Women’s Suffrage Centennial Update 2020 - 2021

Exciting Plans for the Week of August 23-30, 2020

Sculpture and image courtesy of © Barbara Grygutis, LLC. Stand, the monumental sculpture by Barbara Grygutis, was unveiled in downtown Lexington, Kentucky, on August 19.

Centennial Events Challenge and Change America

NE MIGHT EASILY SPEND the week of August 23-30 in themselves to winning women’s political rights. O front of a screen of some sort that allows you to Commemorations will continue throughout this year enjoy the unprecedented number of women’s suffrage- with many new events and online attractions after August oriented events, videos, unveilings, tours, concerts, shows 26. Many groups have rescheduled events for 2021. and more. That’s unless you can’t be part of one yourself. Here we highlight the host of events around Equality Events you can’t see can often be viewed afterwards. Day that herald the long-overdue acceptance of This is a time of widespread – and widely accessible – multicultural American women into the larger story of our celebration honoring the many diverse women and men country. Suffrage is now a permanent part of our history, in every state and on the national stage who devoted one that we will recognize and celebrate into the future.

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Suffrage Centennial Events for August 23-30

4 pm - 5:30 Eastern Sunday, August 23 The ERA Project Maureen Broy Papovich performs 9 - 5 Eastern selections from her new Equality Weekend in song cycle written in honor Seneca Falls, a series of of her grandmother’s work online programs presented fighting for the Equal Rights by the Women's Rights Amendment, National Historical Park, https://www.nps.gov/bepa/ https://www.nps.gov/wori/ planyourvisit/calendar.htm planyourvisit/calendar.htm

2 - 3:30 Mountain Monday, August 24 Arizona Celebrates the 19th Amendment, Children’s digital art exhibit Special virtual celebration launches, Building the featuring music, art, Movement: America’s speakers including Youth Celebrate 100 Years Congresswoman Maxine of Women’s Suffrage, Waters and Martha Burk https://www.womensvote1 and a chance to “meet the 00.org/buildingthemoveme candidates,” nt http://azcelebrates19tham endment.com/ 6 pm Central Song Suffragettes – Live from Nashville, this all- ON THE COVER female singer-songwriter

Breaking the Bronze collective live streams a Ceiling Dedication of one-hour acoustic the monumental Stand performance from sculpture by Barbara Nashville, Grygutis in downtown https://www.songsuffragett Lexington, Kentucky, on es.com/ plus videos like August 19 is available “Time’s Up,” online. This monumental https://www.songsuffragett artwork of five, 20-foot- es.com/videos tall aluminum silhouetted

sculptures is the first August 24 - 28 public sculpture to honor historic women in the Our Story: Portraits of city. The sculptor praised Change, Ida B. Wells- suffragists’ “courage, will Barnett Mosaic Art power and tenacity.” A Installation (left), in the public celebration will be Main Hall of Union announced at a future Station in Washington date, D.C., a 25 x 40 foot https://www.lexingtonky. mosaic with thousands of gov/BTBC, archival suffrage photos, https://breakingthebronz https://www.ourstory100. eceiling.com/ com/

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Forward Into Light will bathe the National Archives and structures nationwide in purple, white and gold on August 26.

two weeks after premiere, and bridges in Tampa, also the Aquarium on the https://www.nps.gov/bepa/ Boston and Minnesota. Pier, an optometrist, major Wednesday, planyourvisit/calendar.htm restaurant, independent August 26 bookstore, jeweler, After Dark consignment shop and Equality Day Forward Into Light tourist shop as well. In honor of the centennial, https://www.womensvote1 civic and private buildings Noon - 1 Eastern 00.org/forwardintolight and landmarks such as Alice Paul: Winning Votes state capitols, skyscrapers, for Women Virtual event 12 - 1:30 pm Eastern bridges and City Halls features video premiere Toast to Tenacity will across the country will be lit with Leslie Goddard as include presentations and up in purple, white and tributes in the shadow of suffragist Alice Paul. gold. A few of the sites on Sponsored by Belmont Paul One effort, in relatively Independence Hall. This the list include the Library Women’s Equality National conservative Manhattan live-streaming and of Congress, National Monument. Video will be Beach (CA), promises not prerecorded webcast from Archives, the St. Louis available for viewing for only lighting City Hall but Vision2020 in Philadelphia Wheel, the Golden Gate Women’s Suffrage Centennial Update 2020 - 2021

