robert: thank you, sir. >> american history tv is on social media. follow us. the theme for the 2019 national history day competition was triumph and tragedy. over 500,000 students took part this year with 3000 advancing to the finals held in june at the university of maryland in college park. -- four for students students present a 10-minute program titled alice paul, the fight for the 19th amendment . performanceing a titled " alice paul, the fight for the 19th amendment . " ♪ >> alice paul, a separate activist and fighter for equal rights was an american woman been able to vote despite the tragic and unjust treatment of the suffrage activist they continued to fight for women's right to vote. after receiving their goals -- --ter achieving goals, they fought for the 19th amendment in many ways. after finding the national women's party in 1930 and participating in protests concerning rights. oflearned experiences women's rights thanks to them and many other activists. >> that doesn't mean it was easy. many parts for the 19th a minute were established. from ja

one woman, misses robert jamieson, she was shot and wounded, and unfortunately mary butler, another woman here in alexandria, was shot and killed. as you can see, again, sometimes alcohol and soldiers do not mix. we will continue on, next stop will be christchurch where i will talk about sarah tracy. she helped establish and keep mount vernon safe. here we are outside of christ church. this is where george washington would, and worship. mount vernon, washington's home, is less than 10 miles from alexandria. during the civil war, sarah tracy was the secretary for mount vernon, and she helped preserve this home during the war. sarah tracy made sure that soldiers on either side of the war were able to come in and visit washington's home. this was especially important because both sides, the confederacy and the union, saw washington is the founder of their country. tracy did have stipulations for soldiers that would come into mount vernon. they had to be unarmed, and they also could not be wearing their uniforms. they would find any means to cover up, rather in shawls or clothing. so, sarah t

her father was robert reed church. who by the late 19th century had become one of the wealthiest black men in the south. robert church learned some of his own family history when he received letters as an adult from his white former enslavers in these letters. they offered their own self-serving versions of the past his white and slavers told robert that his grandmother lucy had served as a seamstress and caregiver to her master's children. they described her as a beautiful french-speaking girl brought to the united states. between 1805 and 1810 on a ship from the french colony of sandoming. one letter recounted how robert's grandmother had been sold to a rich virginia. tobacco merchant after a fierce bidding war she had he was told attracted a great deal of attention by her beauty and the jewelry she wore and consequently brought a fancy price. slaveholding men's interest in an enslaved women's beauty was not accompliment. being a fancy girl typically meant she was purchased to be sexually available to her white in sl

robert jameson, she was shot and wounded and unfortunately mary butler, another woman here in alexandria, was shot and killed. as you can see, sometimes alcohol and soldiers do not mix. so we are going to continue on and our next stop is going to be christchurch where i will talk about sarah tracy who helped establish and keep mount britain safe. >> so here we are outside of christchurch, this is where george washington would come and worship during his time here in alexandria and mount vernon, washington's home, is less than ten miles from alexandria. and mountain vernon was preserved by women, during the civil war one women in particular, sarah tracy was the secondary. she helped preserve this home during the war. sarah tracy made sure that soldiers on either side of the war were able to come in and vision washington's home. this was important because both sides both the confederacy and unions saw washington as the founder of their country. tracy did have some stipulations for soldiers that would come into bound vernon, they had to be unarmed and they also had to be not wearing their u

and steve roberts. when you look at the front page of the washington paper on inauguration day and presiden e president-elect wilson has to share the front page, they had to push against so much to get that. >> they had no allies in the media. "the washington post" was fairly sympathetic. "new york times" was anti-suffrage all the way through, and their coverage is brutal. one of the things the women did that was so smart, the day of the 1913 parade, all these women had come to participate. they got them each to write a first-person account of their mistreatment at the hands of the mock. and send it to their hometown paper. the springfield illinois paper would say mrs. george thurman was manhandled at the crowd and it became a local story. that's not the story they thought they would be publicizing, and to get maybe unsympathetic reporters to cover it there's a lot of big news. that's what the pickets were all about. the war comes along. you have a president who had a showing of "birth of the nation" in

