Women’s Suffrage Centennial Update 2020 - 2021

Exciting Plans for Fall 2020 and 2021

CHRISTINA KORP/LOOK UP TO HER / PROJECTION MAPPING PARTNER: QUINCE IMAGING A rendering of how Mount Rushmore will look with projections of suffragists Mabel Ping-Hua Lee beside Washington and Zitkala-Sa beside Lincoln during Look Up To Her.

HE COMMEMORATION of women winning the unveiling the statue of suffragists in Central Park, vote will continue beyond 2020 and through screenings of The Vote on PBS, and a great deal T 2021 so as not to be sidelined by the more. pandemic. 2020 has already seen major While the centennial commemoration events like the Centennial Float in the Rose will extend into 2021, there are still many Parade on New Year’s Day and the 100th special centennial-related treats you can anniversary celebrations of the League of easily access today on your computer or Women Voters in February. phone. Here is a brief selection of news There are many exciting and high and resources to help you enjoy this profile events ahead across the country historic anniversary. It only hints at what’s during August, National Women’s happening throughout the country. Suffrage Month, and particularly during There is also a list of the exciting August 18-26, including release of the U.S. Postage groups we know of celebrating the suffrage Stamp and memorial coin, centennial in each state.

INSIDE: LIST OF STATE GROUPS CELEBRATING THE SUFFRAGE CENTENNIAL

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UPDATE FOR EVENTS IN FALL 2020 AND INTO 2021

Official Exhibits – Over the past 18 There’s also the free centennial months, tax-payer funded exhibits Gazette with national news and state and museum shows in Washington links at D.C. recognized the women’s rights https://nationalwomenshistoryallianc movement as never before. The e.org/wp-content/uploads/Women- Library of Congress exhibition, “Shall Win-the-Vote-Gazette-Volume-2.pdf Not Be Denied,” https://www.loc.gov/exhibitions/wom en-fight-for-the-vote/about-this- exhibition/, runs through September 2020 at least and the National Look Up To Her: Women on Mt. Archives’ show “Rightfully Hers,” Rushmore – The faces of Suffragists https://museum.archives.gov/rightfull and Female Trailblazers from Abigail y-hers, is open until January 2021. Adams to Rosa Parks will be projected next to the male faces in late August and September. Look for live stream. https://lookuptoher.com/ Act Locally – Many communities throughout the country will observe Forward Into Light – On and around the weeks around Equality Day, August 26, 2020, buildings and August 26, with special exhibits, landmarks from state capitols to online discussions, parties of various skyscrapers to bridges to city halls sorts, virtual events and more, even if across the country will light up in local schools, libraries, historic purple, white and gold as part of the societies, museums, universities, bookstores, civic groups are closed for now. Check to see if any of them Their exhibit websites are full of offer online resources, virtual tours, information and original visual calendars or special events. material as are their catalogs, Encourage celebrations in 2021. including the National Portrait Maryland - “Raising Their Voices” Gallery’s, is just one example of local events in https://npg.si.edu/exhibition/votes- the states, sponsored by the Maryland for-women. Humanities Chautauqua 2020. It

features live performances of actresses portraying Alice Paul, Mary Church Terrell and Fannie Lou Hamer; videos will be posted online, https://www.mdhumanities.org/event s/ Tennessee has many different events happening with one on August 18 in Nashville’s Centennial Park featuring live-streamed sky divers dropping small Kewpie Dolls, www.tnsuffragemonument.org, a National Websites – The two national Women’s Suffrage Centennial centennial organizations have sites, suffrage theme bar and tea event in Commission’s nationwide “Forward https://www.womensvote100.org/ The Hermitage Hotel, and the ringing Into Light” Campaign. Sign up at and www.2020Centennial.org, rich of church bells. https://www.womensvote100.org/for with information, resources and lists https://tnwomansuffrageheritagetrail. wardintolight of groups organizing actual or virtual com/about/ Other activities in events throughout the country. Clarksville, Memphis and Knoxville. Women’s Suffrage Centennial Update 2020 - 2021

State Websites – See the section Paul are planned for the Turning following this for links to groups in all Point Suffragist Memorial. the states that offer up-to-date Examples of other tributes include information on how their towns and a Post Office in New York City being cities are celebrating the centennial. renamed for Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, Delayed Nina Otero Warren’s homestead in But Not Santa Fe being renamed in her honor, and the newly named Grimke Defeated Sisters Bridge in Boston.

