Equality Day is August 26 March is Women's History Month NATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY ALLIANCE Women Win the Vote Before1920 Celebrating the Centennial of Women's Suffrage 1920 & Beyond

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HROUGHOUT 2019 and 2020, Americans will Tcelebrate the centennial of the extension of the right to vote to women. When Congress passed the 19th Amendment in 1919, and 36 states ratified it by August 1920, women’s right to vote was enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. Now there are local, state and national centennial celebrations in the works including shows and parades, parties and plays, films

© Ann Altman and performers, teas and more. Learn more, get involved, enjoy the activities, and recognize as never Centennial Events Planned in before that women’s hard fought achievements are an important part Communities Across the Country of American history. OR MORE THAN a year, women amendment in June 2019, some states Inside This Issue: throughout the country have been have been commemorating their Fmeeting, planning and organizing legislature’s ratification 100 years ago Great Resources for the 2020 centennial of women with official proclamations, historical winning the right to vote. The focal reenactments, exhibits, events and more. Tahesha Way, New Jersey Secretary of 100 Suffragists point is passage of the 19th Amendment, There is a wealth of material available State, at the Alice Paul Institute during a Spring 2019 press conference on state African American celebrated on Equality Day, August 26, here and online which will help you stay suffrage centennial plans. Suffragists 2020. up to date. State centennial commissions After Congress observed the and other groups are leading the way. is a cause for celebration all year long – Nationwide Events

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Family, Friends & the Suffrage Centennial

uffragists were a positive force in Taking power has always been a bold The suffrage movement involved fami- voters in New York, California and eleven American life for more than seven proposition, and suffragists reached their lies from countless backgrounds, and other states actually approved it. In 1920, Sdecades before 1920 because they goal throughout the country by boldly what united these women – literally from after the overwhelmingly male Congress continuously spoke out for their democrat- asserting their rights then recruiting allies, around the world – was their quest for and 36 state legislatures approved it, the ic rights. Their continual campaigns were building coalitions, converting opponents, freedom and equality. It is because so 19th Amendment was ratified and rightly inspired by both a deep love of democracy winning elections and finally convincing many American men and women at the hailed as truly a mutual victory and the courage to confront the forces that stood against them. 1920 and Beyond

Throughout their long and difficult Because the federal government did not struggle for their own civil rights, suffrag- fully enforce the 19th Amendment, and ists were satirized, laughed at, divided, some states did not embrace its clear pur- attacked, libeled, lied to and callously dis- pose of political equality, we particularly missed. That they persevered, particularly want to honor those heroic multicultural without violent reaction, is a testament to women who kept at it after 1920 and went their enduring strength and faith. on to win enfranchisement and champion civil rights and community development In contrast to their public treatment, how- over the following decades. ever, these activists – who were grand- mothers, mothers, aunts, sisters, daugh- This centennial year offers us the perfect ters, cousins and close friends – were a opportunity to proudly recognize the point of pride and a source of inspiration women from all cultural backgrounds – in many families. Harriet Tubman was family members, neighbors and distant devoted to – and heralded by – her family lawmakers of the justice of their cause. time did not agree with them that the ancestors – who laid the groundwork for members. Susan B. Anthony’s extended women’s suffrage movement was so dif- the great social changes that followed. family adored her. The same was true And, of course, they did all this on their ficult, and so essential. The values they championed – building for countless suffragists from all back- own with little backing from wealthy community, reducing violence, giving grounds. Those who knew them knew men, businesses or politicians. They Fathers, Sons, Brothers, everyone a voice and being fair – were they were heroes – brave and visionary did it, simply, with the support of their Husbands and Friends the impetus for many to join the efforts women working for a better life, espe- families and friends. As many suffragists to eliminate racism, establish justice and cially for women. have testified, they couldn’t have done it Surprising to some, many of suffragists’ defend our democracy that continue today. without them. Parents, spouses, children strongest supporters were their husbands, Part of a Family and others played a vital role in the lives fathers, brothers, uncles or other men. So, in addition to all the ideas listed in this of generations of activists. The faith and There were men throughout the country issue, we want to suggest planning events Honoring these women as members of support of their loved ones strengthened who were suffragists and lent their support families love, like anniversary or block families and communities offers a richer these women’s sense of purpose and to advancing women’s cause. Showing parties, picnics, church and civic gather- understanding of the nature and impact personal power. For many, their churches family influence, many young female suf- ings, and reunions as additional ways to of their movement on our personal lives. played a similar role fostering community fragists were inspired to take action in the recognize women’s centennial. We can all American suffragists were individual support and offering encouragement as political arena because their fathers were celebrate the real life nature of women’s women with names and homes and his- well as a platform for action. politically active. concerns, the importance of support from tories that we can discover, and perhaps family and friends, and the enormous emulate. Celebrating their lives and Suffragists’ views were shaped by family It is a testimony to their democratic values impact that women in the home, in the achievements, locally or in their state, experiences and strong personalities as that a large number of American men community, and in government have had offers a way to put politics aside and focus much as by social norms and legal restric- consistently supported women’s cause. on our nation. on how women throughout the country not tions. Each woman’s drive for freedom There were more than 50 electoral cam- only worked and raised families but also was personal. Each found her own voice paigns and in every one, a large number Winning the 19th Amendment is a monu- crafted a successful plan to win their own and her own courage. of men, often above 40%, voted in favor mental achievement to celebrate together independence. of equal suffrage. A majority of male all year long.

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What's Happening in Your State? Centennial Celebrations Underway Nationwide

ver the past few years, residents of many states have organized Owomen’s suffrage centennial organizations, occasionally with state funds. These groups are the hubs of planning in each state with events, activities, projects including statues and highway markers, and many other efforts. Their websites are rich with content – history, information, calendars, biographical profiles, research, teacher guides, curriculum, products and much more. Spend some time at each one and you’ll be surprised at what you find. And this is only part of what’s happening. The experiences and conditions of Black and minority women are being examined and honored as never before. There has never been such activity at the state and local levels and it shows how the program, silent auction and more at the breadth and depth of the three-generation, Casa Gardens on Sept. 24, 2019. Muffy national women’s suffrage movement is Francke, [email protected]. finally being recognized. The Los Altos History Museum, https:// Check for additional state www.losaltoshistory.org/, is mounting organizations at www.2020centennial.org an exhibition to Nov. 8, 2020 that will and https://www.womensvote100.org. tell stories of local women and men who fought for equality and advances in ______education, high tech, and labor. The Suffrage Circle of Women, a group of women in Long Beach, is planning events, performances and educational programs beginning in August 2019. www.LBSuffrage100.com.

Wisconsin commemorated the ratification of the 19th Amendment at a gala Women’s Suffrage Centennial Celebration in the The AAUW Thousand Oaks is state Capitol on June 10, 2019. Porsche Carmon sang the National Anthem at the event sponsored by the state Historical planning a Suffrage Tea for next March Society and Centennial Commission and attended by the governor and state representatives. (Photo by Katherine Perreth) and will be featuring a play by California suffragist Selina Solomons and a musical program. jeanette hosek jhosek@ Arkansas In April 2019, recognizing the upcoming roadrunner.com centennial, the Los Angeles Board of Come to a Sacramento River Cats The Arkansas Women’s Suffrage Education voted unanimously to call for home game against the Albuquerque Centennial Project, https://ualrexhibits. a special celebration, “Remembering Isotopes on Aug. 19, 2019, and celebrate org/suffrage/, is planning events and Women’s Suffrage Day,” on Aug. 18, Women Power at the Ballpark. Join Arizona offering resources and online exhibits, 2020. They encourage school social the Capital Women’s Campaign as they https://ualrexhibits.org/suffrage/virtual- studies programs to teach suffrage history pay tribute to the 99thanniversary of AZ Celebrates the 19th Amendment, exhibit/. and women’s leadership. the 19th amendment. Follow them on www.azwomenshistoryalliance.org/, is The Renaissance Society (RP), Facebook. spearheaded by the Arizona Women’s the life-long learning organization in Also in the Sacramento area, a Pre- History Alliance including the Arizona Sacramento, is part of a 19th Amendment Centennial Tea will be held on Aug. 24, Women’s Hall of Fame, http://azwhf. Centennial Celebration Committee. Since 2019, contact [email protected]. org, and the Arizona Women’s Heritage the mothers of many members were born when they had no voice in government, Trail, http://www.womensheritagetrail. org. A Woman Suffrage Symposium they are passionate about passing this with guest speakers and lectures is being story of perseverance, hope and sacrifice organized for 2020. to younger generations. A kick-off They are also raising funds for the event will include the Hear My Voice first statue of an Arizona woman, state program from the Living Voices company, suffrage leader Frances Willard Munds, http://www.livingvoices.org/suff/suff. to be dedicated on Nov. 5, 2020. Other html, High Tea, a silent auction and a Arizona suffragists will be credited and surprise historical figure. The Society the voting rights of American Indian also encourages seminar leaders to women, Latinas, and other minority provide content on the 19th Amendment groups will be addressed. California and other aspects of our democracy. Muffy Francke, [email protected], A juried exhibit of female artists will Pasadena Celebrates 2020 is #TakeYourDaughterToThePolls open at the Herberger Gallery in Phoenix CA 2020 Women’s Suffrage Project, planning a suffrage centennial float In Sacramento, the RS 19th in March 2020. www.cawomenssuffrageproject.org, is for the New Year’s Day Rose Bowl Amendment Centennial Committee is Arizona Questers Women’s Suffrage making plans and has produced centennial Parade. They have launched an extensive planning a High Tea with a Living Voices Centennial Project, http://azquesters.org/ pins and poppy seed packets. campaign to raise funds for the float,

4 nwhanews.org National Women's History Alliance whose theme is “Women Win the Vote – Sarasota County has a committee Indiana on Aug. 13-15 in Wichita, State Fair Years of Hope, Years of Courage.” The including members of the Florida Studio booth in Sept. and more, http://lwvk. group will be holding events, exhibits, Theater planning activities like parades, Indiana Suffrage 100, www. org/celebrating-100-years. Facebook, educational presentations and parties to school programs and a play that can IndianaSuffrage100.org, offers teachers Centennial.Celebration.19th.Amendment, seek both local and national contributions. serve as models for county schools, materials, a program toolkit, speakers and Instagram: @kansassuffragists Additional events, exhibits, shows and The Suffragist Project, https://www. traveling exhibits under the theme, “More more are planned for Pasadena and the floridastudiotheatre.org/suffragist-project Than a Vote.” Los Angeles area in 2020 with emphasis or Sonia Fuentes, [email protected]. on voting, https://pasadenacelebrates2020. The Woman’s Club of Coconut org/ Grove, founded 1891, is planning events A Suffrage Centennial Networking including an afternoon celebration Conference is being hosted in San Diego on Nov. 2, 2020 the anniversary of by the National Women’s History Alliance eight million women turning out to January 9-12, 2020. Contact https:// vote for the first time. Enjoy a movie, Iowa nwhanews.org. speaker and wider discussion. https:// womansclubofcoconutgrove.com/. Iowa’s 19th Amendment Centennial Project, https://19th-amendment- Georgia centennial.org/, is planning presentations, performances, activities and educational Any Great Change: The Centennial of programs under the slogan, “Hard Won. the 19th Amendment, exhibition at Emily Not Done.” The site offers resources for C. MacDougald and daughter Emily educators, digital collections, a timeline, Kentucky Inman’s Swan House, Aug 16, 2019 - Jan. profiles and more. The kickoff is on Feb. 31, 2021, 14 at the Carrie Chapman Catt Center at The Kentucky Woman www.atlantahistorycenter.com/explore/ Iowa State University, https://cattcenter. Suffrage Project, https:// exhibitions iastate.edu/. Closing luncheon at the kentuckywomansuffrageproject.org/ Coralville Marriott Oct. 9, 2020. KyWomanSuffrage at H-Kentucky and networks.h-net.org/h- kentucky, includes profiles, teaching Colorado resources, timelines, a bibliography, blog, and sites on the Votes for Women Trail. The Women’s Vote Centennial Recently, the Project dedicated a Commission, https://www. historycolorado.org/2020-womens-vote- centennial-colorado, will engage residents and tell the stories of Colorado women. Women Suffrage Centennial, Southern Colorado, http:// womensuffragecentennialsouthern colorado.org/, offers research, events Idaho and the play “They Persisted” by Judy E. Gaughan. Idaho Women 100, www. One exciting project is the creation of Artists are being encouraged IdahoWomen100.com, great site includes a replica of the Suffrage Wagon, modeled to submit work for an exhibit next resources, links, a toolkit and more. on Lucy Stone’s, used during the late February at the Loveland Museum Idaho Women in Leadership, suffrage campaigns. The wagon will tour sponsored by 2020 Women and the Vote, https://www.i-wil.com/shop, has a in 2020 and be on exhibit during the Iowa www.2020WomenandtheVote.com. Commemorative Medallion honoring Pomeroy Highway Marker to Susan Look State Fair in August. Deadline is August 18. Emma Edwards Green, the only woman to Avery, abolitionist and staunch suffragist Nancy Hill Cobb, a University design a state seal. who spoke in Chicago for “Justice to the of Northern Iowa music professor, is Negro.” composing music for a new musical, “The Florida Suffragists,” set during the final push for The Frazier Kentucky History th the 19 Amendment. Premieres June 5, Museum and partners offer a fine AAUW Flagler is developing a series of 6 and 7 at the Performing Arts Center in events and identifying significant Flagler “shared curriculum” on the suffrage Cedar Falls. movement for educators, “What is a suffragists and their descendants, https:// Iowa Public Television is producing a flaglercounty-fl.aauw.net/ Vote Worth? A Resource Guide for documentary about Carrie Catt for release Teaching and Learning Engaged Civics,” The Women’s Foundation of Collier in 2020. County will hold its Power of the Purse http://whatisavoteworth.org. In 2020, an Also check Carrie Chapman Catt’s extensive exhibit at the Frazier, Kentucky 2020 Centennial Event on Dec. 6, 2019 in girlhood home, http://catt.org/. Naples featuring a “Suffrage Roll Call” Women Vote, will cover the movement with local women’s organizations, https:// through the 55th anniversary of 1965 wfcollier.org/powerofthepurse/, Illinois Voting Rights Act, https://fraziermuseum. The Villages, an “active living” org/womenvote. A Women’s Equality Day Celebration is scheduled for the morning community with close to 150,000 Suffrage 2020 Illinois, www. of August 24, 2019. residents in Central Florida, is joining suffrage2020illinois.org, features history, with neighbors to honor the centennial. profiles of state suffragists, anniversary Called S.O.S. – Sisters of Suffrage, the events and many resources. Leading Maine diverse group includes local LWV and the effort are the League of Women Kansas DAR members who have already held a Voters, www.lwvil.org, and the Evanston luncheon and a rally with speakers and Women’s History Project, www. 19th Amendment Centennial, The Maine Suffrage Centennial participants in period costume. A suffrage evanstonwomen.org or #IllinoisWasFirst. https://19thcentennial.com/, plans a Collaborative, www. parade is in the works, along with many kickoff honoring first LWV chapter in mainesuffragecentennial.org, aims educational events and an EqualiTea nation, Aug 24, 2019 in Wichita, other for a unique commemoration without (Aug. 16). Contact Jill Greenberg at events include Riverfest Sundown Parade discrimination or exclusion. [email protected]. June 1, 2020, official state celebration Women Win the Vote nwhanews.org 5

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A Maine State Museum exhibit, “Women’s Long Road: 100 Years “Massachusetts in the Woman to the Vote,” runs through Jan. 2020. Suffrage Movement: Revolutionary Margaret Chase Smith Library’s exhibit, Reformers,” Barbara Berenson’s “Women Must Take Full Responsibility accessible history on the American for Their Citizenship,” runs to Dec. Woman Suffrage Association, highlights 2019. The Portland Stage Company has Bay State women active at the local and commissioned a suffrage-themed play for national levels. She’s available for talks, 2020 (will be available to others). [email protected]. There will be suffrage-themed events including a Historian’s Forum at the Historical Society, Suffrage Tea at the Governor’s residence Aug. 26, book groups at local libraries and a First-Friday Art Walk in Portland Nov. 1. The Girl Scouts have a Suffrage Centennial Patch Program & Let the Girls Play! Concert with musician Kalie Shorr of the Song Suffragettes in Nov. 2019.

Kari Percivalwith her son Ulysses, marches as a suffragist in the Somerville, Massachusetts HONIK! Parade, October 7, 2018. Photo by Greg Cook

& Humanities is a community art center Missouri with a gallery, gift shop, & classes. They will be doing exhibits, programming Massachusetts Check for resources, https://www. and collaborating with local women’s womensvote100.org/missouri. organizations to celebrate the 100 year Suffrage 100 MA, the Women’s Suffrage Celebrate the Vote, www. anniversary, www.artworksinbigrapids. Celebration Coalition of Massachusetts, celebratethevotefestival.com, on the 2016 org. https://suffrage100ma.org, held a Golden Lane reenactment Centennial Kickoff “Celebrating Strong, Bold, Remarkable Women Who Made History” on June 25, 2019 at Faneuil Hall. Montana This is an exemplary site and organization Maryland with lots of resources and events including Celebrating Women’s Equality Day, Maryland will celebrate Courageous Montana Women’s History Matters, Aug. 26 at the Swan Boats in the Boston Suffragists & Women’s Right to Vote a http://montanawomenshistory.org/ Public Garden. The giant swans, and few days before many attendees, wear “Votes for Women” Women’s Equality Day in 2020 at the sashes. Download and print out Suffrage historical Druid Hill Park in Baltimore Minnesota Nevada Centennial Display Panels on Lucretia City. There will be food, music, fun, and SisterFest, with networking and Mott, Louisa May Alcott and many other Groups including the state League of informational tables on women’s groups/ Nevada Women’s History Project, notable suffragists Women Voters, https://www.lwvmn. events/activities from political to social https://www.nevadawomen.org/, plans to The Coalition will sponsor “I Want org/overview-of-events, AAUW and to arts/culture and more. Celebrations present the play, “Sara Bard Field and Her to Go to Jail,” a staged reading of an Zeta Phi Beta will celebrate Minnesota’s are also planned for parks throughout the Nevada Suffrage Connections” in 2020. original play performed by costumed cast ratification on Sept. 8, 2019 on the State state. https://www.womensvote100.org/ The Nevada Women’s Suffrage members from We Did it For You! on Capitol grounds. Many other groups are maryland Celebration Committee and the Nevada Aug. 22 at the Concord Museum. making plans, including a centennial Massachusetts Suffrage Centennial Maryland Historical Society, https:// Commission for Women will recreate the parade at the Minnesota State Fair on Aug. signing of the ratification bill on Feb. 7. Celebration, Massachusetts Celebrates www.mdhs.org/search/node/suffrage 26, 2020. They are also erecting historic markers with “100 Events for 100 Years,” https:// She Voted: Her Fight, Our Right, www.celebratesuffrage.org/. “Cruisin’ and working with the Carson City Nevada the Minnesota Historical Society’s major Day Parade in October, as well as the With Susan” Bicycle Festival, May 16, exhibit, will open in September 2020 at 2020, quilt exhibit, Living History and Michigan May 2020 parade in Southern Nevada, the Minnesota History Center in St. Pau to promote a suffrage theme. They’ve more. with a full slate of related programming. For resources, check https://www. gotten the state legislature to pass a bill Greater Boston Women’s Vote http://www.mnhs.org/ Centennial offers local grants, https:// womensvote100.org/michigan. providing for a special license plate that www.boston.gov/departments/womens- Artworks: Big Rapids Area Arts commemorates the suffrage centennial. Continued on page 23 6 nwhanews.org National Women's History Alliance

Returning the Suffrage Heroes to the Pages of History

The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles by Faith Ringgold Expanding Our Knowledge and Perspective About the Women's Suffrage Movement Leasa Graves

NTEREST in the women’s suffrage their participation in the movement mini- movement has seen a resurgence with mized or omitted altogether. The story Ithe Centennial of the 19th amendment The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles was incomplete. on the horizon. This renewed interest is Black women were removed from supported by enhanced technology that Faith Ringgold’s powerful lithograph shows eight notable African American the historical context leaving only a few makes archives of newspapers, magazines, women displaying a colorful quilt that symbolizes their communal achieve- iconic figures such as Sojourner Truth and books, letters and other primary documents ments. From the left are Madam C. J. Walker, Sojourner Truth, Ida Wells, Ida. B. Wells-Barnett. accessible as never before to all those Fannie Lou Hammer, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Mary McLeod Bethune, This has deeply impacted our country’s working to understand and expand the suf- and Ella Baker. They were all suffragists and involved in the drive for civil understanding of the many ways that Af- frage story. rights. The artist also included a fictional character on the lower left and rican American women have contributed This vital renewal of women’s history Vincent van Gogh, known for his paintings of sunflowers, on the right. and still contribute to shaping our nation’s now includes suffrage activists who have destiny. With each rediscovered article or been invisible for too long. For genera- © 2019 Faith Ringgold/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Courtesy text, the list of Black and minority suf- tions, the writings and speeches of Black ACA Galleries, New York. Reprinted by permission. fragists grows and their voices calling for and minority women were ignored and equality ring louder and clearer.