[email protected] 2 pm Eastern rg and we'll post it for you! Screening of Martha Post photos of yourself Wheelock’s new dressed in white, wearing a documentary on sash, holding a sign or Pennsylvania’s Justice Bell, "marching" wherever you Finding Justice: The Untold are. Make a difference! Story of Women's Fight for https://www.womensmuseu the Vote, mca.org/suffrage-selfie https://www.womenshistory .org/finding-justice. One of two National Women’s History Museum events.

8 - 9 pm Eastern #FaceTheMusic4ERA, Songs of Unity & Action is a virtual concert and call to action spearheaded by ERA Minnesota featuring outstanding artists and

1 - 2:30 pm Eastern August 26, continued The Centennial of Henrietta Spencer Women's Suffrage Churchill, joining virtually Noted historians discuss will include well-known from England. Register at the larger story of political speakers, musical innovation, protest, racial performances and the prejudice and historical ringing of the Women’s context; the first of an Justice Bell. There will be online series by the WNDC similar toasts in other cities. Educational Foundation, https://women100.org/ the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs 7:45 am Eastern and their partners,

Monumental Women https://wndceducationalfou https://my.lwv.org/rhode- (above) Historic dedication ndation.org/ of the first statue of real island/event/centennial- women in New York City’s commemoration-19th- speakers from across the Central Park – pioneer amendment country celebrating the suffragists Elizabeth Cady Equal Rights Amendment, Stanton, Sojourner Truth All Day www.eramn.org and Susan B. Anthony – is A digital “SuffrageSelfie” to be broadcast early in the parade, organized by the Women's Museum of morning but will be available later, California in San Diego 1 - 4 pm Eastern https://monumentalwomen instead of a march, will WomensActivism.NYC .org/ honor all those who fought Story Writing Contest for our right to vote. Sponsored by the NYC

10 am Eastern Use #SuffrageSelfie and Department of Records 6 - 7 pm Eastern Rhode Island is hosting a tag @womensmuseum on and Information Services The Fight for Women’s virtual centennial program August 26th across social to help write inspiring media. Suffrage: Looking Back, originating at Alva women into history, Belmont’s Marble House. Want to participate but Marching Forward, a new https://bit.ly/2DUc3wm video produced by the Guest speaker will be Lady you don't use social media? Email #SuffrageSelfie to Massachusetts centennial Women’s Suffrage Centennial Update 2020 - 2021

followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers. Register in advance, https://www.womenshistory .org/light

4:30 - 7:30 pm Central Vote by Sandra Jones Campbell Nevertheless, We Progress, 100 Years of Women's 7 pm Pacific Rights is a high-energy 19th Amendment Grand video produced by Celebration, a special Wisconsin’s Fox Valley 19th musical presentation by Amendment Centennial No Square Theatre in Coalition. The video is Laguna Beach, CA, making its digital debut https://www.nosquare.org/ and features local voices women-s-right-to-vote

sharing suffragist history, vibrant music and tips on 9 pm Eastern how and why to vote, Women Take the Stage, https://hervoicehervoteourv a free, gala multi-ethnic ictory.com/events/lwv- concert and rally to honor appleton-womens-equality- the centennial and increase day-celebration/ votes by and for women; musicians and activist icons 8 pm Central include Gloria Steinem, Did Suffrage Matter to Dolores Huerta, Lily Tomlin Tejanas Before and After and Billy Jean King along 1920? The Case of Adela with entertainers The Chicks, Sloss-Vento, a live- Indigo Girls, Kate Pierson, August 26, continued streaming talk by Cynthia Sophia Ramos, Sweet Honey 8 pm Eastern Orozco from the Esperanza in the Rock and more, group, will debut online, Inez Milholland - Forward Peace and Justice Center in https://womentakethestage. https://suffrage100ma.org Into Light and Into Light San Antonio, org/ /join-us-for-womens- Special preview screening https://esperanzacenter.org equality-day-2020/

