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Some members of the crowd became emotional during Hillary Clinton's acceptance speech Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention. (July 29) AP
Jerry Emmett, 102, of Prescott, Ariz., cheers as Hillary Clinton becomes the first major political party nominee in U.S. history at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia July 28, 2016.(Photo: Caron Leiber)
PHILADELPHIA —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Finally. That’s how millions of people felt Thursday night as a woman accepted, for the first time, a major party’s nomination for president.
From the floor of the Democratic National<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Convention to watch parties across the nation, on TVs and laptops and smartphones, Americans beheld history —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>or, as some feminists would call it, herstory.
“How far we’ve come! This is what Susan B. Anthony and the suffragists fought for a century ago,’’ said Terry O’Neill, president of the National Organization for Women. “Hillary did this for all the politicians to come.’’
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Analysis: Clinton's speech carries weight of history
Hillary Clinton acknowledged the "milestone'' about a half-hour into her speech: "I'm so happy this day has come,'' she said. "Because when any barrier falls in America, it clears the way for everyone. ... After all, when there are no ceilings, the sky's the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>limit."
Many of<span style="color: Red;">*</span>those with no regard for the former first lady and secretary of State granted the significance of the moment.
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The moment came 168 years and nine days after the first women’s rights conference in Seneca Falls; 150 years after Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the first organization dedicated to suffrage for women of all races; 144 years after Anthony’s conviction for voting —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Republican —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in the 1872 presidential election.
It came 96 years after approval of the 19th Amendment barring gender discrimination in voting.
And it came here in the Cradle of Liberty, which in 1920 was by far the largest city in the nation where women still could not vote.
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History, made! Hillary Clinton accepts Democratic nomination
Amid the cheers, balloons and fireworks, a few thought of the suffragists of a century ago who dreamed of such a night and paid for their vision.
They thought of suffrage protesters like Alice Paul, on hunger strike, confined to a jail psychiatric ward and force-fed fed raw eggs through a tube; like Lucy Burns, held down by five people and fed through her nostrils because she refused to open her mouth; like Dora Lewis, knocked out when guards threw her against a metal railing, inducing a heart attack in her cellmate, who thought Lewis was dead.
This was their night, too.
Here, as<span style="color: Red;">*</span>witnessed by journalists of the USA TODAY Network,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>is how it felt on a<span style="color: Red;">*</span>night America made herstory.
Jerry Emmett, 102-year-old honorary chair of the Arizona Democratic delegation, casts the state's votes for for Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia July 26, 2016.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Nick Oza, Nick Oza/The Republic)
[h=3]The centenarian[/h]Geraldine “Jerry” Emmett waited a lifetime —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and then some —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>for the moment.
There were times when the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>peppy, 102-year-old “libber” from Prescott, Ariz., doubted she’d live to see it.
Emmett, one of about 425,000 Americans born before approval of the 19th Amendment, considered watching Clinton’s acceptance speech in her pajamas from her delegation’s hotel room. It had been a long, hot week.
But she rested all morning so she could come to the convention hall and hear the speech in person. Her lifelong friend Carolyn Warner rolled her through the arena in a wheelchair, and members of the state delegation helped her to a stadium seat near the Arizona banner in Section 113.
A striking sight with her perfectly curled white hair, she cheered and clapped for Clinton, whom she’s long admired. When the nominee was first lady, she started a Hillary Clinton fan club.
A wide smile broke across Emmett’s face as Clinton came on stage, and stayed there until<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Clinton accepted the nomination.
“That’s when I cried,” she said. “I was thrilled —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and I only cry when I’m thrilled!”
—<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Yvonne Wingett Sanchez
Eleanor Smeal stands in the balcony level of the Wells Fargo Center as she watches the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 28, 2016.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Suchat Pederson, USA TODAY Network)
[h=3]The feminist[/h]All week, Eleanor Smeal connected with fellow travelers on a four-decade trek to break what the Democratic nominee once called “that highest and hardest glass ceiling.’’
Over and over, in so many words, Smeal heard the same thing: “Oh my God, Ellie, we’ve made it!”
Then came Clinton's speech —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"magnificent,” Smeal said. “A lot of my own life flashed before me. So many of the things Hillary has worked on, I have worked on.”
“Hillary is like a beacon. Women leaders in every country know her. It will open the doors to them, too.”