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The Influence of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Sally Roesch Wagner

“Will your husband like to have you give vote. Susan B. Anthony and others were the horse away?” Alice Fletcher asked. arrested for attempting to exercise their This early anthropologist was recounting right of citizenship, while Haudeno- an experience she’d had with a Native saunee women “were the great power American woman of the Omaha Nation. among the clan, as everywhere else,” The woman had just given away a “fine Stanton told the National Council of quality horse” and, hearing Fletcher’s question, she broke “into a peal of laughter, and she hastened to tell the "She broke into a peal story to the others gathered in her tent, and I became the target of many merry of laughter, and she eyes,” Fletched continued. “Laughter and contempt met my explanation of hastened to tell the the white man’s hold upon his wife’s property.” story to the others gathered in her tent." The Fate of Married Women

Fletcher is telling this story to a wom- Women in 1891. “The original nomi- en’s rights audience from around the Iroquois women in upstate New York, 1915 nation of the chiefs also always rested Western world at the 1888 International with the women,” she told the audience. Council of Women. Married women, and dealt with harshly. property as well. While no Christian “They did not hesitate, when occasion they knew, had no legal right to their Women had the absolute right to their denomination allowed women to preach, required, ‘to knock off the horns,’ as it own possessions or property in most bodies and their children; they had the Indigenous women had the responsibility was technically called, from the head of states and countries, but that was just the final say in matters of war and peace and for planning the spiritual ceremonies. a chief and send him back to the ranks tip of the iceberg. Married women had land. Women raised the food for their Propertied women had voted in the of the warriors.” no legal identity. A wife ceased to exist communities and controlled the collective colonies, but after the Revolution state in the eyes of the law once she promised economy; everyone had their own private laws declared it illegal for women to Sharing Responsibility to obey and uttered the words “I do.” The two became one and the one was the Clan mothers and male chiefs (sachem) man. shared political responsibility with each A wife lost control of her body. She clan mother having the responsibility had the legal obligation to submit to for nominating and holding in office her her husband’s sexual demands; rape chief; these appointed men carried out laws defined “an act of unlawful sexual the business of government. A man who intercourse with someone other than the had stolen, was a warrior or had abused wife of the perpetrator.” Husbands had a woman could not become a chief. The the legal right to beat disobedient wives, clan mother had the responsibility of re- provided they didn’t inflict permanent moving a chief who did not listen to the damage. Children belonged to their fa- people and make decisions considering ther, who dying could even will away his seven generations in the future. unborn child to someone other than the “Division of power between the sexes mother to raise. With most jobs closed in this Indian republic was nearly equal,” to women and the few available paying Gage told The New York Evening Post half (or less) of men’s wages, marriage readers in 1875. Clan mothers in the six was the only option open to women who Haudenosaunee nations continue to have wouldn’t inherit. The founding docu- Native American women at Pala Mission, California, 1939. the political voice they have exercised ment of America’s women’s movement, Native Americans were not considered citizens until 1924. since the founding of the Iroquois Con- the 1848 “Declaration of Sentiments,” federacy in 909, long before Columbus summed it up well: “He has made her, Voting Rights for All or the Pilgrims. While women in the United States if married, in the eye of the law, civilly After the 19th Amendment dead. are celebrating 100 years of constitution- Upstate New York The 19th Amendment did not guarantee that all women and men in the Unit- ally-guaranteed voting, Native Nation ed States could vote. Securing this essential right has been a long struggle women have had political voice on this Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda that for some, continues on to this day. land for over 1000 years. Joslyn Gage were the primary writers of Indigenous women of numerous • 1924 Indian Citizenship Act - Native Americans deemed US citizens, the early women’s rights movement and, Native Nations had more rights, sover- but states continue to decide who votes. Many continue to disenfranchise along with Susan B. Anthony, formed eignty and integrity long before Euro- Native Americans. the leadership triumvirate of the Nation- peans arrived on these shores than we al Woman Suffrage Association. Stanton • 1943 Magnuson Act - Chinese in America granted the right to become in the United States have today. As we and Gage lived on the homelands of the citizens, and therefore to vote (the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 pre non-native feminists listen to them, we six nations of the Haudenosaunee (Iro- ously prevented this). can follow their leadership and learn quois) confederacy and knew their Na- from their centuries of experience just • 1962 New Mexico is the last state to enfranchise Native Americans. tive neighbors. Both wrote extensively as our suffrage foremothers did. about the social, religious, economic and • 1965 Voting Rights Act - African Americans and Native Americans political position of Indigenous women continued to face exclusion from voting through mechanisms like poll Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner is the author of as far superior to their own. “Never was taxes, literacy tests, and intimidation. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 several books including Sisters in Spirit, and justice more perfect; never was civili- eliminated many of these. editor of the Women’s Suffrage Movement (Penguin Classics, 2019) from which this zation higher,” Gage wrote. Violence article is adapted. Both are available from the From “The 19th Amendment: A Crash Course,” National Park Service, nps.gov against women and children was rare NWHA store. 8 nwhanews.org National Women's History Alliance

African American Women Fight for Suffrage Johanna Neuman

hen the 19th Amendment to buttons at work – much to the annoyance black and white, to the courthouse. With In the front rooms, she did hair. In the Constitution was ratified of their plantation bosses – and showing famed orator Frederick Douglass at her the back, she ran a citizenship school Win 1920, women all over the up to watch happenings at the polls. At side, she managed to register but was not where she taught black adults how to country registered to vote. However, in one polling place in Macon, Georgia in allowed to vote. pass literacy tests, registering more than the Deep South, African American women 1872, black women explained that being one hundred black citizens to vote. In were often stopped at the courthouse present was “part of their religion to keep 1965, with civil rights activists like Vera door. Jim Crow laws slammed it shut with their husbands and brothers straight in The Real Movers Mae Pigee pushing from the streets and literacy tests so arcane few could pass, politics.” Straight meant away from the Lyndon Johnson lobbying from the White poll taxes so steep few could afford them Democratic Party of slavery and toward Black women kept fighting into the next House, Congress enacted the historic and, with vigilantes milling about, the the Republican Party of Abraham Lin- century. Before the 1913 suffrage parade Voting Rights Act, which banned literacy very real threat of violence. It would be coln, the Great Emancipator. in Washington, D.C., Ida B. Wells, a for- tests and gave the Justice Department another four decades before those doors That same year, activists all over the midable activist for suffrage and against wide authority to investigate discrimina- were forced open. Black women, who had country responded to a new suffrage the lynching of black men, applied to tion. always viewed the vote as a community strategy. It was called the New Depar- march with the Illinois delegation. As she asset, never stopped fighting. ture. Women would attempt to register explained to the delegation, “If the Illinois Courage and Sacrifice by claiming the Constitutional amend- women do not take a stand now in this What Happened After 1920 ments of the Reconstruction era – the 14th great democratic parade, then the colored Pondering this history, it becomes clear Amendment’s equal protection of laws women are lost.” Grace Wilbur Trout, who why African American women were so In the Tidewater region of Virginia, and the 15th Amendment’s ban on voting headed state suffrage organization, said ferocious in their defense of the vote. college-educated Susie Fountain flunked discrimination – had also, inadvertently, no. Defiant, Wells went to D.C., waited on They had long been disenfranchised. the literacy test in 1920, although, as the enfranchised them, as citizens. In Roch- the sidewalk until the delegation came They had long observed the power of the registrar condescendingly told her, she ester, New York, Susan B. Anthony vote to improve their communities – and “did very well.” In Birmingham, Alabama, cement their own status as citizens. As Lula Murry, whose brother had died fight- Fannie Lou Hamer, a Mississippi share- ing for America in World War I, was so cropper, put it, they were “tired of being upset about being blocked from the ballot tired.” box that she wrote to the White House in When Hamer first tried to register 1923. “Here I stand,” she told President to vote in the 1960s, she was forced out Calvin Coolidge, “denied the constitution of her home, fired from her job, menaced rights … of the 19th Amendment.” by drive-by shooters and beaten by white Three years later, a 24-year-old jailers in a sexualized attack so severely schoolteacher named Indiana Little led she was in pain for the rest of her life. On “as many as one thousand Black women learning of this public attempt to stand up and a few men” to that same Birmingham for her rights, the owner of the plantation courthouse. She told the registrar that it where she worked told her, “We’re not was wrong to give literacy tests to blacks Suffragists pictured in The Crisis, August, 1915 ready for that in Mississippi now.” To but not to whites. For voicing this obvious which she replied, “Mr. Marlow, I didn’t act of discrimination, she was arrested registered to vote – and was arrested. At into view, squeezed in between two go down there to register for you. I went for vagrancy, a charge later reduced to her trail, she castigated the judge for de- friends and marched the rest of the parade down to register for myself.” disorderly conduct. In an affidavit given to nying her a jury trial, she complained of a route with them. the U.S. Justice Department, she accused “high-handed outrage upon my citizen’s By the 1960s, a new civil rights her jailer of beating her “over the head rights.” movement emerged to restore the voting Johanna Neumann, Ph.D., author of Gild- unmercifully” and forcibly raping her. It In St. Louis, Missouri, Virginia Mi- rights of black women and men in the ed Suffragists: The New York Socialites would be another three decades before nor attempted to vote and was rebuffed. South. Men of great courage, including Who Fought for the Right to Vote, special- Indiana Little cast her first vote. Her husband Francis filed a lawsuit seek- the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., led the izes in the history of women’s suffrage. ing her rights as a citizen. A lawyer, he ar- effort. But often it was African American Her new book, And Yet They Persisted: Part of Their Religion gued her case all the way to the Supreme women who did the grassroots organiz- How American Women Won the Right to Court, where it lost to an interpretation of ing, becoming what one historian called Vote, due out in December, tells the story After the Civil War, the Constitution the U.S. Constitution that held the states “the real movers of the people.” One who of gripping activism over two centuries, had been amended to give newly freed had power over elections. In Washing- answered the call was Vera Mae Pigee, a from the revolutionary era, when some black men the vote. Their female rela- ton, D.C. Mary Ann Shadd Cary, a black stylist whose beauty salon at 407 Ashton women voted and others agitated for the tives showed great interest in elections, journalist and a student at Howard Law Street was in the heart of the black busi- vote, to the civil rights era. sporting Grant for President campaign School, led a delegation of sixty women, ness district in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Expanding Our Knowledge, Continued from Page 6 premacy and repressive violence despite strength, that women’s experiences and successful social justice movements. repeated pleas from Black suffragists. empower all women who recognize their After 1920, many minority women It can be difficult to accept change and White leaders were often pragmatic, with accomplishments as well as their failures. including Black women in the South challenging to rewrite historical narratives their single interest outweighing others. In When our founders began champion- found themselves still disenfranchised deeply ingrained in the consciousness of a ways that still exist today, racial prejudice ing multicultural women in the 1980s, and barred from voting. However, those country. Despite their dedication to equal governed the behavior of reformers as well they knew that women in general, and who believed in equal rights and univer- rights, many white suffragists shared the as politicians. particularly Black and minority women, sal suffrage didn’t give up. Their work outlook of their times regarding race and We must propel ourselves to consider had been written out of mainstream his- did not end with passage of the 19th were unwilling, or felt unable, to speak how leaving women of color out of the tory. They understood that it was time amendment. Instead, these courageous, out against flagrant racism and political historical narrative has shaped women’s to recognize all women, and to return visionary women, and many of those they exclusion. Like men in government who history as well as our own understanding Black women, Latinas, Asian and work- influenced, continued to devote their lives failed to back the voting rights of Black of America. ing women, suffragists, lesbians, profes- to fighting for women’s rights and civil women and men in the South, movement The National Women’s History Al- sionals and feminists of all kinds to their rights for all. It is a struggle that still leaders refused to condemn white su- liance believes that our history is our rightful position as leaders of powerful continues today. Women Win the Vote nwhanews.org 9

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he Black women mentioned here represent The Woman’s Era because of its racist policies, She organized the Negro the work already in progress to write these The first national newspaper published by and for Bar Association, which later became the National Bar Thero back into history. Believing in equal African-American women, The Woman’s Era was Association. A playwright and champion of women’s rights and universal suffrage, Black suffragists did established in 1892 by Boston activist Josephine St. history, Gertrude Rush was a true reformer and civic not stop working in 1920. Many dedicated their lives Pierre Ruffin. leader. to improving their communities and winning civil rights for all, Georgianna K. Offutt Engaged in the fight for equality from the No Longer Forgotten (1868-1949) California beginning, Black suffragists produced works Georgianna Offutt was a suffragist, doctor, educator, and writings that give us new insight into their writer and civic leader. She worked as a teacher motivations, objectives and accomplishments. The Lucy Wilmot Smith after moving from Missouri to California in 1893 Women and Social Movements project now offers (1861-1890) Kentucky and earned her doctorate in Orthopedic and surgical to libraries nationwide more than 2,000 writings chiropody in 1922. Offutt spoke publicly about the Lucy Wilmot Smith’s career as an educator began by nearly 300 Black women activists in their Black racism she experienced and witnessed in the world when she completed the teacher preparatory program Woman Suffragists Collection, https://search. and she wrote for various periodicals including at the age of sixteen. Initially working at the State alexanderstreet.com/view/work/bibliographic_ The California Eagle. To support and educate her Colored Baptist University, Smith went on to become entity%7Cweb_collection%7C3180493. They also neighbors in utilizing their right to vote, she served as a professor at Kentucky State. A journalist as well offer Black Women Suffragists biographies, https:// Vice President of Alameda County League of Colored as an educator, she used her voice to champion documents.alexanderstreet.com/VOTESforWOMEN/ League of Voters. In Los Angeles, she dedicated her women’s causes, encouraging young women to seek bwsintro. time to improving the African American community. Contact Tom Dublin at [email protected] self-employment and careers in the fields of medicine and journalism. Smith died at the age of twenty-nine Victoria Clay Haley but left behind her ideas on women voting , “Our (1877- After 1926) Missouri The Power of Print position is that women should have the ballot, not as a matter of expediency but as a matter of justice.” Victoria Haley pursued her education in business and oration and became a public school teacher and Susan Elizabeth Frazier social reform activist dedicated to improving her (1863-1924) New York community and advancing women’s rights. Haley directed the social welfare efforts of many local Susan Frazier graduated from Hunter College in organizations in St. Louis and served as president of 1888 and became a substitute teacher in the New the Federated Women’s Club and recording secretary York public school system. When she applied to of the National Association of Colored Women’s teach full-time, she was denied the position due to Club. During World War I, she chaired the St. Louis her race. She sued the trustees, won her case, and Chapter of the Council of National Defense. She became the first African American teacher in an stood her ground twice when asked to leave suffrage integrated public school in New York. A suffragist conferences in whites-only hotels, ensuring her and writer for the Woman’s Era, Susan Frazier participation in the conferences. lectured on “Some Afro-American Women of Mark.”

