cady stanton in the 1886 convention. I think angela describes it best in her book. That is what i was going to ask. Thank you. He is talking about Francis Harper who had been a free woman. She was a poet and an abolitionist lecturer. And africanamerican. After the civil war there is the meeting where during the civil war all of these separate suffrage groups had stopped meeting. There is a meeting afterwards with women and the men get together and she stood at one of them and said, basically, as much as she wanted to vote herself, that like men should have the vote and basically that white woman needed to get over it at that point. [laughter] thats not how i say it in the book. It is much more eloquent, trust me. , and a novelist as well. I actually happen to think that women are the superior race. I do. I think they are smarter, more courageous, less willing to fight, more willing to negotiate and find a common cause. So i actually would advocate strongly that the senate was met made with 50 women and 50 men, so each state would have to send one of each. That is how i stand on that. This is the question i asked to the panel. It seems like the last election was more a referendum on people being tired and disenfranchised by national government, so a guy from the Business Community was elected. Would be interesting for women , because we have a tremendous amount of really great women who are heads of companies and corporations, would it be interesting to explore having a great ceo run for the presidency . Yes. Right. I meant female ceo. I think that could be interesting and maybe that would capture peoples imagination. But im not sure the woman president will come out of business. I think the first woman president may come out of the u. S. Senate. We have kristen gillibrand. Whats her name from massachusetts who is so fabulous . Elizabeth warren. There are some good women there. I would really hope one of the lessons we have now is you need somebody who does understand government to be running to be in charge. Because a person that does not know or is not interested in the details of legislation which is what we have now, is not going to get those things done. So i would vote for someone to come up through local politics and it might be a republican, it might be a democrat, or who knows. Those parties might shatter the way things are going and might end up with some new format. I think that you have got to pay your dues first. It is interesting that with women that stood up on the and blocked it. Maybe we are almost there. You knewid you thought the history of suffrage before he started digging into the research. What most surprised you in your research. What did you find that you did not expect to find . I was most surprised at the role that men play. And the fact that they were all abolitionists. That was news to me. I dont think anyone had ever really said that. I thought i would end up writing about women running around and parading in white dresses. I was setting out to write the the women, and i found that wasnt the story. My name is audrey sheppard. Subject, and i was ,resident of the Historic Site and if you havent been there, you should go. It is now a National Park service site. Went inere alice paul 1929 and where she wrote the equal rights amendment in 1932. This was after suffrage. They were there to take advantage of being nextdoor to the capital. I think your panel is great and having a great turnout is wonderful. I wanted to make two other quick comments. One is that there is a project at the wilson center. The women in Public Service project that is trying by 2050 inhave 50 men, 50 women governments worldwide, so i recommend that to you. And the comment i would make and i would like your comments on it is that, and i was the Clinton Administration and so forth observation about hillary who i think the world of, was that by definition the first woman nominee for president in the Democratic Party of a major party of either party, would need to have so much credibility, have so much background and be a first lady and all because it took so much credibility that by definition she was really banged up and bruised in all of that. I wonder if you think that too. Well i think it is like Everything Else would be stronger, wiser, faster, smarter, whatever, in order to be considered as equal. What else is new. We will have to be like superwoman. We will have to band together like, i can do this. I think after that idea of having a woman who is smarter, think comingo you to womens suffrage, the next step in government, do you think the best approach is to have women, obviously it will be both , orhave women compensate someone mentioned the idea of 5050 gender quotas, and you said youre not sure if that would be possible. I was wondering why, like how we can see the same steps for gaming suffrage as gaining presentation. Saying whyshe is cant it be 5050 . Knowledge,he studying the womens suffrage makes it what different and successful. It is in the back of angelas book, a list of each states female elected people, and you will notice this number has grown over the years. It was pulling teeth to get the first female elected to the senate, and the first couple of people elected to congress were filling out there has been seats because they had become widows, so it was a long road just to get to where we are now, where there are a respectable number of women in congress, and some of them are pretty darn terrific. To sure, it would be great have 5050, maybe a greater proportion, who knows . This stuff does not happen overnight. I dont think it is about goal. We have to recognize that 53 , 54 of white women voted for donald trump, who was very clearly your