^M00:00:13 >> Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Kathy McGuigan from the Library of Congress, and I want to welcome you to today's professional development educator webinar from the Library of Congress. Today's topic is Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote. So, some housekeeping items before we get started. We will be recording this program and we will serve the recording as soon as we are able. Participants in the live program are eligible for a certificate of participation certifying one hour, and we will have more on that at the end of the program. I just saw a question come into the chat. Should we see the speakers' faces? No, you should not. You will hear the program through audio and you will experience the event through our presentation through the slides. We cut down on the bandwidth so that we can provide a seamless experience for both the presenters and the participants. So you will have the opportunity to talk to each other and to the presenters via chat. So several of you have already gotten started with using the chat while I am introducing the programs for today. You can use the chat to tell us your name, where you are joining us from, and what you teach. Please make sure you select all participants in the to box at the bottom of the chat box. So, back to today's program, Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote. The exhibition, Shall Not Be Denied, tells the story of the largest reform movement in American history with documents, photographs, and scrapbooks from a diverse group of women who changed political history 100 years ago. Many suffragists donated their personal collections to the National Library so that their stories would be remembered. The exhibition at the Library of Congress is part of the national commemoration of the Centennial of the 19th amendment in 2019 and 2020. Manuscript division chief, Janice Ruth, and historian, Elizabeth Navarra, will describe the creation of the Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote exhibition and highlight online primary sources related to that topic. You will also get a quick demonstration of By the People, which is a crowd sourced transcription project, and you will be encouraged to use that with your students. I am pleased now to turn the microphone over to our first speaker, Janice Ruth. >> Good afternoon. It is wonderful to be part of this webinar this morning. As Kathy said, my name is Janice Ruth and I am the chief of the library's manuscript division where I worked for more years than I maybe should say. I started as a processing technician, worked as a reference librarian for a number of years, and also for a good deal of the time I was at the library as our women's history specialist. And then our assistant chief and our chief. I had the great pleasure of curating the Shall Not Be Denied exhibit, and I want to give a shout out to particularly to Liz Navarre who worked with me on that exhibit and our exhibition director Carol Johnson. I want to thank you all for your interest in the exhibit, which as Kathy said tells the remarkable story of the courage, perseverance, creativity, and hope on the part of multiple generations of women fighting for that most fundamental right of a participatory democracy: the right to vote. The long and arduous struggle for women's history is one of the best documented and most widely researched topics in American women's history. That historians know as much as they do about the suffrage campaign is due in large part to its participants' conscious efforts to record their movement's history and the foresight with which archival repositories collected the materials. The Library of Congress was at the forefront of this -- oops -- was at the forefront of this collecting effort and over the years has amassed what is arguably the nation's strongest collection on the topic. Generations of scholars asking different questions frequently returned to these collections and probe them in new ways to enhance our understanding of this complex and multifaceted movement. The friendships and personal connections that connected the movement and that sustained it also aided in its preservation. In 1903 the Librarian of Congress, Ainsworth Rands Boffard, convinced his good friend, Susan B. Anthony, to donate her collection of books and other printed matter to the National Library. ^M00:05:21 >> Alright, we seem to be having some technical issues with Janice. Liz, I am going to go ahead and ask you to come on and I'm going to toss the ball your way and have you share your screen. One second as we make some changes. I think Janice has probably lost her connection as she will join us as soon she is able. But we will ask Liz now to go ahead and go up to share and select application. And then you can bring up your slides. Terrific. I now have you off mic, Liz. Thank you. >> Okay. Thanks so much, Kathy. Alright. So while we are waiting for Janice to get back in touch, I am going to go ahead and skip ahead to my presentation which is on our digital resources focused on women's suffrage. And as Kathy had said at the beginning, I am Liz Navarra. I am the American women's history specialist in the manuscript division. And I collaborated with Janice on curating the Shall Not Be Denied exhibition. Today I am going to share with you how to access some of the online version of the exhibition. I will show you some of the digital collections that are available related to women's suffrage and also provide a brief overview of the library's By the People online crowd source transcription