Mary J. Johnson Woodlen (1970-1933) Delaware In Memoriam Mary Woodlen, one of the founders of the Wilmington Delaware Equal Suffrage Study Club, Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, A Pioneer in Women’s dedicated her life to improving her community. She History worked with other women to secure social services (October 22, 1941 – including a kindergarten and health clinic. In 1914, December 25, 2018) Woodlen organized the local branch of the NAACP and served as Vice President. She was one of those Professor Rosalyn who protested when the National Women’s Party A recent graduate was featured Terborg-Penn opened on the July 1920 cover. refused to publicly speak out against the violation of the door to a more African American voting rights. accurate narrative The Crisis: A Record of Darker Races of the women’s Gertrude Elzora Durden Rush suffrage movement. W.E.B. Du Bois founded The Crisis in 1910 as (1880-1962) Iowa Her book, “African the magazine for the National Association for the Getrude Elzora Durden Rush’s commitment to the American Women in Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). This advancement of women is apparent in her work as the Struggle for the Vote,” catalyzed the rediscovery widely read periodical highlighted race and injustice a lawyer, educator, lecturer, playwright, club leader of Black suffragists and held space for women in the United States. http://www.modjourn.org/. and organization founder. Gertrude Rush excelled who had been left out of suffrage history. We despite laws and practices that were determined to honor Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, scholar and teacher, The California Eagle deny her access to education and equality. As the for her groundbreaking work and vital historical The California Eagle was an African-American first Black female attorney in Iowa, she focused on contributions. newspaper in Los Angeles, California founded by the legal rights of women in estate cases. After being John J. Neimore and read by African American’s denied admission to the American Bar Association throughout the state. 10 nwhanews.org National Women's History Alliance

sidered for Supreme Court, "she viewed life ing, civil rights, opposition to segregation and lived for 20 years in England, militant leader as a series of small personal and large social the Klan, and uplifting the Black community. and fiery speaker, lobbyist, New York orga- struggles" (Beverly Cook in NAW). nizer, brought new life to suffrage movement, Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt Belmont founded Equality League of Self Supporting Susan Brownell Anthony (Adams, MA) Feb. (Mobile, AL) Jan. 17, 1853 - Jan. 26, 1933, Women 1907, later the Women's Political 15, 1820 - March 13, 1906, Quaker, teacher, socialite and multimillionaire, philanthropist, Union, recruited working women to suffrage, temperance and abolition organizer, outstand- educated in France, married Wm. Vanderbilt, 3 organized first large U.S. suffrage parades, ing women's rights leader with sharp political children, divorced and married OHP Bel- marched on Albany. instincts, met Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1850, mont, her divorce controversial because she took suffrage petitions door-to-door 1854, "had dared to criticize openly an influential Amelia Bloomer (Homer, NY) May 27, 1818 worked for emancipation but felt black men man's behavior," drawn to suffrage by Anna - Dec. 30, 1894, edited early Seneca Falls 100 should not be given the vote ahead of women, Shaw 1908, wrote articles and spoke publicly, women's rights paper The Lily, married law- Suffragists published The Revolution 1868-70, lectured founded Political Equality League 1909, yer, 2 adopted children, introduced Elizabeth for 6 years to pay off its $10,000 debt, advo- helped finance militant activities, supported Cady Stanton to Susan B. Anthony 1850, dress cated equal pay for equal work, encouraged Alice Paul and Congressional Union, socially reform pioneer, propagandist, lectured on Who won the vote? Who were the women women to form unions, "more than any other prominent New York Suffrage speaker and temperance and woman's rights in Midwest, who made up the suffrage movement? woman suffrage leader, she was the victim of organizer, National Woman's Party head 1921, worked for suffrage legislation in Nebraska masculine ridicule" including satirical car- donated Sewall-Belmont House in D.C. to 1856 and Iowa. We offer this sampling of 100 suffrage toons and newspaper attacks, driving force National Woman's Party. leaders and supporters to give a flavor behind National Woman Suffrage Association of the remarkable depth and variety that 1869-90, National American Woman Suffrage Mary McLeod Bethune (Mayesville, SC) July marked the nationwide movement and to Association head 1892-1900, single-minded 10, 1875 - May 18, 1955, educator, orator, encourage your further interest. champion of federal amendment, called "The civil rights activist, skilled organizer, federal Most of the information here comes di- Invincible" and "The Napoleon of the woman's official, one of 17 children of freed slave rectly from the wonderful 5-volume set, rights movement," active in state campaigns parents, entered Bible Institute in Chicago Notable American Women. If your interest from Kansas 1867 to California 1896, spoke wanting to be a missionary, taught, m., 1 is stirred by any of these profiles, check out across country for 30 years, voted in 1872 elec- son, settled in Florida and founded school in tion, arrested and convicted but won popular Daytona for Black children (1904) that grew the full biographies in this library main- support, led Centennial protest 1876, recruited into Bethune-Cookman College, dominant stay, also available through the Women Carrie Catt and Anna Shaw to suffrage, lived personality, deeply religious, joined the Equal and Social Movements subscription web- with sister Mary in Rochester, NY, became Suffrage League (1912), led voter registration site along with many more biographies of internationally respected symbol of woman's drive despite KKK threats, established hospital suffragists. movement, "She has a broad and generous na- for Black community, led the National As- Direct quotes are usually from Notable ture, and a depth of tenderness that few women sociation of Colored Women, influenced many American Women, but we also consulted possess"(Elizabeth Cady Stanton). including Eleanor Roosevelt, appointed to Black Women in America, BlackPast.org, National Youth Administration, won national state historical societies, state suffrage recognition as able, charismatic Black leader, strengthened support for New Deal, marched websites, the National Park Service and and demonstrated for civil rights, advocated Wikipedia. Husband's names have been “Self-Control, Self-Respect, Self-Reliance and Lucy Stone and Alice Stone Blackwell included when appropriate to help re- Race Pride.” searchers. Inez Milholland Boissevain (Brooklyn, NY) Alice Stone Blackwell (Orange, NJ) Sept. August 6, 1886 - Nov. 25, 1916, Vassar and Christia Daniels Adair (Victoria, Texas) Oct. 14, 1857 - March 15, 1950, daughter of Lucy NYU, organized suffrage meeting in cemetery 22, 1893 - Dec. 31, 1989, fought for African Stone and Henry Blackwell, "the child of the when Vassar outlawed it, beautiful, dynamic American’s political rights and expansion of regiment," Boston U., leading suffrage writer lecturer and lobbyist, labor lawyer and orga- women’s public role in Texas, Samuel Huston and journalist, edited The Woman's Journal for nizer, model of the "new woman," led 1913 College, taught, m., organized petition drives 35 years, helped merge rival suffrage groups D.C. parade on white horse, Socialist, pacifist, for women’s suffrage, worked with white into National American Woman Suffrage As- women for passage of a primary suffrage in sociation 1890, became recording secretary, Abbreviations: Texas (1918) but with other Black women lectured, wrote mother's biography, translated turned away when went to vote, fought to Russian, Armenian, Yiddish and other op- m. married end racial discrimination, led the Houston pressed peoples' poetry, supported LaFollette (place) birthplace NAACP for ten years, worked to desegregate 1924 and Sacco and Vanzetti in her 60s, went (NAW) Notable American Women– city facilities, threatened by racists, founded blind, cheated by business agent, supported by Susan B. Anthony reference series interracial political group that opposed segre- Bryn Mawr College friends, died at 98, "urged women to remain an gation, helped make Black Texans eligible to autonomous moral force in politics." AWSA American Woman Suffrage serve on juries, first Black woman elected to Association state Democratic Executive Committee, 1966, Rachel Foster Avery (Pittsburgh, PA) Dec. 3, Antoinette Brown Blackwell (Henrietta, NY) ECS Elizabeth Cady Stanton county park named for her. 1858 - Oct. 26, 1919, Quaker, joined NWSA May 20, 1825 - Nov. 5, 1921, called “Net- ERA Equal Rights Amendment 1879, directed Nebraska campaign 1882, m., 3 tie,” Oberlin, classmate of Lucy Stone, first LWV League of Women Voters Jane Addams (Cedarville, IL) Sept. 6, 1860 daughters, “first adopted niece" and secretary ordained minister of recognized denomination - May 21, 1935, progressive social reformer, of SBA, active with international and state (Congregational) in the US 1853, m. Henry NAACP National Association for the had a "vein of iron" (Anne Firor Scott, No- suffrage groups, particularly in Chicago and Blackwell’s brother, 7 children (2 died in Advancement of Colored table American Women), founded Hull House Pennsylvania. infancy), influential lecturer and author, spoke People settlement in Chicago, helped "over-privileged for women's rights, temperance, abolition NACW National Association of young people" connect with real life, defined Alice Gertrude Baldwin (Baltimore, MD) 1850s, New York City and Somerville, NJ, Colored Women a settlement house as "an institution attempt- 1859 - Jan. 31, 1943, educator, activist for widely honored and, although blind, lived to NAWSA National American Woman ing to learn from life itself," called "the most racial and gender equality, widely respected vote at 95. Suffrage Association influential woman in Chicago history," inter- and influential teacher, followed sister Maria NWP National Woman’s Party nationally respected social reformer, author, into teaching in Cambridge, MA, moved to Lillie Devereux Blake (Raleigh, NC) Aug. 12, peace and suffrage leader, National American Delaware to work at Howard High School, 1833 - Dec. 30, 1913, married lawyer Frank NWSA National Woman Suffrage Woman Suffrage Association first vice-presi- promoted educational opportunities for black Umstead, 2 children, survived by writing ar- Association dent 1911-1914, pacifist, opposed World War youth, praised as “efficient, caring, and ticles, stories and novels, remarried, witty and SBA Susan B. Anthony I, awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1931. inspiring,” passionate advocate for suffrage graceful lecturer, popular suffrage convention WCTU Women’s Christian Temper- and racial progress, co-founded the African speaker, active in New York associations and ance Union Florence Ellinwood Allen (Salt Lake City, American Wilmington Equal Suffrage Club campaigns 1879 - 1900, contender with Carrie WILPF Women’s International UT) March 23, 1884 - Sept.12, 1966, Western (1914), marched (separately) in first Wilming- Catt for head of National American Woman League for Peace and Reserve, lived at Henry Street Settlement, ton suffrage parade, sole Black representative Suffrage Association 1900, organized National Freedom NYU Law School, spoke in every Ohio coun- in National Woman's Party delegation lobbying Legislative League to correct legal abuses. ty for women’s rights, became first woman governor for ratification (1919), spoke at mass WS Woman Suffrage elected to Ohio Supreme Court (supported by meeting, registered and encouraged African Harriot Stanton Blatch (Seneca Falls, NY) WSA Woman Suffrage Association 66 Florence Allen Clubs) 1922, appointed by American women voters, continued to push for Jan. 20, 1856 - Nov. 20, 1940, daughter of WWI World War I FDR to US Court of Appeals, called "a great racial equality, branch secretary of the Wilm- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Vassar, married YMCA Young Men’s Christian patriot," admired for common sense, con- ington NAACP for 16 years advocating hous- Englishman and lost citizenship, 2 children, Association Women Win the Vote nwhanews.org 11 on Ford Peace Ship, was correspondent in Italy 26, 1858 - April 17, 1956, Bellevue Hospi- 1915, married, became suffrage martyr when tal grad., New York settlement house nurse, she died at 30 urging women in western states pioneer who helped professionalize nursing, to defeat Wilson for not endorsing suffrage, married, arrested for attempting to vote in mountain in NY named Mt. Inez in her honor. NY 1896 (police commissioner T. Roosevelt refused to jail her), hiked 13 days to Albany Louise de Koven Bowen (Chicago, IL) Feb. for suffrage in Dec. 1912 at 54, was "Surgeon 26, 1859 - Nov. 9, 1953, Chicago philanthro- General" on Pilgrim's Hike to Washington pist and prominent community leader, child D.C. 1913, on Alice Paul's Advisory Council, welfare advocate, established first juvenile led first group of pickets to White House, court in Chicago, married banker, 4 children, jailed three times, campaigned against vene- led Chicago suffrage parade of 5,000 in 1916, real disease and prostitution, lived with four Hull House mainstay and treasurer, led settle- sisters, wrote A History of Nursing. ment after Jane Addams died, encouraged women to become a force in Chicago politics, Rheta Childe Dorr (Omaha, NE) Nov. 2, briefly considered as Chicago mayoral candi- 1866 - Aug 8, 1948, heard Susan B. Anthony date 1922, "She represents the highest type of and Elizabeth Cady Stanton speak at age 12, womanhood and has a business ability that is joined National Woman Suffrage Association, needed in the mayor's office." (Chicago Daily U. of Neb., married, 1 child, divorced, worked News). "It was amusing to see how much in the post office and as an insurance under- the men resented the possibility of having a writer, wrote series of articles for NY news- woman for mayor," she noted. papers portraying conditions of working girls, worked in sweatshops to get firsthand data on Olympia Brown (Michigan) Jan. 5, 1835 women's trades, first editor of The Suffragist world peace. "It is to Mrs. Catt more than to B. Anthony, active in Missouri, grew ill and - Oct. 23, 1926, married John Willis, kept 1914, held press conferences and confronted any single figure besides Susan B. Anthony disappointed, renounced suffrage 1897 and own name, 2 children, Antioch College, first President Wilson with awkward questions that American women owe their right to vote." lobbied for the Brewers Association, died in ordained woman minister by full denomina- about suffrage, injured by a motorcycle 1919, (Eleanor Flexner, Notable American Women) poverty. tional authority (Unitarian), spoke nearly 300 traveled in Europe, wrote a bio of Susan B. times in Kansas suffrage campaign of 1867, Anthony. Laura Clay (White Hall, KY) Feb. 9, 1849 Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis (Bloomfield, Wisconsin suffrage leader, preacher, editor, - June 29, 1941, with three sisters organized NY) Aug. 7, 1813 - Aug. 24, 1876, parents tireless campaigner in South Dakota, Kansas, Abigail Scott Duniway (Groveland, IL) woman's rights rally in Frankfort, KY 1884, died at age 7, married Frances Wright, Utica, Iowa and Maryland 1896-1916, helped form Oct. 22, 1834 - Oct. 11, 1915, remembered formidable lecturer and lobbyist, National NY house attacked by mob after anti-slavery Federal Suffrage Association to push for her mother saying, "Poor baby...a woman's American Woman Suffrage Association audi- convention they organized, widowed after federal amendment 1892, over 80 years old lot is so hard!," wrote journal of her family's tor 1895, managed 245-acre farm, promoted 12 years, married Thomas Davis, adopted 2 when she burned Woodrow Wilson's speeches 2,400-mile journey to Oregon in 1852, married states' rights and segregation, opposed federal daughters, main organizer of the first National during a Congressional Union protest, lifelong farmer, 6 children, taught, kept shop, for 16 amendment. Woman's Rights Convention in Worcester, MA suffragist, lived to vote. years published The New Northwest, a weekly 1850, published one of the first woman's rights newspaper dedicated to the cause of woman's Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (Raleigh, periodicals, The Una, at own expense 1853-55, Lucy Burns (Brooklyn, NY) July 28, 1879 - rights, managed Susan B. Anthony's Pacific NC) Aug. 10, 1858 - Feb. 27, 1964, educa- contributed to The Revolution, helped recruit Dec. 22, 1966, red-headed Irish Catholic, Vas- Northwest visit 1871, lectured throughout tor, author, scholar, women’s club activist, the first woman doctors. sar, Yale Grad. School, organizer in England, Oregon, Washington and Idaho for suffrage high school principal, University president, arrested, founded Congressional Union with and women’s rights, barraged by rotten eggs daughter of a slave woman and her master, Dorothy Day (Brooklyn, NY) Nov. 8, 1897 political partner Alice Paul, militant suf- in Jacksonville, led the Oregon Equal Suffrage m., widowed at 21, Oberlin College (1884), - Nov. 29, 1980, writer, journalist, anti-war frage organizer and widely respected leader, Association 1873, led several state drives for outspoken advocate of equal suffrage and and social justice activist, U. of Illinois, m., 1 lobbyist, speaker, teacher, editor, hunger suffrage, opposed prohibition, helped win suf- defender of Black women, confident and self- daughter, joined radical Socialist Party (1916), striker. "Lucy Burns brought a fierceness and frage in Washington territory 1883 - and again assured, built support for women who “were wrote for The Call and The Masses, went on resoluteness to the American woman suffrage in 1910 when the earlier legislation had been stuck at the bottom,” spoke at Women’s Con- hunger strike while imprisoned for picketing movement that was rarely equaled. Praised by invalidated - and in Idaho 1896, honored as gress (1892), praised by Frederick Douglass, the White House with the NWP 1917, con- Alice Paul as 'a thousand times more valiant Oregon's first woman voter. protested apartheid to Queen Victoria, tena- verted to Catholicism, co-founded the Catho- than I,' Burns in her poise and strength of cious proponent of civil rights and opponent lic Worker newspaper and movement 1933, character was a rallying symbol for the more Crystal Eastman (Marlborough, MA) June of racism and educational systems that failed encouraged communal farming, houses of faint hearted...when the militant phase of the 25, 1881 - July 8, 1928, Vassar, Colum- Black and female students, earned Ph.D. from hospitality for the urban poor and direct aid to National Woman's Party ended, she had spent bia, NYU law degree, helped win worker's Sorbonne at 66, widely respected as a woman the homeless until her death, progressive paci- more time in jail than any other American suf- compensation law, married Wallace Benedict, “of unusual culture and intelligence.” fist leader, opposed civil defense drills, WWII fragist." (Sidney R. Bland in Notable Ameri- divorced, married Walter Fuller, 2 children, and Vietnam war, supported war resisters, civil can Women) managed for Wisconsin suffrage campaign rights demonstrators and union organizers, de- 1912, researched industrial accidents, led voted to the poor and marginalized, considered Mary Ann Shadd Cary (Wilmington, DE) movement for worker's compensation laws, for sainthood by Pope Francis. Oct. 9, 1823 - June 5, 1893, oldest of 13, helped found Congressional Union, dynamic moved to Canada after Fugitive Slave Act leader of Woman's Peace Party NY branch, Mary Coffin Ware Dennett (Worcester, MA) 1851, helped black refugees, edited weekly opposed "the wave of jingoism and prepared- April 4, 1872 - July 25, 1947, Massachusetts anti-slavery newspaper Provincial Freeman, ness" during World War I, helped organize field secretary and national suffrage corre- married, 1 daughter, widowed, teacher in Civil Liberties Bureau (forerunner of ACLU), sponding secretary who blanketed the country Washington D.C., grammar school principal, edited anti-war journal Liberator, organized with millions of pamphlets annually 1910- spoke at National Woman Suffrage Associa- a NY Feminist Congress demanding equal- 1914, married, 3 children, helped found radical tion convention 1878, earned Howard U. law ity 1919, active in England, died at 47. "She People's Council opposing World War I, birth degree at 60. was for thousands a symbol of what the free control & sex education pioneer, fought re- woman might be." (Nation, 1928) strictive legislation, pacifist, World Federalist. Carrie Lane Chapman Catt (Ripon, WI) Jan. 9, 1859 - March 9, 1947, Iowa State College, Lavinia Margaret Engle (Montgomery Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (Philadelphia, PA) teacher, school superintendent, journalist, County, MD) May 23, 1892 - May 29, 1979, Oct. 28, 1842 - Oct. 22, 1932, Quaker-born, lecturer, widowed at 26 after 1 year, married to young NAWSA state organizer and field poor childhood, copyist, teacher, worked at civil engineer George Catt 1890, left finan- worker, campaigned in 16 states especially in US Mint, early influential woman orator and cially independent when he died 1905, field the South, active in New York in 1915, helped nationally prominent lyceum lecturer, aver- organizer with Susan B. Anthony, reorganized organize hospital in France staffed by women aged 150 lectures a season in the late 1860s, National American Woman Suffrage Associa- during WWI, after suffrage victory led Mary- championed Black rights and emancipation tion to be more political 1890, fundraiser, land LWV for 15 years, elected to Maryland of women, warm and admired friend of Susan planner, administrator, led New York cam- House 1930, called a "practical idealist," Anna Cooper B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton, aloof paigns, national and international organiza- supported legislation affecting women and from yet supportive of suffrage movement, tions, her secret "Winning Plan" combined children, appointed to Social Security Board Phoebe Wilson Couzins (St. Louis, MO) later an actress and playwright, played a state and federal work and unified mainline 1936 and served for 30 years. Sept. 8, 1839? - Dec. 6, 1913, Washington U., female Hamlet 1882, committed to Danville movement 1916, pacifist, lobbied Woodrow first woman in law 1871, served briefly as US Hospital for the Insane 1891, released and won Wilson, opposed militants, organized suc- Sara Bard Field (Cincinnati, Ohio) Sept. 1, Marshall 1887, elegant and popular lecturer, damages, died in obscurity. cessful 14-month campaign for ratification, 1882 - June 15, 1974, married Ehrgott, 2 chil- helped found National Woman Suffrage As- founded League of Women Voters, worked for dren, divorced, teenage son killed 1918, paid sociation 1869, traveled and spoke with Susan Lavinia Lloyd Dock (Harrisburg, PA) Feb. 12 nwhanews.org National Women's History Alliance state organizer for winning Oregon campaign for the "belief in woman's inferiority," lifelong Southern postmasters), married abolitionist Bertha Dillard Higgins (Danville, VA) Nov. 1912, active in Nevada and California, drove motto carved on gravestone: "There is a word Theodore Weld, 3 children, led anti-slavery 18, 1872 - Dec. 30, 1944, political activist, across country on treacherous transcontinental sweeter than Mother, Home, or Heaven; that meetings in NYC. club woman, seamstress and clothing designer, highway collecting signatures on suffrage word is Liberty." studied in London and Paris, formidable petition 1915, poet, orator, pacifist, married Sarah Moore Grimké (Charleston, SC) Nov. organizer in Providence, R.I. for suffrage, anti- poet Charles Erskine Scott Wood. Sarah Smith Tompkins Garnet (Brooklyn, 26 1792 - Dec. 23, 1873, like her sister Ange- lynching legislation, social services and jobs NY) July 31, 1831 - Sept. 17, 1911, lifelong lina, a member of a leading Southern family, for Black residents, m., widowed, 1 daughter, Abigail Kelley Foster (Pelham, MA) Jan. 15, educator, supporter of suffrage and civil rights, became influential lecturer, writer, outspoken active with the RI Union of Colored Women’s 1810 - Jan. 14, 1887, Quaker-born teacher, first Black woman public school principal in advocate of abolition, and early champion Clubs, raised money for racially integrated abolitionist and woman's rights pioneer, called New York City 1863, served 37 years, from of women's rights, rebuked and silenced by Woman Suffrage Party of RI, founding Abby, sought to "improve mankind," married prosperous farming family, lost two husbands Quaker meeting for views against slavery member of the state League of Women Voters, abolitionist Stephen Foster, 1 daughter, helped and two children, owned seamstress shop, co- 1836, moved to NYC with sister, spoke widely led several women’s political organizations found the New England Non-Resistant Society founded first Black women’s Equal Suffrage and led anti-slavery meetings in New England including the Julia Ward Howe Republican with William Lloyd Garrison 1838, circulated Club in Brooklyn, ran the Suffrage Department in the late 1830s, defended women's right to Women’s Club (which, disillusioned, she petitions, distributed literature, raised funds, of the NACW, delegate to first Universal Races speak when it was challenged. changed to Democratic Club in 1932), fought first addressed "mixed" audience at woman's Congress in London (1911), PS 9 in Brooklyn prejudice and worked for Black civil rights anti-slavery convention 1838 (whose hall was re-named for her (2019). during World War II, welcomed soldiers home, burned down the next day by a pro-slavery anti-poverty worker, member of the Urban mob), prominent abolitionist leader, tireless Charlotte Anna Perkins Stetson Gilman League, daughter Prudence followed her into lecturer, she had lungs "which would put (Hartford, CT) July 3, 1860 - Aug. 17, 1935, public service. some of our Naval Boatswains to the blush," leading intellectual of women's movement, influenced Paulina Wright Davis, Lucy Stone, poor childhood, married, 1 daughter, wrote The Isabella Beecher Hooker (Litchfield, CT) Susan B. Anthony and others as model debater Yellow Wall-Paper after nervous breakdown, Feb. 22, 1822 - Jan. 25, 1907, married lawyer, and public speaker, helped publish Anti-Slav- divorced, moved to California, wrote short sto- 4 children, a founder of the New England ery Bugle, refused to pay taxes on her farm ries, traveled and lectured on women's, labor Woman Suffrage Association 1869, defended arguing that she was taxed without represen- and social issues, wrote Women and Econom- Victoria Woodhull, sponsored 1871 suffrage tation. "She hewed out the path over which ics 1898, an enormously influential "feminist convention in Washington DC, testified before women are now walking toward their equal manifesto," advocated financial independence Senate committee with Susan B. Anthony and political rights." (Lucy Stone). for women, married first cousin 1900, edited at Congressional hearings, early supporter of monthly progressive magazine The Forerunner federal amendment, socially prominent. Margaret Fuller (Cambridgeport, MA) 1909 - 1916, wrote utopian fantasy Herland, May 23, 1810 - July 19, 1850, early feminist a founder of Woman's Peace Party, laid away Jessie Annette Jack Hooper (Winneashiek author, teacher, literary critic, journalist, orga- chloroform when she learned she had breast County, IA) Nov. 8, 1865 - May 8, 1935, es- nized and led Conversations of Transcenden- cancer to avoid being a burden or incapaci- tablished kindergarten visiting nurse program talists on popular topics including woman's tated, took it and died in Pasadena, CA. and tuberculosis sanatorium, married lawyer, rights 1840s, an editor of the influential liberal 1 daughter, worked in 1912 Wisconsin and journal Dial, her writings helped influence the Kate M. Gordon (New Orleans, LA) July 14 Francis E.W. Harper 1916 Iowa campaigns, lobbied, helped make Seneca Falls convention 1848, set an early 1861 - Aug. 24, 1932, with sister Jean founded Wisconsin first state to ratify, toured western standard of literary criticism as New York Tri- the Era Club (Equal Rights Association) 1896, Francis Ellen Watkins Harper (Baltimore, states urging quick ratification, US Senate bune critic, called "the most remarkable and headed Women's League for Sewage and MD) Sept. 24, 1825 - Feb. 22, 1911, orphaned nominee in 1920, lost to Robert M. LaFollette in some respects the greatest woman whom Drainage 1899, led fight against tuberculosis, at 3, married, widowed after 4 years, daughter but carried Milwaukee, advocate for world America has yet known" by editor Horace state and national suffrage leader, advocate of died young, early poet and well-known Black disarmament. "Her suffrage convictions were Greeley, war correspondent, married Italian states' rights to maintain segregation, edited the author, spoke out for abolition and women's shared by her husband, who from the time freedom fighter Ossoli, 1 son, directed emer- New Southern Citizen, worked with anti's to rights, aided fugitive slaves, lectured for of their marriage had regularly, in alternate gency hospital in Italy during uprising, fled to defeat ratification of federal amendment. Maine Anti-Slavery Society, toured eastern election years, voted for the candidates of her Florence, died in a shipwreck while sailing to states 1850s, after war lectured in South on choice." (Notable American Women) America, Emerson praised her for "the most temperance, Black morality, and against white entertaining conversation in America." racial violence, attended 1875 & 1887 suffrage Julia Ward Howe (New York, NY) May 27, conventions. 1819 - Oct. 17, 1910, author of "The Battle Antoinette Leland Funk (Dwight, IL) May Hymn of the Republic" 1861, married, 6 30, 1869 - March 27, 1942, attorney, promi- Ida Husted Harper (Fairfield, IN) Feb. children, named home outside Boston "Green nent suffrage field organizer, orphaned, raised 18, 1851 - March 14, 1931, Indiana U. and Peace," called for a women's peace movement by uncle, m., 2 daughters, Illinois Wesleyan Stanford, m. lawyer, 1 daughter, prodigious 1870, a founder and leader with Lucy Stone University Law, built Chicago legal practice, writer and journalist, head of press relations in of American Woman Suffrage Association, witty with a competitive nature, proposed California campaign of 1896, biographer and for 20 years edited and contributed to the safer jails and police stations, supported teach- traveling companion of SBA, author or co- great weekly The Woman's Journal, popu- ers’ pension rights and the rights of married author of “The History of Woman Suffrage” lar lecturer, poet and playwright, leader in women, became national figure in suffrage Volumes 4-6, head of national publications woman's club movement, "wherever she went movement although originally didn’t believe under Carrie Catt for final federal amendment she founded clubs" including Wisconsin 1876 women should vote, active on both east and campaign, 1916-1919. and San Francisco 1888, became "The Dearest west coasts, helped Illinois pass presidential Old Lady in America," first woman elected to suffrage (1913), travelled extensively includ- Louisine Waldron Elder Havemeyer (New American Academy of Arts and Letters. ing over 8,000 miles in 1914 to aid state York, NY) July 28, 1855 - Jan. 6, 1929, wealthy campaigns, served on NAWSA Congressional childhood, married, 3 children, socially promi- Addie Waites Hunton (Norfolk, VA) June Committee, lobbied, testified, member of the nent art collector and philanthropist, helped 11, 1875 - June 21, 1943, married, lost 2 of 4 Woman's Committee of the Council of Na- Alice Paul found Congressional Union and children as infants, Atlanta and Brooklyn, NY, tional Defense during World War I, appointed NWP, suffrage speaker, created popular sym- YMCA worker with Black troops in France assistant commissioner of public lands under Charlotte Perkins Gilman bols including "Torch of Liberty" and electric during WWI, organizer with National As- FDR (1933). "Ship of State" to wear in night parades 1915, sociation of Colored Women, NAACP field Helen Mar Jackson Gougar (Hillsdale Coun- tried to burn effigy of Woodrow Wilson 1919, secretary, challenged National Woman's Party Matilda Joslyn Gage (Cicero, NY) March ty, MI) July 18, 1843 - June 6, 1907, married arrested, traveled on "Prison Special" train to support Black women, "No women are free 25, 1826 - March 18, 1889, married at 18, lawyer, campaigned for suffrage and prohibi- across country, first American patron of Degas, until all women are free." 5 children, spoke "trembling in every limb" tion in Indiana in 1800s, lectured nationally, advised by Mary Cassatt, donated great Im- at National Woman's Rights Convention in revitalized Kansas suffrage movement, admit- pressionist art collection to the Met. Abigail Jemima Hutchinson (Milford, NH) Syracuse 1852, contributed to The Revolution, ted to bar, edited Our Herald reform weekly, Aug. 29, 1829 - Nov. 24, 1892, called Abby, leader of state and national suffrage associa- called "a born agitator, leader and reformer." Mary Garrett Hay (Charlestown, IN) Aug. singer, feminist, reformer, toured country with tions, lobbied Congress and political parties, 29, 1857 - Aug. 29, 1928, suffrage organizer 3 brothers as widely popular singing troupe co-authored "Women's Declaration of Rights" Angelina Emily Grimké (Charleston, and temperance reformer, traveled 13,000 The Hutchinson Family, shy, attractive, with with Elizabeth Cady Stanton for Centennial, SC) Feb. 20, 1805 - Oct. 26, 1879, teacher, miles to visit 20 states in 1890 with new orga- rich and melodious voice, "the sweet canary organizer, editor of National Citizen and Bal- woman's rights pioneer, 1 of 14 children of nizer Carrie Catt, organized precincts in 1896 of New Hampshire," sang against slavery lot Box monthly suffrage newspaper, wrote slave-owning father who fought in American California campaign, became Carrie Catt's lieu- and for peace, temperance and women's Woman as Inventor and edited with Elizabeth Revolution, left Episcopal church for Quakers, tenant, raised money, directed NYC suffrage rights, married Ludlow Patton, lived in New Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony The moved to Philadelphia then New Jersey, wrote campaigns 1915 & 1917, lobbied for federal Jersey, organized with Lucy Stone Vermont History of Woman Suffrage Vol. 1-3, "she ac- abolitionist pamphlet "An Appeal to the Chris- amendment, active in women's clubs, League Woman Suffrage Association, sang at national complished wonders" (SBA), opposed church tian Women of the South" (many destroyed by of Women Voters, and Republican party. women's rights conventions in 1850s, "I have Continued on Page 19 Women Win the Vote nwhanews.org 13

