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>> Welcome everyone to our session at the Georgia Tech library we are very pleased today to have with us a featured speaker from the Atlanta History Center a carrier of the current exhibition Yes it's current because the land History Center is open exhibit about the 19th Amendment any great change it's on the at the slaughterhouse at the Atlanta History Center and just like has graciously agreed to have just the highlights of it and some other history of backgrounds that she knows about from the history of the women's suffrage movement and we are so pleased to have her and thank you and welcome Jessica.

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Thanks so much for these great being here I'm so excited to be talking to you all today and continuing years and I think the men in particular are inviting you to the exhibition at the Atlanta History Center we opened to the public again on July 3rd and we have limited capacity but we are opening and we have several activations that are particularly relevant right now to tell you a little bit about that in just a moment I'm going to start sharing my screen so that you can see our title panel in my presentation.

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Ok should be like for you now you are saying the title panel for any great change the centennial of the ninety's Amendment which is in form out at the Atlanta History Center just a word about the Atlanta History Center we are located I Mary campus is in fact head just off of what faces every road we have a very creative campus and then includes exhibition historic out museums and 33 acres of gardens and we have her horse that lot of history regional history and of her writing place through the history the culture community of our city and our region and in particular right now especially relevant are couple of exhibitions that we have going on and I want to play those out for you in addition to any great change which will be on the Rue we've extended it through 2021 the opportunity to come now in this internal year of that I think the vent and experience the exhibition the room next year.

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But right now we we've got an exhibition called Black citizenship and the age of Jim Crow and this is a partnership the exhibition was developed by the New York Historical Society and for show they are going to travel around the country not it last stop is here in Atlanta and what we did is in partnership we call it the Atlanta component and we took the text and the content of the orchestra size position and we had Lennon we added things that are appropriate and important for Atlantans to know about you know Atlanta and this kind of I don't like citizenship in the age of Jim Crow runs through a reconstruction through the 1st World War And so these 2.

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Need to exhibitions or are my compliments in an election year in particular and then tomorrow we have a brand new exhibition of binning called Atlanta 96 and it is an exhibition about the last into the Olympic Games of $996.00 and talks about the dead in the changes of Atlanta over time as a special sense of being a bit in Atlantic City so if you come out and visit us to be a great addition addition to all the other offerings that we have.

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So talking to you today particular about the centennial of the night is a moment on Constitution Day in which this is a day in which we commemorate the Constitution the ramifications session around that it's important for us right and for the centennial year of the 19th Amendment to discuss women's suffrage the road to women's suffrage and then what we've done with that right the continuation of the women's rights movement through civil rights movement up to today and acknowledging that voting rights.

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Have been a long challenge for this country and that's what we'll talk about in the exhibition this presentation that kind of a little bit of an overview and highlights of the exhibition that I do or to come out and c.v.r. back to the photograph that's great interactive and really I hope the inspired you if you're not registered to vote to register to vote and then to the this year this is.

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You know an inspiration to understand our role as citizens and our responsibility. So one of the kind of key artifacts that we have in the exhibition is the sash and the spokeswoman sash and so what we do in fact the mission is we're talking about the centennial in particular the road to suffrage the route to the ratification of the 19th Amendment and then the long road to realize the equal voting rights or women of color and women of a very immigrant or indigenous population and then what women are doing and have done with that vote mess community organizers politicians and voters and when we have talked about this in jail want to be clear that when we talk about it.

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In the context of. A centennial or celebration 100 years we really use the word commemoration because we knowledge that just like many things in history and we use the phrase that one History Center history is messy that it is fraught and that it is you know an exploration of the good and the bad things that happened those enjoying the you know women's suffrage movement and now that we are continuing to acknowledge the barriers to full voting rights.

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So that I don't for the exhibition come from a quote by a Christian cause in ma and the Christian model is one of the I considered one of the mothers of the woman's suffrage movement She analysed the piece and some of their colleagues are women who have stablished the 1st woman's rights convention in 848 in Seneca Falls in the established that's because they were at abolitionists and women not allowed to fully participate in abolition meetings and so they held the Women's Rights Convention later and one of the convention she said this line she said any great change must expect opposition because it shakes the very foundation of privilege and we liked this quote in particular because what we knowledge in this exhibition and knowledge as a country is voting rights have been a complicated topic for us this is not something that each constitutional amendment the past does not guarantee that any one group just gets to walk into the ballot because the states that voting rights laws in particular in the south in the Jim Crow laws and the voting rights there is put in place by Jim Crow laws that even the passage of the 15000000 teens Amendment does not guarantee the right to vote but they're still farriers and so it's kind of the long arc of voting rights in this country.