microphone is off. 53 , 54 of white women voted for donald trump and did not vote for hillary, and who was sexist, racist, groper, and did not try to hide it. Anm not trying to do analysis of the white boating relation. Population. I think there are serious reasons that people voted for trump. The evangelicals were a big part of that. How do we go about raising the consciousness of people. How do we make some of these feeling selfesteem, not feeling they can do things, there are basic things that have to be addressed. Does that speak to your point . Let me at one point, the suffragists assumed in the midvoting against them assumed they would vote as a block, and they would vote in a manner that would clean up politics and protect children, women, get rid of liquor and all kinds of horrible things in society would be perfect because women have the vote. They did not vote as a block, and they tended to vote more like their husbands. Theof the reasons they got boat is mid realized they would both like him. Where a long ways to go women have not been voting in their own interests. That. Have to think about what is our interest . But areot all the same, there things we as women need together to do . Absolutely. That can be women who dont this is not a call to just vote for women. Does that answer thank you so much. Augustgreat way to spend 18, so thank you for doing this. Long line of outspoken quaker women. Inope i would be interested this, even if i had not had this legacy. A couple of things i wanted to comment on, then a question. I lead an organization whose goal is gender parity in our lifetime, however that turns out, and my, one of my particular interests in suffrage and other social movements of the last century, Voting Rights act, the americans with disabilities act, is they involve changing rules and systems, not individuals. ,e didnt simply women to vote try harder, be more likable, or be less shrill, there is a system that is a barrier to women voting. Similarly, someone mentioned the fact that Different Countries have different rules and norms, and many of you probably know that we are behind 100 countries in representation, here we are the leading exporter of democracy, and the women are the same. They dont have training programs. They dont spend money on elections they have gender quotas, over 100 countries, different voting proportional systems legislative norms, so i take that as an inspiration that we can pivot to those changes that have the potential to accelerate the progress for parity. You have to embrace the system changes. It is not happening but the best and brightest are getting elected. We can see that right now. That is not happening. Horse, the my high thing i have been struggling with his identity. I was at a dinner party. My dear friend said, the thing that is ruining the Democratic Party our identity politics, if we could just forget the identity politics, we would be ok. Theusband had to leave table because my response was so angry. I know that feeling. I said we all have identities. Yes, we all want to be inresented, but we are equal that opportunity and the obligation of rules and systems to allow us all to have isresentation, so i feel it poignant this weekend america to think about how we relegate certain identities to be ones that are problem identities, people ofnorm is color, not women, and i feel like we have to embrace the fact that identities exist and we need to do everything we can to give those identities of voice and not disparage them or make it seem like we are ruining opportunities to have power in society. I think you have to live your identity and to some extent, both your identity, whether as a black woman, quaker woman, whatever your primary association is, but there are times when we have to figure out our collective identities can do something together. That does not mean our aims are at odds, at all. You may have the same social agenda i do, even if we dont look alike or have the same but wen or whatever, have the same values because of that, so identity is not our problem. Think part of that is because they had never accepted the identity of africanamericans on the male or female. It is woven into the fabric of american life, and that is what needs to be attacked, so that we , butot simply talking trying to get to the bottom of some of the real issues. To say this is my identity, but not my only concern. I think you can get past that. Thank you so much. I think we have a gentleman behind you. I want to address the previous speaker about what strategies, ideas can come forward to elect the first woman president. I think the Supreme Court, which has not been brought up, has to be looked at, and all the wonderful examples in Northern Europe and Central Africa where of to 40 of women are part. Egislatures affirmative action was unfortunately limited before it really had its chance to work its process to correct from the long history, so i dont think , unfortunate, in any american system will work. You can look at what mr. Sessions is doing right now. I encourage thinking outofthebox, and i really have to think about the most tremendous, creative move in america, Supreme Court was lynn two opposing people was when two opposing people in californias proposition two samesex marriage can forward, totally reversed it, almost came forward with a curveball, or however you want to do it, and not what is right for these people, but on the civil rights issue, was a really creative coup. So any idea about the idea that hillary and bill had way back in the 1970s, copresidencies, splitting a term four years, and taking the vice presidency that might be the gateway in . Anything like that that might start a dialogue