you can see the original of this painting, by the way at belmont hall. as 1917 dawns, the national women's party thinking nothing we're doing isn't working. we haven't gained a sing the state. we haven't twisted a single voter. we need to do something new, and at the beginning of 1917, they came up with the idea of picketing the white house. i promise you if you go to the white house, there will be picketers there. there always are. fee freel to remind them it was alice paul's idea. this was the first time anybody had ever done this. again, check out the visuals, right? these women in their dark coats against the white house, the banner that says mr. president, how long must women wait for liberty? in this very simple san serif font. it's all made for the pictures. the pictures are great. at the time live in the space they were sort of a curiosity. people were interested in the white house pickets. this is january/february 1917. it's very cold out there. people would sort of come by, and sometimes women would come to washington to participate. there were

while we're not able to be together in person at belmont hall right now, we are so thankful to the berkes and to our panelists for being willing to shift and working with us to make this webinar happen. also, huge thank you to everyone in the audience right now who is joining us. and to all of you who are continuing to commemorate the suffrage centennial and to uplift women's history in this age of social distancing. we are also thrilled to have these tlae amazing curators with us tonight as our panelists for this discussion. curators get an inside look at the suffrage exhibits. now, to all our members in the audience tonight, maybe some of you have been able to see these exhibits in person, maybe you haven't had the chance yet. either way we're all going to get a unique look into these exhibits tonight through this conversation. so, this year, again, 2020 marks 100 years since the 19th amendment was officially ratified into u.s. constitution. standing back, the right to vote shall not be denied on account of sex. so, our panelists each curated an exhibition in the nation's capital explor

you can see it at belmont hall. this march, in addition to being a great publicity ploy, was an announcement the federal amendment was back. this was really going to be a major strategy going forward. so really alice paul was pushing the switch to the amendment and also these much more public tactics. she had -- she was very young, only in her early 20s. she had gone to grad school in england, had become a follower of analine packhurst. the british suffrage movement had its slow and steady color within the lines movement and then they had the packhurst. the packhursts were really radical. and the mother and daughters were totally radical and very, very militant, eventually alice paul's faction became called militant. they had nothing on the british women. they escalated to trying to burn the prime minister's house, i understand they tried to set fire to the botanical gardens. they smacked policemen in the face on purpose. they were not playing around. i love this. this is a british paper. the headline says "trouble

you could see the original painting of this at the belmont hall. that was the end of 1916. as 1917 dawned, they haven't gained a single state, twisted a single voter, we still have this president who is not interested in helping us sway anybody in congress. we need to do something new. and at the beginning of 1917 they came up with the idea of picketing the white house. i promise if you go to the white house there will be picketers there. there always are. feel free to remind them it was alice paul's idea. this is the first time anybody had done this. check out the visuals. the women in the dark coats against the white house, that banner that said mr. president, how long must women wait for liberty. inez mullholhand's maybe last words in dark letters on a light background. this is all made for the pictures. and pictures are great. so at the time in the space there was sort of a curiosity. people were interested in the white house pickets. that is interesting. this is january and february 1917. it is really cold out there. but people would come by and sometimes women would c