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You know it is still going through now and the fact the 19th Amendment is just one of the movement but it is a great change to continue to have knowledge and knowledge that equality and of all the citizens have in this democracy. Before I kind of get into these women in general just kind of have a kind of constitution a day out once again to give a little bit of an overview as I talked about this long road of citizenship and voting rights if the Constitution was ratified I'm $1788.00 and there are 10 that meant the Bill of Rights which gave us additional rights and none of those had anything to do citizenship or voting we actually didn't get around to this abolition any sort of citizenship into the 14th Amendment and that was an $868.00.

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With that though it does not mean that it isn't also the can just walk into the voting booth and it's a particularly important because we know that voting is a key element of our all of us and and like he was sponsibility that we have it is something that a secure the benefits of the Dominican democratic process particularly I want to have say I want representatives that reflect my values and me and I want laws to chore my quality this is representation this is having a voice this is making you know truly contributing to our democracy the rule voting and so this the reason that the women that you see on your screen the men over time who have fought for equal voting rights are doing this work is one because of the quality of the deal and really importantly because the power of the pope power of the vote gives you your voice that allows you and gives you the opportunity to make change and that representatives who reflect who you are and continue to make a law that secure you as a citizen and your your quality.

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The 14th Amendment. Is you know establishes citizenship the 15th Amendment that eliminated race as a qualification for moving and that was an 870 and that sent. Really I guess the newly free media excuse me newly free in place then the opportunity of citizen to cast their ballots eliminating racism barrier However laws were quickly made that created more barriers and we have a poll tax we think a grandfather clause or lottery literacy tests and examples of ways that various were created to keep people black men in this case from exercising their vote and then it even later on the 26th amendment that lower of the voting age Little Women a ages a qualification for voting so we can continue this road for equal representation through voting rights.

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When you come into the exhibition one of the things that is really important to know about the woman suffrage movement in particular is that it is a variety of women and they are coming in for a variety of reasons. I mention the Women's Rights Convention and $848.00 Seneca all and again it's all of the t.v. station and the Christian Hof and mosque and their colleagues who at this convention came together to.

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To really kind of establish why that why and why women deserve from this country and they wrote basically a women Declaration of Independence and in the secular nation of Independence they used the line all all men and women are created equal and from there they set out a number of things from property to marriage to civic participation in the voting rights that women were entitled to the citizens and to work for and so this is.

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Consider the birthplace of the women's suffrage movement from there there are additional voting rights or peace and women's rights convention which they continue to have to clarify and to move towards what will be eventually that you know have fully involved women's suffrage movement and we get the formation of organizations.

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And again looking at these women on the screen they show up in a variety of ways and they show the number I gave reasons for i reasons and you know what's really important about. The suffrage movement is that we when we think of it in general we probably think of the person at the bottom left corner isn't that a right she's considered you know the one of the names she was arrested for her voting she is leader of the organization she is you know campaigning in an advocate.

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But there are a variety woman who who are involved either in these organizations these large organizations that just dedicated to doing the work of the suburbs movement that there were many many Lebanese were involved in men who were involved. Both and organizations that see what the vote does and it is a means to an end for them and what I mean by that is.

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The women are not showing up because they believe that women are equal and should therefore be granted equal voting rights they see the vote as power right in the understand that through the vote that they can make changes so they're involved oftentimes an organization that needs our. Legislation or power of money to do the progressive work and so on some of the women on the page represent that kind of work so they see the vote has the opportunity to you know continue their work forward whether that's kind of racial equality or immigrant rights are additional Women's of all any access to education one of those big movements tied directly to the average movement of the Temperance Movement the Temperance Movement spots that require legislation so what better way then to you know have the power of creating and contributing to legislation through the vote and their elected officials I can move that along and so just taking a moment here to talk about a little bit about the woman on the screen and again what's really important about.

