12 Mar 2020

The Rest Is History: Māori In Manhattan

From Lately, 10:45 pm on 12 March 2020

On 25th October 1909 a travelling performance group of Māori women took the stage at Carnegie Hall in Manhattan with Emmeline Pankhurst, the woman leading the militant wing of the British suffrage campaign.

Charlotte Macdonald, Professor of History at Victoria University in Wellington, talks to Karyn about this event and its historical significance

Looking south on Seventh Avenue and 57th Street in Manhattan, the exterior of Carnegie Hall

Looking south on Seventh Avenue and 57th Street in Manhattan, the exterior of Carnegie Hall Photo: Carnegie Hall Archives' Building Collections