 Oh! That's where it's over here, right? I think we're really much the speed of what you need doing. Right? Let's see. Feeling is such a thing. I think it goes on forever. Imagine if you were about to meet and you were about to go to the library because I thought the library was there. Yeah, I'm sorry. History. You can answer to a trivia question. We're going to do trivia. The answer to a trivia question. Indeed, indeed. Anyone else? Excuse me, Marybeth, could I have a song? You don't have to. It's alright. You'll know the answers anyway. You can just shout them out. That's what I do. That's true. You have a voting card? Does anyone need a voting card? Anyone missing a voting card? Oh, thanks. I'm meeting up. Great. Thank you for getting the agenda out ahead of time. It's really helpful for me to plan it with what we could look at in my binder. Yeah. And then I saw that you had some ideas. I think it's over here. Oh, it's nice to be here. They're going to ask you to vote. That's great. Come on in. We're so glad you're here. That's for public access because everybody wants to vote. This is going to really help. Everyone, it's time to brush up on your suffragist history. We're going to start the meeting in a few minutes. Love the suffragists you might not know yet. You're excited to learn about them. That's a good part. You're excited to learn. Everyone's excited to learn. I like that you all got the note about not re-enacting the 1918 influenza outbreak. Wearing your masks. We appreciate that because we don't want to... That was bad, huh? We don't want to do that. Nothing. Although it would have happened at the same time that the suffragists were fighting for the right to vote. That really made it difficult for the suffragists to organize until before we re-enacted 1918. Oh my gosh. Is that a buyer? I shouldn't add that to the buyer. We could do it though. No. Promoting the vote. You're getting very cost-effective. You're getting very dramatic. That's true. That would be good. We don't need to think. Yeah. No. No. Can I wear that fancy hat tonight? No. When do I get to wear the fancy hat? When you prove that you're responsible with that hat. I'm just a little nervous. You're a little hard on me. I've been really, really good with this hat. Touring? Touring? Yeah. That would be good. Yeah, you've got to get it on there well. This is why you don't have a fancy hat. Lynn, I've had this one for two meetings. No rush. We were just discussing the fancy hat that I'm going to get to wear next meeting. Maybe. Probably though. That's good. I'm wearing my radicals on the bottom. Purple's on the bottom. Purple's on the bottom. Tori, did you tell us why there are these colors? Do you know? That's the... I like them together. I don't either. You're right. Such an exciting meeting. I know. So many decisions to make. I like this new pool. Come on in. It's great to have you. Are you familiar with the gavel that we use at the meeting? We should show people. This is an original gavel from 1920. It's from the University of Vermont's Women's Student Union, September 22nd, 1920. It's very important. So don't break it, Lynn. Okay. No promises. She won't break it. She's not the gently, gently, gently, gently. It looks like we're getting a few more. Treat it like a pretty song sheet and everyone has an ironing. You know. Ah, nice. All right. There might be something. Satin and sand and satin. Susie suffrages satin's sand and said something silly. I like it. It's all good. She thinks that was hard. Wonderful. Great fun, everybody. We're really glad to have you. Usually it's just the three of us. I don't know if you've got any directs that have this many people. These are all these extra, really crowd scenes. Oh. We could do like when they get the sign. Sentinels. That's a lot of people. People don't have to talk. They're silent. That's a good role for everybody. All right, people. We're going to get this party started. A few more people coming in. Wait for me. Oh, yes. Please. Thank you. So everyone's got their song sheet, right? It's totally optional to sing along with us tonight, but we hope you give it a try. The governor says that we're allowed to sing. You just have to keep your nose in your mouth covered and sing through your ears. I have one more herstory trivia answer to hand out. Have you been studying up during the pandemic? Who wants it? All right. All right. So is everyone familiar with the tune to the Battle Hymn of the Republic? Yeah. Okay. So this is the Battle Hymn of the suffragists. It's the same tune. Everybody, let's sing. Our hearts have felt the glory of the coming of the time When night shall make our land sublime When mountain hill and rock and grill With freedom's light will shine As truth comes marching up It's a particular love of mine. You can follow along with all our music on your song sheet just underneath today's agenda. But abolitionist and suffragist Julia Ward Howe didn't just write the Battle Hymn of the Republic. She also co-founded the American Woman Suffrage Association