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That that the mission is showing representation that that everyone does not come in for for one reason and that what we're taught in school as we only hear really named wealthy or prominent white women and don't realize that there are women who are fighting all across this country they are fighting in the north and south is fighting against one of the crime scene racism they're fighting in grants and immigrants and a sentiment in addition to fighting against you know the moves against women.

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Already And in that top corner is Mary about you know all the women she was indigenous or even if you're just woman centered in the u.s. government I'd only know Tara Warren is in the center with hat on and she. Is from the American Southwest and moves as they suffer just in that area to ensure that separate pamphlets materials are printed in both English and Spanish as a whole access and speaking population to her right is I did the well Barnett was a leader for anti-lynching in racial equality and establishes the office of her ex-husband just because of 4 black women exclusively to find 3 separate each I mentioned here at the bottom Susan b. Anthony Young Susan b. Anthony we think of her as an age that Bridget Allen but this is a kind of illustrating the subject a big long fight for separation on our Dunbar Melton is a writer and a poet was involved in the last minute mid Atlantic states as a leader and of writing ways for people of color and different marginalized communities and then to the far right is Dr Mabel lady who was the.

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That Chinese a grant to me was born in San Francisco and in Mr Selfridge activity and you your going to believe your see the 1st the 1st Chinese want to see the a doctorate from Cornell University. What's important about Dr Lee is not only are suffrage work but the fact that when she is in the 19 teens advocating for equal separation.

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Chinese immigrants were not allowed to be citizens of the United States so essentially if the $1000.00 Amendment is passed and she is not a Chinese immigrants who might have granted citizenship she still has no access to that. Same with the people of color in the south and in the merrier south of the South where those Jim Crow laws is the 1000 men have hassles African-American women are still shelling out because of power of the vote knowing they'll have additional work to do.

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The roof and what becomes the civil rights route movement to take down the barriers. That there are now continue to be in place what I don't like to do in a presentation format is go through what I call the apple that stupid of the woman suffrage organizations and we have them here of these organizations in these big national organizations that have state parties involved All right quickly through them a week here about.

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The American Legal Rights Association the National and suffrage Association the American woman suffrage Association and finally the National American women steppers Association These are all associations that it comes together they split. Going together again and there's a variety of complicated discussion around these. Organizations because many of the reasons that they are formed in the face plate or they.

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Are. Are dissolved over the question of the 15th Amendment and over the question of voting rights and for black men this is something that split. Many separatist and it's not only an example of the you know what I'm seeing the party that is often Hempel's woman deciding one point whether or not and how they would fight for equal franchise and deciding that people franchise that ensuring equality at the voting booth for black men and women will not something they wanted to put their full effort behind so they split between that universal suffrage group and the group just wanted to continue fighting for full coverage for women but not.

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Black men and it was really you know kind of complicated eventually the groups kind of come back together after the 15th Amendment is passed but it is kind of an example of this is a long complicated process and the her ideas strategies and this example of universal suffrage versus women every one of the ways in which we see you know kind of strategies that.

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Kind of diversion and then we'll kind of come back together converge after the passage of the speech the moment but these these national strategies are obese national organization are important because one they have. They have the funding they have the resources they are in a variety of states and the last a case in a variety of ways for a full suffrage and some of these organizations are advocating on the state level for state passage of voting rights for women and some are advocating at the national level for passage of an amendment that would guarantee voting rights and then you want to say a word about that I didn't mention at the beginning that one of the really have to complications the reason that we we have the South and the West and Midwest nor acting in different ways around voting rights because.

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States make the laws around voting the constitution set out citizenship for us right and it continues with constant constitutional amendments that that and you know it should attempt to assure equality that the states decide on voting rights and Candace I'm how the rights are implemented so hammer the Jim Crow laws in the south.

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You know we see the states are attempting to abide by the 14th Amendment of placing and shop they are years in place and so those barriers are what's meant to keep in particular groups that is me from a voting booth so these organizations are move again nationally and and.