projects. So Janice is going to finish giving her overview of the exhibition. But I am going to point out at this point that the exhibition also has an online version representing all of the objects that are on display in the physical exhibition. And before the pandemic, I would have said the digital version allows visitors who are unable to visit in person to visit the exhibit and get to experience the exhibition and interact with these materials online. However, now that our physical exhibition remains temporarily closed, to everyone the online version is currently the only way to experience the exhibition and remains an excellent teaching tool for students to experience the exhibition in a virtual classroom. The online exhibit is organized into the four chronological sections that Janice is going to talk about in her presentation as well as our More to the Movement panels which talk about various women from diverse backgrounds that were able to take part in the suffrage movement. Also, the digital exhibit provides all of the text and labels for the exhibition items. You just need to remember to scroll down to see the exhibition items at the bottom of the page. Within each chronological module, each individual exhibition item can then be explored in sequence. Just make sure -- so here is an example of one of the exhibit individual items. Just make sure that you go back and explore each of the digital cases. So in this case there are three cases within this chronological module. And don't miss any of the items before clicking ahead to the next chronological section. There is also an events and resources page which provides additional information about incorporating Library of Congress materials into the classroom, including a women's suffrage primary source set as well as lesson plans. There is also a bibliography of suggested readings and a list of digital collections related to the suffrage exhibition which I am going to discuss next. So in addition to the digital version of the exhibition, the library has digitized several collections related to women's suffrage, many of which have recently been released in the past year in recognition of the centennial of the 19th amendment. These collections include the papers of noted leaders within the suffrage movements such as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary Church Terrell, and Carrie Chapman Catt. We have also included the papers of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson who is a famous oratorio during the 19th century and gained fame as a teenage phenomenon on the anti-slavery lecture circuit before the Civil War and who advocated for women's suffrage. The Blackwell family papers have also recently just been released and these papers include the writings of suffragist leaders Lucy Stone and Henry Brown Blackwell and their daughter Alice Stone Blackwell as well as the papers of other Blackwell family members including Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive a medical degree within the United States. As Janice will discuss, the records of the two major national women's suffrage organizations are part of the library's collection. The National American Woman Suffrage Association, or the NAWSA records, have also recently been digitized and made available in their entirety. These papers include information about the activities of precursor organizations involved in abolition and women's rights movements, state and federal campaigns for women's suffrage, the struggle for ratification of the 19th amendment, and the international women's suffrage movement. ^M00:11:32 ^M00:11:35 The National Woman's Party records, however, are not fully accessible online but we have made selected photographs from the National Woman's Party records available in an online presentation titled Women of Protest. Women of Protest also contains in-depth historical essays as well as detailed timelines relating to the history of the National Woman's Party. These are available in PDF form for easy printing and distribution to students. Beyond the manuscript division, there are additional suffrage selections available, including the Women's Suffrage in Sheet Music collection from our music division as well as the National American Woman Suffrage Association, or NAWSA, library which is part of our rare book and special collections division. Within the NAWSA library are the Elizabeth Smith Miller and Ann Fitzhugh Miller scrapbook collection which are featured in a physical exhibition. These document women's suffrage activism within the state of New York as well as nationally. While many of these collections can be found via Google search, it may be easier to see all the related suffrage collections by using the digital collection search on the library's homepage, we www.loc.gov. So after scrolling down on the home page and clicking on the digital collections link, simply type suffrage in the search box and many of the collections I have just mentioned will appear in the search results. ^M00:13:18 ^M00:13:22 If you select one of these digital collections, for example the Carrie Chapman Catt papers, you will be taken to the landing page for the collection. Note the links to the teaching resources on the left-hand menu. If you want to browse through materials in the collection, simply click the collection items tab on the horizontal menu bar. This will take you to a list of items for the collection. You can click an item such as Carrie Chapman Catt's 1911 diary at the top of the list. And then you can read through pages of Catt's diary online. It's also important