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At Books & Books in Coral Gables, Florida, one of the country’s last great independent bookstores, Johanna Neuman will discuss her new book, Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote, tracing the history of the movement and offering some theories about why it took women so long to win the vote. She will be interviewed by Donna Shalala, former Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Clinton Administration and former president of the University of Miami.
Johanna Neuman will discuss her new book, Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote, at the Virginia Festival of the Book On Saturday March 24, 2018 in Charlottesville, Virginia. This gathering brings authors from all other the country — on a myriad of topics — and attendance is free. Johanna will participate in two panels — one with Donna Lucey & Denise Kiernan on Gilded Age art, architecture and personalities and the other with Elaine Weiss on women’s suffrage. Watch the Book Festival’s website for more details.
Free admission, refreshments, special performance by flutist Tracy Conner — this event hopes to bring new awareness to local authors and emerging artists. I will be joining other authors as we sign our books against the backdrop of walls decorated by original art works. Please join us for this magical festival of creativity.
The Women’s National Republican Club was organized in 1921, one year after the 19th Amendment was adopted guaranteeing American women the right to vote. Dedicated by President Calvin Coolidge and First Lady Grace Coolidge, the club is the oldest national club for Republican women in the country. On the opening of its current building in 1934, one New York newspaper described the club as “a working headquarters for politically minded women with facilities for mass meetings, speech making, schools of party politics and for the comfortable informal discussion that solidifies opinion.”
I am honored to speak to this august group, about the wealthy suffragists who leveraged their social cachet for political power, using their celebrity to sway public opinion on the question of whether women should vote. Like Oprah Winfrey, their endorsement conferred enormous publicity on a cause said to be in the doldrums, taking Votes for Women from dowdy to fashionable in one generation.
This event is open to members of the Osterville Historical Society, formed in 1931, whose mission statement reads, “To preserve the history of Osterville for all of those who love her — past, present and future.”
In my speech, I will talk about the use of fashion and celebrity as a force for social change.
I’ll be autographing copies of my new book, And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote, on Saturday, January 4 at the New York Hilton Midtown.
Will be at the book hall in the American Historical Association convention, signing books starting at 2 p.m.
Hope to see you there.
Historian Johanna Neuman discusses her new book, And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote, in a curated conversation with Beth Ruyak, host of Insight on CapRadio, an NPR affiliate in Sacramento.
As the nation commemorates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which cleared constitutional barriers to women voting, Dr. Neuman argues that the fight for the vote took far longer than previously credited — stretching from the revolutionary era in the 1770s, when some women agitated for the vote and others actually voted, to the civil rights era in the 1960s, when African American women in the South, technically enfranchised by the 19th Amendment, were kept from the ballot by local Jim Crow laws. In her new book — And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote — she tells how eight generations of women of all races and classes fought with great persistence over two centuries to win the ballot.
Cal State U Sacramento has gone all out to make this a spectacular event. There will be a one hour discussion of the book, followed by a reception, and a book signing. So far 300 have registered to attend, so please join this celebration of a landmark in U.S. history. Special thanks to organizer Muffy Francke, for pulling together what promises to be a real happening.
Historian Johanna Neuman discusses her new book, And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote, at the premier bookstore in Delray Beach.
As the nation commemorates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which cleared constitutional barriers to women voting, Dr. Neuman argues that the fight for the vote took far longer than previously credited — stretching from the revolutionary era in the 1770s, when some women agitated for the vote and others actually voted, to the civil rights era in the 1960s, when African American women in the South, technically enfranchised by the 19th Amendment, were kept from the ballot by local Jim Crow laws. In her new book — And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote — she tells how women of all races and classes, fought with great persistence over two centuries to win the ballot.
About the only mystery in the book, Dr. Neuman quips, is why it took so long.
Join us for an evening of provocative thought — and wine — with a book signing to follow.
Historian Johanna Neuman discusses her new book, And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote, at one of the premier bookstores in Palm Beach, FL.
As the nation commemorates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which cleared constitutional barriers to women voting, she argues that the fight for the vote took far longer than previously credited — stretching from the revolutionary era in the 1770s, when some women agitated for the vote and others actually voted, to the civil rights era in the 1960s, when African American women in the Deep South, technically enfranchised by the 19th Amendment, were kept from the ballot by local Jim Crow laws. In her new book — And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote — she tells how women of all races and classes, fought with great persistence over two centuries to win the ballot.
Join us for an evening of provocative thought, with a book signing to follow.