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On display in Magale Library for Fall 2020!<\/strong><\/p>\n From the Smithsonian:<\/p>\n After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in August 1920. To mark the centennial anniversary of women\u2019s suffrage, the Smithsonian, Library of Congress, and National Archives collaborated to share\u00a0this history with you on social media<\/a>.\u00a0The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery\u2019s\u00a0Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence<\/em><\/a>\u00a0exhibition\u00a0featured more than 120 portraits and objects spanning 1832 to 1965 that explore the American suffrage movement. View selections from the exhibition on the\u00a0Google Arts and Culture<\/a>\u00a0website.\u00a0The Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of African American History and Culture is sharing\u00a0“Five African American Suffragists You Should Know”<\/a>\u00a0to tell\u00a0a more complete history of the struggle for women\u2019s suffrage.<\/p>\n Although the 19th Amendment declared that the right to vote cannot be denied on the basis of sex, it did not guarantee voting access to all women. Citizenship laws, poll taxes, threats, and violence barred African American, Latina, Native American, Asian American, immigrant, and poor women. Many African American women could not vote unimpeded until the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965\u2014long after the 19th Amendment went into effect. Work continues to protect access to the vote. In the words of Coretta Scott King, “Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation.”<\/p>\n \u201cVotes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence\u201d will outline the more than 80-year movement for women to obtain the right to vote as part of the larger struggle for equality that continued through the 1965 Civil Rights Act and arguably lingers today. The presentation is divided chronologically and thematically to address \u201cRadical Women: 1832\u20131869,\u201d \u201cWomen Activists: 1870\u20131892,\u201d \u201cThe New Woman: 1893\u20131912,\u201d \u201cCompelling Tactics: 1913\u20131916,\u201d \u201cMilitancy in the American Suffragist Movement: 1917\u20131919\u201d and \u201cThe Nineteenth Amendment and Its Legacy.\u201d These thematic explorations are complemented by a chronological narrative of visual biographies of some of the movement\u2019s most influential leaders.<\/p>\n On view will be portraits of the movement\u2019s pioneers, notably Susan B. Anthony and abolitionist Sojourner Truth, and 1848 Seneca Falls participants, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone. Other portraits of activists will represent such figures as Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for President; Carrie Chapman Catt, who devised successful state-by-state persuasion efforts; Alice Paul, who organized the first-ever march on Washington\u2019s National Mall; and Lucy Burns, who served six different prison sentences for picketing the White House.<\/p>\n \u201cVotes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence\u201d will also shed light on the racial struggles of the suffrage movement and how African American women, often excluded by white women from the main suffrage organizations, organized for citizenship rights (including the right to vote). Portraits of African American contributors to the movement include Sarah Remond, who filed one of the earliest lawsuits protesting race segregation; Ida B. Wells, who advocated for federal laws against lynching; and Mary Church Terrell, who established the National Association of Colored Women.<\/p>\n The Portrait Gallery exhibition tells this complex history through an array of early photographic portraits, paintings, engravings, works on paper, lithographs, video, newspapers, postcards, books, ballots, banners, fliers, a china set, embroidery and pennants. Viewers will be able to see authentic objects, including original banners from the National Woman\u2019s Party, a late-19th century ballot box and original writings by influential suffragists.<\/p>\n The exhibition is curated by Kate Clarke Lemay, historian and director of Portal, Portrait Gallery\u2019s Scholarly Center, National Portrait Gallery.<\/p>\n
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