Transcripts For CSPAN3 Womens Suffrage And 19th Amendment Le

CSPAN3 Womens Suffrage And 19th Amendment Legacy July 12, 2024

On the pedal today its a roundtable conversation. Beccah, colleen, marcia weinstein, megan spring gate. The way this is want to go is we will give you a little context about the womens history work happening at the National Level. Then we will have a roundtable discussion about how the messages came to be so you can take that practice back to your community for 2020 to build into your communities. That is the intro. I am the associate director for publications and program at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. I help build the Digital Content for preservation leadership forum. I spent a lot of time thinking about how we can tell the full American History for underrepresented communities across the United States. Im a public historian by training and Historic Preservation by way of being at the trust for 13 years. I believe they work handinhand. I thought i would start by telling a few of the things we have been doing at the National Trust over the years for women to history. On preservation leader for leadership forum, we have a blog series that looks at the different ways, Historic Sites and places have been telling the story of different women from the community over the years. That was spun into a journal that came out this year. It is only available for members. If youre coming to this conference, we will be sharing a link for you to read the issue. We did a webinar, including woman in the sequel. If you know hamilton, that is where that came from. That is also available for you to look at. These are things we did since 2015 to 2017. Celebrating womens history. We have a series of learning labs that range from this one on looking at the national to a discussion on valving advocacy priorities and writing womens history towards raising money for Historic Sites. We have panels on different works of womens history in denver from the perspective of native american women tomorrow afternoon. There is the trust flight taking place at red rocks on saturday that will feature dr. Tya miles. They will tell their history of womens history in their various years. Then partners in preservation and beyond. One thing the trust is working on is right now you can vote in our latest iteration. We do it in conjunction with National Geographic and american express. This years theme is still abutting womens history on main street. We have a series of different sites you can vote every day through october 29 for five of them to basically receive grant money for american express. We have a table at the Resource Center for can vote in person. Please make sure to do that. We have programming across the portfolio of Historic Sites. In early 2020, i cant really talk about it but there are things that will engage the Preservation Community in womens history. We are excited about what is coming up and keep an eye out for that. That is where i believe the National Trust stuff and bring up colleen. My name is colleen. I work at the library of congress im the vice chair of the womens Suffrage Centennial commission, the federal commission that is charged with helping to commemorate and celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment. I will talk about our activities today and i look forward to some of the discussions and i can get some input for those in the audience. What we do at the commission, we have a little legislative language up here on the slide that talks about the creation of the commission. It was enacted in a federal statute by congress. What i usually say as we have for activities and for charges with the commission. First charge to encourage the commemoration of the 19th amendment in all activities. We also developed our own independent program to help promote education about womens voting and the history of the 19th amendment. We have facilitated and partnered with other entities already working in this sphere. They are working to commemorate the 19th amendment and the celebration of the womans Suffrage Movement. That would be with federal partners, nonprofit partners, and for or commercial partners. We also serve a coordinating body. You can see that in the legislation up here on the slide. In 2020, there will be a lot of activities that will commemorate the 19th amendment. We hope to serve as a clearinghouse for all those activities all across the United States so we can put them together on one calendar so you can find out whats going on about womens suffrage. They could come to our website and learn what is going on all across the United States in various cities and towns and states across the country. Ill talk a little bit about some of the activities we have planned. I dont have time to go at everything but there are a few examples. We are working with a hotel in nashville, an important site for woman suffrage to plan a popup museum and activities in august of 2020. We are sponsoring the ceremonial bringing of the justice bell, a replica of the liberty bell and pennsylvania. We will be promoting the ringing off the bell. It will be significant for the ringing of the justice bell. We are partnering to engage children in the education of womens suffrage and the 19th amendment. We have the Stanley Program we are working on. We are working with a set of mayors across the United States to encourage cities, big cities, towns to become a suffrage city. You will be designated a separate centennial city. Others were supporting the turning point memorial and