Shamira Gelbman

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Author: The Civil Rights Lobby Brooklyn in Indiana 🏙️🌽 Poli Sci Prof at Wabash College 🔔 I tweet solely in my own capacity, not on behalf of the College

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Shamira Gelbman@shamiragelbman· 9d

I don't often get to the Upper West Side, but when I do I go see the Lajos Kossuth monument, the 1928 unveiling of which was apparently my great-grandfather's toehold into the United States. Long story short, not all of our ancestors "did it the right way" 🤷‍♀️

Photo of the Kossuth monument, the text of which reads:

KOSSUTH
Erected by a liberty loving race of Americans of Magyar origin to Louis Kossuth the great champion of liberty

Shamira Gelbman@shamiragelbman· 21d

Another winner #ladylobbyists

Shamira Gelbman@shamiragelbman· 22d

So I'm just going to assume "one night stands" meant something else back then 👀 #ladylobbyists

Snippet from WJCC 3/3/1924 meeting minutes: "Unfortunately, the application of the American Nurses' Association was not before it. The Chairman had been doing one night stands in the Mississippi Valley and, having reached Washington only in time to go straight from the train to the meeting, had not been overtaken by her forwarded mail ... "

Shamira Gelbman@shamiragelbman· 22d

So much for that 🤷‍♀️ #ladylobbyists

"Miss Smith moved that this Committee be called the 'Follow-up Committee.' ..."

Shamira Gelbman@shamiragelbman· 22d

Best committee name ever #ladylobbyists

excerpt from 1/7/1924 WJCC meeting minutes "The Looking Backward Committee ..."

Shamira Gelbman@shamiragelbman· 23d

Also, someone (maybe but probably not me) should do this comparative case study 👀 #ladylobbyists

"During the summer I had the opportunity to visit the headquarters of the English Women's Consultative Committee where I had the pleasure of a long talk with the secretary, Miss Wauchope, about the likeness in subject matter and the unlikeness in method of work between the Consultative Committee [of Women's Organisations] and the [Women's] Joint Congressional Committee. MAUD WOOD PARK"

Shamira Gelbman@shamiragelbman· 23d

🤣 #ladylobbyists

snippet from Nov 1923 Women's Joint Congressional Committee meeting minutes:

... (Here the Committee had a picture taken and a most uncomplimentary one it proved to be.) ....

Shamira Gelbman@shamiragelbman· 24d

It's been a day (month)

Shamira Gelbman@shamiragelbman· Jul 12

Dad has reached "see if you can find some of my old chess books" levels of post-stroke rehab facility boredom 🤷‍♀️

Shamira Gelbman@shamiragelbman· Jul 8

I saw "Mrs. Warwick Hobart" in some Women's Joint Congressional Committee correspondence and assumed Warwick was her husband's name -- glad this old column is still around to clear that up 🤷‍♀️ #ladylobbyists

Shamira Gelbman@shamiragelbman· Jul 5

I think I have found today's rabbit hole 👀 #ladylobbyists "Club Women to Survey Use of Milk," Washington Herald, April 15, 1934.

Shamira Gelbman@shamiragelbman· Jul 1

I've seen this too in my study of the civil rights lobby; e.g., the same 89th Congress that passed the Voting Rights Act in 1965 was working to undermine enforcement of the Civil Rights Act a year later

Shamira Gelbman@shamiragelbman· Jul 1

Over a century later it still has not yet been determined 🤷‍♀️ (from the National Council for Reduction of Armaments, 9/30/1922)

"Most of the organizations affiliated with the Council have approved the principle of the outlawry of war by international agreement. How to make this practical has not yet been determined."

Shamira Gelbman@shamiragelbman· Jun 25

Bike, red boots, and a pair of potatoes. I guess some sort of wicked witch of the west situation went down on this block 🤷‍♀️ #brooklyn

Shamira Gelbman@shamiragelbman· Jun 25

These Peanuts Go on a Date bars

Shamira Gelbman@shamiragelbman· Jun 24

My timing was impeccable 😎 (unfortunately an #eldercareroadtrip, not a #polisciroadtrip this time 😔)

Shamira Gelbman@shamiragelbman· Jun 23

Another newish one here is Dr. Mary Holloway Wilhite - it went up around the time of the women's suffrage amendment centennial

Shamira Gelbman@shamiragelbman· Jun 23

And now we have a new historical marker in Crawfordsville, unveiled this past weekend 👀 More about Lincoln School here: press.palni.org/omeka-s/s/Li...