"On with the Fight!" exhibition celebration and Alice Embree program

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, the Briscoe Center presents “On with the Fight!” Women's Activism in the Briscoe Center's Collections open March through July. Through newspapers, photographs, posters, letters, pamphlets, and a host of other primary sources, “On with the Fight!” documents women’s activism since the Civil War. The exhibition is drawn from the center’s extensive social justice and women’s history collections, including the papers of Ann Richards, Frances “Sissy” Farenthold, Molly Ivins, and Alice Embree, as well as the Women’s Commonwealth Archive, the Lesbian Issues Collection, the Labor Movement of Texas Collection, and the Texas Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Scrapbook. Together, these collections help illustrate the achievements, contradictions, and complexities of women’s activism in Texas and across America over the past 150 years. Today, when public conversations about identity, discrimination, and harassment have increasing political impact, the history of women’s activism provides context for understanding present-day experiences of inequality at the intersections of gender, race, and social class.

 

Learn more about this topic at a program with Austin-based activist and writer Alice Embree. She joined the Students for a Democratic Society in 1964 when she was a student at The University of Texas at Austin. Over the years, she has worked in the civil rights, anti-war, women’s liberation, and social justice movements. She was a founder of Austin’s underground newspaper The Rag in the 1960s, a contributor to the newspaper Rat Subterranean News in New York and to the book Sisterhood is Powerful, an editor of Celebrating the Rag: Austin’s Iconic Underground Newspaper, and associate editor of Austin’s The Rag Blog.

 

Space is limited; RSVP required. Please RSVP to briscoecenterevents@austin.utexas.edu with "March 5 program" in the subject line.

Thursday, March 5, 2020 at 6:30pm

Briscoe Center for American History, Sid Richardson Hall, Unit 2 2300 Red River Street, Austin, TX 78712

Event Type

Academics, Arts & Humanities, Policy & Law, Social Justice

Departments

All Departments

Target Audience

Students, Staff, Faculty, Alumni, General Public

Cost

Free. Space is limited; RSVP required: briscoecenterevents@austin.utexas.edu with "March 5 program" in the subject line.

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