A scale model of Jane DeDecker’s monumental sculpture, Every Word We Utter, is surrounded by busts of American suffragists from throughout the movement. The bronze monument, intended for Washington D.C., will be 17 to 20 foot high with a 7 foot center circle and ripples leading away from it. Courtesy of Jane DeDecker, DeDecker Sculpture and Every Word We Utter, https://everywordweutter.com. Places to Go, Things to Do, Links to Enjoy Resources for the Women’s Suffrage Centennial

his is just a sampling of what’s happening. What’s Happening? Each of these websites offers a remarkable Tarray of resources – news, ideas, opportunities, information and links to enhance your experience of the A NATIONAL CELEBRATION suffrage centennial. They are nearly all non-profit, so naturally would appreciate your financial support. Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative (WVCI) – national center, contacts, Toolkit, calendar events, news, webinars, broadcasts, www.2020Centennial.org Suffrage Centennials – Marguerite Kearns, a suffragist 10 Top Centennial Sites to Visit descendent, edits these multimedia platforms and clearinghouses, www.suffragecentennials.com/ and (Longer descriptions follow) www.SuffrageWagon.org Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative (WVCI) – National Women’s History Alliance – source www.2020Centennial.org of downloadable suffrage centennial Gazettes National Votes for Women Trail – https://ncwhs.org/ with national and state resources, news, votes-for-women-trail/ performers, store, resources and links, https:// nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/ National Women’s History Alliance – https:// nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/ Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission, federally funded, newly established, https://www. American Journalism – www.SuffrageandtheMedia.org womensvote100.org/ Turning Point Suffragist Memorial – www. Vision 2020 – national project out of Drexel University suffragistmemorial.org with state representatives that also promotes women’s Women and Social Movements –https://documents. health, https://drexel.edu/vision2020/ alexanderstreet.com/VOTESforWOMEN Women Leading the Way – www.Suffragettes2020. com National Groups Suffrage Centennials – www.suffragecentennials.com/ Be sure to check with national organizations interested and www.SuffrageWagon.org in women’s rights as well as others, especially those with local or regional chapters. Vision 2020 – https://drexel.edu/vision2020/ Also check out the new Women’s Suffrage Centennial Groups bound to be involved include the League of “19th Amendment and Women’s Access to the Vote Commission https:/www.womensvote100.org/ Women Voters, American Association of University Across America,” National Park Service – https:// Women, National Council of Negro Women, American www.nps.gov/subjects/womenshistory/women-s-access- Bar Association and Feminist Majority Foundation. to-the-vote.htm, There’s also the Business and Professional Women, National Association of Negro Business & Professional 14 nwhanews.org National Women's History Alliance

Women’s Clubs, American Association for State & has plans for a suffrage centennial float to start off the Local History, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Girl Scouts, year, https://pasadenacelebrates2020.org/ Ms. Foundation and many others. Turning Point Suffragist Memorial – a permanent Also check your state’s Commission on the Status of park being planned in Lorton, VA, outside of DC, at Women (if it has one), Women’s Hall of Fame, Women’s the site where suffragists were imprisoned, informative History Project, Women’s Heritage Trail and similar website, educational resources include Equalitarian organizations. Herstory and African American Women Leaders in the Suffrage Movement, www.suffragistmemorial.org

Other sites in Washington D.C. include the former suffrage headquarters, the Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument, which houses the National Woman’s Party collection, and the Museum of Women and the Arts. There are also historic homes including the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site Rendering of Turning Point Memorial in Virginia. and many others. Library of Congress exhibit. Workhouse Prison Museum at Lorton (VA) – Life- size figures and explanations recreate the image of Women’s Justice Bell – Justice Bell Foundation and suffragists such as Lucy Burns enduring the torturous Finding Justice documentary film project on suffrage MUSEUMS/EXHIBITS process of force-feeding at the site of where they were artifact, http://www.justicebell.org/, Flag Guys – https:// imprisoned, https://workhousemuseums.org. theflagguys.smugmug.com/History/The-Justice-Bell/i- Washington D.C. Df3bHQW, photos plus NWP flag Beyond D.C. National institutions have stepped up to recognize Women and Social Movements – exceptional open Check the New-York Historical Society’s new Center women’s history and commemorate the suffrage project by Tom Dublin to write and make available for Women’s History, and the Schlesinger Library on movement with exhibits and events as never before. brief biographies of hundreds of individual Black, the History of Women in America in Cambridge, MA. militant and mainstream suffragists, https://documents. The National Portrait Gallery – Exhibition: “Votes There are many shows and exhibits throughout the alexanderstreet.com/VOTESforWOMEN for Women: A Portrait in Persistence” (to Jan. 5, 2020), country including the Women’s Museum of California, https://npg.si.edu/exhibition/votes-for-women Maine State Museum, and Texas State Library (check Individual suffragists are profiled and featured on National Archives – Exhibition: “Rightfully Hers: state listings) websites as well as books. Here are just a few; there American Women and the Vote” (to Jan 3, 2020), are many more: New York’s Inez Milholland, www. https://www.archivesfoundation.org/women/, offers InezMilhollandCentennial.com, Maine’s Florence 4 Centennial Display downloadable posters, https:// Books Whitehouse, www.florencebrookswhitehouse. museum.archives.gov/rightfully-hers, “One Half of the Get Involved com, and New Jersey’s Alice Paul, https://www. People,” Traveling Exhibit, https://www.archives.gov/ missalicepaul.com/. files/exhibits/nates/files/one-half-of-the-people-fact- National Projects Find the Graves of Suffragists – Project to research sheet.pdf and mark gravesites of notable women in cemeteries Vision 2020 – national organization in Philadelphia with near you, https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/ state representatives sponsored by Drexel University for honor-suffragist/, also Find A Grave, https://www. women’s health, economic, political and social equality, findagrave.com/claim-to-fame/23 planning Women 100: A Celebration of American Women, https://drexel.edu/vision2020/ Women on 20s – Follow the Women on 20s campaign to put Harriet Tubman and other women on the nation’s National Votes for Women Trail – Pomeroy Roadside paper currency. www.womenon20s.org Markers are helping to define a National Votes for Women Trail, a grassroots efforts with contacts in nearly Suffragists Centennial Motorcycle Ride – being every state to document historic sites and erect suffrage- organized at https://centennialride.com/womens- related roadside signs and historic markers, https:// motorcycle-tours-centennial-ride-about-the-ride ncwhs.org/votes-for-women-trail/, part of the National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites, https://ncwhs. Women Leading the Way: Suffragists org/ and Suffragettes Artist and teacher Mireille Miller has organized a groundbreaking national art and storytelling project for middle school students and older that celebrates suffrage activists and connects voting rights to each family’s Library of Congress – Exhibition: “Shall Not Be story. More than 100 schools have joined; deadline Denied: Women Fight for the Vote” (to Sept. 2020), extended to Fall 2019. Excellent website with iconic features handwritten letters, speeches, photographs, artwork highlights the project and includes international documents and artifacts from the Library’s unique suffragists. Possible interactive exhibit in 2020, www. suffrage collections, plus events, films, talks, online Suffragettes2020.com. resources, https://www.loc.gov/exhibitions/women- fight-for-the-vote/about-this-exhibition/ Smithsonian’s National Museum of American STATE GROUPS History – “American Women’s History 100” will Check out the detailed states list that starts on page 3. showcase examples of women’s art and artifacts, Many states, including Massachusetts, Idaho and Utah, Exhibition: “Girlhood (It’s Complicated) opens June already have well developed centennial projects and 2020, https://womenshistory.si.edu/email. websites that offer ideas, calendars of events, history, National Park Service, activities at many sites, online biographies, photographs, videos, resources, links and StoryMap: Places of Women’s Suffrage, and 19th more. Some have produced note cards, pins and other Amendment article series, www.nps.gov/articles/series Rose Bowl Parade Float – Pasadena Celebrates 2020 products. Women Win the Vote nwhanews.org 15