in Psycho-pediatory. There will be a quiz on all this, folks. Now, as president, I'd like to officially call the meeting of the Suffragist Re-enactment Society to Order. For those of you joining us for the first time, which looks like most of you, we'd like to start things off with a little song to get us warmed up. We summon the spirit that way. Oh, I like that one then. Having summoned the spirit, we can now hear reports from our treasurer and our historian before getting to work selecting and planning our future suffragist re-enactments. Now, does everyone have their INA cards? See, we each do suffragist re-enactments because we're just clueless when it comes to women's history. Not all of us. Some of us majored in women's history. Yeah, most of us are just dummies about how women got the right to vote. Like, we could have called this the woman's history for dummy society, but Deborah said that. I think what Lynn is trying to say is that we exist to promote history. Or her story. Her story. The Suffragist Re-enactment Society exists to promote and celebrate the work of our American foremothers in getting the right to vote. Every school child can name the author of the Declaration of Independence, but can you name the author of the Declaration of Sentiments, the document that proposed that all women and men are created equal? Can you? The Declaration of Sentiments called on women to fight for their constitutional right to equality as U.S. citizens. I thought you were saving these for your trivia. Oh, yeah. Right. Sorry. The Suffragist Re-enactment Society exists to educate and inspire us all. We bring women's history to life. We each take turns proposing different re-enactments, and today is pretty exciting because, wait, can I tell them? It is big news. Come on. And today is pretty exciting because we're deciding what re-enactment will do here in Montpelier on the 4th of July. I am HIKI excited right now. We've been asked to select a re-enactment that best speaks to the ideals of America, something that makes us feel proud to be American and that highlights all the unique contributions of the suffragist begin... Oh, yes. Tori would like me to remind you, this is not a Civil War re-enactment group. Well, of course, the Women's Suffrage Re-enactment would encompass the Civil War period. We decided to leave hard-tack, musket training... And hoopskirts. ...to other organizations. Trust me, do not want to be wearing a hoopskirt on the 4th of July. Okay. Okay, well, do you want to give the historian's report now? It is next on the agenda. Oh. Yes. Yes. The Rights of Married Women. I got a picture of her enlightening us about your family connections to the movement. Did you have anything else you wanted to make us aware of? Yes. You mean there's something not covered in your re-enactment Bible or in all of the trivia you passed out? I know. I feel terrible. I mean, it's such an oversight. I could have included it in the Preface or the Glossary or the Chapter on the Pact. Tori. We do have a Pact agenda ahead of us. David, to the first official herstory trivia question, I wanted to make it more interactive. Right? Okay. I am excited. Are you excited? This is how... Whenever things they know the answer, you just shout it out and hold it up in the air for everyone to see. Do they get a prize? Prize? They get it right. Prize of knowing something about women's history. Nothing. Go ahead, Tori. Yeah. Okay. So, what were women who fought for the right to vote in America called? Who thinks they have the answer? The suffragettes. Yes! You're honest. The suffragettes? The Americans were the suffragettes. The suffragettes were in Britain. The Americans chose the more gender neutral term. See? Isn't that free? Oh, let's try another one. Okay, good. Which women's rights movement was more militant, the American or the British? The British. Oh, definitely the Brits. Under Pankhurst, they chained themselves to buildings, heckled politicians, broke store windows, and even planted explosives to get the right to vote. That's inspiring. Got it, Tori. Glad we got that straight. Now, Lynn is next on the agenda, everyone. Lynn is our resident costume expert and society treasurer. You have the treasurer's report for us, Lynn. Thank you. Anything else? About our dues, what they're used for, and so on. Oh, you see this hat? Now, this is a fancy hat. Check out the rim on this baby. The velvet? I mean the ribbon? The suffragettes. The suffragettes. Lecturing from state to state. They went out there in their corsets, in their shirt wastes, knocking on doors, marching in parades and stuff. It was hard. But if every day, every day they got to put on one of these gorgeous hats, my then, they were all right. Was there one luxury? And for black suffragists, their hat was their crown. Black women would show up at meetings looking like you wouldn't believe so that the white ladies would take them seriously. They wanted to show that the both mattered just as much to them, too. All I'm saying, folks, is that if you want to