the Lucy Burns Museum and historic outside of washington, d. C. This is the workhouse prison where women were jailed and spent many nights in the prison and were helping them to set up museums and commemorations that will be longlasting. Setting up a Suffrage Centennial date in washington, d. C. That will promote all the exhibits going on in washington, d. C. At the library of congress, the smithsonian and the National Archives. We are engaging in a partnership with a major Multimedia Group who will help amplify all of our messages by employing this group. We think that will help if the word out and service communication. We are working with the United States mint to create a commemorative medal released in 2022 commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment. I dont want to go on and happy to talk more about some of the activities we have planned with the commission. What do we do . What is our focus at the commission . We are focused on telling the history of the womens Suffrage Movement. We are focused on telling that history comprehensively so more americans will know about the movement and the history of the 19th amendment. That is what our mission is. We look forward to 2020 which will certainly be a very special year for womens history and the history of womens voting. Our website is womensvote 100. Org. You can find us on twitter. We hope you will follow our activities online as we continue to add more celebrations and commiserate commemorations. Thank you. Good morning. My name is marcia weinstein. On the president of the National Collaborative for womens history sites. The mission, we support and promote the preservation and interpretation of sites that bear witness to womens participation in american life. Unfortunately most people you would think further history from reading history books. They really learn the history from visiting Historic Sites. That is why the National Trust is so important. Visiting battlefields and museums. Unfortunately they dont always tell the whole story about what the women were doing and what the people of color were doing. That has been our mission. We had a relationship with the National Park service in the past identifying historic landmarks. We decided to celebrate the commemoration of the 19th amendment and create a trail. I was speaking to nancy brown and said women fought for the right to vote and did not have any federal funding. Why do we think we are going to get federal money from the getgo . In 2009, federal legislation was passed for the womens trail. It was never funded. We thought we will pick up where they took off. We have engaged in creating an infrastructure of this National Vote for womens trail by recruiting state coordinators across the country. So far the trail is basically a database. If you google it you will come to our website. You can observe i need to go to the next slide and show it to you. We are going to create this online database. What happened which was just fabulous, the foundation approached us to want to give us 250 suffrage markers. We could give each state five markers to mark their story, their suffrage story. We wanted it to be geographically diverse for each state, ethnically diverse as well. So, the whole thing about our database is it is crowd sourced. I encourage you if youre aware of any suffrage sites, please enter them to the website. We have over 1000 now. Our goal is to have 2000 by august. The foundation said they would give us these markers. There is an example in new york state. Because on the president and i from kentucky, which is kentucky to be the Pilot Project to put of the markers. The first one went up in louisville for susan look avery. I have learned so much about all these women, even in the backyard that i did not know. I have been working on suffrage for 25 years. Now i know my state and local stories even better. She started the Louisville Suffrage Association in 1889. Then she started the womens club of louisville in 1890. We put a marker in front of her, the womans club of louisville. That is the building you see and the marker and that is about susan look avery. The next marker we put up history dr. Mary ellen britton, a physician from lexington. The first woman physician. She spoke at this st. James African Methodist Episcopal Church which is in Eastern Kentucky to the kentucky colored Teachers Association in 1887 on why women should have the right to vote. That was pretty remarkable for that time period. I have worked on a lot of projects. This has got to be the most exciting project i have ever been involved with. Because the people at that church, the minister and the board of trustees could not believe how someone cared about their history and what had happened there. I thought, this Community History, i never had appreciation for it like i do today. It is important for people to know what happened in their own backyard. That was dr. Britton. This is for mary barr clay, the daughter of caches clay, abraham lincolns ambassador to russia. He was a big abolitionist. This is their home, whitehall. It is a state park. We put this marker up for mary barr clay. Let me tell you what, i wish i could go back in time and hear her speak. In 1887, she spoke this is hard to believe before the u. S. House Judiciary Committee on why women should have the right to vote. I am telling you, that speech, unbelievable. She was so dynamic. She was also president of the american suffrage association. She had susan b. Anthony and these remarkable women come to kentucky. She traveled to National