“How Women Won the Vote,” a free NWHA Gazette, Women’s Suffrage Toolkit – Wisconsin 19th Women and Social Movements in the United States lists state history links and names of suffragists in each Amendment Suffrage Centennial Celebration – offers brief biographies of hundreds of individual state, https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/wp- Committee, https://wisconsinhistory.org/pdfs/whs- Black, militant and mainstream suffragists, https:// content/uploads/vote_2018_sm3.pdf womens-suffrage-toolkit.pdf. documents.alexanderstreet.com/VOTESforWOMEN. To encourage or see what’s being planned at the state 19th Amendment Centennial Value Statement, The collection is part of a larger library subscription and local levels, consider connecting with: American Association of State and Local History, http:// database with invaluable collections on women, http:// • State Government including Governor, Secretary download.aaslh.org/AASLH+19th+Amendment+Centen womhist.alexanderstreet.com/ of State, legislators, State Library, Museum and nial+Value+Statement.pdf. Library of Congress –great collections, wonderful Historical Society The Schlesinger Library at Harvard University has suffrage teaching resources, accessible documents, • Local and county government agencies, libraries, created a number of research guides in support of photographs and publications, www.loc.gov, museums, historical societies, town meetings women’s history, https://guides.library.harvard.edu/ Principal archival center for suffragists’ personal and • Schools, colleges, universities, special collections schlesinger_rg_home. organizational papers, offers easy access to primary • Civic and church groups, businesses, non-profits, source material and useful lesson plans, http:// service and women’s clubs suffrageandthemedia.org/source/womens-suffrage- • Local chapters (see national groups) and locally teaching-resources-library-congress/ focused organizations. American Women – online source book describes Library of Congress resources and collections featuring women, https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/ index.html (also online: “Record of Leslie Women’s Suffrage Commission,” “Woman Suffrage and Politics” and more) 19 Objects from the 19th Amendment Campaign – a new digital Visualizing History exhibit, https:// votesforwomen.cliohistory.org/19objects. Newseum – “Women, Their Rights and Nothing Less,” educational suffrage program, lesson plans on the First Amendment, online newspaper exhibits, artifacts, open to visit in DC, https://newseumed.org, FACTSHEETS & TIMELINES Schlesinger Library – 75 Stories, 75 Years, documents Lesson Modules and Handouts – Rutgers’ site has a and objects from women’s lives and American history, lot of great Resources and Fact Sheets, http://tag.rutgers. https://schlesinger75radcliffe.org/ Celebrants with sashes in Wisconsin. edu/teaching-toolbox/classroom-resources/lesson- module-womens-suffrage-in-the-united-states/ Some groups have found a receptive attitude at local Scholastic Teacher’s Activity Guide – http://teacher. cafés, bars, community centers, and other venues. Ask scholastic.com/activities/suffrage/ about hosting a benefit or celebration, or plan a special US and International suffrage dates – http://www. event with musicians, a film or video, trivia contests, womeninworldhistory.com/factLesson4.html speakers or performers who entertain and connect the past with current issues. National Suffrage Timeline – https://rrlc.org/ winningthevote/timelines/national-suffrage-timeline/ Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed Go Online America – based on book by Charlotte Waisman and Jill Tietjen, http://www.herstoryatimeline.com/ Several other sites, particularly state centennial sites, Toolkits for the Centennial have more information and resources including factsheets, timelines, documents and curricula. Resource Toolkit, National Association of Commissions for Women, “Women’s Suffrage National Suffrage Timeline – https://rrlc.org/ Carrie Chapman Catt Collection of Suffrage Centennial Practical Ways to Celebrate the winningthevote/timelines/national-suffrage-timeline/ Photographs – Unique Bryn Mawr website offers Suffrage Movement” https://www.nacw.org/ portraits of suffragists (especially state leaders and uploads/1/2/0/3/120368762/centsuffragetoolkitnacw.pdf. actions) and photographs from around the country, http:// WVCI Toolkit, Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative, triptych.brynmawr.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/ www.2020centennial.org, or https://static1. suffragists. squarespace.com/static/59f8bb8ef9a61e486d29387d/t/5 National Archives Documents, www.DocsTeach.org. be470f34ae2370de3f66da8/1541697792587/Women%E 2%80%99s+Vote+Centennial+Initiative+Toolkit.pdf. Digital Classroom – National Archives’ “Teaching With Documents and Primary Sources” Lesson Plan, Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment, https://www.archives. Exhibits & Resources gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage. Suffrage and the Media - American Journalism Smithsonian Learning Lab Collections – https:// has organized a rich collection of media, resources, learninglab.si.edu/search?st=womens+suffrage&item_ historic links, and a Special Suffrage Edition, www. type=collections&st_op=and. SuffrageandtheMedia.org. th The National Women’s History Museum – educational 19 Amendment and Women’s Access to the Vote resources including online exhibits on suffrage Across America – a series of 14 wide-ranging articles history like the Parading for Progress, https://www. commissioned by the National Park Service for the th womenshistory.org/, and Creating a Female Political centennial. Covers the road to the 19 Amendment Culture, http://www.crusadeforthevote.org/, panel including Other Social Movements, Strategies and discussions throughout 2020, Educator Institute in Conflicts, Anti-Suffragism, African American Women, summer 2020. Popular Culture, Suffrage in the West, Midwest, New England, Mid-Atlantic and Southern States, Google Books and Gutenberg – https://www.gutenberg. Program Toolkit, Indiana Women’s Suffrage International, Historic Sites and Legacies of Woman org/ebooks/ offers many suffrage books free online, Centennial, http://indianasuffrage100.org/wp-content/ Suffrage. https://www.nps.gov/subjects/womenshistory/ especially key references like “The History of Woman uploads/2019/03/IWSC-Program-Toolkit-v4.pdf. women-s-access-to-the-vote.htm; Suffrage” in 6 volumes, “The Story of the Woman’s 16 nwhanews.org National Women's History Alliance

Party,” and others. Places to Discover Larger projects include Jane DeDecker’s Suffrage Google Arts and Culture presentation on Elizabeth Monument, Every Word We Utter, http:// Cady Stanton – https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/ everywordweutter.com/, the Turning Point Suffragist m0bwm9 HISTORIC SITES Memorial outside D.C., www.suffragistmemorial.org, the Women’s Monument in Virginia with 12 bronze Feminism 101 – David Dismore’s inspiring site There are sites related to the women’s suffrage statues, http://womensmonumentcom.virginia.gov/, and includes “This Day in Feminist History,” timelines on movement throughout the country, particularly in the the growing number of statues that women in Tennessee history and domestic issues, http://www.feminism101. eastern states. Two of the main national sites are the have erected (including Carrie Catt and Harry and Febb com/ Women’s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Burn), http://tnwomansuffrageheritagetrail.com and Discovering American Women’s History Online is an Falls, NY, https://www.nps.gov/wori/index.htm, and the http://tnsuffragemonument.org/. invaluable resource on suffrage and many other topics, Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Existing memorials devoted to suffragists include includes links to many collections digital.mtsu.edu/cdm/ Monument, in Washington D.C., https://www.nps.gov/ Mary McLeod Bethune, Frederick Douglass, Esther search/collection/women/searchterm/suffrage/mode/all/ bepa/index.htm. Morris, Clara Barton, Jane Addams, Lucy Stone, Alice order/nosort/page/1 . There are numerous sites, many independent non- Stone Blackwell, Sojourner Truth, Amelia Bloomer profits, including the homes of Susan B. Anthony, and others. Utah has a campaign to send a statue Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman and Matilda Joslyn of first state senator Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon to Gage in the east, plus those of Carrie Chapman Catt Statuary Hall, where it will join the Portrait Monument (Iowa), Harriet Taylor Upton (Ohio), Alice Paul (New that memorializes three suffrage pioneers. Kansas is Jersey) and many others throughout the country. sending Amelia Earhart. A State-By-State Guide to the Top Women’s History Landmarks in America, https://www.forbes.com/sites/ laurabegleybloom/2018/03/19/top-womens-history- landmark-in-every-state/#7980816a75c2 Women’s history and suffrage sites are also listed on the National Park Service and National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites websites. STATUES & MEMORIALS Friends with Mary McLeod Bethune, right. There are a number of centennial-related drives to erect New Sources on Black Suffragists statues of significant suffragists. Activists in Illinois are working on a bust of Ida B. Wells-Barnett after a street There are an increasing number of projects and was named for her, http://www.idabwellsmonument. websites that recognize Black suffragists and org/. other non-white women who were part of the Women in Arizona are raising money for a tribute Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument. suffrage movement yet were still barred from to state leader Frances Willard Munds, www. voting after 1920. azwomenshistoryalliance.org/. African American Suffragists – Short A statue of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. The Arts biographies of 35 leaders http://www. Anthony, the first of real women in Central Park, has suffragistmemorial.org/african-american-women- drawn a lot of attention, www.monumentalwomen. Art & Artifacts leaders-in-the-suffrage-movement/ org. There are also individual statues of Anthony and HerFlag – Marilyn Artus’s national collaborative African American Women and the Nineteenth Stanton planned for elsewhere. centennial project for artists creating an 18 x 26 foot Amendment – National Park Service, https:// flag with 36 stripes, one for each of the ratifying states, www.nps.gov/articles/african-american-women- https://www.herflag.com/. and-the-nineteenth-amendment.htm Suffrage in Stitches – Katherine Durack’s site Black Past – African American and international celebrates Women’s Fight for Political Voice through history resources, timelines, Frederick Douglass Be a Leader – Get Involved! Crochet, including patterns for a “Failure is Impossible” on Suffrage, https://www.blackpast.org Ever consider entering public service? Even afghan, Ratification muffler and more,www. The Black Woman Suffragists Collection if you can’t see yourself running for office, suffrageinstitches.com/ – Part of the Women and Social Movements consider helping another woman run. Either National Portrait Gallery – a wonderful collection project, https://search.alexanderstreet.com/ way, check groups like She Should Run, Young of portraits, paintings and sculptures of suffragists, view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cweb_ Women in Politics, Running Start Online, many images available online and downloadable, collection%7C3180493, Black Women AACU, Ignite National, Girls Inc., and CAWP npg.si.edu/portraits/search?edan_q=suffrage&edan_ Suffragists’ biographies, https://documents. Rutgers. National organizations like the AAUW local=1&op=Search alexanderstreet.com/VOTESforWOMEN/ and League of Women Voters can also help. bwsintro Rutgers University houses useful centers Century of Action – several states like Oregon including: are researching African American women in their • Center for American Women and Politics – state campaigns (check the state centennial list), excellent research and analysis, fact sheets, blog, http://centuryofaction.org/index.php/main_site/ “Ready to Run” Program, http://www.cawp. document_project/oregons_colored_womens_ rutgers.edu/ equal_suffrage_league_and_the_1912_campaign • Institute for Women’s Leadership – resources, The Sojourner Project – highlights suffragist fact sheets, video interviews, http://iwl.rutgers. Sojourner Truth (search for other individual edu/ women), https://www.thesojournertruthproject. com/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw_ • Dept. of Women and Gender Studies – current concerns, newsletter, http://womens-studies. Schomburg Center for Research in Black rutgers.edu/ Culture – great resources, unique collections, The Smithsonian’s American History Museum – https://www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg, See who ran in the past at Her Hat Was in the historic items from the women’s suffrage movement strong Photographs and Prints Division, Ring, http://www.herhatwasinthering.org/ including printed material, a Woman Suffrage Wagon https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/divisions/ and Susan B. Anthony’s Gavel from 1888, http:// schomburg-center-for-research-in-black-culture- americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search?custom_ photographs-and-prints-division search_id=collections-search&edan_local=1&edan_ q=suffrage&op=Search&edan_fq%5B%5D=online_ visual_material%3Atrue Women Win the Vote nwhanews.org 17

Suffrage Centennial artwork – Meneese Wall’s Stephen Adams, “Suffrage Balladeer,” – “A Harriet Powell, and a young Elizabeth Cady. original cards and prints for the centennial – http://www. Fine Agitation: Scenes from the Struggle for Other creative local performances we’ve noted include meneesewall.com/meneesewall/Meneese_Wall.html Women’s Suffrage,” composer and singer of songs Hear Our Voice A Woman’s Journey, a musical commemorating women’s suffrage, sjadams.net. He’ll Collectors – Several people who collect suffrage oratorio by Van Nuys High School students, on Sarah be at the Adams, MA, Herstory Conference, July 2020 material have posted images of items in their collections Bard Field’s cross country journey. online including, The Ann Lewis Women’s Suffrage and is looking for additional audiences. Listen to samples on YouTube, https://youtu.be/E9iz5hxEffM, Victoria Woodhull: Shattering Glass Ceilings at Collection, https://lewissuffragecollection.omeka.net/, Akron, Ohio’s Dunamis Theater. and the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Trust, http://www. and “Failure’s Impossible” at https://www.youtube.com/ Suffragist Anthems – Jeannie Guerrero, of the Eastman elizabethcadystanton.org/ watch?v=HCodNrbq2o8. https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=PXpdQ5tffOs School of Music, performed at Seneca Falls in May. Suffrage Postcards and Memorabilia – Longtime Song Suffragettes, https://www.songsuffragettes.com/ Hear Them Roar: The Fight for Women’s Rights by collector Ken Florey has created an excellent NYU students. website and written two informative books, http:// about-1 Lucy Stone Bicentennial events and concerts in 2018 womansuffragememorabilia.com/ Mother Mends, Former Baltimore teacher and “History West Brookfield, MA. He also created a Google Arts & Culture display, https:// Songwriter” Joe DeFilippo’s suffrage song, https:// artsandculture.google.com/asset/women-s-suffrage- soundcloud.com/search?q=Joe%20DeFilippo memorabilia-1890-1917/uwHpvtsAenU6Eg Spirit of 1776: A New Suffragette Anthem, music TV/VIDEO Women’s Suffrage Memorabilia, 1890-1917 – video, Edna Kearns LINK Two exciting television productions are in the works: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/exhibit/ wRm3wFhH Suffrage Music Votes for Women, a PBS four-hour special (tentative American Political Items Collectors – Original title), and The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to suffrage buttons and leaflets are relatively rare but Win the Vote, a Steven Spielberg & Hillary Clinton TV items do come up for sale; www.apic.us/ is the primary Old Songs, https://forwardintolight.oldsongs.org/, series based on Elaine Weiss’s book. collectors’ organization. Items also appear on Ebay. Singing for Suffrage performance Citizens Project is a powerful online video series that Suffrage Music on Parade – Library of Congress’ came out of the British centennial, features a powerful Musicals digital Sheet Music collection, more than 200 songs, 5-minute reenactment of suffragette Mary Richardson’s https://www.loc.gov/collections/womens-suffrage-sheet- testimony on force feeding, https://www.youtube.com/ The Suffragists musical – Shaina Taub, https:// music/about-this-collection/?loclr=blogmus shainataub.com/home watch?v=HpA4tQD7Bfw, and a historic 4-minute Recovering Our Past includes a suffrage song and the reenactment of Emmeline Pankhurst’s 1913 suffrage 19: The Musical – https://www.19themusical.com/ voices of elderly suffragists http://jukebox.uaf.edu/ speech in Hartford, CT, https://www.youtube.com/ suffragists/index.html (link on bottom of home page) watch?v=NL5s9dk9U4w Hurrah for Woman Suffrage! 40 minutes of historical Existing videos and films include the PBS women’s songs by the Homespun Singers, https://shop. documentaries “One Woman, One Vote” and “Not for nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/ Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Stanton and Songs of the Suffragettes, Folkways Records, Susan Anthony,” HBO’s “Iron Jawed Angels,” and the British feature “Suffragette.” “Not for Ourselves Suffrage Songs and Verses by Charlotte Perkins Alone” has valuable resources, https://www.pbs.org/ Gilman, kenburns/not-for-ourselves-alone/, and rare archival film https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/gilman/suffrage/ in its three minute trailer, https://www.pbs.org/video/ suffrage.html womens-suffrage-7neirw/

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We Did It For You! Women’s Journey Through History, musical on how women fought for their rights in America, www.wediditforyou.org The Perfect 36: An American Musical, on Tennessee’s final vote currently on Kickstarter Recipe for Justice: A Musical Readers Theatre Celebrating Washington Woman Suffrage Centennial, songs from the musical, limited to one production, are on the “Here’s to the Women!” CD by Linda Allen, https://www.lindasongs.com/suffrage One Woman, One Vote Film Festival – planned for Mary Poppins sings “Sister Suffragette.” Washington D.C. in 2020, https://2020owovfest.org/ Sister Suffragette from Mary Poppins, 1964, https:// about/ Singer/Songwriters www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLKFJUHQXi8 The Black Suffragist: Trailblazers of Social Justice Gerri Gribi (CreativeFolk.com) – includes African – being produced by Jennifer Rolle and Women Voices American Toolkit and a Suffrage Sing Along Sheet with Now, http://www.blacksuffragette.com/ suffrage lyrics to popular tunes http://creativefolk.com/ The Divine Order – set in Switzerland in 1971 where suffrage.html Plays women were still denied the right to vote, trailer https:// Linda Allen – original songs by Linda Allen, including Failure is Impossible: Woman Suffrage and the 19th www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUKEjCeJQmE Inez, Failure is Impossible and Here’s to the Women, Amendment, by Rosemary H. Knower. Narrator and American Suffragists – Wild West Women suffrage https://www.lindasongs.com/suffrage three readers; statements from 14 suffragists, https:// films by Martha Wheelock, “Inez Milholland: Forward Dolly Parton’s Right to Vote 19th Amendment song, link www.archives.gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage/ into Light,” “How Women Won the Vote in California, in Washington Post article, https://www.washingtonpost. script.html, “Tea with Alice” on Alice Paul, https://wildwestwomen. com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/09/17/dolly-parton- American Radical, Kate Redway’s biographical org/ wrote-a-song-about-the-19th-amendment-to-uplift- drama about Elizabeth Cady Stanton, http://www. Film and video lists – extensive links on Women’s women/?utm_term=.9194ace566c1 rutlandherald.com/articles/american-radical/, History and Suffrage, Catt Childhood http:catt.org/ Joyce Rouse – HerStory, prepared for the Women’s Possessing Harriet, New York-based play by Kyle Bass Suffrage Centennial, https://earthmama.org/music/ imagines a conversation between an enslaved woman, 18 nwhanews.org National Women's History Alliance

Silent Films – Kay Sloan has a documentary, "To get that word, “Suffragettes in the Silent Cinema,” and a book, The Loud Silents: Origins of the Social Problem Film. male, out of the Con- sfsilentfilmfestival.blogspot.com/2016/05/silent-films- stitution, cost the and-suffragettes.html?showComment=1489181117656. women of this coun- Courage in Corsets: Winning the Vote in Washington try fifty-two years of State – state centennial film,https://www.pbs.org/video/ pauseless campaign; ksps-documentaries-courage-in-corsets-1/ 56 state referendum campaigns; 480 leg- islative campaigns to get state suffrage amendments submit- ted; 47 state consti- tutional convention campaigns; 277 state party convention cam- paigns; 30 national party convention cam-