reenact some suffragist history, you're going to have to pay your dues so we can make some cool ass hats. Thank you, Lynn, for reminding us of why we should all pay our dues. Pay your dues. Okay, everyone, are we ready to move on to considering what reenactment to do for the 4th of July? If you look at our agenda, you'll see I have some patriotic options on there, and Tori has put together a wonderful binder as Lynn said, with some script ideas that highlight all the amazing accomplishments of the suffragists. Beginning with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Kady Stanton. I think we should show them one now. Oh, well, they only just got here. I don't want to confuse anyone with all the history and all the different suffragists. But how are they going to learn if we don't show them? I'm ready! What are those? They're like playing cards for suffragists. They're very large playing cards. Well, I can't keep these women straight like you two, so I have to make some pictures. Plus, it'll help us all follow along, right? I mean, we are talking about 72 years of history here. I like them. Thank you. All right, then. Shall we do our Seneca Falls? Yeah. I think this would be an excellent choice for the 4th of July, since it's all about women declaring their independence. Okay. We're going to need you to use your imagination. We are going on a little journey. See? To the Seneca Falls Convention, 1848. 10 o'clock in the morning on the 19th and 20th of July, Seneca Falls launched the women's suffrage movement in the United States. Suffrage. From the Latin suffrageum, which can be translated into vote or prayer, but my Latin is a little shaky. Okay. So we're going to travel back in time to Seneca Falls. Can you picture it? Me neither. I'm a visual person, but things were different in 1848, like all the ladies wore gloves. Speaking of gloves, Charlotte Woodward, who was the youngest to attend Seneca Falls in just 17, well, she's aged a bit here. But she said, oh, go ahead, Tori, reenact Charlotte's words for us. Do not believe there was any community anywhere in which the souls of some women were not beating their wings in rebellion. Every fiber of my being rebelled for all of the hours I set and sewed gloves for a miserable pittance, which once it was her could never be mine. The men took their money. See, I wanted to work, but I wanted to choose my task, and I wanted to collect my wages. So Charlotte got a bunch of her friends together to go see what these women's rights might be about. Now, this part, I can picture young Charlotte sitting in a wagon being pulled down a dusty country lane by a fat little pony. They drive 40 miles that morning when they start seeing more wagons and carriages and chases and surries all driving to meet at Seneca Falls. But, when they finally put Katie Stanton, that great noble hero, sent one of her nephews up through a window to unlock the door and let everyone inside, like it is here today. The women and some men all gather together. Yes, foolishness, and, but he did say, did in thought and speech, can voice the wrongs or present the demands of women with the skill and effect, the power and authority of a woman herself. The women at Seneca Falls didn't know what to do with their meeting. See, few of them had ever spoken in public before. They didn't even know how to run a meeting. So they had to ask the men for help, but they knew what they wanted. They knew what brought them together that day, what rebellion burned in their bellies. Oh, show the mural, Elizabeth Katie Stanton, Deborah, she does a fantastic Stanton. It's all myery and proper at once are assembled to declare our right to be free to have such disgraceful laws as give man power to chastise and imprison his wife to take the wages which he earns, the property she inherits and in the case of separation the children of her love to have such unjust laws if possible forever erased from our statute books. As it may seem to many. Oh, this next part's the radical part. Like really radical, it was not a given that women would even want to make this happen. Hold on to your hats. And strange as it may seem to many we now demand our right to vote according to the declaration of the government under which we live. You can mention in Philadelphia. Right. All those in favor of your first vote all those in favor of reenacting Seneca Falls wave I there are many good roles. Okay, we won't judge. For options, right? Oh, yes. There is so much more to talk about. The women at Seneca Falls couldn't imagine how their ideas would spread. How women across the country would be inspired by the very notion that women and men were equal. Like when abolitionist Susan B. Anthony was fighting to end slavery. She also. Wait. Her always like metering Susan B. Anthony. Years after Seneca Falls Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Katie Stanton became a team for women's rights. Stanton would forge the Thunderbolts and Anthony would fire him away. For 50 years they showed us how women could work together