there is ida hunt, anna cooper, and mary church terrel on the right. these were studio portraits that were made of these women while they were students at overland -- oberlin college. it was founded by abolitionists and was one of the first liberal arts schools in the united states to accept african-american students. what i love about these portraits is how young they are. and you know that each went on to lead great lives as activists, as women who are advocating for citizenship rights, particularly for african-americans. and for all people of the united states. especially anna julia cooper was a teacher at the m street college school, now the dunbar high school in washington, dc, , she was living the life of someone who truly believed in giving liberal arts education to african americans. as did mary church terrel, who in 1893 founded the national college women's association. but she was also teaching at the m street college school that is now dunbar high school in washington, dc. what i like about these two women was they were taking on the respons

back you have three portraits of african-american, ida on the left, anna in the middle, and mary church terrell on the right. these are studio portraits made of these women while they were students at owe berlin college which was founded by abolitionists which was one of the first liberal arts school in the united states to accept african-american students. what i love about these portraits is how young they are and you know that they each went on to lead great lives as activists, as women that were advocating for citizenship rights for all people of the united states, but particularly for african-americans. especially anna julia cooper was a teacher at the m street school in washington, d.c., which is now the dounbar high school. she was living the life of someone who truly believed giving liberal arts education to african-americans, as did mary church terrell, who in 1893 founded the national colored women's association, but she was also teaching at the m street colored school, the dunbar high school in washington, d.c. what i like about these two women is that they were taking on sort of the

as did mary church terrell who in 1893 founded the national colored women's association, but she was also teaching at the m street colored school, which is, of course, the dunbar high school in washington, d.c. and what i like about these two women is that they were especially taking on sort of the responsibility to assimilate african-americans in the post civil war reconstruction era in a way that would give them a white collar access. so they became once they went to the dunbar high school, then they went to college and then they were business people, leaders other teachers or nurses. and so they embodied that argument of w.e.b.dubois and booker t. washington that these two men had about how to best assimilate african-americans during the reconstruction. booker t. washington advocated for technical training whereas -- these women were walking the walk, but they're less recognized than the men, and they are very much equal to both of these men in the ways in which they were strategizing how to make life better for african-americans during a very difficult time. and so these three wo

wells, sojourner truth, carrie chapman, mary church terrell, lot of them. alice paul.en we think about if we are going to have visible, physical memorials, why don't we celebrate those women who, through history move us toward that more perfect union. to that end, it was found after asserted that new york city has very few statues of women. at the end of this month, there soat the end of this month, there, will be an unveiling of statue of sojourner truth and elizabeth cady stanton and susan b anthony and central park where , the only prior woman was alice in wonderland. so it means the world to me that , people are focusing on this history, learning lessons from it, adjusting their own understanding of the difficulties that so many people thato overcome, to widen circle of opportunity and make our constitution real. not just to a very small group, as it was in the beginning, but to every american. it could not have come at a more opportune time for us to resolve that we are going to make our future different, truly different from our past. and finally, resolve a lot o

women like mary church terrel, sandy lou hamer, and diane nash, and the great shirley chisholm.e are not often taught their stories. we all standans, on their shoulders. and there is another woman whose name is not known, whose story is not shared, another woman whose shoulders i stand on. and that is my mother. shyamala gopalan harris. she came at the age of 19 to pursue her dream of curing cancer. she met my father who came from jamaica to study economics. they fell in love in that most american way, while marching together for justice in the civil rights movement of the 1960's in the streets of oakland and berkeley. ew of a stroller's eye vi what the great john lewis called "good trouble." when i was five, my parents split, and my mother raised us on her own. like so many mothers, she worked around-the-clock to make it work, packing lunches before we woke up and paying bills after we went to bed, helping us with homework at the kitchen table and shuttling us to church for choir practice. she made it look easy, though it never was. my mother instilled in my sister maya and me

women like mary church terrel, sandy lou hamer, and diane nash, and the great shirley chisholm. we are not often taught their stories. we all standans, on their shoulders. and there is another woman whose name is not known, whose story is not shared, another woman whose shoulders i stand on. and that is my mother. shyamala gopalan harris. she came at the age of 19 to pursue her dream of curing cancer. she met my father who came from jamaica to study economics. they fell in love in that most american way, while marching together for justice in the civil rights movement of the 1960's in the streets of oakland and berkeley. ew of a stroller's eye vi what the great john lewis called "good trouble." when i was five, my parents split, and my mother raised us on her own. like so many mothers, she worked around-the-clock to make it work, packing lunches before we woke up and paying bills after we went to bed, helping us with homework at the kitchen table and shuttling us to church for choir practice. she made it look easy, though it never was. my mother instilled in my sister maya and m