Eleanor Smeal, feminist activist
Smeal is one of the nation’s most prominent feminists, former president of the National Organization for Women and now president of the Feminist Majority Foundation. She’s been at the forefront of nearly every major women’s rights victory, from laws protecting women’s reproductive rights to the integration of Little League.
She called Clinton’s nomination a landmark accomplishment of modern feminism.
“It’s very, very important, not just to women of the U.S.,” she said. “Hillary is like a beacon. Women leaders in every country know her. It will open the doors to them, too.”
Smeal, once a young movement firebrand, celebrates her 77th birthday Saturday. But on Thursday night, she said, she got her present.
—<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Margie<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Fishman
[h=3]The ‘astronaut’[/h]“As a little girl, I dreamed of being an astronaut,” said Michele Thomas, a delegate from Bowling Green, Ky. “This is sort of like landing on the moon for women.”
Thomas, who celebrated her 53rd<span style="color: Red;">*</span>wedding anniversary here with her husband, Jack, on Wednesday, said she thought about her nine grandchildren, five of whom are girls.
“Things will never be the same again,” she said.
—<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Mary Troyan
Tyler Murphy, a 28-year-old social studies teacher from Flatwoods, Ky., is a Clinton delegate to the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Mary Troyan, USA TODAY)
[h=3]The teacher[/h]Tyler Murphy occupied<span style="color: Red;">*</span>just one seat in the convention hall, but he<span style="color: Red;">*</span>felt as if he had<span style="color: Red;">*</span>dozens of eighth-graders sitting with him. The 28-year-old social studies teacher from Flatwoods, Ky., was<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a Clinton delegate —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a role that will make up a key part of his lesson plan<span style="color: Red;">*</span>when school opens Aug. 10.
“I can teach the content, but to be actually involved is overwhelming,” Murphy said.
He said Clinton’s nomination gave<span style="color: Red;">*</span>him a teaching tool: “My students don’t remember a time where it was unusual for a mother to have a job —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>or the right to vote.”
Gender discrimination might fade if Clinton wins in November, he said,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>but it won't<span style="color: Red;">*</span>disappear. “If we forget, we run the risk of going back,’’ he said, “and no one wants that, except for maybe Donald Trump.’’
Murphy<span style="color: Red;">*</span>plans<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to relay<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the delegate experience to his students —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in a nonpartisan way. “There is an important role that citizens play, and I can show them that it is not out of reach,” Murphy said. “We talk about hashtag activism, where they put something on social media and think they’re doing their part. Well, they’re not. There’s more.” – By Mary Troyan
[h=3]The student[/h]This was the first national convention for Taylor Kane, an 18-year-old with an uncommon sense of history who hopes Clinton’s nomination will galvanize other girls and young women.
She attended the Democratic<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Women's Caucus meeting during the week, but couldn't get a ticket for the speech Thursday night. So she watched at home on TV<span style="color: Red;">*</span>with her 51-year-old<span style="color: Red;">*</span>mother. Also watching: her stepfather, a Republican who seemed to like the speech, and her dog Jynx —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a female —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>whose eyes were glued to the set.
"It was so inspirational!'' she exclaimed. "My mom was tearing up, watching, for the first time in her life, a woman presidential nominee. It makes me proud to be a feminist. This is such a monumental moment for women and girls.''
“A lot of my friends say they’ve never felt discriminated against, but when we talk about it, they admit people are taking us for granted, like challenging our intellects because we’re girls —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>even our teachers,"<span style="color: Red;">*</span>she said. “But a lot of us don’t think we’re oppressed. They figure, ‘I’m a girl. That’s just the way it is.’’’
“A lot of my friends say they’ve never felt discriminated against, but when we talk about it, they admit people are taking us for granted, like challenging our intellects because we’re girls — even our teachers.”
Taylor Kane
The Mount Laurel, N.J., resident will be a freshman this fall at George Washington University, where she’ll major in political communications. For her, feminist history has been a revelation.
In school, she said, “I don’t think we ever heard about Susan B. Anthony. We learned about Franklin Roosevelt, but not Eleanor. I wondered, ‘Why have I never learned about this before?'"
Having learned about the early suffragists, like Mount Laurel’s own Alice Paul, Kane<span style="color: Red;">*</span> believes they’d be pleased —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>“because this is what they worked for” —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and amazed, “because a female president is sooo out there!'"
