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Host a Showing of a Film The projects found in this section are great ways to Choose a film that highlights the struggles and ac- Visit a Local Museum celebrate the history of suffrage and add to the grow- complishments of the Women’s Suffrage Movement. • Women’s History of California http://womens ing database of information. You don’t need historical Partner with your local college campus theater, or museumca.org/ training to participate. There is so much history to be women’s club to show the film. Invite champions of • National Woman’s Party http://nationalwom uncovered - every effort counts. Women’s History to be part of a panel discussion. ansparty.org/ • National Voting Museum http://nvrmi.com/ Prefer a more intimate gathering? Invite your friends Visit Your Local Archives and Library and family over to view the film and use the discussion Don’t have a local museum to visit? The History questions to hold a lively discussion about Women’s Create a Temporary Museum In truth, the victory of suffrage was a hard won fight voting rights then and now. Partner with local historical societies and education- that was a culmination of actions both big and small, al institutions.to create exhibits displaying informa- that were taken by women in every city, county, and tion on the suffrage movement. The displays can be state in our country. With- housed at your local mall, library, or public entity out the courageous acts that supports women’s history. of countless women, the vote would likely never Collaborate with your local library and bookstores Author’s Corner at have been won. It’s time local bookstore/ that these nameless wom- library en receive the recognition Ask your local that they deserve. Your lo- library to create a cal archive is a great place to discover these women. display that high- Viewing Guide with discussion questions: lights women’s Share Your Discoveries http://ymiclassroom.com/wp-content/up- suffrage How To loads/2015/10/suffragette_kit.pdf for an entire month. • Visit your local archives. • Share your vision with the archives' director and Make It a Local Event Image from http://librarianondisplay.blogspot. staff. They are a great resource. Parades com/2015/03/march-she-believed-she-could-so-she- • Think outside the box; review census data, read The History did.html newspaper articles, look in phone books, scan images. March 3, 1913, organized a parade for suf- Design a Mural • Share your discoveries and the important frage through Washington D.C., one day before the locations in your town with city officials and histori- Work with your local community members, schools, inauguration of President . The pa- cal societies. rade hosted 8,000 participants, nine marching bands, and artist to create a mural that honors the centen- 20 floats, and a performance in front of the Treasury nial of the vote. Create a map of your local suffrage sites. Building. As the marchers approached Pennsylvania • You may want to partner with local schools, histori- Avenue, they were blocked by thousands of spectators cal societies, women’s groups, and tourism boards who were mostly men. The police did not intervene to identify key locations where where rallies, teas, and many marchers were assaulted. Over 100 march- and demonstrations were held in your town. ers were hospitalized. The violent assault of the march- • Once you’ve identified these important, and likely ers received national attention and gained support for unknown locations construct a visual representation the movement. of spots to visit. • Distribute copies of the map through bookstores, How To local libraries, and other businesses that would be • Begin today interested. • Don't worry about starting small • Post it online. • Create a local Centennial Coalition • Identify the best time of year, ie. March, Memorial Girls Scouts Possible Funding Sources • Local Banks Day, Equality Day, etc. The Girl Scouts offers several opportunities to earn • Identify organizations that support Women's History • Local Newspaper a badge related to Women’s History. For more infor- • Bookstore, local business, state libraries, historical • Contact your local planning committee for input mation for your Girl Scout troop or to collaborate • Build on your momentum societies with the Girl Scouts on a project visit https://www. • Sell advertisements on the back of the map girlscouts.org • Tourism Board A great way to get the community involved is to work with your historical society, tourism board, and local volunteers to give tours of your local suffrage sites. Historical Societies Ask what they have planned for the 2020 Centen- nial. Recruit their participation in a coalition.