8 pm Eastern Marching from Suffrage to Equality Live webinar held by Turning Point Suffragist Memorial will center on the past, present and future status of women's equality, https://suffragistmemorial. org/events/marching-from- suffrage-toward-equality- webinar/ New video on White House fence, https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=o0SeTxh4Jxg&fea ture=youtu.be Women’s Suffrage Centennial Update 2020 - 2021

Late August – September

Look Up To Her: Women on Mt. Rushmore – The faces of Suffragists and Female Trailblazers from Abigail Adams to Rosa Parks will be projected next to the male presidents in late August and September. Look for live CHRISTINA KORP/LOOK UP TO HER / PROJECTION MAPPING PARTNER: QUINCE IMAGING A rendering of how Mount Rushmore will look with projections of suffragists Mabel Ping-Hua Lee stream, beside Washington and Zitkala-Sa beside Lincoln during Look Up To Her. https://lookuptoher.com/

August 26, continued throughout October, the first suffrage march in http://petalumamuseum.co America in 1908. Register m/ first, 6 - 6:30 pm Pacific https://glenparkhistory.wixs Women’s Equality Day ite.com/glenparkhistory/ev Suffrage Exhibit live ents streamed from the Thursday, August 27

Petaluma Historical Library 6 - 7:30 pm Eastern & Museum in California. 1 - 2:30 pm Eastern Youth and the Vote: Tools Gallery tours, events, Now We Can Begin: and Tactics for the Next readers theater and other 100 Years of Activism Generation programs continue Historians Dr. Martha Teachers and activists Jones and Dr. Alison Parker examine the describe online tools and organizations formed by other tactics to increase suffragists that have carried on the fight for voting rights over the following 100 years. Also, presentation of the Mary Church Terrell Centennial Award for Service, https://wndceducationalfou ndation.org/

6 - 7 pm Pacific America’s First Suffrage March and the San participation among young Francisco Women Voters, Who Led It https://wndceducationalfou The story of the California ndation.org/ Equal Suffrage Association and what is believed to be

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Social Media

Friday, August 28 Library of Congress Blog tion of equal suffrage. In we, too, will continue the Counting Down with Noon Bridgeport, Connecticut, fight to secure and protect #19Suffrage Stories "a tremendous din of the right to vote. “Go to the limit on noise” https://blogs.loc.gov/loc

In her book The Vote: factory whistles rent the /category/womens- Women’s Fierce Fight, air intermingled with the history/ Stories, virtual author Penny Coleman ringing of the church bells." stickers, animate your recounts the disappoint- There was a horn-honking posts! Follow these ment suffragists felt when automobile parade in Instagram and Twitter their decades-long victory Birmingham, Alabama, accounts on social received so little official and supporters were media to experience attention. Left with a encouraged “to wear small #19SuffrageStories: feeling of "indignant flags pinned upon their @LibraryCongress disappointment," suffrage coats” in Albuquerque. @Smithsonian leaders called for a Today, many may want @USNatArchives clamorous nationwide to recapture that excitement Make suffrage history celebration at noon on and to recreate that your own and share it August 28, 1920. clamorous celebration on its with friends. Add ten "Every owner or centennial – a pause in the new voting-inspired custodian of a bell, whistle, pandemic to remember and stickers, a suffrage sash horn, dishpan, dinner thank the indomitable or quotes to your posts. gong, bass drum or other women and their male allies "Whistles Will Blow and Bells Ring You can also find GIFs noise-making instrument" from all backgrounds who for Suffrage Today Noon," of all the stickers was called upon "to go the won the fight to enfranchise Albuquerque Morning Journal, Aug. 28, 1920, p. 4. through GIPHY. limit on noise" in celebra- women. And to resolve that

Come Clean in 2020 Pack of 12 handmade unscented Here’s to the Women, Linda Allen’s wonderful album is clear glycerin bars of suffrage flag-colored soap $28 now available as a video production, https://suffragettecity100.com/ Etsy www.lindasongs.com/Suffrage . Women’s Suffrage Centennial Update 2020 - 2021

