This Week in National Press Club History: Women's National Press Club proposed

This Week In National Press Club History

September 22, 2005: Wynton Marsalis, jazz trumpeter and leader of a 1980s movement back to jazz traditions, discusses rebuilding New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina at a National Press Club luncheon.

September 22, 2011: John Grisham, writer of thrillers, including “The Pelican Brief” and “The Firm,” receives the 2011 Harper Lee Award for Legal Fiction at the Club.

September 23, 1919: Cora Rigby of the Christian Science Monitor’s Washington bureau proposes a Women’s National Press Club. In successive steps for the next half-century, women are finally admitted in 1971 to membership in the National Press Club, and the two clubs merge in 1985.

September 26, 1969: Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir speaks at a National Press Club luncheon about the future of Arab-Israeli relations and expresses hope that the 1967 Six-Day War would be "the last war fought between the Arab states and us.”

This Week In National Press Club History is brought to you by the History & Heritage Committee, which preserves and revitalizes the Club’s dramatic history through lobby displays revealing the wide scope of Club speakers, events, panel discussions over the years and its oral history project.

For information about the Committee’s activities or to join, contact Chair Gilbert Klein at [email protected].