Everyday Historians Keep Informed and Stay Involved The 2020 Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative The National Women’s History Project really started (WVCI) is the central organizing and information as an "everyday historian” project where supporters website for programs, projects, and activities for traveled throughout the nation uncovering and re- commemorating the Women's Suffrage Centen- For more step-by-step directions try this link: discovering photographs, documents, and historical nial, which will provide information and resources https://festivalsandevents.com/festival-planning/ artifacts that expanded our understanding of the to educate the public on the legal and social Parades.shtml historical impact of women. We encourage you to advances resulting from the amendment, and to continue this legacy by becoming an "everyday his- Short on Time? stimulate dialogue to address the ongoing fight torian." Contribute findings and projects to the Votes For your local parade, create a Women’s Suffrage float for women’s rights. https://www.2020centennial. for Women National Trail. www.ncwhs.org/index. and decorate with suffrage colors and dress like iconic org/about suffragists. php/projects/trails/293-votes-for-women-trail 14 nwhp.org National Women's History Project

Continued from Page 11 South Carolina Annette Finnigan Ellen Glasgow Sarah Pugh Mary Eleanor Brackenridge Mary Johnston Margaretta Forten Never voted www.tshaonline.org/handbook/on- Mary Munford Wilmer Atkinson Rejected ratification January line/articles/viw01 Jane Porter Barrett Eliza Turner 28, 1920 encyclopediavirginia.org/Woman_Suf- Lucy Anthony Ratified July 1, 1969 frage_in_Virginia Woman Suffrage James Mott in Virginia Robert Purvis Angelina Grimke Anita Politzer Hanna Whitall Smith Became a state with equal Virginia Durant Young www.jstor.org/ suffrage 1896 Margaret Vale (Mrs. George stable/1011990?seq=1#page_scan_ Ratified October 2, 1919 tab_contents Howe) Mrs. John Gary Evans Emmeline B. Wells Hannah Hemphill Coleman Emily S. Richards Harriet Powe Lynch Sarah M. Kimball Mrs. E. S. Durant Clarissa Smith Williams Charlotta Rollin Elizabeth A. Hayward Helen E. Vaughan Mrs. Clesson S. Kinney Sarah Grimke Hannah Lapish Mary Shields Pyle Susan Pringle Frost Lydia Alder www.statehousereport. Beulah Storrs Lewis com/2015/02/13/womens-suffrage-in- Eliza R. Snow south-carolina/ www.historytogo.utah.gov/utah_ chapters/statehood_and_the_pro- Never voted gressive_era/womenssuffrageinutah. South Dakota Presidential Suffrage 1919 html Ratified August 18, 1920 Defeated 1890, 1898, 1910, Emma Smith DeVoe 1914, 1916 Sara Algeo Passed 1918 Catherine Talty Kenny Ratified December 4, 1919 Harry T. Burn Washington J. Frankie Pierce Rhode Island Anna R. Simmons Emma A. Cramer Eleanore McCormack Defeated 1889, 1898 Defeated 1887 Lydia B. Johnson Sara Barnwell Elliott Passed 1910 Presidential Suffrage 1917 Mary Shields Pyle Lizzie Crozier-French Ratified March 22, 1920 Ratified January 6, 1920 Emma deVoe Elizabeth Avery Meriwether Bertha Knight Landes Mildred Glines Philena Everett Johnson Lide Meriwether Cora Smith Eaton Bertha Higgins Della Robinson King Katherine Burch Warner Emma Smith DeVoe Elizabeth Buffum Chace Rose Bower Adella Parker www.sdhspress.com/journal/ Sara Algeo www.tennesseeencyclopedia.net/ Margaret Bayne Annie Peck south-dakota-history-13-3/woman- entry.php?rec=1528 May Arkwright Hutton Sophia Little suffrage-in-south-dakota-the-final- Mrs. Homer M. Hill Esther Abelson decade-1911-1920/vol-13-no-3- Missouri Hanna Mary E. Jackson woman-suffrage-in-south-dakota.pdf" www.washingtonhistory.org/research/ Frances H. Whipple \t "_blank" sdhspress.com whc/milestones/suffrage/ Paulina Wright Davis www.rihs.org/mssinv/mss021.htm Emmeline B. Wells