to keep in mind that these digital manuscript collections can also be accessed through the use of each collections archival finding aid. The finding aid is a more structured guide to the entire collection and shows you how a collection is organized overall. If you go back to the landing page for the Carrie Chapman Catt papers, for example, and scroll down a little farther, you will see a link to the expert resources section in the collections finding aid. And if you click on that link, it will take you into the finding aid. If you click on contents list tab, then you will see how they contents of the collection are organized into various theories such as diaries, correspondence, etc. For collections that are digitized such as the Catt papers, a digital content available link will be visible. And if you click it, it will take you into the item. And we are back to the 1911 diary by a different route. ^M00:15:09 ^M00:15:12 Now that several of the library's women's suffrage collections are digitized, we have been trying to also make the documents within the collections more accessible. This includes making them keyword searchable, readable by individuals and accessibility technologies, and also available for computational analysis and digital scholarship. Since handwriting cannot yet be easily read by computers, we still need humans to help us transcribe and review these texts like Carrie Chapman Catt's diary. To take part in this project, you can go to the library's By the People website at www.loc.gov. By the People is all web-based so no special tools are needed except a device with Internet access, a modern browser, and preferably a keyboard. You and your students can register and create accounts which allow you to keep track of your work using the registration link at the top right of the homepage. If you register but don't receive a confirmation, please email the By the People team at crowd@loc.gov and they can activate your account. This is a common issue with student or.edu emails. Before jumping in, we through the by the people welcome guide and instructions by visiting the help center. Find it by clicking help in the links at the top of any page. These include the By the People welcome guide, how to transcribe, and how to review. The help center also includes frequently asked questions. This is what the transcription interface looks like. On the left is a viewer that shows a digitized page from our collections. You can zoom and rotate the texts using the controls at the top. On the right is a text box where you can type words you see on the page, adjust the size of the viewer and the transcription box using the arrows in the middle of the screen, or try out the full screen mode by using the full screen button above the image viewer. Completing a page requires at least two people: one to transcribe and another to review. But a document can go through several phases of transcription and review by several people before it is complete. Transcriptions are created by one or more people looking at a digitized library documents and typing what they see into the by the people interface. Please just do your best to transcribe whole pages but don't worry if you can't read something. Just follow the guidelines for how to note uncertainty. Or simply do what you can and save your work rather than hitting submit. If you save a page, it will be marked as in progress in the system and others will be able to step in where you left off and later submit it for review. Once the page is completely transcribed, you can hit submit which puts the page in the review pile. Another person will then review the page. ^M00:18:32 ^M00:18:36 A reviewer's task is to read the entire transcription and carefully compare it to the original image. The reviewer can either accept it as complete or make edits and release it to another person to review. A simple page may only be reviewed once before being accepted while a more complex page may go through several rounds of review and editing before it is marked complete by a reviewer. Both transcription and review are important, but review is often the slower process and critical to moving pages across the finish line to being complete. It can also be a great place to get started and get comfortable reading and learning how to read and writing. Once a transcription is accepted by a reviewer, it is ready to be published on loc.gov. The transcription publication process is not immediate but all completed items are queued for loc.gov/injust. We only export items after every page has been completed. For example, if 97 pages of a 100 page document are not complete but three pages need review, we want. Export that document until the entire resource is done. Helping to complete almost finished items will make a dramatic difference in the number of patients that we can make accessible. ^M00:20:02 ^M00:20:06 In order to find something to work on, use the campaign's link at the top of any page to see the full list of currently active collections. all of our suffrage collections are currently grouped in a suffrage campaign which you can see here in the middle. But they can also be found separately, such as the one here at the top that is the list for the Blackwell family. On a typical campaign landing page such as this one for the Blackwell family, you will find. Background information on the collection and links to useful resources that may help you decipher names, dates, and more. And you will see groups of items available for transcription at the bottom of the page and also see how much progress has been made