this is going to force robert e. lee to open the confederate capitol and mcclellan can hopefully turn the tide on the virginia peninsula. these challenges, all of these things pope is fighting against begin to change him and weigh on him. phil kerny, what a great reputation he has, will say this about pope's challenges august 4th. how do they expect pope to beat with a very inferior force, the veterans of yul and jackson? get me in and with pope's army, i would breathe again. several days into the campaign, pope's men are defeated at ceder mountain and his pulling back from that battle field surrendered the initiative to robert e. lee. lee will have seized the initiative immediately and begin to capitalize on all that it will provide him. as the second menases campaign continues to unfold, many men in the ranks feel they're being needlessly sacrifices after the defeat at ceder mountain. land has gotten way out of hand, damaging the morale to the men in the ranks. when pope takes command, he fires a very, very intelli

we have rebecca roberts here tonight as our speaker. rebecca has vein, i understand, many things in her career -- rebecca has been many things in her career. she has been a journalist, producer, tour guide, forensic planner,ogist, event political consultant. she has been a jazz singer, a radio talk show host, and currently, she is curator of programming for planet word, i museum set to open in 2020. the mom to two twin boys, a wife, and a great keeper of the family in line, and on top of all of that, she is an author. she has written a wonderful book on the subject we are here to learn about tonight and this part of american history and white house history. with that, i will have rebecca come up and then we will remove the podium, and rebecca and ann can have a conversation at the end. at the end, you will be able to pose your questions, as well. [applause] ms. roberts: thank you for having me. thank you, stuart. just to set the record straight, i have three sons, not to brag. the twins have a little brother. the suffragist movement dat

roberts lives here in washington, d.c. with her husband, three signs and a big fat dog. these women have been friends since childhood, and took the risk to come together and write a book. and so they're going to talk us through how the suffragists movement drove institutional change and what can we learn from that. so take it away, rebecca and lucinda. >> all right, so thank you so much for having us here today. this year is the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment which of course granted women the vote over the little more technical, removed to gender as an obstacle to voting. and with all that's going on in 2020 there's probably never been a better time to look back at the suffragist movement and see what the lessons that it can teach us today. first of all i want to get out it was a very long movement, over 70 years and it went on for three generations. the first generation of suffragists lived a long time. many of the leaders live well into their 80s. one point i was reading -- susan b. anthony lived to be 86. but still none of them went to see the 19th amendment

we have rebecca boggs roberts here as our speaker. and rebecca has been, i understand, many things in her life and her career and not limited to just these. she's been a journalist, a producer, she's been a tour guide. she's been a forensic anthropologist. she's been an event planner. she's been a political consultant. she's been a jazz singer. she's been a radio talk show host. and currently, she is curator of programming for planet word, a museum set to open in 2020. she's also found time to be the mom to two twin boys and wife and a great keeper of the family in line and on top of that, all of that, she's an author. she has written a wonderful book on the subject we are here to learn about tonight. and this part of american history and white house history. so with that, i'll have rebecca come up and then we'll remove the podium and rebecca and ann can have a conversation at the end. you're being invited to pose your questions as well. (applause) >> thank you all so much for having me. thank you, stewart. just to set the record stra

please, thanked rebecca roberts. >> [ applause ] >> thank you very much rebecca roberts, and for all of you joining us tonight. for our viewers on c-span, if you want to know more about the subject or other matters relating to white house history, our website www.whitehousehistory.org is an excellent resource. as we close, i would like everyone to please exit through the courtyard. there are three doors. we have a medical situation here. we will exit through decatur house and onto lafayette park. thank you so much and have a good evening. >> [ applause ] >>> we are featuring american tv history programs as a preview of what's available every weekend on cspan 3. lectures and history, american artifacts, real america, the civil war, oral histories, the presidency, and special event coverage on our nation's history. enjoy american history tv now and every weekend on c-span 3. >>> thursday night on american history tv, the 50th anniversary of the woodstock music festival. washington journal looks back at the 1969 woodstock music and art fair. a three-day rock concert that attracted nearl

roberts, ann compton and for all of you for joining us here tonight. for our viewers on c-span who have been watching us, if you want to know more about this subject or other matters relating to white house history, our website, whitehousehistory.org is an excellent resource. as we close, i would like to ask everyone to exit through the courtyard. there are three doors. we have a little medical situation here and we'll exit directly through decatur house and auto on to lafayette park. thank you so much and have a good evening.