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100 Suffragists Continued from Page 12 sufficient to sustain her, traveled and lectured forced to leave school at 15, married at 18, boycotted products of slave labor, accosted seen but few men who are thoroughly just to as suffrage organizer for NAWSA for five widowed at 23 with 1 daughter, Genesee by mobs, excluded from World's Anti-Slavery women." years, mostly in the west, helped insure narrow College, taught, remarried 1868, child died in Convention, London 1840, met Elizabeth Cady California victory, early member of Congres- infancy, widowed after 9 years, law degree Na- Stanton, called first women's rights convention Adelaide Johnson (Plymouth, IL) Sept. 26, sional Union and NWP, supported prohibition tional U. 1873, successfully lobbied Congress in Seneca Falls, NY 1848, opened and closed it 1859 - Nov, 10, 1955, sculptor, feminist, born and Equal Rights Amendment, first president to allow women lawyers to practice before as one of few women used to public speaking, Sarah Adelaide, m. and husband took her of National Federation of Business and Profes- US Supreme Court, sponsored first Southern president of American Equal Rights Associa- name, sculpted classic busts of women s rights sional Women’s Clubs, promoted women’s Black admitted to practice before Supreme tion 1866. leaders, lived in Rome and Washington DC, right to serve on juries, repeatedly elected to Court, founded Washington DC's first suffrage commissioned by the National Woman's Parry serve in Maine legislature 1929-1941, chal- group 1867, circulated petitions, drew up bills, Adelina Otero-Warren (La Constancia, NM) to create the Woman Suffrage Monument lenged discrimination against women, believed addressed Congressional committees, ran for Oct. 23, 1881 – Jan. 3, 1965, educator, writer, donated to the government in 1923 and now in “absolute equality in custom and law.” President 1884 and 1888 on National Equal business woman, called “Nina,” influential in US Capitol rotunda, dreamt of a museum of Rights Party ticket, leader of Universal Peace family with deep local roots, described as women's history, Union, "moved US Congress to open highest “high spirited and independent,” Maryville court to women lawyers singlehandedly." College, organized support among Spanish- Florence Kelley (Philadelphia, PA) Sept. 12, and English- speaking communities, chosen by 1859 - Feb. 17, 1932, late Quaker, Cornell U., Mary Eliza Mahoney (Roxbury MA) April Alice Paul to lead state NWP chapter, insisted translated Karl Marx, married Lazare Wisch- 16, 1845 - Jan. 4, 1926, first Black woman to suffrage literature be published also in Span- newetzky, 3 children, divorced, Hull House, become a trained nurse 1879, worked in New ish, ran for Congress 1922, first Latina to run risked smallpox surveying city slums and England Hospital for Women and Children, for national office, respected Superintendent sweatshops, inspected factories, led reforms, strong supporter of suffrage, one of first of Public Schools in Santa Fe County for 12 was shot at, evening law degree Northwestern, women to register and vote in Boston. years, improved schools, recruited teachers, fought for minimum wage and end to child la- tried to balance deep Spanish culture with bor, led National Consumer's League in NYC, Anne Henrietta Martin (Empire City, NV) federal requirements, critic of assimilation National American Woman Suffrage Associa- Sept. 30, 1875 - April 15, 1951, (Nevada), and imperialism, beloved family and com- tion vice-president, spike widely, helped orga- U. of Nevada, Stanford, tennis champion and munity matriarch, ran real estate business and nize NAACP, pacifist, Women's International athlete, arrested in English suffrage demonstra- homesteaded ranch called “Las Dos” (The Two League for Peace and Freedom, opposed Equal tion, led campaign which won Nevada in 1914, Women) with partner outside of Santa Fe. Rights Amendment for endangering protective National Woman's Party leader, first woman legislation, forceful, bright, witty, "explosive, to run for Senate 1918 & 1920, encouraged hot-tempered, determined, she was no gentle women to seek direct political power and put saint." (Frances Perkins) women's issues first, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Carmel, CA, Belle Case LaFollette (Summit, WI) April 21, "Equality for women is a passion with me." 1859 - Aug. 18, 1931, Wisconsin progressive leader, political partner and wife of Senator Katharine Dexter McCormick (Dexter, MI) Robert Marion LaFollette, 4 children, U. of Mabel Ping-Hua Lee Aug. 27, 1875 - Dec. 28, 1967, philanthropist, Wisc., and law school as a young mother, promoted higher education for women, MIT, lectured, wrote, worked for peace and racial Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (Canton, China) 1896 married, husband mentally ill, led outdoor equality, established LaFollette's Weekly - 1966, learned English as a child and won rallies in Massachusetts 1909, NAWSA officer Magazine, active in Wisconsin, Nebraska, scholarship and visa to New York City, at 16 and supporter, smuggled diaphragms into US North Dakota, and Oregon campaigns, Wash- joined suffrage movement and was part of for Margaret Sanger's clinical research, helped ington hostess, turned down late husband's the brigade of horsewomen that led the 1912 develop and fund research for "the pill". Senate seat - and chance to be first woman suffrage parade, Barnard College and Ph.D. Senator (her son won), Women's International from Columbia in Economics, followed father Catharine Gougar Waugh McCulloch League for Peace and Freedom, known for as life-long director of First Chinese Baptist (Ransomville, NY) June 4, 1862 - April 20, sound judgment. Church and community service center, influ- 1945, lawyer, Union College of Law, Chicago, ential figure in Chinatown, felt equal suffrage met prejudice against women lawyers, married Harriet Burton Laidlaw (Albany, NY) Dec. necessary to a successful democracy, advocat- lawyer, 4 children, wrote key bill providing Adelina Otera-Warren 16, 1873 - Jan. 25, 1949, Barnard College, ed women’s voting rights even though Chinese for woman suffrage in presidential elections, m. banker/suffragist who organized Men’s were not considered citizens until 1943 and submitted for 20 years before passed in Illinois Leagues for Woman Suffrage, both toured west could not vote, NYC Chinatown Post Office 1913, important strategic breakthrough, copied Maud Wood Park (Boston, MA) Jan 25, 1871 speaking for suffrage 1911 & 1914, 1 daughter, named after her, 2018. in other states, NAWSA adviser and officer, - May 8, 1955, organizer, civic leader, speaker, spoke on street corner as NAWSA Manhattan spoke widely, started suffrage auto tours, Radcliffe, organized College Equal Suffrage borough , president, "eloquent speaker, inde- Miriam Florence Folline (Squier) Leslie, organized midwestern suffrage conventions, League, married at 26, widowed, marriage to fatigable worker, and conscientious lieutenant" Mrs. Frank Leslie (New Orleans, LA) June elected Evanston Justice of the Peace. Robert Hunter kept secret, active in Washing- (NAW), opposed militants, worked to end 3, 1836 - Sept. 18, 1914, magazine editor ton DC, Boston and Maine, powerful National white slavery and prostitution, vegetarian. and publisher, married British-born publisher Virginia Louisa Minor (Caroline County, VA) American Woman Suffrage Association lob- Frank Leslie 1874 after two marriages, upon March 27, 1824 - Aug. 14, 1894, m. St. Louis, byist for 19th Amendment, widely respected Daisy Adams Lampkin (Washington D.C.) his death had her name legally changed to MO lawyer, 1 child, formed WSA of MO for honest "Front Door" lobby, tact and ability, Aug. 9, 1883? - March 10, 1965, civil rights Frank Leslie and restored life to his nearly 1867, leader for 27 years, spoke frequently, first president of League of Women Voters, organizer, community activist, reformer, m., bankrupt publishing empire, led it for 15 years, made influential argument with husband claim- donated nucleus of Schlesinger Library's spoke on Pittsburgh street corners to orga- became "the Empress of Journalism," left to ing 14th Amendment protected women's inher- Women's Rights Collection. nize Black housewives, elected president of Carrie Catt nearly $1 million for "the further- ent right to vote in a democracy, filed unsuc- the Lucy Stone Woman Suffrage League in ance of the cause of woman suffrage" 1914 cessful test case 1872, SBA, Sojourner Truth, Alice Stokes Paul (Moorestown, NJ) Jan. 11, Pittsburgh and cooperated with other suffrage which provided critical funding for the final Victoria Woodhull and other women used 1885 - July 9, 1977, Quaker, Swarthmore, U. organizations, effective fundraiser for Black New York campaign, national publications and interpretation to justify voting in early years. of Penn. PhD., chief strategist for the militant student scholarships and civil rights organiza- final "Winning Plan." suffrage wing, founder of the Congressional tions, national organizer for NACW, chair Esther Hobart McQuigg Slack Morris Union for Woman Suffrage and the National of the executive board, vice-president of the Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (Boston, MA) (Tioga County, NY) Aug. 8, 1814 - April 2, Woman's Party, author of the Equal Rights Black weekly Pittsburgh Courier, regional Dec. 19, 1820 - May 23, 1905, read entire 1902, orphaned at 11, married, 1 son, wid- Amendment, organizer of the 1913 parade and national field secretary for NAACP for 17 Bible every year until 23, married, 3 daugh- owed after 3 years, married Morris, 3 children, in Washington DC, jailed 3 times in England years then elected to national board, built up ters, Civil War worker with Chicago Sanitary moved to Wyoming 1869, encouraged new and 3 times in the US, waged hunger strike in membership and established chapters across the Comm., organized over 300 aid societies in territory's leaders to pass woman suffrage and prison, hospitalized, force-fed and treated as country, claimed “nothing is done unless the Midwest, organized Chicago Woman Suf- property rights legislation, Wyoming the first insane, law degree in 1922, international orga- women do it,” had a passion for hats, energetic, frage Convention 1868, started newspaper The territory in western world to grant woman suf- nizer, influenced charter of the United Nations. forceful, persuasive and effective, helped lay Agitator, merged with The Woman's Journal frage 1869, elected first female Justice of the the foundation for the civil rights movement. which she edited 1870-72, writer and teacher, Peace, celebrated as "The Mother of Woman Anita Lily Pollitzer (Charleston, SC) Oct. lectured for 23 years, "The Queen of the Plat- Suffrage." 31, 1894 - July 3, 1975, Columbia U., m. Elie Gail Laughlin (Robbinston, ME) May 7, 1868 form," chief Women's Christian Temperance Charles Edson, kept own name, organizer with - March 13, 1952, field worker, state legisla- Union speaker, president of American Woman Lucretia Coffin Mott (Nantucket, MA) Jan. 3, NWP, active in final Tennessee ratification tor, attorney, worked tirelessly for equal rights, Suffrage Association 1875-78. 1793 - Nov. 11, 1880, Quaker minister, lead- drive, ERA focus for 40 years, first showed originally named Abbie, Wellesley, Cornell ing women's rights pioneer, called a "spitfire" classmate Georgia O'Keeffe's work to Alfred Law, opened practice in New York City to Belva Ann Bennett McNall Lockwood for her tart tongue, married James Mott, 6 Stieglitz, 2 sisters Mabel and Carrie also suf- deal specifically with women’s issues but not (Royalton, NY) Oct. 24, 1830 - May 19, 1917, children, leading Philadelphia abolitionist, fragists. 20 nwhanews.org National Women's History Alliance

Jeannette Pickering Rankin (Missoula, MT) Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose (Russian Anthony, Susan B. Anthony's niece, National June 11, 1880 - May 18, 1973, U. of Montana, Poland) Jan. 13, 1810 - Aug. 4, 1892, rabbi's American Woman Suffrage Association presi- U. of Wash., suffrage organizer, helped win daughter, secured own inheritance at 16, dent 1904-1915, chaired Woman's Committee Montana 1914, National American Woman moved to England then New York, founded of the US Council of National Defense during Suffrage Association field secretary, lobbied the Association of All Classes of All Nations WWI, had battleship named for her, died 15 states 1913-15, elected first US Congress- with Robert Owen 1835, married, supported speaking out for League of Nations at 73. woman 1917, pacifist, voted against both married women's property bill 1840, called for world wars, ran for Senate, lived in Athens, "political, legal, and social equality with man" Nettie Rogers Shuler (Buffalo, NY) Nov. 8, Georgia, lobbied for peace. at 1850 national convention, popular lecturer 1862 - Dec. 2, 1939, m., daughter Marjorie for over 20 years, friend of Susan B. Anthony became suffragist, woman’s club president, Harriet “Hattie” Crawford Redmond (St. who called her a pioneer of the suffrage move- active in NY campaign 1915, NAWSA cor- Louis, MO) 1862 - June 27, 1952, Oregon ment along with Mary Wollstonecraft and responding secretary, energetic aid to CCCatt, suffrage leader, proud daughter of emanci- Frances Wright, died in England. conducted training schools for suffrage pated slaves, settled in Portland, m., stood up organizers, spoke widely, testified before state and spoke out, held suffrage meetings in Mt. Rose Schneiderman (Russian Poland) April legislatures, lobbied for ratification, wrote Olivet Baptist Church (1912), president of the 6, 1882 - Aug. 11, 1972, red-headed Polish "Woman Suffrage and Politics" with Catt in Colored Women's Equal Suffrage Associa- Jew, moved to lower east side NY 1890, labor 1923. tion, served on the State Central Campaign organizer and fiery speaker with the Women's Committee, immediately registered after 1912 Trade Union League and International Ladies Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Johnstown, NY) victory, co-organize a Colored Women’s Re- Garment Workers Union, reformer, NAWSA Tye Leung Schulze Nov. 12, 1815 - Oct. 26, 1902, brilliant publican Club, widowed at 45, labored as organizer 1913, active in NY campaigns 1915- woman's rights leader, influenced by father's 17, Labor candidate for Senate 1920, advised law office, married abolitionist, omitted word Eleanor Roosevelt. president of pioneer New England Woman's "obey" from ceremony, felt a woman should Club 1868, founded short-lived Women's not submerge her identity in marriage, 7 chil- Tye Leung Schulze (San Francisco, CA) International Peace Association with Julia dren, with Lucretia Mott, Mary McClintock, August 24, 1887 - 1972, community activist, Ward Howe 1871, friend of Stanton, Anthony Jane Hunt and Martha Wright issued call to called “Tiny” for her 4 foot height, experienced and Stone, helped found American Woman first woman's rights convention in Seneca segregation against Chinese, fled arranged Suffrage Association 1869, reform leader in Falls, New York 1848, wrote "Declaration of marriage, worked against sex slavery, passed California, founded Friday Morning Club, Sentiments" declaring that "men and women civil service exam, became the first Chinese president of Los Angeles County Woman Suf- are created equal," proposed that women woman employed by the federal government, frage League 1900. should vote, suffered ridicule and criticism, in- worked as translator for detained Chinese tellectual, free thinker, used pseudonym "Sun immigrants on Angel Island, first Chinese Anna Howard Shaw (Newcastle-on-Tyne, Flower," political partner for 50 years with Su- woman to vote in the US (1912), studied first: England) Feb. 14, 1847 - July 2, 1919, sailed san B. Anthony, popular speaker and forceful “I wanted to KNOW what was right,” fired for America 1851, pioneer homesteader at 12, writer, drafted resolutions, wrote speeches, ran after interracial marriage, 4 children, worked as taught, first ordained Methodist woman min- for Congress 1866, edited The Revolution, bookkeeper and phone operator, popular China- ister 1880, began by preaching sermons to the president of National Woman Suffrage As- town figure, reputed pinball wizard, supported trees in the Michigan forest, Boston U. medi- sociation for 21 years, agitated for constitu- Rose Schneiderman abortion rights. cal school 1886, Women's Christian Temper- tional amendment from 1887 onward, author hairdresser and domestic, worked to pro- ance Union organizer and speaker, outstanding of The Woman's Bible disputing the Bible's tect civil rights, educate girls and improve Caroline Maria Seymour Severance (Canan- suffrage orator for 30 years, known for her derogatory treatment of women, honored by economic life, rediscovered and honored as daigua, NY) Jan. 12, 1820 - Nov. 10, 1914, compelling eloquence, "She spoke in every 6,000 at the Metropolitan Opera House on notable Black American suffragist during the married, 5 children, attended women's rights state in the union," close associate of Susan 80th birthday, called "The Grand Old Woman state’s suffrage centennial in 2012, building at conventions 1851, worked in Ohio with Fran- B. Anthony, warm and devoted, stocky, lived of America." Oregon State named in her honor (2018). ces Gage, abolitionist, active in Boston, for 30 years with friend and secretary Lucy

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Lucy Stone (West Brookfield, MA) Aug. 13, Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm (Pittsburgh, California, acquired grafted buds from promis- her pipe. Young Blatch asked, "Sojourner, can't 1818 - Oct. 18, 1893, first Massachusetts PA) Dec. 6, 1815 - July 22, 1884, passionate ing species of oranges from Brazil, developed you read?" to which she answered, "Oh no, woman to earn a college degree, taught and anti-slavery journalist, married, 1 child, taught, phenomenally successful California naval honey, I can't read little things like letters. I did housework while at Oberlin, William painted, made corsets, lively with quick wit, orange industry from two original trees (1875), read big things like men." Lloyd Garrison wrote, "She is a very superior edited Minnesota newspapers, served as nurse later recovered from bankruptcy, memorialized young woman, and has a soul as free as the during Civil War, lectured and wrote articles in Riverside by bronze statue by Guy Angelo air," married Henry Blackwell, became known on women's rights, toured Illinois for suffrage Wilson (2011) depicting a slim young woman for keeping own name to protest restrictive 1872. with arms raised in hope in tribute to Tibbets, marriage laws, 2 children, son died after birth, who actually resembled Queen Victoria. spoke for abolition and women's rights, orga- Mary Burnett Talbert (Oberlin, Ohio) Sept. nized own lectures, eloquent and sincere, led 18, 1866 - Oct. 15, 1923, orator, club leader, Augusta Lewis Troup (New York, NY) in calling the first national woman's reformer, only African American woman in c.1848 - Sept. 14, 1920, orphaned in infancy, Oberlin class (1886), m., 1 daughter, teacher called "Gussie" Lewis, adopted by broker and high school principal, civil leader in Isaac Gager, Manhattanville, became reporter Buffalo, “graceful and gracious,” hosted and typesetter, labor organizer and journalist, first meeting of Niagra Movement, elected joined Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady president of National Association of Colored Stanton in forming the New York Working Women and officer in the NAACP, lectured Women's Association in The Revolution's of- widely on importance of women’s rights fices 1868, felt demand for suffrage should not and race relations, led anti-lynching efforts, get in the way of women organizing for equal enlisted white support for “A Million Women working rights, organized and led the Women's United to Stop Lynching,” became one of the Typographical Union No. 1 1868-1878, mar- most well known Black women of her time, ried New Haven Union publisher 1874, 7 helped develop Black female organizations children, community leader, called "the Little Mother of the Italian Colony." and leaders and set the stage for the later civil Harriet Tubman rights movement. Sojourner Truth (Rifton, NY) c.1797 - Nov. Harriet Tubman (Dorchester County, MD) Mary Eliza Church Terrell (Memphis, TN) 26, 1883, born a slave named Isabella, bore at 1820 - March 10, 1913, legendary abolitionist Sept. 23, 1863 - July 24, 1954, called Mol- least 5 children, 2 girls sold from her, won son and deeply religious reformer, Union spy and lie, mother a former slave, father first Black back from Alabama slaveholder, worked as a scout, nurse, born a slave, skull fractured at Anna Howard Shaw millionaire in the South, Oberlin, athletic, cook, maid and laundress in New York City, 13, “not a satisfactory servant,” m., escaped married, lost 3 children, blamed segregated illiterate, preached against prostitution 1830, a to Philadelphia, helped sister, several broth- rights convention at Worcester, Massachusetts hospitals, 2 more children, Washington DC mystic, chose name 1843, preached through- ers, their families and eventually her parents 1850, converted Susan B. Anthony and Julia community leader, social reformer, lecturer, out Long Island and Connecticut, encouraged and others escape enslavement, worked with Ward Howe to suffrage, refused to pay taxes spoke French, German and Italian, head of Na- brotherly love, crowds disrupted her abolition- Underground Railroad network, subject of a to protest lack of representation, pressed for tional Association of Colored Women, picketed ist meetings, spoke at women's rights meetings $40,000 bounty, praised by Frederick Douglass both Black and woman suffrage, founder of White House with National Woman's Party. in 1850s, remembered for dramatic "Ain't I and others for her shrewdness and courage, American Woman Suffrage Association 1869 a Woman?" speech, Harriet Beecher Stowe cared for parents and elderly in Auburn, NY, and leading spirit in New England, published Eliza Lovell Tibbets (Cincinnati, Ohio) called her "The Libyan Sibyl," settled in Battle supported freedman schools in the South, and edited influential weeklyThe Woman's August 5, 1823 - July 14, 1898, abolitionist, Creek, Michigan, solicited food and clothing toured east coast cities speaking in favor of Journal with husband and later daughter for horticulturalist, spiritualist, progressive activist for Black volunteers during Civil War, wrote suffrage, attended women’s rights conventions 47 years, first person to be cremated in New in Washington D.C. for freedmen’s rights and Narrative 1850, sold it and her photos to raise and the founding of the National Association England, dying words to daughter were "Make universal suffrage, m., founded utopian com- money. Harriot Stanton Blatch recalled how as of Colored Women, when asked about wom- the world better." munity (1867), tried to vote with 70 women a 10-year-old, she once read the morning pa- en's suffrage replied, "I've suffered enough to but rejected (1871), early settler of Riverside, pers to visiting Sojourner Truth as she smoked believe it.”

