CSPAN3 American Artifacts Votes For Women Exhibit Part 1 July 13, 2024
Abolitionists and temp rest movements. This is the first of a twopart program. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the National Portrait gallery at the smithsonian institution. Im Kate Clarke Lemay and im the curator of votes for women, a portrait of persistence. For this exhibition, i worked about 3 1 2 years researching, teaching myself this history and finding all the objects. In the exhibition we have about 124 objects of which there are 63 portraits and in curating the exhibition, i was hoping to commemorate the 19th amendment and tell the history of the 19th amendment and how women lobbied to get t...