she changed her name to her wilsoname, robert hayes in order to get the publisher to publish the cowboy novels. host: now you have to write the book. we will feature it on book tv. thank you. guest: yes, i think there was a lot there. the first point is about class. there were women who were working class industrial workers, teachers who became part of a movement. there were also wealthier women who became involved in the movement. some became funders to the movement. in washington, d.c. we of course have the belmont paul house named after the founder for the national women's party. some of the women did not just write checks. they stood outside. they were protesters. in fact, this is what draws a lot of woodrow wilson's attention. when some of these women are being arrested are more prominent in society and their husbands are friends with woodrow wilson and they come into the white house and complained to wilson, saying why is my wife in jail or in prison 22 miles south of washington, d.c. in a workhouse, that starts to get wilson's attention because of the spouses coming to complain t

next on american history tv history tv, author rebecca roberts on the decade leading up to the passage of the 19th amendment and how women gained the right to vote. she is the author of "suffragits & the 19thamendment." the white house historical

and robert lansing's wife, the wife of the secretary of state. they were not a small, unknown group. they were filled with prominent women who because of their elite status. they did not need to vote. in tennessee, they were very effective with pr. you had the war of the roses. the pros wore yellow roses. the antis tried everything. they threatened primary challenges, business boycotts, they said they would kidnap members to keep them from voting. cat using tennessee women as her surrogates had people patrolling the railroad station so nobody could get whisked out of town and miss their vote. i don't undercut those women. i think it is really lucky that we won in tennessee. there was no other state that was going to pass that legislative session. had it gone past 1920, he might've had the same fate as child labor amendment. >> there were a lot of different groups that were anti-suffrage for different reason. they were organized women led by anti-suffrage. anyone who employed child labor, the catholic church, there were plenty of other anti-suffra

her name on it, and no one would publish a woman author, so she changed her name to her son's name, robert hayes wilson in order to get the publisher to publish these cowboy novels. >> now you have the right to book, okay? will feature it on book to the. >> yes, there's a lot there. the first point the caller makes is about class, and the interesting part about the women's suffrage movement is there were women who were working class, industrial workers, teachers who became part of the movement, and then they were also, as the caller said, there were wealthier women who became very involved in movements. some of them became thunders to the movement, in washington d.c. we have the bell month paul house, next to the united states capital. and that is named after val moment, who was the major funder for the national women's party. some of them did not write the checks, they went to jail slid outside. and, in fact, this is what draws a lot of woodrow wilson's attention when some of these women are being arrested who are more prominent in society. their husband are friends with woodrow wilson an

is shot and killed in memphis and on june 6, robert f kennedy, john f. kennedy's brother, who had announced a run for president against lyndon b. johnson, killed in california while campaigning. i want to share as we get to the end a letter written by one north carolinian to his senator in the summer of 1968. 12 days after bobby kennedy was shot in california. it is written by a white man in north carolina. i am sick of crime everywhere. i am sick of riots. i am sick of poor people demonstrations. in parentheses, black, white, red, purple, green or any other. i am sick of the supreme court ruling for the good of a small part. i'm sick of lack of law enforcement. i am sick of hippies, lsd, drugs and all the promotion the news media give them. a lot of people at the end of the 1960's are wondering what happened. you recall after the midterm, richard nixon ended world war ii coming home to a comfortable house, comfortable life. children, a dog, whatever happened to this? we are going to see a backlash. the different changes in the 1960's, some more specific

the free thought lecture circuit where today we would call atheist or agnostic under the tutelage of robert ingersoll the great agnostic this guarantees her audiences and press coverage that no first time speaker could ever anticipate much less a woman. no one had ever heard of before and from the free thought podium. she critiques traditional marriage. she critiques women's second class status, and she says the bible is the root cause of it. then she turns her attention to what becomes her first real exposure to politics. this is where she learns the lessons that she later applies as a suffragist in washington and this is the campaign to raise the age of sexual consent for girls in 1890 the age at which a girl was considered legally capable of consenting to sex with a grown man was 12 or younger in 38 states in delaware. it was seven. now to gardener this stood out as like the epitome of the sexual double standard, right and also the why that men were legislating and advocating on behalf of women. so she joins the movement and begins advocating to raise the age of consent which she and her