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Harriet Taylor Upton (Ravenna, OH) Dec. sued railroad 1880s, wrote articles, pen name married lawyer, 6 children, daughters Eliza 17, 1853 - Nov. 2, 1945, Women's Christian "Iola", led national campaign against lynching, and Ellen became suffragists, helped plan Temperance Union local secretary, converted her Memphis newspaper office was mobbed Seneca Falls meeting 1848, widely respected, to suffrage while researching anti-suffrage and destroyed 1892, lectured and organized noted for "incisive wit, shrewd practicality, article, National American Woman Suffrage clubs, protested exclusion of Blacks from impatience with unnecessary flamboyance, Association treasurer, managed group from World's Columbian Exposition 1894, married and commitment to results," elected president Warren, Ohio headquarters, editor of The lawyer, 4 children, founded Alpha Suffrage of women's rights conventions in Cincin- Progress 1902-1910, skilled press agent and Club of Chicago with Black suffragists, nati, Saratoga and Albany 1855, consulted by fundraiser, married Washington DC lawyer, marched in Washington DC 1913 and Chicago Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, traveled, testified, organized, directed two 1916 suffrage parades, Chicago probation helped found Equal Rights Association 1866 Ohio campaigns 1912 and 1914, wrote articles officer 1913-1916, ally of W.E.B. DuBois, felt and National Woman Suffrage Association, emphasizing role played by women in de- NAACP not outspoken enough. saw strategy as working for marriage and velopment of nation, appointed vice-chair of property rights at state level, then suffrage Republican National Executive Committee legislation at national level, "Her home was 1920, helped win government appointments my home" (SBA). for women, called "fat and jolly and motherly," good humored and easy going, sat beside Car- Maud Younger (San Francisco, CA) Jan. rie Catt in 1920 NYC victory parade. 10, 1870 - June 25, 1936, inherited fortune but lived in NYC College Settlement for 5 Lila Hardaway Meade Valentine (Richmond, years, took job as waitress to understand lives If a woman can do the same work that VA) Feb. 4, 1865 - July 14, 1921, educational of working women, helped form and lead a a man can do and do it just as well she reformer, married, helped introduce kinder- union, called "the millionaire waitress," lob- should have the same pay. gartens and vocational training into Richmond bied and organized, helped win 8-hour-day BUFFALO BILL CODY, 1898 schools, led anti-tuberculosis campaign, never labor law for California women, spoke all over fully recovered from stillborn child 1888, cho- California in 1911 campaign, drove a team of sen head of Equal Suffrage League of Virginia six horses pulling a suffrage float down San The Men Behind for her "requisite courage and intelligence" Francisco's Market Street in Labor Day Pa- 1909, made over 100 speeches throughout rade, organized Wage Earners Equal Suffrage the Women . . . League, became Alice Paul's lieutenant and Virginia in 1913, lectured in eastern states, chief lobbyist, headed National Woman's Party Male suffragists make particularly supported federal amendment and worked Congressional Committee which emphasized interesting and admirable role models unsuccessfully for Virginia's ratification. Sue White local pressure on Congressmen rather than today, including farsighted men like: Mabel Vernon (Wilmington, DE) Sept. 19, Sue Shelton White (Henderson, TN) May 25, cordial relations, compelling speaker, toured country defending suffrage hunger strikers, • James Mott, Quaker businessman 1883 - Sept. 2, 1975, Quaker/Presbyterian, 1887 - May 6, 1943, teacher, court reporter, helped initiate and fought for Equal Rights who accompanied his wife Lucretia Swarthmore, Columbia, Congressional Union's set up local suffrage groups, bridge between Amendment. to Seneca Falls and chaired the first first organizer, fundraiser, speaker, active in militants and mainstream suffrage groups in woman’s rights meeting. Nevada 1914, organized Sara Bard Field's South, editor of The Suffragist 1919, impris- cross-country trip 1915, interrupted Wilson's oned for burning effigy of President Wilson, • Parker Pillsbury, anti-slavery speech 1916, arrested, executive secretary of toured country on Prison Special train, law editor who worked on The Revolu- National Woman's Party, pacifist, supported degree 1923, active in New Deal, helped lay tion with Susan B. Anthony and Equal Rights Amendment and Women's Inter- foundation of Social Security program. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. national League for Peace and Freedom. Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (New • Robert Purvis and Frederick York, NY) Sept. 28, 1839 - Feb. 17, 1898, Douglass, prominent Black anti- frontier childhood, called Frank, taught school, slavery leaders who were lifelong president of Evanston College for Ladies, suffrage allies. Illinois temperance leader, presented "Home Protection" petition of over 100,000 women to • Stephen Foster, William Lloyd legislature 1879, served for 20 years organiz- Garrison, Wendell Phillips and ing its members into strong women's move- other white abolitionists who were ment sympathetic to suffrage, member of early supporters of women’s rights. American Woman Suffrage Association and a leader in the International Council of Women 1888. • Henry Blackwell, a constant agita Zitkala-Sa tor for women’s rights, who helped publish The Woman’s Journal with Victoria Claflin Woodhull (Homer, OH) Sept. Zitkala-Sa (Red Bird/Gertrude Simmons Bon- his wife Lucy Stone and daughter 23, 1838 - June 10, 1927, part of a traveling nin) (Yankton Indian Reservation, SD) Feb. 22, Alice Stone Blackwell for years. medicine show when young, married at 15, 2 1876 - Jan. 26, 1938, writer, teacher, political children, financial speculator with her sister activist, taken to white school as a child, given • George Catt, an engineer whose Tennessee Claflin, broker, declared herself new name, learned to read, write and play support and understanding of his candidate for President of the US 1870, first violin but conflicted over losing her heritage, wife Carrie Chapman Catt freed woman to address Congressional committee spoke out for women’s rights at 19, scholar- her to devote her time to leading urging woman suffrage 1871, competed with Maud Younger ship to Earlham College, taught music, m., 1 the national suffrage drive. SBA for suffrage leadership 1872, called "The Terrible Siren" and "Mrs. Satan" for advocat- son, wrote about Native American life, culture and loss of identity, decried poverty and • Senator Robert LaFollette, Rabbi Fanny Garrison Villard (Boston, MA) Dec. ing free love, published Woodhull and Claflin's disrepair on reservations, fought against racist Stephen Wise, editors W.E.B. 16, 1844 - July 5, 1928, only daughter of Weekly which first published Communist stereotypes, opposed assimilation, sought to DuBois and Max Eastman, educa abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and Helen Manifesto in America, exposed Beecher-Tilton bridge white and Native American life, worked tor John Dewey, Stanford Univer- Villard, taught piano, married owner of The affair and triggered reaction, jailed for obscen- for improvements in education and health sity president David Starr Jordan Nation and New York Evening Post, 4 children, ity, acquitted, married wealthy British banker care and preservation of culture, pressured and other nationally prominent men NYC philanthropist, adviser and fundraiser and died in England. for federal Indian Citizenship Act (1924) that who put themselves on the side of for interracial and humanitarian causes, joined granted citizenship rights with no guarantee women’s rights despite ridicule and suffrage movement 1906, chaired New York Fanny Bullock Workman (Worcester, MA) of vote (left up to states), felt that Indigenous criticism. legislative committees, spoke on street corners Jan. 8, 1859 - Jan. 22, 1925, mountain climber, at 66, felt fundamental changes needed and spoke 4 languages, married, 1 daughter, often people should be citizens and should have the vote, led the National Council of American • Influential men in the states includ that women could redeem politics, uncompro- bicycled 50 miles a day, biked through Ceylon, Indians (1926) for 12 years to unite tribes to ing John Hyde Braly in California, mising pacifist, led 1914 Peace Parade down Algeria, and India 1890s, carried a "Votes for gain suffrage for all. William Dudley Foulke in Indiana, 5th Ave. and helped organize the Woman's Women" banner into the Himalayas where she James Lees Laidlaw in New York, Peace Party. was an explorer, traded expedition duties with Leonard Grossman in Georgia, her husband each year. Wilmer Atkinson in Philadelphia, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (Holy Springs, MS) Omar Garwood in Colorado and, July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931, slave parents, Martha Coffin Pelham Wright (Boston, MA) finally, Harry Burn in Tennessee. lost parent and 3 siblings to yellow fever at 14, Dec. 25, 1806 - Jan. 4, 1875, Quaker-born Rust U. and Fisk U., became teacher, refused sister Lucretia Mott, married army captain, to give up her seat for the colored section and 1 daughter, widowed after 2 years, taught, Women Win the Vote nwhanews.org 23

What's Happening in Your State, North Carolina continued from page 5 The Republican National Convention will be meeting in Charlotte on Aug. 26, 2020. 19 Woman’s Suffrage and the quality for women can look like in the Plans are in the works for a Women’s Revolutionary Transformation of next 100 years. Members of the API Girls Equality Day breakfast followed by a America, an exhibit at the University of Leadership Council will present their own march and rally to emphasize women’s Nevada, Reno campus, will run through Declaration for advancing the position of undying commitment to justice and 2020, https://www.unr.edu/. girls around the world. equality. Everyone’s invited. Contact The useful state centennial site from A celebration at Paulsdale June 20 Mrs. Lucille Puckett at Lucille.Puckett@ 2014 is https://suffrage100nv.org/ will include historical re-enactors, music, yahoo.com. and exhibits on the suffrage movement. Descendants of NJ suffragists will be recognized. API is also working on several digitization projects. https://www. alicepaul.org/

“Let Ohio Women Vote! The Suffrage Activists in Cashiers are creating a year- Centennial on Ohio Memory,” digital long series of events including suffrage project, https://ohiomemory.ohiohistory. themed movies, documentaries and org/archives/4822. presentations at the library, school essay On July 6, the Cincinnati Reds and poster contests, and youth interactive celebrated the 100th anniversary of Ohio and educational activities. There will be women’s right to vote with special events a June 2020 symposium at the Historical before and during the game. Society, a July luncheon with fashion historian Cornelia Powell, historical New York exhibits, performing arts activities and summer programs. New Jersey The Women’s Rights National The major commemoration on Historical Park in Seneca Falls, https:// Aug. 22, 2020, will feature music, www.nps.gov/wori/2020.htm, will feature guest speakers, theatre, a reception and New Jersey Women Vote: The speakers, multimedia and musical events a Suffrage Stroll with guests wearing 19th Amendment at 100, www. throughout 2019 and 2020, Also, ranger- “Votes for Women” sashes on the Village discovernjhistory.org/njwomenvote2020/ led programs, special exhibits, and new Green. Susan Bianchi susanjbianchi@aol. and @NJWomenVote100, is a multi- web content for the centennial. Events in com faceted programming initiative marking both years include Convention Days, July the centennial. The Alice Paul Institute, Oklahoma 19-21, 2019 and “Equality Weekend” in North Dakota NJ Historical Commission and 65 August. partners aim to mark the centennial while The Elizabeth Cady Stanton OK Women 100, https://www.okhistory. acknowledging the challenges women North Dakota Women’s Suffrage Women’s Consortium, https://www. org/about/suffrage, Oklahoma Historical of all backgrounds have faced from Centennial Committee, https://www. ecswc.org/, plans to unveil a statue of Society exhibits and events before 1920 to the present day. Teachers’ facebook.com/NDWSCC/ and https:// Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 2020 and host Exhibits include The Yellow Brick workshops, voter registration, a speakers’ www.womensvote100.org/northdakota. a symposium on March 28.with Kristen Road to Women’s Suffrage at the bureau, and voting activity for K-12 Plans include displaying pop-up Visbal, of Fearless Girl Fame, as keynote Oklahoma Territorial Museum in Guthrie, students are planned, leading up to the versions of the National Archives exhibit speaker. and Votes for Women at the Oklahoma anniversary of New Jersey’s ratification of Rightfully Hers at schools, libraries, The Staten Island Museum, which History Center in Oklahoma City (through the 19th Amendment in February 2020. museums and over a dozen venues across has a Women’s Suffrage exhibition Sept. 2019), also traveling exhibits. There will also be a bicycle slow opening in March 2020, has digitized the state Aug.-Sept. 2019. Also exhibits, roll in May 2020 in Haddonfield, an two almost-full runs of the rare suffrage speakers, conferences, trail sites and a August Equality Day celebration at the publications, The Suffragist and The newspaper supplement on suffrage. State House in Trenton, and a recreation Woman Voter, https://archive.org/details/ of a Women’s Suffrage March in New statenislandmuseum. Brunswick on September 26, 2020 New York’s suffrage centennial was aimed at highlighting the centennial and in 2017 and it was widely celebrated. encouraging voter registration. New York State Women’s Suffrage “2120 Envisioning Equality – The Commission, https://www.ny.gov/ Next 100 Years,” a one-day symposium programs/new-york-state-womens- organized by the Alice Paul Institute, suffrage-commission. will be held on June 19, 2020. The Humanities New York, https:// purpose of the day is to envision what humanitiesny.org/ny4suffrage/, produced Oregon DAR chorus singing Standing on the Shoulders for the state convention. five 2-minute educational videos, a centennial craft guide for making buttons, pins and pennants, and more. Oregon HistoryPin offers reflections on suffrage in NY, https://www.historypin. Oregon Women’s History Consortium, org/en/suffrage-stories-how-women-got- http://www.oregonwomenshistory.org/ the-vote/. Ohio oregon-2020/, has resources and news. New York City teacher and artist Members and volunteers are contributing Mireille Miller continues to expand Women’s Suffrage Centennial sites to the Votes for Women Trail, her groundbreaking art and storytelling Commission, https://www. documenting women’s historic sites in project, Women Leading the Way, http:// ohiosuffragecentennial.com/, offers great Oregon, and creating exhibits and events. www.suffragettes2020.com/. leads and resources. The state’s own centennial site from https://www.ohiohistory.org/ 2012, http://centuryofaction.org/, is full of Teacher development workshop in New Jersey. search?s=suffrage, events and news information and lists of events and ideas – like The Sash Project. They rediscovered 24 nwhanews.org National Women's History Alliance

“Finding Justice: The Untold Suffrage Memorial, honoring three TN Story of Women’s Fight for the Vote” suffragists, http://suffragecoalition.org. is a film about the Women’s Justice Public art across the state now Bell being made by Amanda Owen and includes a bas relief sculpture inside Martha Wheelock. The film about one the State Capitol, the Woman Memorial of few genuine suffrage artifacts will be and Febb and Harry Burn Monument released in March 2020. The Justice Bell in Knoxville, the TN Woman Suffrage Foundation in Philadelphia is planning Monument in Nashville (all by sculptor school programs and also planning Alan LeQuire), Wanda Stanfill’s sculpture a replica Justice Bell that will go on of Sue Shelton White in Jackson, and tour. Events and screenings are being more public art planned in Memphis, scheduled, https://www.justicebell.org Clarksville, and Chattanooga. http:// The original bell, at Valley Forge, tnwomansuffrageheritagetrail.com. is to be driven to Philadelphia for the Equality Day 2020 festivities organized by Vision 2020, https://drexel.edu/ vision2020/programs/women-100/. Since 2010, Lynn Watters has been writing about women’s history every March for the local Norristown, PA, Times Herald. She also donates Women’s History books to local grade schools. [email protected]

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Women’s Suffrage in SoDak, https:// historysouthdakota.wordpress.com/ womens-suffrage-in-sodak/, blog by Liz Almlie and the state historical society includes timeline, biographies, sources and “Invaluable Out-of-staters,” Women in Clarksville-Montgomery also https://www.facebook.com/ County are planning their annual Spring WomensSuffrageSoDak/. Tea and a “Hello Yellow” project that Titles from the South Dakota encourages planting yellow flowers and Historical Society Press https://www. marking graves of suffragists throughout sdhsf.org/special_projects/100th- the county. A public monument, anniversary-of-womens-suffrage.html. “Tennessee Triumph,” is planned with

Kathleen Strickland poses with a yellow rose before the Tennessee Woman Suffrage Monument in Nashville. include “Born Criminal: The Life of a single woman voting to represent all Photo by Paula Casey Rebel Suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage,” of those who persisted year after year a suffrage anthology, “Votes for Women in small towns across the country. A Black suffragist Hattie Redmond and Right to Vote Committee that is planning on the Northern Great Plains,” and an cookbook with local history and vintage now a state university building has been an excursion to the Alice Paul House upcoming illustrated children’s book, and contemporary recipes is a fundraiser. renamed for her. in New Jersey on Sept. 7, 2019. A visit “The Voice of Liberty,” on the protests at http://artsandheritage.us/pubic-monument- Oregon Parks and Recreation Dept. to the Women’s Justice Bell in Valley the dedication of the Statue of Liberty. planned-to-celebrate-tennessees-role-in- lists exhibits, events, and opportunities, Forge Park is also being planned. Check ratification-of-19th-amendment. https://www.oregon.gov/oprd/Pages/ The Key newsletter at https://bpwpa. Women in Roane County are news/2019/2020-Centennial-Vote- wildapricot.org/ planning a Suffrage Tea and a ceremony initiative.aspx, to mark graves of suffragists in the “Nevertheless, They Persisted: The County. Nineteenth Amendment and Women’s Tennessee Woman Suffrage Voting Rights,” an Oregon Historical Centennial Collaborative, Middle Society exhibit, runs until November Tennessee State University, includes 2020. https://ohs.org/ Tennessee historical information and a teacher’s resource. http://mtsuhispres.org.

