September 7, 2020 28 New Episodes of the “Ballot & Beyond” Podcast Researched and Recorded by Maryland Women’s Heritage Center Volunteers
BALTIMORE (September 7, 2020) - The Maryland Women’s Heritage Center (MWHC) is thrilled to announce its collaboration with Preservation Maryland in the making of a new season of “Ballot & Beyond” podcasts. Available now for streaming and reading on www.ballotandbeyond.org, “Ballot & Beyond” Season Two is a multi- media public history exhibit and podcast offering audio biographies of 28 valiant Maryland women, written and recorded by MWHC volunteers. The featured women include Maryland suffragists, MWHC’s research focus during this 2020 Year of the Woman. Also recorded are profiles of many women recognized by the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame for their significant contributions to causes including freedom, justice, and equality. They represent Maryland’s diverse cultures, and locales from the rural Eastern shore, to the mountains of Garrett County, to the streets of Baltimore. Some podcast subjects are familiar, such as Harriet Tubman, Clara Barton, Henrietta Lacks, and Senator Verda Welcome. Others have been newly uncovered as MWHC’s statewide network of researchers combed archives, diaries, family records, old newspaper clippings, suffrage histories, and museum collections.
The contributing voices heard on “Ballot & Beyond” are as distinguished and diverse as the biographies. They include a descendant of Baltimore suffragist and Jewish civic leader Sadie Jacobs Crockin; Morgan State University’s archivist; Howard County’s first and only female county executive; and noted scholars of women’s suffrage and Maryland history. Each story is the product of hours of research by MWHC’s dedicated team of historians, research volunteers, and writers. Their valuable and continuing effort has produced highway markers on the National Votes for Women Trail; a traveling exhibit of Maryland suffragists’ biographies (available to schools and organizations); articles for the MWHC website; and entries to a national online biographical dictionary of women’s suffrage.
Season Two of “Ballot & Beyond” was made possible by a Heritage Fund grant from the Maryland Historical Trust through Preservation Maryland.
“This partnership with Preservation Maryland affords us the opportunity to publicly share significant research expanding the body of knowledge about Maryland women and their valiant roles in the historic fight to achieve the right to vote,” said Diana M. Bailey, MWHC Executive Director. “Podcasts are an essential way to share Maryland women’s stories for posterity, using technology as a public history tool.”
The contributing researchers and podcast readers include Dr. Diane Weaver, Dr. Amy Rosenkrans, Dr. Pamela Young, Dr. Jean Baker, Dr. Tina Sheller, Allison Weiss, Dr. Ida Jones, Jean Thompson, Kathi Santora, Diana M. Bailey, Audrey Partington, Kalin Thomas, Christine Valeriann, Paulette Lutz, Shawn Gladden, Dan Materazzi, Judy A. Carbone, Liz Bobo, Kate Campbell Stevenson, Larzine Talley, Beverly Carter, Dr. Adele Newson-Horst, Rev. Canon Sandye A. Wilson, Dr. Kate Clifford Larson, Amanda Squires Davis, and Sally Grant.
“Ballot & Beyond” Season Two Each episode is shareable on social media from www.ballotandbeyond.org
Clara Barton Edith Houghton Hooker Lucy Gwynne Branham and Lucy Fisher Ellen Newbold La Motte Gwynne Branham Henrietta Lacks Margaret Brent “General” Edna Story Latimer Laura Byrne Nannie, Anne Delia, and Mary Melvin Lillian Reeves Crawford Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray Sadie Jacobs Crockin Mary Pickersgill Emilie Doetsch The Quaker Women of Sandy Spring: The Du Bois Circle Carolyn Hallowell Miller, Mary Bentley Elizabeth King Ellicott Thomas, Sarah T. and Rebecca Miller Madeleine Lemoyne Ellicott Mary Risteau Elizabeth Forbes Catherine Sweet Mrs. Edward H. Harris Florence and Bertha Trail Margaret Gregory Hawkins Harriet Tubman Billie Holiday Senator Verda Welcome Dr. Lillian Welsh
Maryland Women’s Heritage Center
The Maryland Women’s Heritage Center (MWHC), a 501(c) (3) non-profit, non-partisan organization, was established to preserve the past, understand the present, and shape the future by recognizing, respecting, and transmitting the experiences and contributions of Maryland women of diverse backgrounds and from all regions of the state. The Center is an outgrowth of the Maryland Women’s History Project that began in 1980 as a collaborative venture between the Maryland Commission for Women and the Maryland State Department of Education.
The mission of the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center is to achieve positive change in the lives of Marylanders by recognizing and documenting contributions of women to our social, political, and economic order, and promoting opportunities and equality for women and girls.
For more information, contact Diana M. Bailey, Executive Director, [email protected]
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