democrats and one republican, with three portraits of african americans, cooper in the middle and mary church terrel on the right. these are portraits that were made when they were students at oberlin college which was founded by abolitionists in the first liberal arts school in the united states to accept african-american students. what i love is how young they are. they went on to - activists, women advocating for citizenship rights, all people in the united states but particularly african-americans. and in washington dc, the dunbar high school, living the life of someone who truly believed in giving liberal arts education to african-americans, in 1893, was also teaching at the college school, dunbar high school in washington dc. they were especially taking on the responsibility for african-americans, in a way that would give them a white-collar access, and other teachers, nurses and they embody that argument of w e b du bois and booker washington how these men - during the construction. w e b du bois advocated liberal arts training. and less recognized than the men. they are strategizing, to make

we mary church terrell in 1893 founded the association. but she was also teaching at the end street color school, which of course is the high school in washington, d.c.. what i like about these two women is that they were especially taking on sort of the responsibility to assimilate african americans in the post civil war reconstruction era, in a way that would give them way color access. so they became, once they went to the high school, then college, and then they were businesspeople, leaders. teachers are nurses. they embody that argument with of booker tea washington that these -- how to best assimilate african americans during reconstruction. booker tea washington advocated for technical training. and these women were walking the walk. they are less recognized than the men and they are very much equal to both of these men in the ways in which they were strategizing how to make life better for african-americans during a very difficult time. these three women are in this exhibition because they were not advocating for only suffrage, but

and people like mary church terrell and ida b. wells barnett would occasionally say we share all of your discrimination as women, plus we are black, and you've really got to pay better attention. but it's not, again, you want your heroes to be perfect. it is not part of the movement that you can be proud of as a 21st century american woman. and i think we're going to learn much more about it. >> let me bring this to a conclusion by asking you one more question from the purple stashes to the pink pussycat hats. what should americans who want to bring the playing field even more level now for women -- what should they draw? what important lesson or two can they draw from 100 years ago that will make a really substantiate of difference now? >> such a great question. actually think any political activist could learn from the suffrage movement, because they were successful. and so whether your cause is feminism or something else, there is just a lot of tactics you can steal from them, if you want to be a successful activist, but specif

and there were women like mary church terrell who had six master's degrees and spoke ten languages and was unbelievably impressive. and so the white organizations felt she was nonthreatening. they would invite her to things and she would get there and say, you need to pay attention to race. and then there were women like ida b. wells who was not welcome to the meetings but started african-american suffrage associations. so there were, for the most part, separate movements. there were black suffrage clubs and, you know, suffrage clubs that weren't superwelcoming to black voters. and people like mary church terrell and others would say, like, we share all of your discrimination as women, plus we're black and you've really got to pay better attention. but it's not -- you want your heroes to be perfect. it is not part of the movement that you can be proud of as a 21st century american woman. and i think we're going to learn much more about it. >> let me bring this to a conclusion by asking you one more question from the purple sashes to the pink pussycat hats. what should they draw, what i

women like mary church terrell, mary cloyd bethune, constance baker motley, and the great shirley chisholmten taught their stories, but as americans, we stand on their shoulders. and there's another woman who is unknown, whose shoulders i stand on. that's my mother. she came here from india at age 19 to pursue her dream of curing cancer. at the university of california-berkeley, she met my father, who had come from jamaica to study economics. they fell in love while marching together for justice in the 1960s. in the streets of oakland and berkeley, i got a stroller's-eye view of people getting into what the great john lewis called good trouble. when i was 5, my parents split, and my mother raised us mostly on her own. like so many mothers, she worked around the clock to make it work. packing lunches before we woke up, and paying bills after we went to bed. helping us with homework and shuttling us to church. she made it look easy. though it never was. my mother instilled in my sister and me the values that would chart the course of our lives. she raised us to be proud, strong black women.

women like mary church terrel, mary cloyd buffoon.nie lou hamer and diane nash constance baker motley and the great shirley chisholm. we are not often taught their stories, but as americans, we all stand on their shoulders. there is another woman, whose name isn't known, whose story isn't shared, another woman, whose shoulders i stand on. and that is my mother. she came here from india at age 19 to pursue her dream of curin cancer. at the university of california berkeley, she met my father donald harris who had come from jamaica to study economics. they fell in love and that most american way, while marching together for justice in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. in the streets of oakland and berkeley, i got a stroller's ey view of people getting into wha the great john lewis called goo travel. when i was five, my parents split, and my mother raised is mostly on her own. like so many mothers, she worke around the clock to make it work , packing lunches before we woke up, and paying bills after we went to bed. helping us with