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Never voted Ratified February 8, 1921 Clarina Nichols Lucinda Stone Lon J. C. Daniels Fanny B. Fletcher Amanda Seaver Grace Sherwood Laura Moore Anne Dallas Dudley Carolyn Scott Annette W. Parmelee Texas www.vermonthistory.org/research/ Suffagists leaflet men on a streetcar, probably in New Jersey in 1915. research-resources-online/green- May Arkwright Hutton mountain-chronicles/women-get-the- Never voted From the 1912 suffrage campaign in Kansas Passed Primary Suffrage 1918 vote-1920 Defeated 1919 West Virginia he treasurer reported $37.50 received as membership fees, Ratified June 28, 1919 Virginia Tand $100, as a gift from Mrs. Catt. This was a small sum to Christia Adair begin a campaign for about 500,000 votes, but all hearts were Jane McCallum Defeated 1916 Ratified March 10, 1920 filled with courage. . . . Jovita Idar de Juarez Never voted Harriet B. Jones “With votes as with most of the dollars – they were not coming Rejected ratification February unsought, and in order to make sure of them they must be looked Helen Moore Lenna Lowe Yost 12, 1920 Jessie G. Manley for in their own habitat. This the women did on horseback, in Annette Finnigan Ratified February 21, 1952 Marie Ames wagons, carriages, steam cars and automobiles. They were found Elizabeth Finnigan Elizabeth Herndon Potter Addie Waites Hunton Mrs. John L. Ruhl in the shops, offices and stores, at the fairs, conventions and J. H. Kirkpatrick Lila Meade Valentine Jesse A. Blotch Chautauquas, at the theater and the circus, on the farms and the Marie B. Fenwick Maud Jamison highways, at the fireside and in the streets.” Kate Hunter Anna Whitehead Bodeker – The History of Woman Suffrage, 6/200 Edith Hinkle League Adele Clark How Women Won the Vote nwhp.org 15

Ada James Washington D.C. Alaska Hawaii Belle Case LaFollette Carrie Horton Passed 1913 Became a state with equal Fola LaFollette Abby Scott Baker Became a state with equal suffrage, 1959 Gwendolen Brown Willis Belva Lockwood suffrage, 1959 Rosalie Keli’inoi Coralie Franklin Cook Wilhelmina Widemann Dowsett Mathilde Franziska Anneke Daisy Lampkin Emma Nawahi Olympia Brown Ellen Spencer Mussey Emma Ahuena Taylor Emma Bascom Frederick Douglass Mrs. Harry Baldwin Meta Berger Helen Hamilton Gardener Emma Metcalf Beckley Nakuina Marion Dudley Josephine Bruce www.angelfire.com/hi2/hawaiiansov- Theodora Winton Youmans ereignty/HanifinCitizen2001draft.html digicoll.library.wisc.edu/WIReader/ WER0124-1.html

Wyoming Beulah Boyd Ritchie

Became a state with equal Eudora Ramsey suffrage 1890 Flora Williams Ratified January 27, 1920 Gale Eibert Beulah Boyd Ritchie Louisa Swain Irene Bullard Amalia Post Helen Brandeburg www.wvculture.org/history/jour- Theresa Jenkins William Bright nal_wvh/wvh49-8.html Jesse A. Black John Campbell Esther Hobart Morris Arthur Glendinning Shoup Mary Atkinson www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/ Earnest B. Collins Nannie Helen Burroughs Jessie Bloom right-choice-wrong-reasons-- Jeannette Drury Clark Defeated 1912 women-win-right-vote Charlotte Forten, Sr. www.akhistorycourse.org/governing- Presidential Suffrage 1919 alaska/the-territory-of-alaska Ratified June 10, 1919 Nannie Helen Burroughs Minnie & Jack Dowsett Nina Evans Allender Sara Andrews Spencer

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NEW YORK The Project is preparing centennial resources and a North Dakota Continued from Page 5 digital map of suffrage sites with the National Votes for Women Trail. Contact Randolph Hollingsworth at the The Women's Network will build some of its 2020 The NYC Parks Department has approved our statue of University of Kentucky at [email protected]. See more at: programming through its popular Feminist First Fridays, suffrage pioneers Stanton and Anthony for location in http://networks.h-net.org/kywomansuffrage. which happen monthly at eight locations around the Central Park. Presently, the Statue Fund is focusing on state. These groups plan to purchase children's books a major fundraising drive to match the $500,000 Chal- about suffrage and schedule readings at local elementary lenge Grant from New York Life Insurance Company. schools, after which the books will be donated to the Access our Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram pages as school libraries. www.ndwomen.org. well media reports on our project from our website: www.monumentalwomen.org.