on various items. Access instructions at any time by visiting the help at the top right of any page. Most frequently needed instructions can also be found under quick tips on any transcription page. Finally, don't. Forget to check out our educator page with Pro tips for classes. And also we have a how to host a transcribe-a-thon informational page which may also be helpful. ^M00:21:23 ^M00:21:29 So -- >> So, thanks Liz. Actually we will just go back up to the last slide. I will show that last slide at the end of the program. So it looks like -- Liz, thank you so much for that amazing tour through the digital resources. And for those that may have come in a little bit later, I was remiss. In not mentioning that our colleague Cheryl Lederly is feeding the URLs through the chat. So I want to thank you, Cheryl, for keeping up and keeping pace with all of Liz's phenomenal resources. So it looks like Janice is back. I'm going to go ahead and have her take yourself off the microphone and I am going to give her the presenter ball and we are going to try it again, Janice. So we are glad you came back. >> Yeah [laughing], okay. Let's see what we can do here. Well that's interesting. There we go. So should I start at the beginning? >> So, yeah. We just got to -- >> Before you lost me [laughing]. >> Yeah, so we just got to -- if you would go to -- probably start at slide two in your deck. >> Okay. All right. >> And you are talking about the librarian talking to his good friend. Susan B. Anthony and that's when it cut out. >> Okay. I think the point I was trying to make was that there were lots of connections between the librarians of Congress and the women themselves who were involved in the movement, and that helped the library amass the kind of collections that we do have. So the librarian of Congress, Ainsworth Rand Spofford, who is shown here in this photograph standing on the left. And then Alice Stone Blackwell is right next to him and Lucy Stone. And then in front of them Henry Blackwell was seated. The Blackwell family papers -- and Liz just mentioned those as a project that is available for transcription -- were first solicited as early as 1915 by then manuscript division chief John Stevens Patrick. It would take another 46 years before they were received as a gift. And this isn't uncommon for manuscript collections. It's a long solicitation process. We have to gain trust sometimes. But at any rate, they were finally received as a gift from suffrage archivist Edna Stansel to whom Alice Stone black will bequeath them. Alice had been told by suffrage leader Carrie Chapman Catt that, quote, the papers of the Blackwell family are two valuable to repose in any college library. The Library of Congress should be your first choice. People will come from all over the world to see files there. Catt herself had donated her book collection to the library, but when asked about her own papers in January 1918 -- think about that date, 1918 -- she put Fitzpatrick off basically saying we are kind of busy right now. Actually, she graciously responded and she said, quote, at present moment I do not think we have sufficient time to prepare any suitable deposit for the Library of Congress. We are hopeful and expectant that our movement is nearly at an end. Sadly, it would take two and a half more years for the 19th amendment to be ratified. These kinds of exchanges and the acquisition efforts would be repeated year after year. As a result the personal papers of many other leading participants, including a number that Liz already mentioned for you -- Anna Dickinson, Madeleine McDowell Breckenridge, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and her daughter Harriet Stanton Blatch, Maud Wood Park, Mary Church Terrell, Frederick Douglass, and countless others were acquired by the Library of Congress and are gradually being digitized and made available for crowd source transcriptions by volunteers as Liz showed you. In addition to personal papers, the manuscript division also hosts the records of the two major national suffrage organizations: the National American Woman Suffrage Association, known by the acronym NAWSA, and the National Woman's Party which is perhaps best known for pioneering the use of picketing outside the White House. Supplementing these manuscripts are rare books, scrapbooks, and scores of photographs, motion pictures, sheet music, cartoons, law books, magazines, and newspapers documenting the suffrage campaign. Collectively, these materials featured in the Shall Not Be Denied exhibition provide a compelling and unsurpassed documentary record of the suffrage campaign. From its earliest roots in the abolition -- this is a carte de visite, an early carte de visite, of Harriet Tubman. And Temperance. This is the Temperance newspaper, The Lilly through its final victory in 1920, August 1920, and its immediate aftermath. The exhibition tells the story of the struggle for women's suffrage through the words and images of the women who lived it. Ergo, in creating this exhibit, there were several. We wanted to provide the historical context for women's inferior legal, economic, and political standing that led women's rights advocates to focus efforts on a suffrage amendment. In other words, what brought these women to come together and hold a Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls in 1848 and to issue that daring declaration of sentiments with its, you know, unprecedented demand for women's voting rights. We wanted to dispel the notion that suffrage was something that was given or granted to women, and instead