Votes for Women leaflets rained down from above at an exhibit in the Staten Island Museum The record setting parachute jump Monumental Women – Dedication of attempt by the Women’s Skydiving the first statue of real women in New Network’s Project 19 is now set for York City’s Central Park is still set for Fall 2021,

Equality Day, https://www.brokenrecords.world/. https://monumentalwomen.org/. The Centennial Motorcycle Ride to The National Votes for Women Trail continues to add highway markers New Memorials and Statues of Washington D.C. has also been rescheduled for July 31-August 20, honoring suffragists and suffrage suffragists are being created and history in every state; a detailed map dedicated throughout the country with 2021, https://centennialride.com/ shows what’s included, https://ncwhs.org/votes-for-women- trail/

Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, like many centers, continues on virtually. Equality Weekend-Seneca Falls will Hundreds of scheduled events have happen virtually, August 22-23, been postponed or put off until next 2020. Programming will be on year. These include countless exhibits Facebook and YouTube. and special events, plays, musicals, Programming from recent concerts and other performances like Convention Days events, "Legacies of the Washington DC Choral Festival, our Foremothers," is available and long-planned ceremonies like the at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?l dedication of the Turning Point ist=PLMc_3BnOc1mYUezIvXYWAQ1 Suffragist Memorial in Virginia, Yt4gNFIzP7. Plan for Convention https://suffragistmemorial.org/. Days events in July 2021. We look forward to a safer and wider celebration in 2021. Media

Multi-Media Resources – American Febb and Harry Burn celebrate ratification Journalism’s Suffrage and the Media Ida B. Wells-Barnett in Chicago, website offers links to books, articles, Tennessee in the forefront with six Sojourner Truth in Akron, Susan B. film clips, interviews and much more monuments across the state (one Anthony in Adams (MA), and Frances that could keep you busy, and shows Harry Burn and his mother Munds in Phoenix. Statues of Carrie learning, for hours, Febb). Others in the works include Catt, Mary Church Terrell and Alice http://suffrageandthemedia.org/ Women’s Suffrage Centennial Update 2020 - 2021

who are strong advocates and useful sources of information. Check articles, the upcoming book “Finish the Fight,” and the Times’ site In Her Words. (Also check the editorials from the early 1910s if you can.)

SuffragetteCity100

Suffragette City 100 – popular site with an unfolding timeline highlighting suffragists and historical events, with an appropriate song Finding Justice, The Women’s Justice every week; also has Zazzle store for Bell is a new short film that traces the suffrage supplies and is organizing a importance of this rare remaining free Suffering for Suffrage virtual artifact from the suffrage movement, marathon on November 1, https://www.justicebell.org/document https://suffragettecity100.com/ ary

Suffragists She Votes! Lynn Sherr and Ellen Goodman, both authors and journalists, are co-hosting a new podcast, She Votes!, an 8-part audio documentary on the suffrage movement with all its glory and shortcomings, https://www.shevotespodcast.com/. She Resisted: Strategies of Suffrage – You'll get an update at sign up. interactive presentation with great visuals, related to The Vote PBS Special, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/american experience/features/vote-she- resisted/

Tour Paulsdale through a new video series that looks at Alice Paul’s home Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin in New Jersey in detail, By Sally Wern Comport https://www.youtube.com/channel/U Rose Schneiderman Brandywine River Museum of Art Ckg22R3cumsRyCQcpi0CfFg By Amelie Chabannes (You can also search for websites on Hidden Figures of the Suffrage your favorite suffragists like Carrie UNLADYLIKE2020 will be releasing Movement at the Brandywine Chapman Catt, Frederick Douglass, 26 short films through August 26, Museum – wonderful mural with Matilda Joslyn Gage or Inez and a broadcast hour on PBS, commissioned portraits and bios of Milholland; many others exist). profiling diverse and little-known little known multicultural suffragists, American women from the turn of the https://www.brandywine.org/museum The Times Has Changed – The New 20th century and contemporary /hidden-figures-suffrage-movement York Times, long a vehement and women who follow in their footsteps. outspoken opponent of women’s Visit their resource-rich website, Tea with Alice and Me – a solo show suffrage, now has some journalists https://unladylike2020.com/ on Alice Paul by longtime activist Zoe Women’s Suffrage Centennial Update 2020 - 2021

Nicholson, who offers information, website, https://earthmama.org/her- chapters from her book, satin story/ (scroll down) suffrage sashes, masks and Alice Paul items on her website, https://www.missalicepaul.com/Shop. html

Inez in the News – Suffrage martyr Inez Milholland Boissevain is drawing more attention, including a beautiful new photo series, “Standing Her Flag with nearly 36 stripes Together: Photographs of Inez Milholland’s Final Campaign for ArtForce5 – Student art project. the Woman’s Suffrage” by fine art Women’s Empowerment Draft. photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales, created sports themed “baseball https://www.jmbalesphotography.co cards” featuring notable women, m/. There’s also a teaser for a https://www.artforce5.com/wedraft proposed film, and TV series, by Amy Walker, https://intolightofficial.com, Here’s to the Women – Veteran and a students’ Tribute by ArtForce5, singer/songwriter Linda Allen not only https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B makes marvelous original music, she uBq-iuWSCc. also offers suffrage songs, resources and jewelry on her website, Commemorative Items – The free https://www.lindasongs.com/suffrage Women’s Suffrage Centennial Catalog offers over 250 commemorative items (including suffrage party supplies) from state groups and other sources, https://nationalwomenshistoryallianc e.org/wp-content/uploads/2020- Womens-Suffrage-Centennial- Catalog-and-Supplement-2.pdf See also back pages of this update for NWHA centennial sale items.