—<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Rick Hampson
[h=3]The heartbroken[/h]Thursday night was “a big moment in history,’’ Sarah Knowlton conceded. Still, she was hurting.
She was a Bernie Sanders delegate from South Bend, Ind., so politically besotted that even the landmark in women’s rights was “like throwing salt in fresh wounds.”
Before the speech Knowlton said Clinton could help ease the pain by acknowledging in her acceptance speech the hard work done by Sanders’ supporters. She got her wish. Clinton thanked Sanders for a good campaign, adding: "To all your supporters around the country, I want you to know —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>I heard you. Your cause is our cause.''
On Tuesday, Knowlton left the convention hall in tears,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>“heartbroken” that Sanders had moved to give Clinton the nomination by acclamation. It dashed her last hope for a miracle that would give him the nomination.
“I needed just to get some air,” she said. “I sat down and I cried and I called my boyfriend. It just broke our hearts.”
Will she vote for Clinton? Being in close to the former secretary of State’s delegates at the convention at least<span style="color: Red;">*</span>helped her accept how the nomination race played out.
“I’ve had time to kind of process that this is a big moment for Clinton supporters and women who have been fighting this fight their whole entire life,” she said. “I understand Hillary being the nominee is a big deal for them and what I’m feeling now —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the heartbreak —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>is what they felt ... eight years ago."
—<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Nicole Guadiano
[h=3]<span style="color: Red;">*</span>[/h]Mayo Makinde wears his convention credential with Black Lives Matter on it.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Sherry Coolidge, USA TODAY Network)
[h=3]The activist[/h]Mayo Makinde<span style="color: Red;">*</span>got involved in the Black Lives Matters movement after Trayvon Martin's death. It got personal after<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a police officer<span style="color: Red;">*</span>pulled him over near Ohio State University for nothing more, he said, than driving a nice car in a nice neighborhood at night.
The 35-year-old delegate from<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Columbus<span style="color: Red;">*</span>came here supporting Sanders because, among other things, he liked how the Vermont senator treated people from Black Lives Matter<span style="color: Red;">*</span>at his rallies. He even allowed them on stage.
So he was listening when Clinton told Sanders supporters, "your cause is our cause."
Makinde, whose convention credentials bore a yellow Black Lives Matter sticker, said that closed the deal; he’ll vote for Clinton.
—<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Sherry Coolidge
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The transgender[/h]Monica DePaul of Jacksonville, Fla., is the state’s first transgender delegate and one of two dozen, a record number, attending the convention from all over the country.
An English teacher at the University of North Florida, DePaul, 29, began her male-to-female transition four years ago. Her gender hasn’t been an issue during the four-day convention, she said. But had the gathering been held in North Carolina or other states with “religious freedom” laws, she could have been denied service at a hotel or restaurant or even the right to use the women’s bathroom.
Clinton "acknowledged us” during her acceptance speech, and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>DePaul is<span style="color: Red;">*</span>grateful.
As a woman, DePaul said,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>“I know it’s historical and everything, but I just don’t think it needs to be as big of a deal as it is. I feel like we’re finally living in times where it shouldn’t matter.<span style="color: Red;">*</span><span style="color: Red;">*</span>But then again, most elected officials are white males, so I suppose it does. I just don’t want it to.”
Ruby Gilliam takes in the convention wearing her specially designed hat at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 28, 2016.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Sherry Coolidge, USA TODAY Network)
[h=3]The<span style="color: Red;">*</span>veteran[/h]Ruby Gilliam is 93. The delegate from Minerva, Ohio,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>spent her childhood being told, “Little girls don’t do this. Little girls don’t do that.” She proved<span style="color: Red;">*</span>otherwise.
She went to college when it wasn’t common. In World War II she joined the womens’ division of the Naval Reserve. She<span style="color: Red;">*</span><span style="color: Red;">*</span>went on to serve as the Carroll County Democratic Party Chairwoman for 35 years.This was her eighth convention.
Partially blind and slow moving, she walked into the arena with a rhinestone “Hillary” pin and a hat hand-decorated with red tulle, tinsel and Clinton photos.
"I think I am overwhelmed," she said when the speech ended. "I never thought to see a woman nominated for president. This is one of the best nights of my life."
—<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Sherry Coolidge
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