The Fall 2011 Lecture

The National Womttan’s Party:
Political Rhetoric and Visual Propaganda
in the Battle for the Vote

Wedsnesday, November 16, 2011
Time: 2:00pm

Join us for a presentation by Page Harrington, Director of the Sewall-Belmont House & Museum, who will discuss:

• The use of rhetoric and imagery to persuade the public and elected officials to support women’s right to vote.  

• Effective tactics and strategies and how they were employed in the campaign for suffrage.

• How and why they escalated the message as the U.S. entered World War I.

The accompanying slide show
will include:

• Photographs of the original banners carried in suffrage parades and pickets in front of the White House.

• Political cartoons.

• The National Woman’s Party’s
congressional card file.

*Click on Thumbnail for PDF file.

RSVP by Thursday, November 10, 2011
Email george.hutchinson@finnegan.com
or
Call 202-408-4002

Location: Tayloe House on Lafayette Square
(former headquarters of the National Woman’s Party) Adjacent to the Howard T. Markey National Courts Building, 717 Madison Place, N.W., Washington, DC 20439

Enter through the courtyard of the Markey National Courts Building

This program is free and open to the public.

Upcoming Events:

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Past Events:

• Inaugural Lecture: May 12, 2009. “Oh, the Horror! Lafayette Square and Lincoln’s Assassination” by historian and lecturer Anthony S. Pitch.
  
  Mr. Pitch is the author of the book “They Have Killed Papa Dead” on the Lincoln assassination and other historical publications including “The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814”.
  
  
• Second Lecture: October 20, 2009. “The Striking Air Traffic Controllers of 1981: Cold War Casualties” by Associate Professor of History Joseph A. McCartin of Georgetown University.
  
  Professor McCartin is author of the book “Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers and the Strike that Changed America”.
  
  
• Third Lecture: April 28, 2010. “Paul Jennings, Dolley Madison, and the President’s Square” by Beth Taylor, independent scholar and historian.
  
  
• Fourth Lecture: October 20, 2010. :”The Great Decision: Jefferson, Adams, Marshall and the Battle for the Supreme Court” by Cliff Sloan, attorney.
  
  Mr. Sloan is the author of the book by the same name.
  
  
• Fifth Lecture: June 2, 2011. “Confederate Invention: The Story of the Confederate States Patent Office and Its Inventors” by H. Jackson Knight, patent agent.
  
  Mr. Knight is the author of the book by the same name.
  
  
• Sixth Lecture: November 16, 2011. “The National Woman’s Party: Political Rhetoric and Visual Propaganda in the Battle for the Vote” by Elizabeth Crum, Programs and Outreach Manager of the Sewall-Belmont House and Museum, Washington, D.C.