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8 Why not talk in particular about our state about Georgia and again it is not that Georget is unique to woman suffrage fights many of the states. Were participants in the large organizations and then had local organizations and in this case I listed 3 of the 3 month the women at the bottom who are suffering just in the state of Georgia and of the top 2 groups who were involved and once a fringe worker at the bottom left as Helen Augusta Howard She's a columnist Ga moment who begins or who starts the 1st a pretty organization in the state of Georgia the Georgia woman suffrage Association and that is a pretty powerful group they are able to.

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Lobby for the National Association or city national American woman suffrage Cissie ation. To hold their national conference in Atlanta and this is the 1st time that the end 8 of us a holds a national conference outside of Washington d.c. they hold it in Atlanta and this is a when for local suffragist such as Helen Augusta Howard but it's also strategic move on the point the National American woman says Association and this is what we see in the.

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First movement and south is the. Other strategy the Southern strategy is is a. Not so successful but certainly very prominent strategy that has a white supremacist and racist strategy and basically what it is or the idea of the Southern strategy is a numbers game around the rights and one of the ways in which this comes out is the appeal to white men that if they support women's.

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Ration support. Women getting the note then white women will have to vote as well as white men and they already know that they have the barriers in place to the Jim Crow laws that will not create not give equal access to people of color in the south so they can maintain that inviting voting power through women and the idea is to kind of double the numbers of white people voting in the south to continue to control the narrative and control of money and how the power in the south and I mention this not very successful because.

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The other men were were tied to their white prissy they were often tied to their sexism and were not willing to really support women's suffrage because of not supporting gender equality for women but it is an important strategy because it is and shows the dangers of. Support when it comes in the south and how easily that was seen as an exit strategy to be used Nevertheless the I'm in a good deal that's a come to Atlanta whole.

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Whole a convention at the time to be Anthony will speak to both white and black audiences for a supporter in the south. The woman in the center bottom center of your screen is marrying the Kurdish not for an American journalist in North Georgia who wrote very strongly in our segment for those people suffrage for black men passage insisting the men met and then calling on those men to support equal suffrage for black women and getting the vote and calling out the ways in which the vote is that important for that in the population as well.

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On the do far right is in the effect it will she is a separatist in the city of Atlanta she actually began equal suffrage party of Georgia which was a little bit more active and progressive the 1st party and it's important to note that they once suffrage was realized I buy the 19th amendment that that organization Tremont Georgia League of Women Voters which is still active today in that league was started to educate newly and French people on how to inform them about the vote be educated and understand how to vote so that's one of the couple of the theory was a sion.

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And then the top 2 photos we have in the car of the Georgia you've got to think that Georgia woman and I young woman that separates association and to the right is the neighborhood Union and these are 2 organizations that both I think a for suffrage one of the new suffrage Association out right and they were a good union as advocating in Atlanta and the center of that so it Will Genia Burns help and lead you from so began a neighborhood Union in Atlanta to work for equal access for African-American education for various ways of at equality between any uplift I'll mention for my favorite quote about help voting is Latina burnt toast at the ballot is the safeguard of any nation and that's such a powerful quote the safeguard of the nation in the work that they were doing as part of that neighborhood union work.

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There are women from Georgia black and white who participate in the National 1st national average hurry to 913 the women of the Delta Sigma Theta and the Georgia young people separate associations participated in that parade in Washington d.c. So they are involved in both local and the national level and again these these woman are showing up in her writing way semolina people in her group are working to educate women online why they should help to advocate for equal separation how they they offered separate schools on voting rights in the process they talk about government schools about how government works so I understand the role and wish they needed to take up arms and they raised money they lobbied they advocated it with community organizers and so they're holding parades and city of Atlanta holding protests there they are you know lobbying their budgets leaders they're lobbying the people around them through their offices or their family members to support that bridge and so again you know these there are organizations or individuals who are working towards.

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You know equal suffrage in this case the realization of the 19th Amendment. So we get to what the 19th Amendment is ratified in 1020 minutes a little bit of a complicated really even and who has several years these women's organizations changed over time this started in 8048 and ended in $1020.00 so there are several generations of women who are involved in a separate movement and each generation has the way in which they see best to advocate for that for you know equal separately over in this case I think Amendment so their 1st generation is working on education other generations become more aggressive we get to more progressive group and we did the national women's party led by Alice Paul become the very 1st organization ever ever in history the United States the 1st organization 1st group of people to her pick up the bike.

