Women’s Spaces Radio Show of 8/23/2021 with host Elaine B Holtz commenting on the history of Women’s Suffrage, and guest Molly Murphy MacGregor on the National Women’s History Alliance , has been uploaded to the web archive. The show was broadcast in the North Bay and streamed worldwide over Radio KBBF 89.1 FM on Monday 8/23/2021 at 11 AM, repeats at 11 PM on KBBF, and then repeat broadcasts in Petaluma and streamed worldwide over Radio KPCA 103.3 FM on the following Wednesday 8/25/2021 at 11 AM.
Read description of the show and bios of the guests, see links referenced on the show and the playlist, on its archive page at:
http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA21/WSA210823.html
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History of Women’s Suffrage
The National Women’s History Alliance
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Featuring
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Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz, Host of Women’s Spaces
2. Molly Murphy MacGregor, Executive Director, Co-Founder and Chair of the Board of Direcors, The National Women’s History Alliance
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Commentary by our host Elaine B. Holtz: Our History is our Strength. In 1848 the movement for women’s rights launched on a national level with the Seneca Falls Convention organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Following the convention, the demand for the vote became a centerpiece of the women’s rights movement. Stanton and Mott, along with Susan B. Anthony and other activists, raised public awareness and lobbied the government to grant voting rights to women. After a lengthy battle, 72 years from 1848 to 1920, these groups finally emerged victorious with the passage of the 19th Amendment.
In 1980, the National Women’s History Project (NWHP) was founded in Santa Rosa, California by today’s guest Molly Murphy MacGregor, along with Mary Ruthsdotter, Maria Cuevas, Paula Hammett and Bette Morgan to broadcast women’s historical achievements.
The NWHP started by leading a coalition that successfully lobbied Congress to designate March as National Women’s History Month, now celebrated across the land.
Today, the NWHP, whose name was changed to the National Women’s History Alliance, is known nationally as the only clearinghouse providing information and training in multicultural women’s history for educators, community organizations, and parents-for anyone wanting to expand their understanding of women contributions to U. S. history.
Molly Murphy MacGregor will also be one of the special guests at the NOW Special Online Event on Women’s Equality Day, Thursday August 26th.
NOW Sonoma Special Online Meeting, Women’s Equality Day, Gold Resolution, Thursday, August 26, 2021, 6:00 – 8:00 PM, RSVP https://www.eventbrite.com/e/honoring-women-of-sonoma-county-tickets-166886334519
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1. Our guest, Molly Murphy MacGregor, shares her path to leading up the National Women’s History Project. A biography of Emma Goldman was the first inspiration in 1972, as she sought to be more knowledgeable in the subject for her high school students she was teaching. Molly went on do graduate work at Sonoma State University in Women’s Studies, where she met Elaine. Eventually the realization of the lack of publicity of the history of women moved Molly to help found the National Women’s History Project. Their lobbying efforts led to President Carter’s Whitehouse Office in 1982 to call Molly and announce that he would name the week beginning with March 7 the National Women’s History Week. Then Congress in 1987 declared the whole month of March to be the National Women’s History Month. A few women took it as their task to spread the need for this attention to Women’s History, and more women and men joined in the effort to realize the goal. In 2018 the Project was changed to Alliance to keep alive the history of women all year long and to act as clearinghouse to list women’s history organizations’ activity.
-report by Ken Norton, Co-Producer
About our Guest: Molly Murphy MacGregor is a former high school social studies teacher who has worked for over 35 years in the field of gender equity and women’s history. MacGregor conducts women’s history workshops and women’s historic sites tours throughout the country. She also works with state and national agencies on strategies and programs to help acknowledge and recognize the historic contributions of women. Her work in the field of multicultural women’s history has been widely recognized including awards from the National Education Association, the US Department of Education, and the National Association for Multicultural Education, and the Association for Gender Equity Leadership in Education Leadership. Molly is the Co-founder, Executive Director and Chair of the Board of the National Women’s History Allianced (NWHA) (formerly called the National Women’s History Project).
Guest Link:
NWHA https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/
Molly Murphy MacGregor’s email: nwhp1980@gmail.com
Guest Events:
NOW Sonoma Special Online Meeting, Women’s Equality Day, Gold Resolution, Thursday, August 26, 2021, 6:00 – 8:00 PM, RSVP https://www.eventbrite.com/e/honoring-women-of-sonoma-county-tickets-166886334519
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Herstory
Our history is our strength. Check out important dates to remember in herstory at the National Women’s History Alliance
Herstory Events:
August 26, 1920 – The 19th Amendment of the US Constitution is ratified granting women the right to vote.
August 26, 1970 – Betty Friedan leads a nationwide protest called the “Women’s Strike for Equality” in New York City on the fiftieth anniversary of women’s suffrage.
August 26, 1971 – The first Women’s Equality Day, initiated by Representative Bella Abzug, is established by Presidential Proclamation and reaffirmed annually.
Herstory Birthdays:
August 22, 1883 (1984) – Ruth Underhill, anthropologist and professor, studied with Ruth Benedict who encouraged traveling with native women to learn their history, wrote of the Papago Native American culture, and taught in the Bureau of Indian Affairs schools.
August 22, 1912 (1996) – Cornelia “Coya” Knutson, first woman elected to the U.S. Congress from Minnesota (1955-1959), first woman on the Agriculture Committee, defeated after an infamous “Come Home Coya” letter supposedly written by her estranged husband COYA.
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Announcements
NOW Sonoma Special Online Meeting, Women’s Equality Day, Gold Resolution, Thursday, August 26, 2021, 6:00 – 8:00 PM PDT, RSVP https://www.eventbrite.com/e/honoring-women-of-sonoma-county-tickets-166886334519
On this Women’s Equality Day and 101st Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, the Sonoma County Supervisors are making a Gold Resolution that our chapter’s Centennial 2020 Woman Suffrage Calendar for being an historical document that played a key role in our county’s remembrance of women’s suffrage. Special Guests will speak on their vision of what NOW can do and they include Molly Murphy MacGregor – Founder of the National Women’s History Alliance, Jill Ravitch – Sonoma County District Attorney, Gaye LeBaron – Historian and journalist with the Press Democrat, and Lynn Woolsey – Former U.S. Representative (1993-2013). Join us by Zoom or on our new Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/sonomacountynow
To register for the August 26th Zoom Meeting, click: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/honoring-women-of-sonoma-county-tickets-166886334519
NOW Events Page: http://nowsonoma.org/Events.html
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Peace and Justice Center Annual Award Nominations due by August 31, 2021: https://www.pjcsoco.org/nominations-for-annual-awards.html
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Music Selections
The Opening and Closing Theme song The Woman in Your Life is You is done with permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin ((August 16, 1940 – May 19, 2021) Alix Dobkin death was just announced – Thank you for all you did for Lesbians to be recognized and Women to be honored. May you rest in peace. See our Interview with Alix Dobkin on 12/1/2014 at and our Memorial to Alix Dobkin on 11/24/2021 .
The Woman in Your Life is You by Alix Dobkin from the album Living with Lavender Jane (2010 Women’s Wax Works) – www.alixdobkin.com
Caught in a Bad Romance – Women’s Suffrage, from the Online Music Video with lyrics and cast at http://www.soomolearning.com/suffrage/ (2012 Soomo Learning Publishing).
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