who start with the families of the delta sigma who were college students at the time led by mary church terrell along with others that as they were in the women's suffrage march they were told to go to the back of the line because they didn't want to offend the white southern women who were working in the movement. so while black women did not -- >> i didn't mean to interrupt you there. on that point, yet, the role that black women played in this movement has largely been in your view and as you just talked about, erased from history, essentially. >> erased. if you look throughout history, black women have always been on the vanguard of democracy even in the suffrage movement where we did not secure our right until 55 years later. even when you go to the civil rights movement and you see the faces of the women who are in the front of the line and part of the process and people didn't know there were other people like mu refoster in salma, alabama, ten years prior in the mid '50s in the vote. when you look at the new deal that people don't know it was actually one of the organizers of what was c

women like mary church terrell, mary bethune, fanny lou haymer, constance mockly and the great shirley chisholm. we're not often taught their stories, but as americans we all stand on their shoulders. and there's another woman whose name isn't known, whose story isn't shared, another woman whose shoulders i stand on, and that's my mother, shomala harris. she came here from india at age 19 to pursue her dream of curing cancer. at the university of california berkeley, she met my father, donald harris, who had come from jamaica to study economics. they fell in love in that most american way, while marching together for justice in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. in the streets of oakland and berkeley, i got a stroller's eye view of people getting into what the great john lewis called good trouble. when i was 5, my parents split and my mother raised us mostly on her own. like so many mothers, she worked around the clock to make it work, packing lunches before we woke up and paying bills after we went to bed, helping us with homework at the kitchen table and shuttling us to church f

diane nash, constance motley, mary church terrell, and others.w exactly who set the stage for her to get there tonight. and she also did not forget about her mom. she gave equal attention to her black and indian heritage, if for all t for all the haters, she's a strong black woman, and she pulled that folding chair right up to the table where she belongs. fighting against racial injustice, police violence, economic inequality, she's pledged so much already. and has a legislative record to show for it, and she showed all the more reason tonight why she's the candidate for the vice president of the united states. and she was perfect. >> now, what she represents aside, karen, i think the value she brings to the ticket, she's a straight punch thrower. and she -- i've interviewed her plenty, i've been with her on a stage plenty. she and elizabeth warren both shared a quality. you look them in the eye, you throw a punch, they look you in the eye and throw the punch right back. that is not joe biden's best quality. kamala harris, he could not hang with

our own local heroin, mary church terrell, i'm a native washingtonian and those of us live here know there is a terrell place right outside. >> i walked by it the other day. >> the old company if you want to talk about that. but she had the additional issue, she was a native of d.c. we have no home rule in d.c. particularly in her time. no voting rights for anything until 1964. so how did -- she had more tan a full plate and how did she balance and work into the intersectionality of black rights and women's rights and d.c. home rule rights. >> well, i think in some ways the answer is it is the strengths of an intersectional vision where you can't separate out any of those things. and that one of the reasons i've enjoyed so much learning more about african-american suffragist, is they often had a much broader approach to voting. it wasn't just the vote. it was thinking about the role of african-americans in the larger society and how to uplift communities and families and challenge racism. so there is a breadth to their vision and this is one element of it. but we keep coming back to

the international dimensions of the suffrage cause and sets up the story of a local favorite, mary church terrell, an african-american suffragist. terrell's suffrage philosophy was built around an intersectional that embraced race as well as gender, a challenge to white suffragists who tended to focus only on the subordination created by their sex. her suffrage and race relation was also grounded in an international framework that placed the domestic situation in the united states in dialogue with customs abroad. but when she spoke at foreign conferences such as the international council of women in berlin in 1904, she was often the only woman of color in attendance. hazel mckei came to suffrage from the world of theater. her claim to fame is staging a pageant called "allegory" right here in washington on the steps of the treasury building as part of alice paul's suffrage parade tying to coincide with woodrow wilson's inauguration in 1913. this is something you can learn more about in the exhibit. lead by the commanding figure of columbia -- and this is a commanding figure if there ever was one -

us toese women inspired pick up the torch and fight on. ,omen like mary church terrel sammy lou hamer and diane mash. the great shirley chisholm. we are not often told their stories. as americans, we all stand on their shoulders. there is another woman whose name is not known, whose story is not shared. another woman whose shoulders i stand on. that is my mother. india at age from 19 to pursue her dream of curing cancer. at the university of california berkeley, she met my father who had come from jamaica to study economics. they fell in love in that most american way, while marching together for justice in the civil rights movement of the 1960's. in the 60's evoked -- in the streets of oakland and berkeley, i got a shoulders i view of people getting into what john lewis called good trouble. when i was five, my parents split and my mother raised us mostly on our own. like so many mothers, she worked around-the-clock to make it work. packing lunches before we woke up. paying bills after we went to bed. helping us with homework at the kitchen table and shuttling us to church for choir p

