Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Monday, July 27, 2020.
Elaine Weiss on the 19th Amendment and the Women’s right to vote 100 years later.
Elaine Weiss is an award-winning journalist who authored The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, an account of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote in 1920.
This program is made possible by The Eleanor Fund Lectureship Endowment.
About Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. As a community, we celebrate, encourage and study the arts and treat them as integral to all of learning, and we convene the critical conversations of the day to advance understanding through civil dialogue. CHQ Assembly is the online expression of Chautauqua Institution's mission.
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Tuesday, July 28, 2020.
Kimberly Churches will discuss gender equity through a past, present and future lens.
Churches is the chief executive officer of the American Association of University Women and is a leading voice in advancing equity for women and...
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Thursday, July 30, 2020.
Carol Jenkins is Co-President and CEO of the ERA Coalition and the Fund for Women’s Equality, sister organizations dedicated to the passage and enactment of the Equal Rights Amendment. The Coalition is comprised of over 100 organiza...
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Friday, July 31, 2020.
Barbara Mikulski reviews lessons learned since the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
Mikulski, former U.S. Senator from Maryland, is the longest-serving woman in the history of Congress and a lifelong public servant and champion o...