Vol 12 Issue 1.Pmd

The A publication of the UofL Women’s Center--Educating, Advocating, and Building Diverse Communities Women’s Center News Fall 2004 Check out the Women’s Center at: www.louisville.edu/provost/womenctr Volume 12, Issue 1 Women’s Equality Day 2004 to Feature Visual Arts Exhibit, Voter Registration Event, and Historic Film, Iron-Jawed Angels U of L’s Women’s Equality Day 2004 from the office will be on hand to answer Commemoration, to be held from 11:30 a.m. questions, assist with the registration, Timeline of Legal History of Women in until 1:00 p.m. on August 26 on the Belknap and turn in completed registration forms. the United States: A Timeline of the Campus, will have a unique stamp. It will Anyone who is not registered is Women’s Rights Movement 1848 - 1998 feature a visual arts exhibit, stepped-up encouraged to come out and get ready to 1701 The first sexually integrated jury efforts to promote voter registration, and the vote. Americans should remember that “if hears cases in Albany, New York. dynamic film, Iron-Jawed Angels recently you don’t take part in the process of shown on HBO. electing your leaders, you should not 1769 American colonies based their laws on the English common law, which was “Rock the Vote” will be the theme of this complain when things go wrong.” summarized in the Blackstone election-year celebration. Forming the Continuing the “Rock the Vote” theme Commentaries. It said, “By marriage, the backdrop for the event will be a visual arts will be the showing of the HBO film, Iron- husband and wife are one person in the exhibit set up in the Student Activity Center Jawed Angels. This powerful drama law. The very being and legal existence of throughout the day. Portraits and posters of shows the journey of the women’s the woman is suspended during the some of the key players in the Women’s suffrage movement as women fought to marriage, or at least is incorporated into Suffrage Movement will be on display to win their right to vote. The film will be that of her husband under whose wing help people put faces with the names of shown in the Floyd Theatre at 6:00 p.m. and protection she performs everything.” the fantastic women who triumphed against and 8:30 p.m. all odds to achieve their right to vote. Everyone is invited to come out for food 1777 All states pass laws which take away women’s right to vote. In an effort to encourage people to register fun, and entertainment. All events are free and go to the polls in November, the and open to the public. For answers to 1789 United States Constitution ratified. Jefferson County Clerk’s Office has been questions about the day’s activities, The terms “persons,” “people” and invited to hold a voter registration please call the U of L Women’s Center, “electors” are used, allowing the opportunity at the event. Representatives 852-8976. interpretation of those beings to include men and women. Author’s note: I am entering my fourth month as the assistant director of the Women’s Center. To prepare for 1839 The first state (Mississippi) grants planning Women’s Equality Day, my first big Women’s women the right to hold property in their Center event, I researched the web and watched the own name, with their husbands’ PBS movie, Not for Ourselves Alone. The movie really permission. got my wheels turning about my interest and vision as 1848 At Seneca Falls, New York, 300 the assistant director. women and men sign the Declaration of In line with the Center’s mission, my primary interests Sentiments, a plea for the end of are educating people about women’s issues and discrimination against women in all advocating for women. The way I choose to do these spheres of society. things is how my vision comes into play. I came to U of L from the Kentucky Center, where I was the 1855 In Missouri v. Celia, a Slave, a Black performing arts manager. (I love the arts!) As an arts woman is declared to be property without lover and student advocate, I am interested in educating and building relationships with a right to defend herself against a master’s students through the use of performing arts, music, and visual arts. Therefore, as I put act of rape events together, I will incorporate these elements that reflect my vision. The special treat of this event (and I must admit my favorite) is the premiere of the HBO 1866 The 14th Amendment is passed by film, Iron Jawed Angels. I look forward to seeing you there. Congress (ratified by the states in 1868), saying “Representatives shall be Michelle Thompson, Assistant Director, Women’s Center 2 apportioned among the several A Message from States according to their respective Women’s Center members, counting the whole number of persons in each State, Director Mary Karen Powers excluding Indians not taxed. .But when the right to vote . .is denied to In March of this year, I watched the HBO