The Ghost of Alice Paul
Ordinary Equality
Acast Creative Studios
4.0 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Follow us on Twitter at @OrdEquality for everything you need to know about the ERA as we watch history in the making.
Special thanks to Equality Now, an international human rights organization that works to protect and promote the rights of women and girls around the world. To learn more about what you can do to support the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, check out www.equalitynow.org/era.
To dive deeper into some of the topics discussed in this episode, check out:
- “The Complex History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement” (Jennifer Schuessler * New York Times * 2019)
- A Woman’s Crusade (Mary Walton * Griffin * 2015)
- Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Right Movement (Sally Gregory McMillen * Oxford University Press * 2008)
- The Light of Truth (Ida B. Wells * Penguin Classics * Reprint 2014)
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| 0:00.0 | The first time I met Kamala Lopez, it was at a pro-ERA rally at the U.S. Capitol in 2012. |
| 0:11.3 | She was with a film crew making a documentary about the ERA called Equal Means Equal. |
| 0:17.5 | And I was dressed something like a 1960s housewife holding a banner that said |
| 0:23.3 | ERA missionaries are everywhere. But before we met, just over a decade ago, Kamala felt like |
| 0:31.4 | she was on top of the world. Well, in 2009, I had just completed my first feature film, which is called A Single Woman. |
| 0:40.8 | It was a movie about first U.S. Congresswoman, Jeanette Rankin, who was elected to Congress before women had the vote. |
| 0:49.6 | So I made this very small film about her, and it happened to be the year that the Smithsonian |
| 0:56.5 | Institution was doing an exhibit called Women of Our Time, and Rankin was one of the women |
| 1:02.3 | that they were focusing on, and they brought the film to the Smithsonian Institute, and they brought |
| 1:08.1 | me out with my husband as the director, and it was a really big deal, |
| 1:12.5 | and I was so excited, and I felt truly like I had arrived. |
| 1:18.6 | When Kamala and her husband got to the event, she was confronted with someone she wasn't |
| 1:24.1 | expecting. |
| 1:26.1 | And so we get to the Smithsonian, and it has the National Portrait Gallery, |
| 1:30.5 | their auditorium, which was brand new and gorgeous, and the huge lobbies. |
| 1:35.8 | And it was just very sort of, ah, and across the way I saw a woman dressed all in white |
| 1:43.1 | with a banner across her and a bonnet on some kind of |
| 1:46.6 | an outfit and I thought, oh my goodness, what is going on over there? Who is that? What is that? |
| 1:53.3 | As I walked closer to her, I saw that she was dressed as a suffragist and I said, hi, my dear, |
| 1:59.6 | how are you? And who are you? |
| 2:01.4 | And she looked me straight in the eye. |
| 2:03.0 | And she said, |
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