to make bold radical change. I have a question. Why do we always start with Elizabeth Katie Stanton and Susan B. Anthony? I get that they were besties and all but there were women going way back who wanted their rights. I mean, heck, there were women here before America was America. What were they doing? Go ahead, Tori. The early suffragists of American women and saw that it wasn't God ordained that they be subservient to men. They really dug women's power. Like in the Haudenosaunee Confederacy where indigenous women could appoint male leaders, control property, have custodial rights over their children, rights that white women didn't even have them. Haudenosaunee Confederacy isn't in the notebook. Either. It's okay. I've got a picture, though. This is Gajano Caroline Parker Mount Pleasant, a shoni woman from the Senate People. Would you look at that regurgate? It is gorgeous. How could I leave that out? Maybe I should make an addendum. So much rich history. Let's move on to the heroes. Or she, my, my indigenous land acknowledgment. Can't we re-enact something with indigenous women? I mean, they were the original Americans. That would be patriotic, right? Yeah, but we don't have a script for them. But let's see if they're possible with them, shall we? I still think we should call it the idea big. It sounds British. All right. Well, I will add meaning in the parking lot. Just a little bit of commentary. What's your name? And look, Lynn, I've written indigenous women. See, everyone, I was thinking, we can tell the story of the women's rights conventions in New York. Or we could re-enact the abolition movement where women work to bring about the ending of slavery. But we agreed not to do the Civil War. Well, we don't have to re-enact the Civil War to talk about slavery and women's rights. The abolition movement and the women's rights movement were intertwined. We could re-enact Maria W. Walker, who was the first woman to speak to an audience of both women and men. I bet she could have run that meeting in Seneca Falls. How long must the fair daughters of Africa be compelled to bury their minds beneath a load of iron pots and kettles? I have to iron pot myself. She was condemned for daring to speak in public. Or we could try Lucretia Maher or Lucy Stone in the 1850. Or stick with me now. We could stick with characters like Susan B. Anthony or Aunt Susan. Or we could show everyone how they worked to sway the legislators to grant women full suffrage in Kansas. Oh, what do you think, everyone? You want to try to re-enact the Battle for Kansas? It's a newer script for us. Auntie Clarina Howard Nichols did travel from Vermont to Kansas in 1854 to promote suffragism. Fantastic! Oh, the Battle for Kansas is great because you can really see the psychophysicists women made. For us all, Elizabeth Cady Stanton left her seven children behind to go on the road. She endured fleas and bedbugs for the cause. Oh, herstery, trivia questions. I feel like we should have a bell or something after these. Oh, what happened in 1865 just before our suffragists went to work in Kansas? I feel like I'm feeling when Kansas put these two amendments to the test. One, giving women the right to vote, and the other, giving black men the right to vote. If both amendments passed, Kansas would become the first state in the country with universal suffrage. Let me hear you say it, folks! Good for the two amendments. Side began to see the other side as a threat. You could either let black men vote or women, not both. Lucy Stone and Anthony. It doesn't look good for us, Susan. We're out of money, and the legislators are fighting to give black men the vote and not women. If Kansas women can vote in school districts, they should be allowed to vote in every election. The abolitionists support our cause, too. Then where are they? I don't see your friend, Senator Wood here, Susan. We are not going to win this thing with the Republicans help alone. Don't you see? The Equal Rights Association can't fight for both black people at the same time. We have to choose. Well, any man that votes against female suffrage is a blockhead. True. What do you think we should do? I want you to meet my friend, George Francis Trey. He's a flashy dresser and rich. George has agreed to trap the state with us to rile up the voters for our cause. Oh, people just love him. You should see him do this bit about the poor wife at the wash tub and the drunken husband and justice is bound to win. If women can rule monarchies, they should vote in republics. You know, I invented the coal chute for the coal car. You did. And the eraser for the pencil. And now, Susan B. Anthony, we are going to invent a paper for the suffragists. It's motto, men, their rights and nothing more. Women, their rights, and nothing less. And ladies, oh, publish your paper. We'll start off in Leavenworth, then on to Lawrence, Junction City, Topeka, then back to Leavenworth come election day in November. We're going to get them all fired up for the right amendment. Woman first and Negro. And