film, Iron Jawed Angels, any of the male inhabitants of such which is about Alice Paul, the radical suffragists, and the role State . the basis of representation they played in the passage of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment therein shall be reduced in in 1920. proportion.” It is the first time “citizens” and “voters” are defined as In the film, Ida B. Wells-Barnett confronts Paul about the decision “male” in the Constitution. to enforce racial segregation in the 1913 suffrage parade in 1869 The first woman suffrage law in Washington D.C. In deference to southern delegates, Paul insists the U.S. is passed in the territory of that African American-women participate as a single unit at the rear Wyoming. of the parade, rather than integrating their individual state delegations. Wells-Barnett rejects this demand, and disappears 1870 The 15th Amendment receives from the group of suffragists, only to jump from the crowd into the final ratification, saying, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote Illinois delegation, as the parade makes its way down shall not be denied or abridged by Pennsylvania Avenue. the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous Curious about the historical accuracy of this incident, I discovered condition of servitude.” By its text, that it is based on eyewitness accounts of the 1913 parade. In fact, women are not specifically excluded a photograph of Wells-Barnett marching down Pennsylvania from the vote. Avenue between white suffragists and allies Belle Squire and Virginia Brooks appeared in the March 5, 1913 edition of the 1870 The first sexually integrated grand jury hears cases in Chicago Daily Tribune. As Wanda Hendricks, Paulette Pennington Cheyenne, Wyoming. The chief Jones, and Careda Rolland Taylor observe in their article about the justice stops a motion to prohibit the incident, “Th[is] press coverage reassured many black women of integration of the jury, stating: “It their own place in the suffrage movement and probably convinced seems to be eminently proper for many whites that the question of race, gender, and women to sit upon Grand Juries, enfranchisement were inextricably tied.” I personally was reminded which will give them the best possible that “separate and unequal” was an historical fact of the suffrage opportunities to aid in suppressing movement, and that we still struggle today to build an inclusive the dens of infamy which curse the women’s movement. country.” 1873 Bradwell v. Illinois, 83 U.S. On August 26, the Women’s Center will co-sponsor two evening 130 (1872): The U.S. Supreme showings of Iron Jawed Angels as the centerpiece of our annual Court rules that a state has the right celebration of Women’s Equality Day. Both are free and open to to exclude a married woman (Myra the public. Check Michelle Thompson’s article in this newsletter, Colby Bradwell) from practicing law. for exact details. We look forward to seeing you at the movies! 1875 Minor v Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1875): The U.S. Supreme Court declares that despite the Please add my name to your mailing list! privileges and immunities clause, a state can prohibit a woman from Name ______________________________________________________________ voting. The court declares women UofL Dept. (or) Address: ______________________________________________ as “persons,” but holds that they _____________________________________________________________________ constitute a “special category of City ________________________________________________State ___ Zip______ _nonvoting_ citizens.” Mail: to: Women’s Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292. (Please 1879 Through special add me to your email list:) Congressional legislation, Belva ____________________________________________________________________ Lockwood becomes first woman 3 admitted to try a case before the PEACC Marks Its Fifth Year, Supreme Court. Announces Annual “Take Back the Night” 1890 The first state (Wyoming) grants Rally and March women the right to vote in all elections. 1900 By now, every state has passed The Prevention, Education, and Advocacy on Campus and legislation modeled after New York’s Community (PEACC) Program is excited to begin its fifth Married Women’s Property Act (1848), season at the UofL. Returning staff include administrative granting married women some control assistant Ora Mae Gilkey and Sharon LaRue as program over their property and earnings. director. 1908 Muller v State of Oregon, 208 U.S. 412 (1908): The U.S. Supreme Court PEACC has several new staff members: Shannon Hensley as upholds Oregon’s 10-hour workday for project coordinator, Chrystal Russell as volunteer coordinator, women. The win is a two-edged sword: and Jason Wade as Men of PEACC coordinator.

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