that weight might bring a fresh idea . I think we have to be open and willing to do a lot of things. I dont think it is sustainable that women stay at the bottom and that women not be represented, so something will have to change. If we have to try some unusual ideas, then maybe we will. We have time for one more question. The gentleman has the floor. Thank you. To address one other persons , and in, in maryland some programs across the country, they specifically work on training women, particularly in the Democratic Party, Winning Local office, state, and federal offices. My question is your research, can you talk about your research and what you found out in terms of Henry Ward Beecher, and maybe the irony in that he was the first president of the American Woman Suffrage Association . Yes, Henry Ward Beecher is featured in the book and there is a photograph of him in the book. He had been active in the movement for some time when he was elected as president of the american womens Suffrage Association, the Splinter Group that also decided it would support the 14th amendment and 15th amendment. He later became ensconced in a scandal, but he is also connected to a lot of other people in the book. Thank you. I just wanted to take a minute to acknowledge angelas husband. Is he in the house . Yes. [applause] a long times philadelphia editor, first for the inquire for the daily news, and briefly for the inquire. Generalists are always correct. He is the author of obamas legacy, what he accomplished, which came out last year. Which is hopefully carried here. Carol,lf of angela and we want to thank you for your participation, your presence, and we hope you will enjoy reading the book and that you will learn as much from it as i did. , learned a lot from it. It is a wonderful source. You just want to get yourself fired up. Look at how long it took to get each of these accomplishments on the dateline. I want to thank everyone for friends,y cousins and former colleagues, former landlord. [laughter] people like that. Book is this book to be a conversation starter. This is the best dialogue i have been in so far. You people in washington are really on your toes. [applause] so, thank you. This has been a very informative discussion. I hope it has inspired you to buy angelas book. She will be up here signing. Thank you for coming. Our staff would appreciate it if you would fold the chairs or leaned them against something. Good night. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] has we bookshelf features the best history writers of the past decade talking about their books. You can watch a series every saturday at 4 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan3. 100 years ago, the 19th amendment was ratified, granting women the right to vote and sunday 8 00 a. M. Eastern, join us for a conversation with kathleen shogan. She will take your calls, Facebook Messages and tweets. Easternday at 8 00 a. M. From washington journal and on American History tv on cspan3. Tonight, we feature three 1976ams focusing on the democratic and Republican National conventions from a yearlong information series produced for International Audiences on the American Election process. Here is a preview. It was 144 years ago that members of the Democratic Party first [indiscernible] to select a president ial candidate and our meeting this week is a continuation of that tradition. But there is Something Different about tonight. There is Something Special about tonight. What is different . What is special . I barbara andan ma keynote speaker am a keynote speaker. [applause] may we please come to order to begin the 1976 Republican National convention . The issue this year is this, and how much government is too much government. How many laws are too many laws . How much taxation is too much taxation . How much coercion is too much coercion . Those of the issues in 1976. This ohioairperson of delegation i am proud and honored to join with the congressman and his 21st district delegation to pass in the spirit of unity and love and victory in november 132 votes. [applause] [indiscernible] tenseness has gripped this convention at this point. With any been greater appreciation for the Mutual Respect all of us have for one another. Vote onresents its behalf of our parties candidate votes foresidency, 20 gerald ford. I see it america. United, ae again, diverse and vital and hallowed nation entering our third century with pride and confidence, and america that lives up to the majesty of the constitution and a simple decency of our people. This is the america we want. This is the america we will have. Thank you very much. [applause] i have no fear for the future of this great country, and as we go forward together, i promise you once more what i promise before, to uphold the constitution, to do what is right as god gives me to see the right and to do the very best that i can for america, god helping me, i will not let you down. [applause] thank you very much. Learn more about the president ial nomination conventions tonight at 10 00 p. M. Eastern, 7 00 p. M. Pacific on American History tv. American history tv is on social media. History. At cspan hi, im corinne porter. Im a curator here at the National Archives museum. Im going to show you around the rightfully hers exhibition today, which is in the lawrence f. Obrien gallery. Before we head into the gallery i wanted to talk about this lenticular thats out in the lobby in front of the entrance. It has a photograph of the 1913 womens suffrage march, looking up pennsylvania avenue towards the United States capitol, and it is overlaid with a photograph from the 2017 womens march from
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