The and Susan B. Anthony Woman Suffrage Movement Monument will honor all Maine those responsible for the largest nonviolent revolution in American history. As part of the design, the statue The Maine State Museum will open an exhibit on will include the names of other women whose work Maine's ratification of the 19th Amendment in March was invaluable to winning the vote. A major education- 2019, and a bill will soon be introduced to establish a al campaign will begin with the unveiling on August commission to coordinate Maine's suffrage centennial Members of the Frankfort, Kentucky, Women Suffrage 26, 2020 to tell the complete, compelling, and complex celebrations. Already, supporters are encouraging the Centennial Celebration Organization produced “Women & women’s suffrage story. Maine Humanities Council to target small grants toward the Vote: The Long Path to the Goal” in September, 2017. helping historical societies and libraries plan 2020 activities.

Kentucky Anne Gass, one of several descendants who have South Dakota written about their suffragist ancestors, does author The Kentucky Woman Suffrage Project (KWSP) talks on her book, Voting Down the Rose: for Woman is leading the 2020 state-wide effort with parades, The Rapid City AAUW plans to "soft launch" its 2020 Suffrage. Anne, who is running for state representa- exhibits, reenactments, monuments, documentaries, programming in March 2019 with a Sally Roesch Wag- tive in 2018, reports that, “Maine's a big state with a plays and scholarly conferences all in the works for ner talk at the local Humanities Festival of Books. The relatively small population (1.3 million) and not a lot of 2019 and 2020. The website, www.kentuckywoman- official kickoff will follow in December with a celebra- suffrage awareness. So we're doing the best we can with suffrageproject.org, serves as a clearing house for local tion of the state's ratification of the 19th Amendment. few resources.” Anne also does suffrage presentations and statewide suffrage events. KWSP also uses social A full range of activities are being scheduled, with a and promotes a Women's History Speakers Bureau to media to connect and inform people: facebook.com/ second major commemoration set for August 26, 2020. bring this story to high school students. Contact her at KYwomansuffrage and Twitter @kywomansuffrage. [email protected], and visit www.florencebrook- swhitehouse.com. How Women Won the Vote nwhp.org 17

Tennessee overseeing the updating of resources developed origi- nally for their state suffrage centennial. The Washing- Women in Tennessee have been active for years and ton State Archives has updated a poster created for that have set a high bar for the rest of the nation. The centennial. Visit http://www.washingtonhistory.org/ Tennessee Woman Suffrage Centennial Collabora- research/whc/ tive has assembled an impressive list of Collaborative Partners and is preparing for the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote by creating resources, planning

AZ Celebrates the 19th Amendment is a non-profit organization dedicated to honoring the women of the suffrage, feminist and civil rights movements, and inspiring women to get involved in the political process and leadership roles. Unveiling the Hyattsville, MD, suffrage highway marker. AZ Celebrates the 19th Amendment hosts a grand celebration event every year on Equality Day, August Minnesota 26th. Dedicated committee members put together a program of well-known speakers, highlight women who The Minnesota , the Minne- are running for office and elected officials with a Parade sota Women’s Consortium, and Zeta Phi Beta are meet- of Runners, and provide tabling, networking, music and ing with legislators about submitting a bill establishing a dessert reception. a Minnesota state commission. A group of volunteers is also focused on raising awareness of the state’s ratifica- tion centennial in September 2019. Minnesota was the th events and a teacher’s workshop, honoring their state’s 15 state to ratify, passing the legislation in a special history, and erecting statues of notable suffragists, http:// session on September 8, 1919. Contact Tom Mortenson www.mtsuhistpres.org/tennessee-woman-suffrage- at [email protected]. centennial-collaborative. A privately funded Tennessee Woman Suffrage Monument was unveiled on August 26, 2016, in Nashville’s Centennial Park, tnsuffragemon- ument.org, and ten years earlier, the Suffrage Coalition Montana erected another life-size, bronze statue featuring three Tennessee suffragists at Market Square Mall. Legislator Montana Women’s History offers great resources Harry Burn and his mother Febb are next to be honored including an idea sheet on how to celebrate women’s with a statue at Market Square in Knoxville, http://suf- history in your state. Women’s History Matters is a fragecoalition.org/burn-memorial. project of the Montana Historical Association. http:// montanawomenshistory.org/how-to-celebrate/.