Tennessee Woman Suffrage Monument, Pennsylvania Inc., is a volunteer statewide group dedicated to memorializing the work 2020 Celebration events organized by the done by state suffragists to secure League of Women Voters in Erie, http:// ratification of the 19th Amendment by www.lwverie.org/100th-anniversary- placing a woman suffragist monument in calendar.html, started in August and Nashville’s Centennial Park, http://www. include Public Painting Days for the tnsuffragemonument.org. Mural “Her Voice, Her Vote,” a Bike TN Woman Suffrage Heritage Trail Erie Slow Roll in period attire, exhibit of presents an array of profiles, events, maps, a Votes for Women quilt, “Remarkable statues, markers, videos, timelines, links Women in the Suffrage Movement” and more. The “Equality Trailblazers” lecture series, a “Women’s Suffrage The Berks Suffrage 2020 Centennial, monument unveiled on state Ratification in Erie County” exhibit at the Curtze www.berkssuffrage2020centennial.org; Day, Aug. 18, 2019 in Memphis, https:// Mansion, displays, art showings, movies is a county-wide collaborative planning tnwomansuffrageheritagetrail.com. and more. Check calendar. events throughout 2020 including a The Suffrage Coalition is preserving ChickHistory has launched “March to Business and Professional Women kickoff program on March 14 and a the history of the suffrage movement by the 19th” as a grassroots campaign for of Pennsylvania has a 2020 Women’s celebration dinner commemorating the placing two monuments in Knoxville: the women’s history in Tennessee. Their 19th Amendment on Aug. 26, 2020. Febb and Harry Burn Monument and the recently completed study, “Protecting Women Win the Vote nwhanews.org 25 the Legacy: African American Women in communal ways, including a suffrage names of historic Virginia women, http:// West Virginia Tennessee before 1930,” is available at centennial license plate, women’s history womensmonumentcom.virginia.gov/, chickhistory.org. trading cards, downloadable coloring The dedication of the Turning West Virginia and the Ratification The Tennessee Department of pages, posters and lots more. A separate Point Suffragist Memorial in Lorton is of the 19th Amendment, West Virginia Secretary of State, State Library & educational site, www.utahwomenshistory. scheduled for August 2020. Wesleyan College in Buckhannon will Archives has great suffrage resources. com, offers curriculum (especially for A display at the Workhouse Prison host a program whose title comes from Search “suffrage” at https://www.sos. grades 4 and 7), teaching resources, Museum in Lorton includes life- an anti-suffragist, “For Those Poor West tn.gov/. downloads, ideas and a wealth of size figures that recreate the image of Virginia Women Working Persistently for information. suffragists such as Lucy Burns enduring Suffrage, Father Forgive Them, for They the torturous process of force-feeding. Know Not What They Do,” in March Texas Suffragists were imprisoned in Lorton, 2020. State suffrage leader Lenna Lowe https://workhousemuseums.org. The Yost will be commemorated. Workhouse Arts Center is nearby. Sister Suffragists, A Celebration of the “Agents of Change: Female Suffrage Centennial, an exhibit at the Activism in Virginia from Women’s Bullock Museum in Austin, runs through Suffrage to Today,” at the Virginia Wisconsin Aug. 2020. https://www.thestoryoftexas. Vermont Museum of History & Culture, runs com/visit/exhibits/sister-suffragists. March 14 - Sep. 27, 2020. https:// The ​​​​Wisconsin 19th Amendment www.virginiahistory.org/exhibitions/ Suffrage Centennial Celebration Women’s Power, Women’s Vote, Vermont Suffrage Centennial Alliance, agents-change-female-activism-virginia- Committee, https://womenvotewi.wi.gov/ exhibit at the Texas State Library in https://vtsuffrage2020.org/ is a statewide women%E2%80%99s-suffrage-today pages/home.aspx, has news, resources, Austin, to March 2020, https://www.tsl. effort led by the League of Women Voters, A group of women in rural Virginia a very informative state Toolkit and texas.gov/lobbyexhibits/womensvote. www.lwvofvt.org, to educate, engage and Information on Black is making plans and has already tracked downloadable displays inspire Vermonters. down the grave of the first woman to Texas suffragists: https://www. “Votes . . . for women?,” an exhibit ever vote in their county. joycerouse@ womenintexashistory.org/audio/african- at Middlebury College Museum, runs mac.com. Women in Grayson County american-womens-suffrage/. Sept. 13 - Dec. 8, 2019, plus lectures have also been meeting to develop a plan Washington D.C. on Race Relations within the Suffrage for their rural community. The group Movement, Farmer’s Night Feb. 5, includes the county tourism director, The Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative Suffrage Scramble 5K Race Aug. 15, Utah retired history buffs and activists. Check hosts quarterly panels on topics related 2020, and a big celebration parade and the county website, to the suffrage history in league with the community picnic Aug. 22, 2020. National Archives. Past discussions are available online, www.2020centennial.org The National Women’s History Washington Virginia Museum’s lecture series, “Determined to Rise: Women’s Historical Activism Washington State Historical Society, Toward Equal Rights,” will include A Formal Dedication of the Virginia https://www.suffrage100wa.com/, is six panel discussions in 2019 and six in Women’s Monument Committee – “Celebrating 100 Years of Women 2020 tracing suffrage milestones. An “Voices from the Garden,” is scheduled Change Makers,” http://www. Educator Institute in Washington, D.C. for October 14, 2019. Located in a new washingtonhistory.org/research/ in the summer of 2020 will explore Capitol Square plaza in Richmond, the Better Days 2020, www.betterdays2020. suffrage100wa/. Also offers an women’s activism and involvement. monument includes 12 separate life size com, is dedicated to popularizing Introduction to Black History in the state. Online exhibits and resources, www. bronze statues and a wall etched with 400 Utah women’s history in creative and womenshistory.org

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19th Amendment The U.S. Congress, after decades of rejection, finally passed the “The right of citizens of the United States to vote 19th Amendment to the Constitution in early June 1919. Then, shall not be denied or abridged by the United to secure final ratification, three-quarters of the states needed to approve it. This launched an intense, fifteen-month campaign from States or by any State on account of sex.” June 1919 to August 1920 that involved hundreds of thousands of active supporters, women and men, in every state. It is with awe Use this day – and any other day – as a way to educate and that we remember suffragists’ critical, nationwide drive in 1919 inspire your community to celebrate women during the 2020 and 1920. Women’s Suffrage Centennial.

Are There Books about Women's Suffrage in Your Library?

Dear Supporters of Womens History, This year, on the cusp of 2020 and the SPECIAL th th 100 anniversary of the 19 Amend- CENTENNIAL SALE The Orange County Chapter of the ment, that goal is being realized. All National Organization for Women 76 public high schools in Orange Winning the Vote: The Triumph challenges other organizations, County, CA now have this phenom- of the American Woman Suffrage clubs, and groups to take action. enal resource book in their library. Movement is a remarkable book In 2013, OC NOW made a decision Now many more high school students that chronicles the 72-year campaign to win the right vote for America to purchase the book, Winning the will have the opportunity to begin to women.Gorgeous 500-page hard- Vote: The Triumph of the Ameri- understand the importance of women back. Stunning and Oversized can Woman Suffrage Movement. winning the vote AND the power of The original goal was to put one using their voices. Here's hoping our book in every Public High School action inspires others to spread the #0602 in Orange County. word! $49.95 each or $30.00 for 4 or more.

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Celebrating Women and Democracy Kit #0535 $39.95 All items are available individually Votes for Women Balloons. Metallic gold balloons represent a fac- simile of the balloons used by the suffragist of the early 19th cen- tury. 12 balloons #1033 $5.95 Celebrating Women Winning the Vote Poster - This classic image commemorates the passage of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution. 18" by 24" #0947 $5.95 Votes for Women Poster Award-winning design created by Betha Boye when CA became the 6th state to enfranchise women. 14.5" x 24" #0840 $4.98 Celebrate Women Bookmarks 7"x 2" Featuring: Wilma Mankiller (1945-2010), Dolores Huerta (b. 1930), Eleanor Roosevelt (1884- 1962), Yoshiko Unchida (1921-1962), Barbara Jordan (1936-1996) #7980 $2.98 Writing Women Back into History Banner with Celebrating Women & Democracy sticker. Paper banner is 11" x 34" #0938 $5.95 Celebrating Women & Democracy 15-minute speech/PowerPoint using examples of how Mankiller, Huerta, Roosevelt, Unchida and Jordan encouraged freedom and justice for all. #0103 $12.95 (sent via email) Celebrating Women & Democracy electronic logo #0546 $10.00 (sent via email)

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2020 Centennial Sash & Parasol

Elegant Women Win the Vote sash is 2-ply satin, measures 4" x 70", and printed in This elegant parasol comes with one ruffle traditional Purple, on the 48" white canopy, finished with a White, and Gold, white plastic hook handle. Printed in purple with velcro closure to commemorate “WOMEN WIN THE VOTE” #0543 $19.95 Centennial 1920 - 2020. Perfect for Celebrate the Centennial throughout 2020 at parties, teas, holidays, Women's 2020 Centennial events – rain or shine. Equality Day on August 26, and other special fun hometown parades. #0544 $29.95 Sing the Songs Celebrating Women's Suffrage

HerStory - Earth Momma Hurrah For Woman Here's To The Women Pre-Release Women's Suffrage! Music CDs Suffrage Centennial 7 songs on CD. by artist Linda Allen Earth Mama’s Latest CD Her Forty minutes of Twenty songs commemo- Story is a lyrical collection historic songs from rating women's journey to of original songs honoring the Woman Suffrage justice, with an emphasis the lives, loves and work Movement. By the on the battle for the vote. of women. Includes a new Homespun Singers Songs of weavers and recording of Standing on the Included is a 16-page quilters, suffragists and Shoulders anthem, new songs for Mother’s Day. Powerful pamphlet giving a history of the suffrage farmers, labor leaders and politicians, Rosie the Riveters and Empowering. #0530 $15.95 music along with song sheets for a and domestic workers. Genre: Folk: Modern Folk sing-along. #0721 $12.00 # 0945 $12.95 Sharing Suffrage Stories

American Woman Votes For Overlooked QuoteNotes are Suffrage Postcards Women Sisters a series of note American women's Notecards African cards featuring in- suffrage activists This award- American spirational quotes were fascinated with winning Suffragists by Elizabeth Cady suffrage themed design was Leaders in the Stanton, Ernestine postcards. They created by Woman Suf- Rose, Susan B. collected them, Betha Boye frage Move- Anthony, Sojourner exchanged them, wrote about them, of a western ment - Mary Truth, Matilda used them as fundraisers and organized woman posed before the Golden Gate Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Joslyn Gage and Inez Milholland A "postcard day" campaigns. Cataloging as the sun sets. After California's Mary Ann Shadd Cary and Francis E. brief bio and photo of the person are approximately 700 examples, this study victory, the poster design was used in W. Harper - 3 of each design. on the back. 5" x 7" notecards 2 each examines the "visual rhetoric" of suf- countless woman suffrage campaigns. 12 cards with envelopes. of 6 designs 12 cards with envelopes frage.Paper 368 pages, 8.2" x 1" x 10.8" 6 cards with envelopes #0988 $9.95 #0528 $ 19.95 #0475 $19.95 #0542 $39.95

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Susan B. Anthony NWHA Heritage Pin 2020 CENTENNIAL LAPEL PIN Suffrage Stamp Necklace NWHA logo pin. 2020 is the 100th anniversary of women in the Unit- Synthetic cloisonné ed States winning the right to vote. A silver-tone metal alloy bezel with Five enamel colors Thousand have already begun orga- glass dome and 24" nickel plated ball Clutch attachment. nizing celebrations at the local, state chain features a 1936 three cent Susan .5" x 1.25" and national level. Wear this pin to B. Anthony Suffrage for Women stamp. encourage others to begin to plan Gift boxed for this historic event. 1.25" Approximately 1" x 1". Designed by Made in USA. #0853 $14.95 Union made, gift-boxed with display Heritage Artisan 0503 $10.00 card. #2112 $5.95

GENERATIONS: American Women Win the Vote For 72 years, genera- Votes for Women CA Women Win the Vote tions of women from Upbeat 20-minute Includes the his- every state, race and video with archival tory, personalities, religion fought for photos, newsreels, art & foundation the right to vote, cul- live action & music. of civil rights here minating with victory Gr. 7 - Adult DVD & throughout the in Tennessee 12 min #0540 $29.95 world. 39-min. DVD #0478 $29.95 #8888 $39.95

A Fine and Long Tradition DVD Women in American Life DVD . . . NOW ON SALE Lively 7-minute women's history music overview is a great way to Five unique video programs covering the A comprehensive tribute to the first introduce women's history to school, lives of multicultural women in America women in government and to Hillary community, or workplace audiences. from 1860s to the 1970s. (15-minute sec- Clinton’s historic campaign for the Historical images are set to an upbeat tions) A lively way to introduce women's presidency. Colorful 48-page Com- song that will touch your heart and history to a school or adult audience. B/W memorative Edition acknowledges linger in your memory. Gr. 8-Adult 5 parts on a single DVD the many women who paved the 7 min. Gr. 5 - Adult. Produced 1996 0533 $19.95 way for women in government. 81⁄2 0532 $12.00 x 11”, 48 pages, perfect bound, coat- ed paper, illustrated Bulk discounts: Votes for Women Poster ROSIE THE RIVETER 1-4 $14.95, 5-9 $12.00, 10-24 The Patriotic Embodiment of Women's History $10.00, 25+ $8.00 #2016 "We Can Do It!" Poster #0101 Authentic WWII Poster During World War II, the images of Living the Legacy Poster strong and capable "Rosie the Riveter" encouraged millions of women to help with the war effort. 18" x 24" $4.98 Rosie the Riveter #6519 A close look at that moment in history when women were in high demand for every imaginable kind of work. Told with dozens of personal accounts, photographs and illustrations. 120 pgs., paper, Gr. 5-12 $11.99 California artist Bertha Margaret Boyé created this award-winning poster of a western suffragist before the Golden Gate with the setting sun behind her. The campaign poster was displayed throughout San Francsico just before the successful October 10, 1911 election that enfranchised the women of California. 1911 * California Woman Suffrage Centennial * 2011

Printing donated by Community Printers, Santa Cruz, CA. Image used with permission from The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. Reprinted from “Winning the Vote: The Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement” (www.AmericanGraphicPress.com). Available from the National Women’s History Project (707) 636-2888 or www.nwhp.org. Rosie Water Bottle #1493 Votes for Women 20-ounce aluminum water bottle 7.25" tall x 3" wide. $9.95

Award-winning design was created by Betha Boye when Rosie Note Cards #1910 California became the 6th Pack of 6 with yellow envelopes 5" x 7 " Gift box $9.95 The poster features dozens of buttons state to enfranchise women. from different types of campaigns and After that victory, the poster Rosie Lunch Box #1528 five photo collages depicting some of design was used in countless (7.5” x 6”x 4”) $10.95 the ways we are "living the legacy" of woman suffrage campaigns. Magnet #1517 women's rights today. 20" x 28" "Living Poster size14.5" x 24" Together We Can Do It the Legacy" Poster #8901 $4.98 #0850 $4.98 2" x 3" $5.00

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Women Win the Vote Gazette The Vote: Women’s Fierce Fight tells the gripping story of women’s battle for the vote, replete with political intrigues and betrayals; pageantry and parades; What's Inside pickets, violent mobs and forced-feeding. Infused with • 100 Suffragist women’s words and vivid personalities, The Vote resonates with key current issues including voting rights and women’s • State Celebrations participation in the governance of America. Paper 475 pages. • Historic Sites to Visit #0536 $16.99 Visit www.pennycolman.com for $13.99 ebook; and audio • African American Suffragist versions as well as a guide to landmarks mentioned in the • Suffrage Events book.

Women Win the Vote Gazette African American Women This 32- page special commemorative edition of “Women Win the Vote” is filled with in the Struggle for the Vote news of 2019-20 events and special features including updates on state centennial 1850-1920 activities, dispatches about national plans in the capital. Also included are 100 brief This comprehensive look at the profiles of suffragists,a special salute to African American suffragist and multiple African American women who resources and celebration ideas. #0202 $15 (25) copies fought for the right to vote ana- lyzes the women’s own stories and examines why they joined and how they participated in the U.S. women’s suffrage move- ment. Paper, 208 pages. #0537 $20.00

The Woman's Hour This book tells the story of the female lead- ers who—in the face of towering economic, racial, and political opposi- tion—fought for and won African American Sisters in Spirit The Women's Suffrage American women's right Women and the Vote The author recounts the Movement to vote. Unfolding over 1837–1965 compelling history of This one-of-a-kind six weeks in the summer Written by leading scholars women's struggle for intersectional anthology of 1920, The Woman’s of African American and freedom and equality in is comprised of historical Hour is both a page-turn- women's history, the es- the USA and documents texts spanning two centu- ing drama and an inspira- Working for the Advancement of Women in Government tion for everyone, young says in this volume seek to the Iroquois influence on ries, It is a comprehensive Federally Employed Women (FEW) is a private, non-profit re-conceptualize the politi- this broad social move- and singular volume with and old, male and female, organization founded in 1968 after the issuance of Executive Order cal history of black women in these perilous times. 11375 that added “sex” to the prohibited discriminations within the ment. Paper, 123 pages. a distinctive focus on federal government. FEW is a membership organization working in the United States by #0872 $11.95 incorporating race, class, Paper, 416 pages. exclusively to end sex discrimination and towards the advancement of placing them "at the center and gender, and illuminat- #0538 $18.00 women in federal service. of our thinking." Paper, ing minority voices. Paper, Sponsored by Central Coast of California Chapter (in Monterey) and 232 pages. #0545 $24.95 515 pages. #0526 $18.00 the Western Region of FEW. The Western Region is comprised of the Phoenix Valley of the Sun Chapter, the San Diego Chapter, the Southern California Gold Coast Chapter (Port Hueneme), and Gems Of The Desert Chapter (Las Vegas) Find out more at FEW.org

Tennessee Woman Suffrage Monument

Located in Centennial Park, Nashville, Written and performed by Sally Perkins

TN. Erected in 2014 with private funds An energized, eye-opening story of women’s battle raised by the TN Woman Suffrage for the vote...told in a way you’ll never forget! Monument Committee (TWSM), Inc. Learn how to see and book Sally at Join the national effort to gather www.sallyperkins.net! Women represented are Carrie Chapman 2020 suffrage sites by 2020 Catt from N.Y., Anne Dallas Dudley, to create a searchable database Frankie Pierce, Sue Shelton White, and for educators, researchers and Abby Crawford Milton - all from TN. heritage tourists. Tennessee, the 36th state to ratify the Don’t let your community be missed! th 19 Amendment truly was the "Perfect 36!" Paid for by Patricia Pierce, NWHA and Visit​ nvwt.org today! TWSM Board Member

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Our 2020 theme. Valiant Women of the Vote, celebrates the women who have fought for woman’s right to vote in the United States. In recognition of the centennial of the 19th Amendment, we will honor women from the original suffrage movement as well as 20th and 21st-century women who have continued the struggle (fighting against poll taxes, literacy tests, voter roll purges and other more contemporary forms of voter suppression) to ensure voting rights for all. The Symbolic Torch Lighting the Way to Equality

Magnet 2”x 3” 2020 torch was designed #0201 $3.00 for the Women’s Vote Use this pin to show “There never will be Centennial Initiative. your support for 2020 The torch embodies the and help us spread the complete equality suffrage movement and word! Nevada Women’suntil women History themselves Project civil rights movements Button 2”x 3” To provide visibilityhelp and to support make forlaws the lighting the way to #0200 $2.50 equality. Use these items gathering and dissemination of history aboutand elect the roles lawmakers.” and to to show your support contributionsBookmarks of Nevada 2”x women 8” of every race, class and ethnic for 2020 and help spread background.25/pkg) www.n #0522evadawomen.org $6.95 — Susanwww.suffrage100nv.org B. Anthony the word. All products available for bulk discounts

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Hear Us Roar 2020 Women’s Suffrage Centennial Calendar Thanks to the National Women's Featuring original artwork, archival photos and History Alliance for their tireless graphics, this 12-month calendar amplifies the efforts to tell HerStory! ignored or suppressed voices of women of color and working class women and acknowledges - that the campaign for true equality and liberation is ongoing. 12x12”, 18-month Gerri Gribi calendar (July 2019 to December 2020) 9” X 12”, purple coil binding. Key dates in the continuing struggle to gain the vote for all: from 1776 to the present. #0527 $15.95

Women and the Vote: Centennial Calendar

This 18-month calendar (July 2019 to December

2020) calendar celebrates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, women’s right to vote. Illustrated with historic photos and drawings of key actors and key dates in the continuing struggle to gain the vote for all from 1776 to the present. 9” x 12” purple coil binding. #0532 $20.00

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Happy 200thth Birthday, Susan B!

#SusanB200 In 2020, as we celebrate 100 years since the ratification of the 19th Amendment, we’re also celebrating Susan B. Anthony’s 200th birthday and the Anthony Museum’s 75th anniversary. Join us in Rochester, NY for the celebrations!

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