Kennedy Library Forum Series Tuesday, October 27th & Wednesday, October 28th, 2020
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The 19th Amendment and Voting Rights Today October 27 6:00 - 7:30 PM EDT Congressional Leadership: Speaker of the House
Introduction & Welcoming Remarks Rachel Flor, Executive Director, John F. Kennedy Library Foundation Panel Discussion Molly Ball | Susan Page | Nancy Cordes, moderator Q&A
Panelist Biographies
Molly Ball Susan Page Nancy Cordes Molly Ball is the National Susan Page is the award- Nancy Cordes is the chief Political Correspondent for winning Washington Bureau congressional correspondent TIME and a political analyst for chief of USA Today, where for CBS News. Based in CNN and frequent television she writes about politics Washington, DC, she and radio commentator. and the White House. She contributes to all CBS news She is the author of Pelosi, has covered six White House broadcasts and platforms. She a biography of the first woman Speaker administrations and ten presidential joined CBS News in 2007 as Transportation of the House. Prior to joining TIME, Ball elections. She has interviewed the past nine and Consumer Safety correspondent, was a staff writer covering US politics for presidents and reported from six continents where she covered significant stories about The Atlantic and had reported for Politico, and dozens of foreign countries, and the nation’s transportation infrastructure the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and the Las has appeared as an analyst on numerous and important safety issues. Previously, Vegas Sun. She has worked for newspapers television and radio programs. The author Cordes was an ABC News correspondent in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Cambodia, of The New York Times-bestselling The based in New York; a Washington-based as well as The New York Times and The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making correspondent for NewsOne, the affiliate Washington Post. Her political coverage of an American Dynasty, her forthcoming news service of ABC News; a reporter for has earned her numerous awards, including book Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the WJLA-TV Washington, DC. She began her the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Lessons of Power is expected in spring 2021. career as a reporter for KHNL-TV Honolulu. Reporting on the Presidency. October 28 11:00 AM - 12:40 PM EDT The 19th Amendment: Origins
Introduction & Welcoming Remarks Alan Price, Director, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum | David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States Overview Ellen DuBois Panel Discussion Ellen DuBois | Martha S. Jones | Manisha Sinha | Brenda Wineapple | Lisa Tetrault, moderator Q&A Closing Remarks Alan Price, Director, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
Panelist Biographies
Ellen DuBois Martha S. Jones Manisha Sinha Brenda Wineapple Lisa Tetrault Ellen DuBois Martha S. Jones Manisha Sinha is Brenda Lisa Tetrault is Professor is the Society of the James L. and Wineapple is an is Associate Emeritus of Black Alumni Shirley A. Draper award-winning Professor of History at the Presidential Chair in American nonfiction history at University of Professor and History at the author who Carnegie Mellon
California Los Professor of University of ELENA SEIBERT teaches in the University. She Angeles. A pioneer in modern History at The Johns Hopkins Connecticut. A scholar of the MFA program at Columbia specializes in the history of US women’s history, she is University. A legal and Civil War era, Reconstruction, University. Her books include gender, race, and American author of numerous books cultural historian whose work and American slavery and The Impeachers: The Trial democracy, with a focus on the history of woman examines how black Americans abolition, her books include of Andrew Johnson and on social movements and suffrage, including, most have shaped the story of The Counterrevolution of the Dream of a Just Nation; memory. Her first book,The recently, Suffrage: Women’s American democracy, she is Slavery: Politics and Ideology Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory Long Battle for the Vote. Her the author, most recently, of in Antebellum South Carolina Crisis, and Compromise, and the Women’s Suffrage other books include Feminism Vanguard: How Black Women and the multiple-award 1848-1877; White Heat: The Movement, 1848-1898, won and Suffrage: The Emergence Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, winning The Slave’s Cause: A Friendship