The event has grown to over 600+ attendees in only Illinois three years and members are excited to be working toward an epic 100th Anniversary Event in 2020. Cel- ebrate with your friends and Arkansas representatives In Illinois, several projects are underway for the 2020 on August 26th. Suffrage Anniversary. The Evanston Women’s History Project, House Museum, and Shore- Visit AZCelebrates19thAmendment on Facebook front Legacy Center have created the first annual Tour Evanston Women’s History Map. The 2018 map will highlight fifteen women’s history sites throughout Evan-

ston and will provide a fun, informative and relevant summer activity for self-guided walking, biking and Pennsylvania driving tours.

Maryland Researchers are also working on documenting Illinois women who were involved with the National American Women legislators (above) in created the Woman Suffrage Association for the Women and Social Commission on the Commemoration of the 100th Movements website, and are collecting site-specific Anniversary of the Passage of the 19th Amendment information for the National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites' Votes for Women Trail. We have also to the U.S. Constitution in 2013 to commemorate the Vision 2020 is a national women’s equality coalition formed a committee with the League of Women Voters events that occurred in Maryland. Members and volun- operating out of Drexel University in . of Illinois to begin planning for a statewide commemo- teers have since inventoried suffrage sites, developed Throughout the suffrage centennial year, Vision 2020 ration of the anniversary that will include many other a strategy to encourage tourism, and fostered collabo- will host Women 100 to illuminate the historical contri- partners. Visit http://evanstonwomen.org. ration between federal, state, county and municipal butions of women and set the agenda for the 21st cen- organizations around the centennial. tury. The centennial will be celebrated through several ______events in Philadelphia and beyond in 2020, including: On March 3, 2018, Maryland unveiled a new high- way marker which recognizes the women from across Washington • An interactive women’s history exhibit the nation to Congress who gathered in Hyattsville on July 31, 1913. Filling 60 automobiles, suffragists mo- The Washington state legislature has just created a • A caravan to transport a copy of the Declaration of tored to the capital and delivered petitions demanding Women's Commission to prepare for the 2020 centen- Sentiments from Seneca Falls, New York, to Phila- the immediate action to the Senate. nial. The Washington Women’s History Consortium is delphia, Pennsylvania 18 nwhp.org National Women's History Project

• A voting competition among the states to turn out a passage of the 19th Amendment. It contains short articles record number of women in the 2020 national elec on various aspects of the Suffrage Movement, biogra- tions, plus phies of key figures, guiding questions, lesson plans, and • Forums and panel discussions, concerts, art exhibi primary sources. Visit CrusadeForTheVote.org. Addi- tions and more. tional resources will be added. Every year, Vision 2020 hosts a National Congress The NWHM also sponsored a nationwide study involving delegates and allies from every state, a Toast to find out what teachers are teaching. Now, they are to Tenacity on Women’s Equality Day, and a HERstory preparing helpful student/teacher resources to increase scavenger hunt that inspires girls and boys to find the visibility of women in the classrooms. Learn more at underrepresented stories of women. http://drexel.edu/ www.womenshistory.org/social-studies-standards. The vision2020/ and https://equalityinsight.wordpress.com/. NWHM is also launching a feasibility study for an Vision2020 has also posted a Educator’s Guide online to innovative suffrage traveling multimedia exhibit using help K-12 educators address women’s equality. augmented reality technology to inspire students and young adults. Learn more at www.womenshistory.org/ suffrage-centennial-traveling-exhibit.