then, Stanton says, just think of Patrick and Sambo, who cannot even read the Declaration of Independence and they know pretty racist. Women had the right to vote. They could help black people. This was a early fight in the suffrage movement. And we see Stanton and Anthony strategic thinking. I don't get it. Why just work for white women? Why not work for votes for both? Why make friends with people like trains? The suffragists were losing the fight for the vote. They were leaving black men the right to vote and not women. Oh, yes. Truth said, I believe I feel that I have the right to have just as much as any man. There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights and not a word about the colored women. And if the colored men get their rights and the colored women not theirs, then the colored men will be masters in another song. Maybe you know this one, too. Oh, dear, what can the matter be? Bog down in all the politics in the movement. There are plenty of patriotic suffragists we can shine a light on. Lynn, who do you propose we look at next? Who do I propose? Yes. Tori and I put forth a battle for Kansas for everyone to consider. You rejected it. Now it's your turn. Since next on their agendas, you could reenact pantaloons and bicycles. Yeah, you don't reenact a million bloomer. You want everyone to reenact pantaloons and bicycles? They kind of go together for suffrage, you know. Who votes I? Please. Stanton did say woman is riding to suffrage on a bicycle. Why don't we put that idea in our parking lot along the road? Victoria Woodhall. She was a traveling clairvoyant? That could be cool, right? Woodhall and her sister were the first female stockbrokers on Wall Street. She even ran for president 48 years before we had the right to vote. And she was a proponent to free love. Free love on the 4th of July? Yeah. Is that really patriotic? Why not? I mean, Woodhall said women should have the right to escape bad marriages and control marriages. Why doesn't Lynn have a go at her 1871 Steinway Hall opera? Yeah. She was wildly popular. But this speech is long. Oh, and look, the fourth row there is getting antsy. Yeah, but this is what we're here for, right? To learn about the race, it would be totally patriotic to hear from the... You know, she was a big crowd pleaser with the Utica Brooker, one of Woodhall's sisters who was a lot of them had it. And she had it in his at Woodhall from the balcony in the middle of her speech. Tough crowd. Tough family. Right. Damn, I'm just getting ready. I'm sorry. I'm going to rally all of you. All right. On this side, we're all pro-Woodhall. These are things that you can yell if you'd like, or you don't have to. You can just yell things like, you're a suit of happiness by white women who wouldn't support Black suffrage, and Woodhall didn't get a single vote when she ran for President. She spent Election Day in jail, but hold on. I think we need to concentrate our efforts in teaching everyone about the really important names in the movement. Well, Victoria Woodhall was a help me, Tory, who laid the groundwork for the LGBTQ rights movement and a century later, I mean, she's really very fascinating name. movement back with your reputation. If we go down this road, it just becomes compliment, complicated. There's the sex scandal, eugenics, huh? There's lots to talk about. I think we need to choose someone a little less complicated to represent us on the 4th of July. Like Susan B. Anthony. Well, you can't just ignore her. Yeah, but we don't. She's on the dollar. The dollar coin. And no one uses those except me. We have to acknowledge how influential Susan B. Anthony is, look, if we can get best-selling books and Broadway musicals about Alexander Hamilton, then we can spend a mere five minutes reenacting the life of Susan B. Anthony, can't we? Everyone's a bit of a jerk, yes. Financial system, but Lin-Man Wilder-Randa, the actor and writer though, is amazing. You think he has a rap about Susan B. Anthony? Susan B. Anthony dedicated her life to getting women the right to vote. She never married. She never had children. You want to talk about scandalous women? Let's talk about Susan B. Anthony's arrest. Really? You want to be in the crime scene of a crime scene? Trust me, this is not 4th of July, McClure. Her name is Susan Ronald Anthony, and there's a million votes she hasn't won, but just two. Shop worth a register of voters. Excuse me, Barbershop boy, I am here to register to vote. I'm sorry ma'am, but I don't think we can register your name. Old citizen franchise means the right to vote. Is it the 14th amendment to the U.S. Constitution? I am. Then tell me boy, am I a citizen? Why? To vote. Now you'll register me. And he did, but Susan B. Anthony's life of crime was only just beginning. Shomlin, Lissie's, indicted, tried, and convicted for voting illegally. Are you forgetting what this box means? What that little piece of paper means? No. Maybe. Uh huh. Once upon a time, it was a crime for women to vote. A crime to express your views, to have a