focus on the hard-won battle that was fought by generations of women who risked family relationships and marital discord not to mention their health, livelihoods, reputations, and lives to fight for the right to vote. We sought to reveal in the exhibition how the suffrage campaign exposed the class, regional, and racial divides within the country and show how uneasy alliances had to be forged to achieve victories at both the state and national levels. We hoped to uncover the private lives of leaders and other participants in the movement and to celebrate the ties of family and friendships that nurtured the network of local, state, national, and international organizations. We wanted to also showcase some of the clever and creative strategies and tools that women used two garner media attention, raise funds, apply political pressure, attract new recruits, and ensure the movements success. Lastly, and this was important, we wanted to remind visitors that the 19th amendment was not the end of the struggle for women's rights or for voting rights in the country. These overarching themes are woven throughout four main sections of the exhibitand you can sort of see this in the floor plan. In addition to these four main sections, there is an introductory and concluding videos. We don't have time to go through each section in any detail, so I would just touch on some of the highlights and encourage everyone as soon as it is safe to come to Washington and see the exhibit for yourselves or to spend time going through the virtual exhibit, the online exhibit which Liz had a chance to show you a little bit about. There is a lot of information packed in the different labels that we wrote for each object as well as the overall case text and panel texts. And all of that is in the online exhibit. ^M00:30:19 Let's talk a little bit about the design. Hopefully those of you who had a chance to look at the video, the promotional video that we did, about an almost 2 minute video. And there's a link for that that is in the chat box and I will have it on the slide at the end of my slide deck to. But you can see from that video the incredible tall walls that become shorter as you walk through the exhibit. And this was symbolic of the barriers that women faced coming down as they began to assert their rights and they moved from the confines of the private sphere where the movement took root out into kind of what had been up until then very traditional masculine streetscapes, which frankly they transformed into colorful spaces of female empowerment through their parades and processions and eventually pickets, illustrated through various moving image film and photographs throughout the exhibit, souvenir programs, costumes, and banners. At the beginning you also will see that there is an introductory video which strived to connect women today. It's interspersed between passages from women today sort of in their own words sort of giving, reading passages as it were of the declaration of sentiments. And that is juxtaposed with historic footage. And that video will be going on the library's website shortly. So it will be added to the online exhibition. And it gives a good, quick overview of the movement. When you go through either the online exhibit or if you are fortunate enough to come to Washington to see it, some of the things that I would suggest you take a look for Is these pioneering feminist books that inspired the suffragists. In today's parlance these would have been the earliest influencers. Take a moment also to read the passages of the various letters and other documents that we put in the exhibit. There is this wonderful love letter from Abigail Adams. Telling her sister that she will never consent to have their sex considered in an inferior point of light. There is a -- you really see a different side to some of these women. You see Lucretia Mott who you have this image of as being a very, you know, modest, demure, you know, Quaker basically dishing the dirt about the Grimk sisters in this letter to Elizabeth Cady Stanton because she was frustrated that she thought they were something of a flash in the pan and were not doing enough for the movement. That is a common theme. Susan B. Anthony in a letter that she writes to Elizabeth Cady Stanton is basically pushing Stanton to write this speech that Anthony is committed to giving and has not had the time to write. And she is basically, you know, for all you teleworking mothers out there, she is telling Stanton, just to get to the task. It does not matter that you have to juggle baby on one knee and your four boys are buzzing about you. Anthony herself was no slacker. She in this diary entry from January 1, 1872, she tallied the number of miles -- 13,000 miles of travel that previous year -- and the number of meetings, 170, that she attended. Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell -- Liz wrote a wonderful blog post about this that was on the library site earlier in the month because they got married May 1, it says -- you can see 1855. But they did so in a very negotiated way where they would write their own wedding vows in a sense what it was was a public condemnation of the loss of women's rights once they entered into marriage. And so that's what this protest is here. There is also a wonderful letter that we had in the exhibit from Nelly Quander from the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at Howard University asking if a black woman were going to be welcome in the March 3, 1913 parade. That is a very contentious issue and we talk quite a bit about that in the exhibit. Other letters that I have enjoyed to because of how they show the differences in approach and lobbying politicians were these letters that we paired, one from Jeanette Rankin who by 1918 was already a member of the house of representatives. You know, as you know women could vote in parts of the country in advance of the federal amendment and I think Rankin is probably -- the role she had is. Somewhat underappreciated and that she was on the inside and she got herself on the woman suffrage committee and could lobby other colleagues at that point. So she is writing a letter from a little bit more of a position of authority to Woodrow Wilson basically pointing out his hypocrisy of supporting democracy abroad while women at home were denied the basic right to vote. And then you have Carrie Chapman Catt's approach to Woodrow Wilson which was much more flattering and, you know, Solicitous of him and requesting his assistance in making one last statement in support of the federal suffrage amendment. In addition to these documents, well worth your look are the affidavits describing the suffragists harsh treatment in jail. These are in their own words and they are signed by the women after they went to get -- made a statement upon their release from jail. There are rare printed versions of the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments which I showed you earlier, but also this 1876 Declaration of Rights of Women. And I think this is important for us because not only, you know, we have a tendency to know about the women that picketed the White House and thought they were among the most radical, but I think people don't appreciate in 1876 a group of women disrupted the nations Centennial celebration. They marched to the stage and presented this declaration of rights to the -- got themselves up on the podium and Anthony forced this declaration of rights onto the vice president. So there were a number of acts of confrontational tactics and militancy, much before even the National Women's Party in the 20th century. Susan B. Anthony always wanted this bust of her that was done by Adelaide Johnson to be installed in the Library of Congress and that did not ever happen. She had hoped that Congress would purchase it, but we decided that for the duration of this exhibit, Anthony would get her wish. So this bust is in our -- it is in the exhibit. It is on loan from our colleagues over at the Belmont Ball House, the historic headquarters of the National Women's Party. We also have -- in trying to zoom in on, like, an individual story. And we have the sash and buttons of a particular suffrage picket, Corre Week. She is. The fifth woman in line here, the petite artist who is staring quite defiantly I think at the camera as she heads off to the White House shortly before being arrested and later subjected to what became known as the Night of Terror at the Occoquan workhouse. The affidavits, as I mentioned, describe that harsh treatment of the women in jail. If you were on site, I would also ask you to make sure that you take a look and find your home state on the tabletop interactive near the end of the exhibit and use the touchscreen to explore the portraits of more than 160 suffragists, a map which includes a timeline of suffrage victories across the United States, and images of ephemera from every state and several territories related to women's suffrage and voting rights. The touchscreen table allows visitors to have a broader sense of the suffrage movement and showcases the depth and breadth of our collections. It also, as I mentioned, parenthetically helps us when we are giving tours to members of Congress as we can walk them up and show them their state as I did here with representative Lizzie Fletcher of Texas and her mother. I would also, as I said, encourage you. Throughout the exhibit we have film footage there on the right of some of the early suffrage parades and then also at the back the closing video of modern clips of women who have continued the inspiring fight for women's political equality. There is one final piece of the exhibit that is not to be overlooked. And on four pylons -- ^M00:39:33 -- although there are three sides to these pylons and they include large images on the one side. And then there's the section overview text. But we also wanted to showcase what we were calling More to the Movement, and they are portraits and short biographies of women of color in the suffrage movement. These portraits roughly follow the same chronology as. The exhibit sections and they amplify some of the stories of women of color who we can bring out in the exhibit as cases themselves but we also wanted to really make the point that this was a, you know, multiracial movement and it was also a movement that did not necessarily in for some of these women who had to continue to fight for voting rights as their rights were suppressed even after getting the 19th amendment passed. I think I am about to the end here. Yes. I hope you have enjoyed what I think is a very whirlwind tour of the exhibit and that you are as excited as I am and my colleagues are about the exhibit. We are obviously disappointed that more people have not been able to see it on site. And our understanding is that it will be extended beyond its September closing date but we don't know yet for sure how long it will be up. But I think it's pretty safe to say that it definitely will stay up after, beyond September, which was when we had planned to bring it down. So I guess at this point I normally would have turned it back over to [laughter] Liz