Patricia Schroeder: “I am very pleased to have this time as we close out July to talk about what we have to look forward to in August, and…”

“I am very pleased to have this time as we close out July to talk about what we have to look forward to in August, and one of the great things we have to look forward to in August is this stamp, this 32-cent stamp will be coming out on August 26 in celebration of women having and the right to vote for 75 years in this country. Yes, this is really something to celebrate I think, and the stamp is very beautiful, with the Capitol in the background, suffragettes over here who worked so hard to get that right to vote; and it flows into modern-day women still trying to use that vote to move their fights forward. This was an incredible time 75 years ago, when you think that the fight for the right to vote started way back when this Republic began, with John Adams' wife begging to have women included in the Constitution, and of course they did not; and then the first national convention in 1848 being held in Seneca Falls where women came together and again asked for the right to vote, and it took until 75 years ago before that really happened. Almost all the people at the 1848 convention were dead by the time the reality of the vote had occurred. But this was probably one of the most revolutionary things that happened in American society without a revolution.”