voice at all in how our country was run. Anthony committed the crime of voting to wake people up. Back then, no one was paying attention to suffrage. So Anthony put herself on the line. Back then, no proper lady would get arrested or go to jail. But Susan B. Anthony did, she's still up to injustice for us all. How many of you would be brave enough to do the same? Yeah, how many of you have been arrested? Lynn? Yeah, don't be shy. Raise your hand. I would argue Susan B. Anthony doing her patriotic duty. But didn't she get some type of presidential pardon last year or something? Ridiculous. Pardon. She needs a cape. She arose. I know. Anthony's section of the trained, instead of the colored section, ordered her to move. She refused. And when he tried to force her to move, she bit him. Pills did. She founded a newspaper and investigated the lynchings of black men who wanted to vote. She, she told a story that America needed to hear. Now that's patriotic, right? She's so enraged, the locals with her reporting that they burned her newspaper to the ground. But she did not run away. Bought a pistol that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like talking about the Fourth of July. No one is going to want to think about lynchings and all that awfulness. There are other suffrages we can look at. They all stood up. They all sacrificed. We can't reenact that. Who's ready for another song? A patriotic one? How about we do a suffrageous version of Yankee Doodle? Okay, here we go. Just Yankee Doodle at the Fourth of July celebration. The parade would be so great to reenact. El Parade of Fifth Avenue led by Mabel Pinwalee on a horse. She was just 16 years old and already fighting for Chinese workers rights and suffrage. Oh, but I think the 1913 parade would be exciting to reenact. Let's send around a sign-up sheet. We need a lady on a horse. History question, Tori. I mean, we all would. She was a lawyer and she dressed up as Joan of Art. She led 5,000 suffrages of Pennsylvania Avenue with 20 floats, nine bands, four mounted brigades. Everyone showed up before Wilson's inauguration to show some attention for the cause. All parade floats would be wonderful to reenact. Hey, they marched during inauguration, just like we did during the 2017 Women's March. When you were knitting those pussycat hats, any pussycat hat knitters in here, right, you were doing the same thing as our suffrageous sisters back in 1913. Just with different hats. I told you, the hats were major. Oh, oh, her story trivia time. Dang. The political march on Washington in 1913, like the first major march. Who said it? Yes! The militant prince, right? Well, and when she got back to the U.S. and saw that no one was paying any attention to women's votes, she decided to shake things up a little and get some attention for the cause. She organized an incredible group of suffragists, including Helen Keller. Oh, if we're reenacting the 1913 march, we are going to need a mom of men. So some of you can harass us when we march, right? So some of you can, like, see who you are. Brilliant about Alice Paul is that she got sympathy for women's suffrage when it was practically dead in the water. Like it was just white women she was fighting for. A bit of a theme here. What's this about not wanting to offend southern white women? Tori, was that like a thing? Lynn, you got to the IW Wells Park, right? My citation there is a Teen Vogue article said, as far as I can see, we must have a white procession or a negro procession or no procession at all. Yeah, but then Wells told Paul, either I go with you or not at all. I am not taking this stand because I personally wish for recognition. I am doing it for the future benefit of my entire race. She marched with the Illinois delegation supported by her white co-suffragists. Well, some of them. She could have been killed by the mob for integrating the march like that. What would Alice Paul have done then? I mean, shouldn't everyone get to marching parades? Alice Paul suffered for the movement. Listen, she was the first person, the very first to put protesters in front of the White House. Nobody did that then, certainly not women, but Paul organized over a thousand silent sentinels. They stood there in the cold and the rain. We could show people that. They need to see Alice Paul taking on the president in the United States during World War I. She spoke out when the easiest thing to do would have been to keep her mouth shut like a good little patriot. But she challenged the United States to be better, to fight for democracy, not just abroad. White women, though, wasn't she? Listen to me. There was no Alice Paul. There was suffrage. And the police turned their back when women were being beat. They beat Alice Paul. When they jailed these women for seven months, they jailed Alice Paul. But she kept organizing. She let hunger strikes from behind bars. They were force fed for suffrage. Does anyone know what it's like to be force fed? Maybe this is the story we need to read out. When the forcible feeding was ordered, I was taken from my bed, carried to another room, forced into a chair, bound with sheets and sat upon, bodily constrained by a murderous. Then the prison doctor, assisted by two women attendants, placed a rubber tube up my nostril and pumped liquid food to the stomach twice a day for a month from November 1st to December 1st. This was done. But we shall fight because our causes just and right. Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah for women's suffrage. Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah for women's suffrage. Give me that. What? No, you don't deserve it. What are you talking about? You don't deserve to hold our history when all you were just were racist. They were probably homophobic and anti-Semitic just like everyone else at the time. But why? I don't understand why you even bother coming here if you insist on suffragists did wrong. Why are you dragging my heroes to the line? Torain or any woman in this room would have a face or pretend to be cutting history because we learn horrible things. At least we're not supposed to. Remember that place map? We give the little kids with all the president's faces on it. And there are streets and towns and schools named after some pretty shady dudes. Thomas Jefferson gets a whole university and solos and Broadway musicals and he won 100% owned slaves. And then there's George Washington and his team. How are we supposed to do this then? The minute you start shining that light you see a lot of bad stuff. What are we supposed to do about it? I mean look at you Lynn. How long have you been working on your indigenous land acknowledgement? Six months. Yeah. It's just that we are on storm land all of the time and we need to acknowledge the atrocities and the Utah movement and the residential schools and everything America has tried to do to destroy Native Americans. Indigenous people are still fighting today. They are leading us in the fight against environmental racism. They are water protectors and organizers and I have so much more to learn. How are we supposed to get this right? It's paralyzing. Interview. We have to get this right. We have to learn everything and there is no room for grief. The suffraget- We are a hot man. Trying to be perfect is part of the problem. The men we study in history class sure as heck weren't perfect. Yeah but we still study them. Don't we? They were flawed but they did somatically good stuff. It's like your IW Wells quote Tori. We need to shine the light of truth here and see it all and then we need to be better than they were at being intersectional and thoughtful and and some days we get our fan together and dress up like the suffragists and put on a show. All right. Fam. All those in favor of shining a light of truth on our suffragists and working to get it better today. I think that's probably enough history for today. We can table the discussion for the 4th of July until our next meeting too. I have a motion to adjourn. Wait what? No. We can't leave it like this all torn apart. If we're going to get things better like the National Women's Suffrage Association versus the American Women's Suffrage Association am I right? Sometimes I have no idea what you're talking about. Yeah Tori I kind of want to take. We can't leave it like my 10th amendment was passed by Congress on June 4th 1919 and it was ratified on August 18th 1920 but you don't know how it happened. Don't you want to see what went down? Vote aye. We don't have to do all 36 states. We can just skip to the last one Tennessee. It is on the agenda Deborah and you can reenact the hero of the hour. Carrie Chapman Cat. No I do love Carrie Chapman Cat. She's a Carrie Cat stan. Shout out to all my queer suffragists. Everybody can get involved. You want to see it right? Right? Okay. Cat who came up with the winning strategy to gain suffrage state by state. Oh Albees you uh so wait one of our silent sentinels and now lead organizer in Tennessee. Oh you my dear can be Josephine Pearson. Josephine Pearson? But I don't want to be the bad guy. You said we had to talk about the races. Yeah but I don't want to be a racist Tennessee anti with my underwear all in a bunch about women staying in their separate sphere but that they actually wear under the oh it's gonna get even hotter because it's August of 1920 and we are going to roses for the anti-suffragists or the anti's. Some folks over here if you look under your chairs you might find a red rose. If you do feel free to wave it up in the air. All here under your chair feel free to wave those up in the air letting us know which side you and they've got big business on their side too like the alcohol industry and because that might mean higher wages for women and child they're fighting dirty get out there we need to check in with every single one of our supporters and make sure there's only one thing we can do only one we can pray. August 18th motion that morning to table the suffrage vote fails and the ratification process begins. Okay so we start with two aye votes in favor of ratifications let's cut it down the middle and you all ready and turn to vote again for remain faithful to the wishes of his mother. Say aye again so we can all hear you pass the amendment. Second I believe we had a moral and legal right to ratify. Third I knew that a mother's advice is always safest for a boy to follow and my mother wanted me to vote for ratification. It was a Republican from the east mountains of Tennessee who made national women's suffrage possible at this date not for personal glory but for the glory. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account. Council gave us 10 minutes on their program you want to tell 72 years of history and 10 minutes history that I've been you do Tory you tell it and we'll help we will hold up the signs and the hats and dance and still has today a political structure based on female authority. Haudenosaunee women control the faster Tory in public in the United States in 1832 she was the first black American woman to write and publish a political manifesto calling on black people to resist slavery oppression and exploitation influencing Frederick Douglass to turn her truth and Francis Ellen Watkins Harper I didn't know any of that and I liked it all but she's got to go fast 1848 the first woman's rights convention Elizabeth Katie Stanton writes the declaration of sentiment setting the agenda for the suffrage movement for decades women's rights conventions then all over the country including one in Akron Ohio where former slaves to turn her truth delivers her eight-eyed woman's speech but she never said oh come on focus Tory in 1852 my auntie Clarina Howard Nichols addresses the Vermont Senate about property rights of married women and from 1861 1865 suffrages put efforts on hold because of the Civil War no skirts here though I do have a lovely bond in 1868 the 14th amendment is ratified defining citizens and voters exclusively as male the separate organizations fight over whether or not to support the 15th amendment which would give black men the vote while ignoring Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Katie Stanton found a second separate organization and begin a push for a constitutional amendment the 15th amendment passes in 1870 giving black men the right to vote but Frederick Douglass breaks with Stanton and Anthony over their position in support of wait in 1871 Victoria Wood Hall remember the top hat folks yeah she addresses the House Judiciary Committee arguing for women's rights to vote under the 14th amendment Susan B. Anthony votes for Ulysses S. Grant in 1872 and is arrested and put on trial jumping over so much yeah we're not trying to be perfect anymore just better 1890 Wyoming is admitted to the Union with a state constitution allowing women the vote and what are in 1896 Mary Church Jarrell Ivy Wells Barnett and Francis E. W. Harper found the National Association of Collared Women's Clubs in 1912 Mabel Pinwalee leads five ten thousand suffrages up in New York City 1913 Alice Paul organizes the political march on Washington teen Montana Nevada adopts suffrage and in 1917 a big year the Silent Sentinels pick at the White House asking holding banners asking Mr. President what will you do for women's suffrage how long must women wait for liberty Alice Paul is put in solitary confinement in the mental ward of the prison in an attempt to break her 1918 the Senate finally passes the 19th amendment and the ratification process begins by March of 1935 states and approve the amendment we need just one more stick to pass it who's it gonna be Vermont maybe on April 21st 400 women marched to Montpelier marched in the port of session so Vermont could ratify the 19th amendment Vermont Percival refused Vermont cannot afford the expense of a special session Tennessee being the last state needed to ratify the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote Percival Percival percy a shony can better see where the ration of sentiments but if I'm going to do better then we have to say that passing the 19th amendment didn't actually give all women the right to vote black women and other women of color couldn't vote for years after 1920 Native American women weren't even considered citizens they didn't get their right to vote until 1965 on November 2nd of 1920 over 8 million women did vote in elections for the very first time but it took over 60 years for all the states to finally ratify Mississippi only signed off in 1984 shh Debbie down over three is messy and ugly and beautiful but we have to celebrate our wins and keep fighting and we have so much to fight for today and this year in 43 states lawmakers have proposed at least 250 laws making voting harder states across the country are making it harder for black indigenous people people with disabilities the elderly and students to vote all those in favor of adjourning this meeting but continuing our fight for votes for women votes for everyone eyes anyone this meeting of the suffragist re-enactment society is adjourned and demand Vermont Department of