Become a Trailblazer: Uncovering the Whole Story of Women’s Suffrage is an inspiring video that highlights the National Votes for Women Centennial Trail, which is uncovering women’s history sites Fundraiser across the United States. Activists in every state continue to add highway markers honoring XIX Centennial Bike Jerseys, designed by Tim Lane, great-great- suffragists and suffrage history. A detailed map nephew of Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, are being offered as a shows what’s included. Explore how you can fundraiser for Carrie's Girlhood Home Museum for $75. Send a get involved. check with gender and size to NNAS, 2379 Timber Avenue, Charles City, IA 50616. For credit card purchases visit https://ncwhs.org/votes-for-women-trail www.carrielane.com

You’ve seen their pictures and heard their names, now put them in context

Lucretia Mott Frederick Douglass Carrie Chapman Catt Naomi Anderson Alice Stone Blackwell Elsie Hill Anna Howard Shaw John Hyde Braly Mary Church Terrell

Winning the Vote The Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement Hailed as the “Bible” of the suffrage movement with 75 profiles and extensive coverage of the state campaigns By Robert P. J. Cooney, Jr. In collaboration with the National Women’s History Alliance

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Events Sunday, November 1 Media After August The Suffering For Suffrage Suffrage at 100: A Visual Race is a virtual event that History, New York Times These listings just hint at the variety of events in the https://www.nytimes.com/int coming months and year. eractive/2020/08/17/us/suff Check the state calendars. rage -movement-photos- history.html

Major Newspapers Friday, October 2 Check major newspapers for

recent articles and features can be done in your 10 am - 5 pm on the suffrage movement and the centennial, neighborhood, on a When Women Lost the including the New York Times (and its In Her Words professional track or even Vote: A Revolutionary Story, project), USA Today, the Washington Post, Los a treadmill. Five distances, 1776 – 1807, exhibit Angeles Times, Boston Globe and other sources. walking or running option, opens at the Museum of There are wonderful items online if you search no time limit. Challenge the American Revolution, the state centennial sites, download list from yourself to accomplish https://www.amrevmuseum https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/wp- something difficult, just like .org/exhibits/special- content/uploads/Centennial-Update-August-16- the suffragists did. The exhibits/when-women-lost- 22.pdf. event is 100% free and vote-revolutionary-story open to all. Hashtag

#SufferingForSuffrage.

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October 16 & 17 A tremendous array of creative work is now available

online, far more that what’s listed here. Monday, March 22,

2021 Conversations

Women’s Fight for the She Votes! Lynn Sherr and 5:30 - 9 pm Vote Centennial talk with Ellen Goodman co-host an Celebrating Women author Elaine Weiss and eight-part audio An entertaining evening Hillary Clinton documentary podcast on featuring musical https://www.youtube.com/ the suffrage movement, performances, celebrity watch?v=YJ_fL9HjarI https://www.shevotespodca guests and a tribute to st.com/ American women And Nothing Less – Hosts trailblazers from Vision 8 - 7 Rosario Dawson and Dramatic 2020 in Philadelphia, SHE Leads Road Rally Retta’s podcast brings Performance [email protected] On this road trip from stories left out of our Finish the Fight, a fiery, America’s Birthplace to the history books, New York Times-produced Birthplace of Women’s https://www.womensvote1 multicultural spoken word Rights, women driving race 00.org/andnothingless performance that honors cars and vintage the Heroes of the Suffrage automobiles will lead a The Magic Sash – This Movement: motorcade from seven-part children's https://www.nytimes.com/2 Philadelphia to Seneca podcast is a journey back 020/07/23/theater/finish- Falls. Follow online and in time hosted by gymnast the-fight-suffrage- retrace this early path to Aly Raisman, centennial- women’s empowerment, https://www.womensvote1 performance.html https://drexel.edu/vision20 00.org/themagicsash 20/events/calendar/ Women’s Suffrage Centennial Update 2020 - 2021