of Emily Dickinson the Organization of American of an Independent Women’s and Insisted on Equality for History of Abolition, which and Thomas Wentworth Historians’ inaugural Mary Movement in America, All. Her other works include was also long listed for the Higginson; Genêt: A Biography Jurich Nickliss women’s history 1848–1869; Women’s Suffrage Birthright Citizens: A History of 2016 National Book Award in of Janet Flanner; Sister Brother book prize. She is currently and Women’s Rights; with Race and Rights in Antebellum Nonfiction. She has lectured Gertrude and Leo Stein; and at work on two book-length Lynn Dumenil, the leading America, and All Bound all over the world and written Hawthorne: A Life. She is projects: A Celebrated But textbook in US women’s Up Together: The Woman widely for mainstream press the editor of the Library of Misunderstood Amendment, a history, Through Women’s Question in African American including The New York Times, America’s The Selected Poetry genealogy of the Nineteenth Eyes: An American History Public Culture 1830-1900. In The Washington Post, and of John Greenleaf Whittier Amendment, and Enter with Documents; and with her role as a public historian, The Wall Street Journal. Her and Whitman Speaks, and Woman Suffrage: A New Vicki Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: she frequently writes for The book in progress explores the anthology Nineteenth- History of Reconstruction, An Inclusive Reader in US Washington Post, The Atlantic, the post–Civil War “greater Century American Writers on 1865-1878. She also lectures Women’s History. She is and other publications; and reconstruction” Writing. She has received such on the US suffrage movement, currently writing a biography has worked with museums, of American democracy. numerous honors, including a broadly construed, and is of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. libraries, PBS, and Netflix. Guggenheim Fellowship and a active as a public historian. Pushcart Prize. October 28 1:30 - 3:00 PM EDT The 19th Amendment: Contemporary Issues
Introduction & Welcoming Remarks Rachel Flor, Executive Director, John F. Kennedy Library Foundation | Debra Steidel Wall, Deputy Archivist of the United States Panel Discussion Jennifer Lawless | Erin O’Brien | Theda Skocpol | Marjorie Spruill | Rachael Cobb, moderator Q&A Closing Remarks: Rachel Flor, Executive Director, John F. Kennedy Library Foundation
Panelist Biographies
Jennifer Lawless Erin O’Brien Theda Skocpol Marjorie Spruill Rachael Cobb Jennifer L. Erin O’Brien Theda Skocpol Marjorie J. Spruill Rachael Cobb Lawless is the is Associate is the Victor S. is Distinguished is Associate Commonwealth Professor of Thomas Professor Professor Emerita Professor of Professor of Political Science of Government of History at the Government Politics at the at the University and Sociology University of and Chair of
University of of Massachusetts, MARTHA STEWART at Harvard DON DOYLE South Carolina. the Political Virginia. Prior to joining Boston. Her research and University. Her work covers Her work focuses on women’s Science and Legal Studies the UVA faculty, she was a teaching interests focus on the a broad spectrum of topics, and gender history and the Department at Suffolk Professor of Government politics of poverty and social and her books and articles history of the American University. Her research at American University and welfare policy, voting access in have been widely cited and South. Her books include focuses on US elections, the Director of the Women the United States, and gender won numerous awards. Over Divided We Stand: The Battle election administration, & Politics Institute, and a in political participation/ the last three decades, her Over Women’s Rights and electoral politics, civic professor at Brown University. representation. In addition research has primarily focused Family Values That Polarized engagement, and political Her research focuses on to numerous articles, book on health care reform, public American Politics, and New participation. At Suffolk, she political ambition, campaigns chapters, and policy briefs, policy, and civic engagement Women of the New South: founded and oversees the and elections, and media and she is the author of two amidst the shifting inequalities The Leaders of the Woman University Pollworkers Project, politics. She is the author books, The Politics of Identity: and partisan polarization Suffrage Movement in the a nonpartisan program or co-author of six books, Solidarity Building among in American democracy. Southern States, and she is designed to recruit college