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Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Radio address, Speeches
The Hope of the Founders - 26 March 1930
March 26, 1930
This speech was given as a radio address over a nation-wide hook-up on the National Broadcasting Company’s system. The occasion was the tenth anniversary of woman suffrage and of the founding of the League of Women Voters. You ask me what HOPE led to the founding of the League of Women Voters. None at all. When suffragists were marching upward, on the last lap of their century old campaign, they spied Old Age coming down the path to meet them. They knew they would be caught soon, for they had […]
Eleanor Roosevelt
categories: Radio address, Speeches
Pearl Harbor radio address - Dec. 7, 1941
December 7, 1941
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, I am speaking to you tonight at a very serious moment in our history. The Cabinet is convening and the leaders in Congress are meeting with the President. The State Department and Army and Navy officials have been with the President all afternoon. In fact, the Japanese ambassador was talking to the president at the very time that Japan's airships were bombing our citizens in Hawaii and the Philippines and sinking one of our transports loaded with lumber on its way to Hawaii. By tomorrow […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Radio address, Speeches
Radio address - Oct.1928
October 1, 1928
Have you registered, fellow citizens? If not, why not? Perhaps you are among women who suffer from "inferiority complex" and think one vote will make no difference, therefore why bother to register and cast it? I've met such women, and men too. I know of a woman's political club, a party club, in a big city. Every women in it is a partisan, yet when this campaign started, it was discovered that only 33% of the membership had ever registered and voted. They were members because they liked the teas […]
Amelia Earhart
categories: Radio address, Speeches
A Woman's Place in Science - 1935
January 1, 1935
Earhart delivered this speech as part of a radio broadcast on a woman’s place in science. The following transcript is from an audio recording of that broadcast. An original copy of the speech can be found on the website of the Library of Congress. This modern world of science and invention is of particular interest to women, for the lives of women have been more affected by its new horizons than those of any other group. Profound and stirring as have been accomplishments in the remoter fields of pure research, […]
Phyllis Schlafly
categories: Interview, Radio address, Speeches
Interview with Michel Martin on NPR - March 30, 2011
March 30, 2011
As part of Tell Me More's focus on Women's History Month, host NPR Michel Martin interviewed Phyllis Schlafly. I'm Michel Martin and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. Now we go to our Wisdom Watch conversation. That's the part of the program where we talk to those who've made a difference in their work. In honor of Women's History Month, we've been putting a special emphasis on women who've made a difference. And my guest today is conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly. She is a mother of six, a […]