A free Educator’s Guide is available, https://women100.org/edu cation-guides/

Research

The Library of Congress holds the personal papers of suffragists Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Posters Stanton, Mary Church https://www.youtube.com/ Featuring fun cultural Terrell, Carrie Chapman Votes for Women: A watch?v=OgHdZpoepCc&f touchstones and artifacts, Catt, Anna E. Dickinson, Portrait of Persistence eature=youtu.be the exhibit looks at how the Lucy Stone, Alice Stone (above), the National community fits into different Blackwell and others. Portrait Gallery’s popular A Suffrage Centennial larger movements and Suffrage: Women Fight for exhibition, has issued a set Playlist of 90 rousing trends, to December 2020, the Vote presents selections of ten 18" x 24" thematic songs assembled by singer https://napersettlement.org that allow you to explore posters with an exhibition Joyce Rouse, /83/Exhibits the lives and stories of handbook and user guide. https://earthmama.org/her these determined leaders. Posters can be freely -story/ Petaluma‘s Participation in https://crowd.loc.gov/topic downloaded, the Women’s Suffrage s/suffrage-women-fight- https://www.sites.si.edu/s/t Song Suffragettes Follow Movement, a centennial for-the-vote/ opic/0TO1Q000000cZgK this all-female singer- Petaluma (CA) Historical WAU/votes-for-women-a- songwriter collective’s Library and Museum portrait-of-persistence acoustic performances and Suffrage Exhibit featuring videos, online events through Film and Video https://www.songsuffragett October including a gallery es.com/. tour, readers theater and War of the Roses, Women’s other programs. Fight for the Vote in The Battle for the Ballot, a www.petalumamuseum.com Tennessee video, Photography world premier of composer https://www.youtube.com/ Stacy Garrop’s 16-minute A Yellow Rose Project, watch?v=n4we0gWCcVw symphonic work cofounded by Meg Griffiths

commissioned by the and Frances Jakubek, is a Not for Ourselves Alone Cabrillo Music Festival that photographic collaboration clips from suffrage features quotes from seven of responses, reflections, historical documentary, American suffragists, and reactions to the 19th https://www.pbs.org/kenbu https://cabrillomusic.org/2 Amendment from over 100 rns/not-for-ourselves- 020-season/rising-ii/rising- women photographers alone/video ii-video-52b/ across the United States. The goal is to provide a th The 19 Amendment: A platform for image makers Woman’s Right to Vote Exhibits to gain a deeper Annenberg Center’s understanding of American award-winning video, history and culture, https://www.annenbergpub Seat at the Table https://ayellowroseproject.c licpolicycenter.org/19th- Multimedia content on 18 om/ amendment-film-womens- Pioneering Women, see right-vote/ exactly what visitors see on Published by the National Women’s History Alliance Women: Waves of Change the exhibition’s touch Music screens. © 2020 Phone (707) 636-2888 highlights women's stories [email protected] https://women100.org/sea Suffragist Musical, from Naperville, Illinois. https://nationalwomenshistoryal discussion and two songs, tatthetable/ liance.org/

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A Centennial Achievement

HerFlag Honoring the 36 States that Ratified

Artist Marilyn Artus (far left) and a host of colleagues across the country created HerFlag (above), a vibrant flag with 36 stripes, one for each state that ratified the 19th Amendment by 1920. Marilyn organized the national project herself, raised the money, traveled extensively when she could, networked, recruited and co-created a unique work of art that reflects the dreams and realities of the 2020 suffrage centennial. Signed prints are available and support is welcome, https://www.herflag.com/.

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Delightful Women’s History Performers/Speakers

The National Women’s History Alliance offers a list of dozens of women’s history performers, authors, musicians, actors, historic re-enactors, one-woman-shows, presenters, lecturers, artists, story tellers, historians, educators, entertainers, trailblazers and more at the NWHA Website under Performers/Speakers. Talented women and men, including those pictured, are fantastic resources who bring the past alive and educate as they entertain. https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/national/

Kate Campbell Stevenson

Annette Baldwin Steve Adams Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti

Dr. Daisy Nelson Century Linda Allen Anita Hawkins Nowlen

Pat Jordan Ellen Snortland Valerie diLorenzo+Amanda Jones