Every day is a great day to celebrate amazing women but today is women's equality day so
that gives us an extra reason to do just that when you think of people who help fight for
the women's right to vote you think of Susan B Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner
Truth but there really was something else what was it? Did you guess it? It was the bicycle
so on women's equality day so let's honor us and some amazing women on a bike, of course!
I bring you here today because in 1913
this is where thousands of suffragettes first march for equality for women's right to vote
right on Pennsylvania Avenue and here we are in Pennsylvania so stay tuned and find
out what happened to one of the suffragists when they were picketing at the white house
So the bicycle really did help the feminist movement
it helped women be able to travel independently without relying on men to take them places
Dorothy height the godmother of the civil rights movement and a hero to so many
Americans who devoted 40 years to supporting African-American women and girls Dorothy was
the president of the national council of negro women and this is the building right behind me
We're at the turning point suffragist memorial it took 72 years to get the 19th amendment that
gave women the right to vote and it took a hundred years to get this memorial to honor
the millions of women who fought to win the vote let's go check out this memorial a statue
of Alice Paul so with her dramatic protest and marches and demonstration Alice Paul was
an outspoken suffragist the challenge still remains what would you do for equal rights
oh it's pretty powerful pretty emotional the remarkable Margaret Brent in 1648
this was a woman landowner who grew tobacco right here in Alexandria's jones point she asked for
the right to vote almost 400 years before the 19th amendment was ratified she was an early feminist.
Marian Anderson a well-known opera singer was barred from singing at a dc concert hall because
of the color of her skin so she held the concert at the Lincoln memorial and 75 000 people attended
When Elizabeth Hartwell had heard that a developer wanted to build homes and an
airport here on mason neck land where eagle's nest she organized an effort to stop the development
now we have the Elizabeth Hartwell mason neck national wildlife refuge in her honor and we can
watch the bald eagles soaring through the air thank you Elizabeth
Frances Perkin not only became the first woman to serve as a cabinet secretary
but she was a principal architect of president franklin Roosevelt's new deal
and they named the department of labor building after her which is right behind me
so where is the first memorial honoring American women for their patriotic services? Give up
it's right here it's right next to the Vietnam veterans memorial and it took until 1993
to get this statue to honor women who
volunteered and risked their lives to take care of the country's wounded and dying in the war. WOMEN!
i am in prison right now after picketing from the white house Lucy Burns was thrown in prison
she went on a hunger strike all because she was fighting for the woman's right to vote there were
72 women suffragettes who were imprisoned inside this prison and they were demanding the right
to vote this helped set the motion to ratify the 19th amendment the right for women to vote
THANK you, Lucy Burns! thank you, Alice Paul! thank you to all the amazing women
including you there is no limit to what we
as women can accomplish we are women hear us roar Hope to see you riding!
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