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NWHM CO-HOSTS BOOK DISCUSSION ABOUT TRAIL-BLAZING LAWYER BELVA LOCKWOOD Along with the National Women's Law Center and the George Washington
University Women's Studies Program, NWHM co-sponsored a standing-room-only
book launch panel discussion and reception at the Woodrow Wilson WOMEN'S E-NEWS FEATURES NWHM IN ARTICLE On March 22, 2007, Women's E-News covered the NWHM's quest for a permanent museum site. Read the article. NWHM CO-HOSTS CONGRESSIONAL RECEPTION FOR WOMEN LEGISLATORS On March 5, NWHM co-hosted the Toast to Women’s Political Achievements Reception at the Sewall-Belmont House and Museum on Capitol Hill. The Sewall-Belmont House and the National Foundation for Women Legislators joined the museum in sponsoring the event. The program recognized the political leadership of women from the state to the national level. Read more... NWHM JOINS CELEBRATION OF WOMEN’S EQUALITY AT THE FINNISH EMBASSY The Embassy of Finland in Washington hosted an invitation-only “Suffrage Birthday Bash” on March 8, International Women’s Day. The celebration commemorated the 90th anniversary of the National Women’s Party and the centenary of Finland’s universal suffrage. Read more... NWHM A GREAT EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE FOR WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH NWHM is proud to announce the redesign of its website (www.nwhm.org) for Women’s History Month 2007. With a new look and added content, the museum has raised its profile and is becoming a premier source of educational materials on women’s history. Read more... NWHM LAUNCHES NEW CYBER EXHIBIT HIGHLIGHTING THE HISTORIES OF ITS NATIONAL COALITION MEMBERS Through much of the nation’s history, women have come together in voluntary service and professional organizations. In the process, they helped transform communities and the nation and the story of women’s history is in part a story of what these organizations have accomplished. Many of these organizations that have come together to form the NWHM Coalition support efforts to build the National Women’s History Museum. Learn about them in The History of the NWHM National Coalition Organizations Cyber Exhibit, which launched in March 2007. NWHM LAUNCHES NEW CYBER EXHIBIT ABOUT WOMEN SPIES The National Women's History Museum continues to add new exhibits to fill in the missing pieces of American history. Women have served effectively in the shadowy world of espionage as couriers, guides, code breakers, intelligence analysts, and as spies. NWHM's new online exhibit that launched at the end of January 2007, Clandestine Women: Spies Throughout American History highlights American women who made significant intelligence contributions during the American Revolution, Civil War, World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. STATUE OF SOJOURNER TRUTH TO BE ON DISPLAY IN U.S. CAPITOL BUILDING The U.S. Senate approved legislation on December 6 directing the Joint Committee on the Library to accept and display a donated statue of Sojourner Truth in the United States Capitol Building. Truth, a leading 19th century abolitionist and suffragist, will be joining her contemporaries Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott as one of the few women and as the first African American woman to be so honored on Capitol Hill. Read More NWHM LAUNCHES NEW CYBER EXHIBIT FOR THE BACK-TO-SCHOOL SEASON This September, NWHM proudly announces the launch of a new cyber exhibit The History of Women in Education to correspond with students returning to school. The exhibit traces women's education options in the 1700's, 1800's, and 1900's and includes several biographies of important women to the education movement. The exhibit was researched, written, and produced by NWHM Summer 2006 Intern Albrey Diece.
On Friday, August 25, 2006, Emmy-Award-winning reporter Hillary Howard interviewed NWHM President Susan Jollie and NWHM Board Member and women’s historian Doris Weatherford on the Washington Post Radio for the anniversary of woman suffrage. August 26 is proclaimed “Equality Day” each year to mark the anniversary of the ratification in 1920 of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote. Jollie and Weatherford responded to questions providing a brief history of the woman suffrage movement, starting in the mid-1800s. They told about the decades long struggle for women’s right to vote, the political tactics, and campaign to secure approval in three-quarters of the states, culminating in Tennessee where a young Representative heeded the advice of his mother and cast the deciding vote in favor of the Constitutional Amendment. Jollie was also able to discuss NWHM’s programs, including its mission and its work to procure a permanent museum site in Washington, D.C.
LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW. (It may take a few minutes to load depending on your computer system as it's a 30 minute clip. Also if this clip does not work in your particular internet browser, you can right-click on the link and save it to your computer and then open the file in your computer's media player)
CELEBRATE EQUALITY DAY!! August 26th is the anniversary of national woman suffrage and is designated as Equality Day. Read about Equality Day, find Equality Day events in your area, and read Presidential Proclamations for Equality Day from the past 12 years. To celebrate Equality Day, you can also view NWHM's new cyber-exhibit Rights for Women: The Suffrage Movement and Its Leaders.
