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Description
In this clip from her 1995 University of Montana Presidential Lecture "Feminism in Everyday Life", iconic feminist Gloria Steinem remembers meeting Montana's Jeannette Rankin during a TV broadcast for the launch of Ms. Magazine, late in Rankin's life, and honors Rankin's legacy to the women's movement as the first woman elected to the US Congress who initiated the 1919 congressional debate leading to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. This lecture was part of the Maxine Van De Wetering American Women Making History lecture series, sponsored by the UM Women's Studies Program.
Date
1995
Geographic Coverage
Montana
Holding Institution
University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield Library
Rights Statement
Document Type
Lecture
Media Type
Image; Moving Image
Digital File Format
video/mp4
Run Time
1 minute, 52 seconds
Local Filename
Steinem_DVD_06487_1310_1500.mp4
Language
eng
Digital Publisher
University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield Library
Digitization Information
The original VHS was recorded on a Maxell T-120 tape in Standard Play Mode/Speed. The VHS was converted to a DVD using a Toshiba VHS-DVD recorder, model DVR670KU. The video was compressed using MPEG-2, the original TV system was 525/60 (NTSC) with an aspect ratio of 4:3, a picture resolution of 720 x 480, a frame rate of 30, and a bitrate of 5.09 Mbps. The audio was encoded using Dolby Digital, a sampling rate of 48 kHz, 2 audio channels, a bitrate of 256 Kbps, and 1 audio stream.
Recommended Citation
Steinem, Gloria, "Gloria Steinem Remembers Jeannette Rankin" (1995). President's Lecture Series. 1.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/president_lecture_series/1