but I guess I will let Kathy take over instead. I will tell you that a lot of the -- just virtually all of the images I showed you were things from the online exhibit. So you could -- I included that URL there as well as the URL for the video tour for those of you that want to go back and look at that at some point. But I am going to, I guess, let Kathy take back the screen. >> Great. Thank you, Janice. That was really wonderful. I am going to ask Cheryl to come on and provide you some of the questions that have been coming in from a very active audience during the presentation. But I just want to say, Janice, thank you. I know it gets a little hairy when the technology doesn't work and you handled it like a pro. So thank you for staying with us and staying with the program. And Liz, thank you for stepping up very quickly and showing us some wonderful resources. So now we are at the Q&A portion of the session and I am going to turn things over to Cheryl. >> Thank you, Kathy. I have a longish, multipart question about the caption under the letter from Nelly Quander. The participant says she sees a disconnect between the caption heading and the letter itself. And the questions are, the caption said that the deltas marched in the 1913 parade but it is not clear how many AKA members participated and she was wondering why the Deltas were mentioned in a letter about members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha. So, I don't know if this is a question for Janice or Liz but I will mute myself and let one of you take that on. >> I think I don't have the -- this is Janice. I don't have the exhibit up on my screen right now but in a sense because the alphas were -- the Deltas, essentially my understanding what we have been able to read, sort of broke off from the Alpha Kappa Alpha's and there was that. What was interesting -- what I think a number of people are finding interesting is that the story of the Deltas participation and how it was, in many ways, very much linked to their founding at that time and their participation was well-known. But this letter from an Alpha, from Quander, was not as well known and so we wanted to have an opportunity to bring that to light, that there was interest that Quander had written to Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. Oh, hold on a minute. [Laughing] ^M00:44:09 And so I think -- I don't know if that answers your question. You have put it up for me and it basically mentions that she had joined Alpha Kappa Alpha and that there was this effort where a number of the members, there was kind of a difference of opinion as to the direction of the sorority, the degree to which they would be interested in and participate actively in the political issues of the day. And so, a number -- it was a small -- well, relatively. Twenty-two student members, as we have been able to determine essentially kind of broke away and founded the Delta Sigma Theta and that is where I said there's the story, at least the documentation of their participation is better known. But Liz, I know you were also doing a little bit of reading on this more recently. Is there anything you would like to add? ^M00:45:08 ^M00:45:11 >> No, Janice. I think you explained how we arrived at that caption very well. ^M00:45:17 ^M00:45:21 >> And Janice and Liz, the participant has similar questions about the wording if you want to take a look at that in the chat. Meanwhile, to make sure that everybody's questions get included, I am going to ask you the next question and that is how did the 1918 flu pandemic affect the suffrage fight, if at all? I am wondering what documents or photos we have about that. >>. Well, this is Liz. I know there was a recent, I believe, it was a New York Times article on this topic which you might want to check out. But I have not specifically done any research on this topic. I do know that the suffrage movement was affected. There were meetings and rallies canceled and I believe also Carrie Chapman Catt might have been ill from the epidemic, but we haven't specifically had a chance yet to look into our collections and see what we might have specifically related to the 1918 flu. >> Thanks, Liz. And I am going to just take a quick minute and give you a little bit of scoop because I have information that has not been released yet. And that is that we have another webinar series on Tuesdays and Thursdays. These are a little less formal, a little less structured. And I know that and upcoming events -- I don't have the date off the top of my head, but I know an upcoming event will be on the 1918 flu pandemic. And it is possible that that presenter might have seen connections between suffrage and the pandemic. Although I can't speak for sure, but I would invite you to check out the link that I just put in the chat box and join us for that. And we will see if we can get your question answered. One of the great things about working for the Library of Congress is that there are so many possibilities of things to know and things to be discovered. Any additional questions for the chat? I'm seeing none. Kathy, maybe you saw some come in while I was chatting. >> I did not. I am going to go ahead and bring up a screen which if you have any questions please feel free to text them into the chat but in the interim I am going to go ahead and put up the link to the survey as well as information about the certificate. For those attending in the live session, we are offering a certificate of participation. You can go ahead and email me your first name and last name exactly how you want it to display