linda lumsden author of the book "rampant women suffrages and right of assembly" and rebecca roberts, "suffrages in washington, d.c., the 1913 pap raid and the fight for the vote." so, panel, and tamara, i turn it over to you. [ applause ] >> naunk, everyone for being here and thank you for the panel for being here. i am going to let you carry all of the heavy weight on this. but -- you know, we know how the story ends. this story ends with the 19th amendment to the constitution being ratified and we all get to vote. so the question that i'm hoping we can cover tonight is, how we got here. and how we got to the end of that story in 1920, starting, though, in the 1900s, because it's a long story. so linda, i think that you have, at least a bit of an overview you can give us and maybe -- also you can start at the very beginning, or the early part of the century. >> okay, yeah. and i'll condense it, because it is a long story, but basically i would say--thank you so much for having me. when talking about the suffrage movement so much is about communication and targeting, and very simply,

she chairs the environment committee and appointed by chief justice roberts to the national workplace conduct working group. she travels all over the world assisting foreigni isjudiciary h their judicial code and she survived an avalanche during a mountain climbing expedition in tibet. so i'm thrilled to invite cool woman the honorable m. margaret mccuen to the stage. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you so much, everyone. please be seated. be seated. good evening and thanks to justice ginsburg for joining us tonight. i was looking at your justice ginsburg and i noticed you had a lot of name changes over the years. you were called kiki when you were little or kiki baby and then went by a more dignified name ruth. then you became professor ginsburg. then judge ginsburg and finally justice ginsburg. most people would just quit there but you have this new moniker of notorious rbg. can i just call you justice ginsburg? >> you can call me ruth. >> [ laughter ] >> okay. >> ruth. so on behalf of georgetown law school and the american bar, thanks for being here. i know these are two instituti

in 1968 robert kennedy, john f. kennedy's brother was killed in california while campaigning for president. i just want to share as we get down to ten here, i want to share a letter written by one north carolinian to his senator in the summer of 1968, 12 days after bobby kennedy was shot in california. it was written by a white man, father of five from north carolina. i quote, i'm sick of crime every where. i'm sick of riots. i'm sick of poor people demonstration. in parenthesis, black, white, red, yellow, purple, green or any other color! i'm sick of the u.s. supreme court ruling for the good of a very small part rather than the whole of our society. i'm sick of black law enforcement. i'm sick of vietnam. i'm sick of hippies, lsd, drugs and all the promotion the news media gives them. end quote. the people at the end of 1960s wondered whatever happened though. recall when we started after the mid-term, richard nixon coming home, comes to the house, comfortable life, wife, children, dog, whatever happened to this? s

so she changed her name to her son's name, robert hayes wilson in order to get the publisher to publish these cowboy novels. >> okay. now you have to write the book, ron, okay? we'll feature it on book tv. >> thanks, steve. >> thank you so much. appreciate it. >> caller: bye-bye. >> there is a lot there. first, the first point the caller makes is about class and the interesting part about the women's suffrage movement is there were women who were working class industrial workers, teachers, who became part of the movement. then there were also as the caller said, there were wealthier women who became very involved in the movement. some of them became funders to the movement. in washington, d.c. we of course have the belmont paul house right next to the united states capitol. that is named after eva belmont, who was the major funder for the national women's party. but some of the women didn't just write checks. they also went to jail. they stood outside. they were picketers. they were protesters. in fact, this is what draws a lot of woodrow wilson's attention when some of these women are

. >>> next on american history tv author rebecca roberts on the decade leading up to the 19th amend and how women gained the right to vote. white house historical association. it's my privilege to welcome you back to the historic decater house. tonight is one of the annual national heritage lectures that we do in partnership with the u.s. capitol historical society and the u.s. supreme court historical society. we have our wonderful colleagues from both here tonight and jane campbell is the new president of the capitol historical society. on june 4, 1919, the 19th amend was passed and sent to the states for ratification. the suffragists used the white house to bring attention to their cause. tonight we look forward to hearing more about their successful efforts to secure women's right to vote. before i introduce our speaker, i have a couple other introductions and things to share. first of all we have guests from smith college here tonight, the washington club of smith college. stand up. stand up for the smith college. [ applause ] they're our special guests tonight. we're honored to ha

there were captured, and as punishment for their attempts to escape, robert carter got permission from the court in 1708 to have their toes cut off. passedore our nation's on american history tv, every weekend on c-span3. >> a texas high school teacher gives discussion on food rationing, farmer shortages on the home front. friends of the world war ii memorial hosted the talk is part of their annual's teacher's conference. >> i am pleased to welcome karen to give her presentation. the first one was national instead of local. we are excited to have her back.

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