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So we Benyon these women suffragist and then lobbying and is at holy praise and protests and they've been you know talking to their friends about why supporting separation and this crew of national ones party and silenced the common sounds stood directly outside president door and they held signs daily for months and months on a signs to convince President Wilson to support the 19th Amendment and you've got.

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Your women who in this case are arrested who were jailed and other hunger strikes involved in this and it's really the only time we see kind of violence in the women's suffrage movement saying this protest in this form of public activism right on President's door staff he finally President Wilson.

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Endorses a separate amendment in 1980 and this is just at the end of the. World or one in some discussion around his changing. Minor him being you know how to finally convinced to support equal suffrage because of the model of women during World War One because the ones that weren't on the front in traveling overseas be participate on in relief efforts of World War One and I guess realizing the value of women in democracy the least of he's endorsed is the suffrage amendment.

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And then we get to what happens in Congress recessions session the House voted for the amendment in May of 1919 the all male Senate passed it on June 4th 998 and this is one of the senators to support. The 19th Amendment in Congress are in the Senate that day was Senator William j. parents of Georgia Senator Harris was the only Southern senator to vote to send the $1000.00 amendment to Congress so this begins Georgists absent of interesting relationship with one thing and then it in his support for the.

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But then he's a member to the states for ratification However when the one convention goes to the states around to cation Georgia the come the 1st state to reject ratification we vote for them the 1st state in a very activist and loud way say no we do not support only tougher General Jack the ratification.

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The ratifications and rejections of running patients take place across the country and we get to August 18th making 20 which is one of these and he will be 1000 minutes and it's our neighbors to the north Tennessee becomes the ratification state on 8 August 18th when Harry Byrne cast his ballot his ballot for the support of the 19th amendment for ratification and it's now popularly said and and known that Harry Byrne cast a ballot for the next he's in the moment because his mother told him to use them consider him a very smart young man in Tennessee so they're the ratification state and that becomes the ratification of the making for them and it will be signed into law on August 26th that was signed of become part of the Constitution that image that has been in the all the other scenario in the.

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In time in which. Women across the country can began to register to vote. Georgia's relationship remains complicated and with the $1000.00 then that even with the ratification signing as a constitutional amendment or do women want to vote for another 2 years there are some laws on the books that have to do with the timing around registration voting ends the door on the move finally realized their ability to vote in 1902 and in this case is mostly white men who are voting as those voting rights and their ears are in place including.

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The last we talked about you literacy test and poll taxes but also my primary in which it's very explicitly stated that it is only for white citizens accuracy a great deal of power and the state so we get to we get to ratification we still have work to do.

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Finishing Georgia story on the 19th Amendment Georgia in Denver ratified in 1000 the many will be happy to know we did a lot of fire we are on the sorry for that and I haven't all night 17050 years after the ratification of the 1900 minutes and that happened along with the other southern states who desired her out of identity amendments just as the equal rights and Bennett conversations are taking place in Congress and that's the end of the Equal Rights Amendment which is the.

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Amendment that would give full legal equality a few people Holly it's women in the country those conversations are coming up so it's this symbolic ratification we don't really need your leader and finally 170 are they dead in this house symbolic ratification expressing. Support for general quality rather than support of equal rights amendment.

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So the 1st part of the exhibition we talked in great detail about voting rights there are facts of the voting rights and woman suffrage movement and then the next part of the exhibition is what happens next the next 100 years and this is very important to us because just because there's a consummate constitutional amendment saying you have the right to vote doesn't mean you get to walk up to the ballot box and we've talked about the ways in which they will barrios in the south and there are barriers across the country in a variety of ways mention to you that in the south and I immigration or immigration related barriers in the.

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Indigenous populations that would not have access to the vote 112-4940 3 respectively not a Native American and Asian Americans obtain citizenship finally allowing them citizenship and the ability to exercise their right to vote including those those like Dr Lee who we talked about Remicade for suffrage but not would not become a u.s. citizen until $943.00 and we're not sure whether or not she was able to ever really cast a ballot.