The One Woman, One Vote Film Festival will cel- Missouri ebrate the Centennial of American women winning the right to vote and the power of each woman's voice to The Missouri History Museum will feature a 2020 National suffrage leader Rev. Anna elevate the voices of all. A coalition of women in the exhibit titled "We Demand: Groundbreaking St. Louis Howard Shaw, National Portrait Gallery film industry is planning the festival to showcase Women" from April 4, 2020-May 9, 2021. The League of Women Voters and Public Library in St. Louis, Mis- souri, restaged the great “walkless” parade in September The Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Mon- 2016. The commemoration featured a parade, awards ument, nps.gov/bepa/index.htm, is the closest thing yet and a Celebrate the Vote Festival, www.celebratethev- to a museum on American suffragists, complete with otefestival.com. marble busts, paintings, and historic heirlooms. Most belong to the National Woman’s Party, www.Nation- alWomansParty.org, formed during the suffrage move- ment and housed in the same building. In May 2018, the NWP started a Centennial Book Michigan Talk Series in partnership with East City Bookshop. The series will offer talks by women’s equality authors bi- Amy Elliott Bragg is visiting the graves of Michigan monthly and will also announce a big event around June women who fought for voting rights. Blog: nighttrain- 2019, so keep in touch. todetroit.com/2016/11/23/two-weeks-nearly-40-suffrag- The NWP and the National Park Service produced an ists-later/ Activity Book on How to Be a Junior Suffragist: www. nps.gov/nama/learn/kidsyouth/upload/BEPA_Junior_ Suffragist_Book.pdf.

The National Portrait Gallery is creating an exhibi- documentaries, features, and new media about women's tion, “Votes for Women: An American Awakening, rights and influence in politics, business, arts, culture, 1840-1920,” which will be on view in Washington, science, and more. The Festival will launch in March D.C. from March 1, 2019 to January 5, 2020. A compre- 2020 in Washington, D.C and selected films will travel hensive history of the American Suffrage Movement, nationwide. the exhibition will feature approximately 105 objects including portraits of the influential leaders along with significant ephemeral culture such as suffrage posters, The Congressional Commission formed to study the banners, photographs, postcards and more. The exhibi- potential for an American Museum for Women’s His- tion will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue tory in 2016 called for the creation of a pan-institutional featuring scholarly essays. Smithsonian Women’s History Initiative. The idea is to hire and place women’s history curators in key muse- ums throughout the Smithsonian’s family of museums The Newseum, also in the capital, has created an online and support exhibits showcasing American women’s exhibit utilizing their historic newspaper collection en- contributions to our country’s story. The goal of the titled, “Women, Their Rights and Nothing Less: The First Initiative is to build momentum and grassroots support Amendment and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, new- for constructing a permanent museum in a prominent seumed.org/collection/womens-suffrage-edcollection. location in the Capital. https://support.si.edu/site/SPa- Washington D.C. geNavigator/womenshistory.html/womenshistory.

The capital is paying attention to the upcoming cente- Non-governmental organizations are also laying plans nial, with representatives of federal institutions already to recognize this historic anniversary. Stay up to date planning and meeting together. Institutions including the with the League of Women Voters, lwv.org, American National Archives archives.gov, Library of Congress Association of University Women, aauw.org, and other loc.gov, National Portrait Gallery npg.si.edu, National longstanding and newly formed groups focused on Discover American Women’s History Park Service nps.gov, the Smithsonian americanhistory. women as well as those focused on American history, si.edu/ and others are developing plans for displays and democracy and the Constitution. “Discover American Women’s History Online” is exhibitions related to the suffrage centennial. Check out a fabulous resource on suffrage and many other top- their individual websites for updates. ics maintained by Ken Middleton at Middle Tennessee In addition, institutions like the Library of Con- The National Women’s History Museum, www.nwhm. State University's Walker Library. Includes excellent gress and the National Archives have excellent online org, has created an educational online resource center links to a wide variety of collections. digital.mtsu.edu/ resources available including original documents, lesson that highlights key aspects of how women won the right cdm/search/collection/women/searchterm/suffrage/ plans, photographs, and exhibits on the women’s rights to vote. “Crusade for the Vote” examines the women’s mode/all/order/nosort/page/1. movement. right movement from the early Republic era through the