including Women on the Run: America’s Working Poor, and She is also Director of the the editor of One Woman, students to serve as poll Gender, Media, and Political Diversity in Contemporary Scholars Strategy Network, One Vote: Rediscovering the workers in partnership with Campaigns in a Polarized American Politics and an organization that Woman Suffrage Movement, the City of Boston’s Election Era (with Danny Hayes) and Government (co-edited). encourages nonpartisan public and VOTES FOR WOMEN! The Department. She serves as a It Still Takes a Candidate: The lead policy consultant in engagement by university- Woman Suffrage Movement member of the City of Boston Why Women Don’t Run for Marty Walsh’s 2013 successful based scholars, building ties in Tennessee, the South, and Election Advisory Committee, Office (with Richard L. Fox). mayoral bid in Boston, she is a between academics and the Nation. She has held and a member of the board Her research has appeared in regular political commentator. policymakers, civic groups, fellowships with the Radcliffe of MassVOTE, an organization numerous academic journals, Her scholarship has been and journalists. She regularly Institute, the Woodrow Wilson dedicated to promoting and in the popular press. extensively covered by media speaks to community groups International Center, and the political participation of outlets and organizations. and writes for public-interest National Endowment for the historically underrepresented magazines. Humanities. communities in Massachusetts. October 28 3:30 - 4:30 PM EDT Keynote: The Judicial Role in Contemporary Voting Rights Issues
Introduction & Welcoming Remarks Alan Price, Director, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Panel Discussion Nancy Gertner | Margaret Marshall | Barbara Howard, moderator Q&A Closing Remarks Rachel Flor, Executive Director, John F. Kennedy Library Foundation
Panelist Biographies
Nancy Gertner Margaret Marshall Barbara Howard Judge Nancy Gertner (ret.) is Margaret H. Marshall served Barbara Howard is the former a Senior Lecturer of Law at for eleven years as Chief anchor of WGBH’s All Things Harvard Law School, a former Justice of the Supreme Judicial Considered. She is an award- federal judge, and an Court of Massachusetts. She winning anchor, reporter, instructor at Yale Law School. was the first woman to hold writer, and producer with She was appointed to the that position in the Court’s extensive local, national, and bench in 1994 by President Clinton. She has more than three-hundred-year history. international experience. Before joining written and spoken widely on various legal During her fourteen years on the Supreme WGBH, Barbara worked several years for issues concerning civil rights, civil liberties, Judicial Court, Chief Justice Marshall WBUR in Boston as an anchor, reporter, employment, criminal justice and wrote numerous opinions, many of them and editor. Her radio series Liberation procedural issues throughout the US, groundbreaking. She is recognized as a Remembered received a Peabody Award, Europe and Asia. In 2008 she received the champion for an independent judiciary and her long-form work was included in Thurgood Marshall Award from the and as a leader in the promotion of “The Best of NPR.” Barbara spent three American Bar Association, Section of administrative reforms within the judicial years in Berlin filing for NPR, BBC World Individual Rights and Responsibilities, only branch, and is a long-time advocate of News, and Marketplace, and later reported the second woman to receive it (Justice access to justice for all. She currently serves from China for KQED and Voice of America Ginsburg was the first). Her numerous as Senior Counsel at Choate, Hall & Stewart, while living for another three years in awards also include the Massachusetts Bar and as a senior research fellow and lecturer Beijing. She also served as an associate Association’s Hennessey Award for judicial at Harvard Law School. Her numerous producer and audio producer for the excellence, and the Margaret Brent Women awards include the ABA Commission on landmark Eyes on the Prize series, presented Lawyers of Achievement Award, established Women in the Profession’s Margaret Brent on PBS by WGBH and later rebroadcast on by the ABA Commission on the Status of Women Lawyers of Achievement Award, American Experience. Women in the Profession. and the ABA’s Pursuit of Justice Award, the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Hennessey Award. Kennedy Library Forums are made possible with generous support from:
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