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And then and then the civil rights movement which of course the think tank of the civil rights movement is Atlanta much of the work didn't movement and the work of the proverb says maybe the civil rights movement takes place here in the city actually call out someone who's not from mine and this is a 1000000 Boynton Robinson from Savannah Georgia and she and her mother her mother whether it's a separatist in Savannah Georgia Emily eventually moved to Alabama where she becomes an outspoken advocate and leader of the civil rights movement in Alabama should believe the 1st African-American woman to run for public office and Alabama and she is.

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On the Edmund Pettus Bridge with Congressman Lewis on the day a bloody Sunday and beaten. Nearly conscious on that day committed to the civil rights movement and so when we see the realization in their work of the civil rights movement the Voting Rights Act of $165.00 breaks down another barrier to Voting Rights Act passed the baton on to the moment all the way up to 165 and that work continues to to ensure that for in the south there are laws in place that continue to break down those barriers.

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And there so that the the work of women you know we saw the civil rights movement activists and their expression of their citizenship through protest through advocacy through the work that they did and then we've got the other side of it in which women are participating in a variety of ways and in this case and running for public office and so you know certainly want to mention.

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The work of the women of Georgia over the last 100 years and you're right that a couple of firsts and I think 1st are important in this context as we're talking about the 1st 100 years of the and I think amendment that certainly one to knowledge that that work continues and especially now as we're seeing more and more women running and being elected to public office.

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Believe that justice reward Sears was the 1st woman. Appointed and then elected to the Supreme Court of Georgia is the 1st woman who then became chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia Allen Dulles Nagin is the 1st woman who like did to Congress from the state of Georgia.

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And she's in one of my favorite stories is really interesting but there is a woman who was appointed to Congress Rebecca Lott I'm a felon but how many of us make it is the 1st woman from Georgia to be elected to Congress and then Grace tells Hamilton is the 1st African-American woman elected public office in the state of Georgia and she served as an effective legislator who expanded her presentation of Black Georgians in local and state government and then we have to the right and display of buttons and I love this display because it shows not just that women's activism through running for.

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Elected office but for the ways in which women continue to show up the work for equality including those are a buttons and imo again the Equal Rights Amendment. It is an amendment that would give full equality to women. And it's one of our most complicated pieces of the exhibition because we do have this question about it is that it has been up her ratification multiple times and only recently there have been additional ratifications which may mean that the all rights amendment and becomes reality however this will likely go to the courts and behind additional.

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Work but the Equal Rights Amendment is the only time that I've ever had to date and a History exhibition and usually history exhibitions of us are that in the past and they were sure dating interpretation made and they still change but in this case we had history being made while the exhibition was at an equal rights and that ramifications that continue to push that realization forward.

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This is my my whole action to you a couple of calls for you more in years to come see the exhibition you can find it's Atlanta History Center dot com You can learn about the information I have is it you will see you could spend several hours there not just viewing the exhibitions I took out today to go change citizenship Major Jim Crow in Atlanta $96.00 but $33.00 acres of museum buildings to start passing exams and gardens and it is a very safe place to social distance we have plenty of space for you on so how do you come out and visit your 2nd call to action is to if you have not registered to vote.

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I hope that you you can see now the importance as the genius says that the ballots voting is the say card of the nation and that it is as citizens of our responsibility it is our job it is our work to exercise that right and participate fully and then finally if you are a survivor to go vote to actually get your absentee ballot or to to to go home to honor the work that's taken place not just the work of the 15th Amendment the 1000 women 26th Amendment the work continues but people to you.

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To ensure that our democracy is safe. Thank you all so much for his time to have a kind of visit us I get one of his recent interviews enjoyed today and if there are questions I think I can stop screen sharing and have access to questions but I must talk to you they give very much.

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Of. This is pretty special thank you so much misalignment My gosh you've really brought history to light was both the curation of the exhibit and your discussion of about the exhibit on the history I thought I was was there a 100 years ago. There are any questions that are used in chat if anyone has any particular question our speakers featured speaker knows quite a bit about this particular amendment she also coordinated the a book talk which would have been really wonderful in person with a professor from u.c.l.a. Professor Deval who has written a new book which we Jews have as many but we have several unlimited users of it so please feel free to look at it suffrage women's long battle for the vote.