on the certificate email it to me at kmcg@loc.gov and we will get those out within the week. So please send me an email with your first name and last name and we will get those out as soon as possible. And I want to take a moment to ask for your feedback. It is a very short, three question survey. We would love to get your feedback as we build out our programming. We have a summer webinar series, professional development series starting today, and every Wednesday until August 5 we are going to have a number of different sessions related to using the library's collections in the classroom. Every other week we will be looking at a foundational way of working with the materials. And on the opposite week we will be going a little bit more in depth around different teaching strategies related to using the library's digitized resources in the classroom. So we do hope that you will take a look at our summer series and we do hope that you will take a moment to give us your feedback. So while I have this slide up, I can't see the chat and I am going to ask my colleague Cheryl to guide me. >> Well, one of the -- this is Janice. And one of the things that I am seeing is there was a question about whether there was a book or would be a book. And there is a companion volume that accompanied the exhibit and it is by the same title and it was a collective effort with folks on the curatorial side as well as our exhibits office. So that is available, I know, from the library and it is probably easily found on, you know, Amazon and other -- I am trying to remember who our copublisher is and I apologize for not recalling who we published it with. But there is that and then somebody else was asking about the one line exhibit. And that will stay up indefinitely. If you go back and look at the library's exhibits page, you can go back and see some of our exhibits from 20 years ago. And one thing that we are looking forward to is we did rotate some items into the exhibit late in January. Of course they have only, you know, got to be up for a short period of time before we were -- we needed to, you know, moved to an all telework situation. But those items are going to be cycled in as well to the online exhibit. And then as I said, opening the intro video will also be added. So we would imagine that the online exhibit will continue to gain content rather than be taken down anytime soon. ^M00:51:15 ^M00:51:21 >> great. Thank you. I saw a question come in regarding joining the transcription, doing a group for transcription. And I just want to encourage you to -- you can make your own group to go into a document. It is one person at a time in the document itself but you can certainly share in terms of adding to or in the review process. At the help section on crowd.LOC.gov, there is -- under the help section there is a link to history have which is a community page around transcription specifically by the people. So we do encourage you to take a look at that. There was another question that I saw come into the chat which was, are we archiving these webinars? Why, yes we are. That's a great segue into mentioning that we will be recording all of our webinar sessions and we will make those available as soon as we are able. We have to close caption the videos, but we will post them as soon as we are able and have them posted to the webinar page. The live participation, you can earn the certificate. Unfortunately, we can't certify the recording. So we can only offer certificates for your professional development portfolio in the live session. So we do hope that you will take a look at our summer lineup and join us for one or 11 more webinars this summer. ^M00:53:08 ^M00:53:13 So I do want to thank our panelists. I want to thank Janice Ruth, the chief of the manuscripts division -- or manuscript, sorry. I always make that plural. Manuscript division. And Elizabeth Navarra, historian for the manuscript division. And Cheryl mentioned about an online upcoming office hour. We will also highlight another individual from manuscript talking about the Spanish flu, specifically. I want to thank you, for the folks who are also feeding in the URLs. Your active participation on the chat are what make these events so great. So that concludes our program unless I have missed any questions that may have come in. Cheryl, can you let me know? >> The chat has been fast and furious, but I think we have gotten all of these. There is a lot of gratitude, a question about giving feedback on the webinar in more detail. I've directed that to kmcg@loc.gov. That is Kathy's email address. And one more time, I will click the chat. Also, we had a question about whether there were grab and go educator resources related to the exhibit. I put a link in the chat to our women's suffrage primary source set which is not drawn directly from the exhibition but it is on the general topic. ^M00:54:42 ^M00:54:45 >> Terrific. Yeah. And there are -- and I would encourage you to come to some of our foundation sessions where we will be talking more in depth about our teacher resources. We have a site that is LOC.gov/teachers where we have assembled a wealth of resources on different topics including women's suffrage. And we will be highlighting those throughout the summer in our foundation series. So thank you, everybody, for joining us. And we hope to see you next week. Thank you to our presenters, Janice and Liz. And Cheryl, thanks for doing the URLs today. >> My pleasure. And Kathy, remember to save the chat transcript. >> Thank you. ^M00:55:35 [ Laughter ] ^M00:55:37 >> Thanks a lot, everyone.