Conventions everywhere. Her story is so powerful. She had a younger sister that was also very involved in the Suffrage Movement. A lot a people did not know her because at the end of her life, had dementia and could not speak like she was. The memory of her faded so i am glad we were able to bring her back to life. I want to tell you, i highly recommend you go to our website and you will be learning more about it later. Hello, everyone. I am a curator at the National Archives museum in washington, d. C. For those of you that dont much about the National Archives, and we call ourselves the nations recordkeeper. We preserve, protect, and make accessible permanent records of the federal government. That is billions of records, artifacts, photographs, motion picture, and sound recordings. Many of those records, documents are the most important and significant milestones in American History, which, of course, includes the 19th amendment. So, i was the curator for american women and the vote, which is at the National Archives, the special exhibition to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment. It is more than just a 19th amendment exhibition. That is because Voting Rights victories it did not give all women the vote. Millions of women already had the right to vote because their states had extended Voting Rights to them. Millions of women continued to struggle well beyond 1920 to exercise the right to vote because they were denied that ability for reasons other than their sex. It looks at much broader and more inclusive stories of womens struggle for the vote. It focuses on the diversity of women and strategies that were ultimately necessary to win the vote for half of the people. In addition to retelling and giving a broader and more accurate retelling of womens struggle for the vote, we wanted to include a little Civics Education and rightfully hers looking at where the power resides for determining the qualificationsng and procedures in this country because that not only dramatically shaped womens struggle for the vote, but it continues to be a major factor in Voting Rights today. In anticipation of a roundtable discussion, i thought i would throw up a couple of talking points and i look forward to expanding upon these during the roundtable discussion of the multitude of strategies i use in order to achieve inclusivity that we set out to incorporate and to rightfully hers. I will touch on them really quickly. A really basic but important one is to strive for visibility anywhere we can when telling a story that a lot of people are not all that familiar with to begin with. A lot of people are not even aware that women secured the right to vote constitutionally 100 years ago next year. But also for those who are familiar with the story of womens suffrage and the 19th amendment tend to only know about the activities of white women, generally privileged women as well. In order to successfully incorporate that more diverse and inclusive story, you need to get a little creative sometimes. I look forward to talking to the strategies that i use to achieve that in our discussion later. I just wanted to briefly mention a couple of other National Archives resources out there. We have a traveling exhibition called one half of the people, advancing equality for women. It is a companion exhibit to rightfully hers. It overlaps a little bit content wise. But half the people takes a broader look at women struggle for equality and greater opportunity. It has begun a nationwide tour. Most of its slots have been booked. If you visit the website, you can see the schedule of confirmed sites. We also developed a cardboard popup exhibit, which is pictured on the slide. They were developed to go to schools and libraries, community centers, archives, museums. Most of those popups have been distributed already, but the sides of the popup exhibit is available on the website for download. Really wonderful fullsized files you can download and print for your own uses as well. We also have a primary source, a teaching resource that has thousands of National Archives records available and specifically tailored topical pages. I included the url for the womens rights topics page that includes records, predeveloped lesson plans, and activities that are free for anyone to use. If you create an account, you can develop your own lesson plans and use any of the records available in docs teach. Most of the exhibit items are in that site. If youre interested, the National Archives has been digitizing all the state ratifications of the 19th amendment. I just checked with my colleagues before i headed off to denver. They said they should all be available in the National Archives online catalog and a in a couple of days. If that is something your adjusted for whatever, it should be available in short order. I look forward to our discussion. Good morning. I am megan springate, the National Coordinator for the National Park service 19th amendment centennial commemoration. I work at of main interior and washington, d. C. Before i start with what we are doing, i want to thank the other federal agencies, particularly the library of congress and the National Archives, for digitizing all those amazing primary documents and making them available, because we could not do what we do without using what you do. Thank you so much for doing that. Ok, so, the National Park service, when people think about the park service, they think about these amazing Natural Landscapes like the rocky mou

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