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In that book she details a couple of pages about that Atlanta convention that was then land I mentioned where Susan b. Anthony had an opportunity to bring Frederick Douglass and decided not to to her feel that she didn't do that and I don't Wells Barnett that you mentioned all that that was a mistake but there's a couple pages about that convention on about another convention in Louisiana.

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You mentioned Southern strategy that what happened here in year out to to get to get the amendment passed. Especially as I talked about that the various strategies she did a fantastic job line that out it was not a separate page turner script it was and we also have Also Susan b. Anthony and with Katie stand co-edited and then the 1st several volumes of a history of woman suffrage which we do have a high an online database so you can look to our we have on the we have a constitution a little guide which highlights the exhibit that our exhibit as well as some you books that we have the constitution has listed there's a new National Geographic article August 2020 that we have the floats are which also mentions that parade.

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The deadline to discuss that I was told she could bring up the rear and not be with the Illinois delegation in the parade but she decided to join that parade right in the middle and was was the Illinois delegation at the end so it was. And she had the photo that you had of the women part the silence in front of the White House.

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So that was what you say I've heard of at the time have who would say he would be at the White House protesting so that was a interesting to see their spines the President Wilson. And as and in today the National Geographic article mentioned as one woman governor 26 u.s. senators and 101 house and representatives in Congress so that's the assessment of these women a 100 years ago as well.

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As anyone have any questions and chat feel free to enter it you think there are some questions I'm listening to the cost of that my Ministry Center. Is we're just talking we're 50 plus tax. And then for students it's a team dollars class. Want to go so we can know it's for seniors as well new for trial and under under room for pretty good.

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We have a question about how the western states were the 1st and then territories also but the 1st to grant women the right to vote. Right that and that there are variety of reasons why some of those be active in the women is the way in which those territories become safe and work and they are and then one of the big factors is also.

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You need voters to have representation and so states were more likely to. Want to ensure equal equality and a women's ability to vote on to ensure that voting power washing that you gave in Washington d.c. with people voting so there are a belief that yes the West is is the leader is Wyoming was the 1st state on Jeanette's race again as the 1st female commander of Congress and she actually in live dress for like licensing Georgia there's a generic in house in the state but yeah it was in there actually there isn't a the a woman voting well before the 1000 members out West and I'm actually in the city of Atlanta women voted in a mean this whole election in 1009.

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1000 was that by city law the city that's needed Eunice apology the woman white women of Atlanta and advocated for white women to be allowed to vote and indeed all action in this case is popping up around the country through local advocacy are for the need to sound Blish you know how record voting rights.

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Thank you. And also one of the new books that we have exploring women suffered for 50 a stark treasure it has an appendix that does list the states and territories in the order in which the Granted woman the right to vote and so it took a while before we see Texas in 118 Arkansas in 117 Tennessee 1919 and Kentucky in 120 where the 1st Grant went and and then tonight it was for presidential suffrage not all votes just for the presidential election and that that was what in your example you know that it was for limited reasons or maybe taxes or something also for exclusive to all the elections.

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And and in the exhibit you'll see a beautiful timeline on the wall and it's just really quite I hope the detail that you added on that really brings. Brings it all the 184-886-9113 pretty it's all right there that I was going to I know of the question. Well in the cost yes.

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And it isn't all they passed so you know you can stay there as long as you like it's very nice and if you think this was help look familiar as it was that in Hunger Games as well as the mazing race finale so. Will a Katherine do you want to.

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Our coordinator moderator Catherine r r programming library and she's really got some great ideas other programming events too for the library you know we're open but we do have many things that are virtual for everyone so for their enjoyment so I can think of a library and let history center we've got a lot that you can use to explore if you're interested in many topics.

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Thank you so much just because this was wonderful I personally learned so much day and I really appreciate you giving such good context and including how many groups in this conversation because we know it was a it's a really long road that we're still on the thank you and thank you to all of our attendees I'd like to personally invite you to future programming by the Georgia Tech library our programming is free it's open to all and you can find more information about our programming on the Georgia Tech library website which I'll link in the chat so thank you just gotta thank you so much Paddy for helping to put this together and we hope you have a great day everyone.