The National Women’s History Museum is proud to announce the addition of four new members to the Museum’s Board of Directors. “We’re delighted to add such a distinguished group of women to our Board,” said Museum President Susan Jollie. “Their accomplishments and diversity will serve us well as we move forward to secure a permanent home for the Museum.” The new Board Members are Johanna Hardy, Director, Legislative Affairs for Rolls-Royce North America, Inc; Alma Morales Riojas is President and CEO of MANA; Margaret Alexander Parker, Founder and President of The Alexander Company; and Doris Weatherford, leading women's historian and women's history author. TWO NEW CYBER EXHIBITIONS LAUNCH ON NWHM WEB SITE For Equality Day, the NWHM proudly launches the cyber-exhibit Rights for Women: The Suffrage Movement and Its Leaders. This exhibit explores the history of the woman suffrage movement. "Rights for Women" chronicles the movements from its origins in 1848 when supporters held the first women's rights convention in Seneca Fall, New York through the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920. In addition to chronicling this history, "Rights for Women" includes biographies of suffrage leaders, including philosophers, organizers, financiers, and lobbyists. Through its narrative, photographs, and historical documents, "Rights for Women" demonstrates that the woman suffrage movement was a large-scale, well-organized political and social movement, successful in peacefully winning the largest extension of democratic rights in our nation's history. The exhibit is based on a temporary exhibit NWHM produced in 1998 that was displayed at the New York World Financial Center. Edith Mayo, NWHM Curatorial Consultant and Curator Emeritus of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, curated the original exhibit and NWHM summer intern Kristina Gupta curated the on-line exhibit. Cyber-exhibit Partners in Winning the War: American Women in World War II, examines women's varied roles and significant contributions during World War II through photographs, advertisements, posters and brochures of the era. The exhibit shows how women helped the war effort through their service as members of the military, government office workers, Red Cross medical personnel, scientists, factory and shipyard workers (including the iconic Rosie the Riveter), and volunteers who planted Victory Gardens, boosted troop moral, participated in rationing and scrap metal drives, raised money for the war effort, and kept their families together. The exhibit also includes several short biographies of important women of the era. Through the images and text of the exhibit, viewers can gain a better appreciation for the sacrifices and hard work of women across the nation during World War II. The on-line exhibit is a close reproduction of a temporary exhibit also called "Partners" that NWHM offered during 2004-05 to provide the missing half of American history to complement the inauguration of the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. NWHM Spring 2006 Intern Reagan Bussells took the lead on curating the on-line exhibit. NWHM LAUNCHES "MEMBERS ONLY" SECTION OF WEB SITE NWHM is proud to announce the launching of a new "members only" section of the web site as a new membership benefit. On the page, http://www.nwhm.org/home/members.html, members can gain inside information on the legislative efforts of NWHM before they're posted on the regular section of the website and can also access archived newsletters (the quarterly newsletters are a membership benefit) and view additional images of past events and exhibitions. Members were sent a password they can use to access the page. If you are interested in becoming a member, $25 per year, please send us an e-mail at staff@nwhm.org or write to us at PO Box 1296, Annandale, VA, 22003. NWHM COALITION MEMBERS SIGN LETTER TO T&I COMMITTEE In 2002 NWHM formed a national coalition. This coalition is comprised of 31 service, professional, and educational organizations which represent over 8.5 million people. Each organization agreed to support NWHM efforts to secure a building site near the National Mall. Many of these organizations have previously sent letters to Congress, lobbied on our behalf and included NWHM information about NWHM in their newsletters and Web sites. Once again, Coalition members are stepping forward by signing a joint letter to the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee asking them to expeditiously approve the National Women's History Museum Act. .The letter urges House members of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to support legislation providing NWHM with the museum site that has already been allocated by the Senate. Representative coalition organizations signed the letter. Read the letter and see the list of organizations. NWHM MEMBER EXPLAINS WHY HE SUPPORTS THE NWHM At the beginning of June, NWHM staff received a letter from one of our members, sharing why he is a member of NWHM. Read Tom Sweet's letter to NWHM.
Lurita Doan, the newly named Administrator of the General Services Administration, said May 22nd, 2006, at her confirmation hearing with the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, that it would be a “privilege” to work with Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) in support of the development of the Old Post Office Annex on Pennsylvania Avenue for the establishment of the National Women’s History Museum (NWHM). Read more...
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