women like mary church terrell. mary cloid ma thune. fanny lou haimer and diane nash.re's another one whose name isn't known, whose story isn't shared, another woman whose shoulders i stand on. and that's my mother. shamala harris. she came here from india at age 19 to pursue her dream of curing cancer. at the university of california berkeley, she met my father, donald harris, who had come from jamaica to study economics. they fell in love in that most american way while marching together for justice in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. in the streets of oakland and berkeley, i got a stroller's eye view of people getting into what the great john lewis called good trouble. when i was 5, my parents split and my mother raised us mostly on her own. like so many mothers she worked around the clock to make it work. packing lunches before we woke up and paying bills after we went to bed. helping us with home work at the kitchen table and shuttling us to work for choir practice. she made it look easy though it never was. my mother instilled in my sister maya and me the

women like mary church terrel, sandy lou hamer, and diane nash, and the great shirley chisholm.ten taught their stories. but as americans, we all stand on their shoulders. and there is another woman whose name is not known, whose story is not shared, another woman whose shoulders i stand on. and that is my mother. shyamala gopalan harris. she came at the age of 19 to pursue her dream of curing cancer. she met my father, who came from jamaica to study economics. they fell in love in that most american way, while marching together for justice in the civil rights movement of the 1960's in the streets of oakland and berkeley. i got a stroller's eye view of what the great john lewis called "good trouble." when i was five, my parents split, and my mother raised us on her own. like so many mothers, she worked around-the-clock to make it work, packing lunches before we woke up and paying bills after we went to bed, helping us with homework at the kitchen table and shuttling us to church for choir practice. she made it look easy, though it never was. my mother instilled in my sister maya

mary church terrell around. born in memphis. two degrees, enormously wealthy. first black judge in washington. husband's a harvard graduate gets involved in organizations, the marches, the pickets. doesn't ever quit. active and organizing through the '30s. in 1950 she is photographed picketing washington restaurants with her cane in one hand and her picket sign in the other that it's time to desegregate washington's restaurants. these women were sensational. >> part of the promise of this panel is that we would also discuss how, what these women did in the early 1900s. it has ripples today. how the movement back then has informed today's women's movements or even maybe today's hashtag movements. >> i do think you see it when the women's march, right? first one 2017, weekend of fr p trump's -- 2017 all the pictures. papa avenue resurfacing things like that. i'm almost surprised, too. you mentioned one of the pickets, could be a hashtag, a tweet or something. i'm surprised at the parallels, the way they communicated and all of these new kinds of social media and

i write about a figure like mary church terrell, a floridian, a staunch voting rights activist in florida in 1919 and 1920, an educator on the founder of bethune-cookman university. when bethune can't make good on voting rights for black women in florida she comes to washington and introduces herself to franklin roosevelt and will help roosevelt by the '30s establish what is often referred to as his black cabinet. bethune understand that power in washington certainly comes by way of the election of representatives, but in the wake of the depression and the advent of the new deal state, if one can commandeer the resources of federal agencies which are charged with digging the nation out of the depression, one can actually do a great deal for black communities across the country. beth thune will use that kind of influence, the deep friendship with mrs. roosevelt as well to bring black americans to washington to work in those agencies, but most importantly, to redirect the resources of those agencies towards black americans. all of this long before we get to the voting rights act. this is wh

i write about a figure like mary church terrell, a floridian, a staunch voting rights activist in florida in 1919 and 1920, an educator, the founder of ba thune bookman university. when they can't make good on voting rights, she comes to washington and introduces herself to franklin roosevelt and will help roosevelt establish what is referred to as his black cabinet. bethune understands that power in washington comes by way of the election of representatives but in the wake of the depression and the advent of the new deal state, if one can comen deer the agencies which are charged with digging the nation of the depression, one can do a great deal for black areas across the country. and they will use that kind of influence to bring black americans literally to washington to work in those agencies but most importantly to redirect the resources of those agencies toward black americans all of this long before we get to the voting rights act. this is why black women can never be single issue political agents. they have to be nimble. they have to be inventive. they have to be ready to seize opp

wells who was one of the nations premier civil rights activists, mary church terrell, a black suffrage sorority. this is emblematic in many ways of the ways in which white suffragists made can sit six -- in order to further the cause of eradicating -- for the right to vote of all peoples. that parade leads alice paul who directed and becomes the center of the theatrical of the campaign to go on and do more and more, picketing the white house, underscoring as we enter world war i in which the united states is defending democracy abroad but not protecting it at home. it would lead up to congress finally passing this for many many reasons. including, i would argue, the fact that southern states have now officially disenfranchised african americans with trim crow laws. that is part of why the amendment passes. it talk about gender isolated variables. they know women of color who have difficulty voting. then it goes through ratification until it stops. it sits with one state short for months and months. tennessee takes it up. looks like it's not gonna pass. the youngest member, harry tea bu