Much more is happening than we can list here and plans keep evolving. Follow the links above or search for Art Force 5 Suffrage Centennial in your state or region and go from there. Lucy Burns Museum has opened in the Workhouse Art Center in Lorton, Virginia, the site of the prison where * * * suffragists were held; strong videos, Songs of the Suffragists: Lyrics of Centennial groups and websites https://www.workhousearts.org/lucybur American Feminism from 1850 to in the states. On the following nsmuseum/ 2020 has just been published by The pages you’ll find links to the groups League of Women Voters of Berkeley we know of in the states

Heights, New Providence & Summit commemorating the suffrage Art & Music Counties in New Jersey, $23.45. centennial. They offer a wealth of Her Flag Marilyn Artus, like countless information, resources, new research, other artists, is continuing on and you A Suffrage Centennial Playlist of 90 biographies, curriculum, calendars can follow progress on her website rousing songs has been assembled and more. They are all worth and catch live stream performances by singer Joyce Rouse, who has long checking out, particularly for up to as August 18 draws near, raised her own powerful voice in date information about events https://www.herflag.com/ song and spirit, and has a vibrant happening near you.  Women’s Suffrage Centennial Update 2020 - 2021

GROUPS CELEBRATING THE SUFFRAGE CENTENNIAL IN EACH STATE

LWV = League of Women Voters

Arkansas Heritage, www.arkansasheritage.com, Arkansas Women’s Suffrage Centennial Project, https://ualrexhibits.org/suffrage/ [2017]

Delaware Women’s Vote, Delaware Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission, Alabama https://archives.delaware.gov/women- Alabama Women's Suffrage Centennial vote-100/ Committee, League of Women Voters of Sussex https://www.alabamawomen100.org/ County, Alabama State Bar, California https://my.lwv.org/delaware/sussex- https://womenrighttovote100.org/ California 2020 Women’s Suffrage county-delaware/19th-amendment- Project, celebration-planning-committee Alaska https://cawomenssuffrageproject.org/ No state group found Long Beach Suffrage 100, Alaska State Museums, https://lbsuffrage100.com/ https://lam.alaska.gov/museum- resources/suffrage Alaska Historical Society, https://alaskahistoricalsociety.org/?s=s uffrage

Florida Florida Women’s Suffrage Centennial, https://floridasuffrage100.org Florida Commission on the Status of Arizona Women, http://fcsw.net/2020- Arizona Celebrates the 19th Amendment, Colorado centennial http://azcelebrates19thamendment.co Women’s Vote Centennial // Colorado AAUW, https://aauw- m/ 2020, History Colorado, fl.aauw.net/womens-vote-centennial/ Arizona Women’s History Alliance, www.COwomenscentennial.org

https://www.azwomenshistoryalliance.o Georgia rg/, No state group found

LWV, https://my.lwv.org/georgia Atlanta History Center, https://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/e xplore/exhibitions/any-great-change- the-centennial-of-the-19th-amendment

Hawaii

Hawaii Women’s Suffrage Centennial Connecticut Commemoration, https://wscc.historichawaii.org/ Connecticut Commission to Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the 19th LWV, https://my.lwv.org/hawaii, Arkansas Amendment, Attorney General, Arkansas Women's Suffrage Centennial https://votesforwomenct.com/ http://ag.hawaii.gov/celebrating- Commemoration Committee, Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame, 100th-anniversary-of-the-19th- www.arvotesforwomen.com https://www.cwhf.org/ amendment-womens-right-to-vote/ Women’s Suffrage Centennial Update 2020 - 2021

Kentucky Women's Equality Day 2020 Celebration Kentucky Woman Suffrage Project, Across Maryland, Facebook http://www.kentuckywomansuffragepro https://www.facebook.com/WED2020 ject.org/ MD/?ref=page_internal h-net, https://networks.h- net.org/kywomansuffrage What is a Vote Worth?, http://whatisavoteworth.org/about/

Idaho Louisiana Idaho Women 100, No state group found https://www.idahowomen100.com/ LWV New Orleans, https://my.lwv.org/louisiana/new- Illinois orleans Suffrage 2020 Illinois, Evanston History AAUW Louisiana, https://aauw- Massachusetts Center, la.aauw.net/ Suffrage100MA, https://suffrage2020illinois.org/ Louisiana Old State Capitol exhibit, https://suffrage100ma.org/ LWV, Louisiana’s Lionhearted Ladies, Commonwealth Museum, https://www.lwvil.org/100thanniversary https://louisianaoldstatecapitol.org/exhi https://www.sec.state.ma.us/mus/suffra .html bits-events/louisianas-lionhearted- gists.html ladies, Indiana Indiana Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission, http://indianasuffrage100.org/ Indiana Humanities, https://indianahumanities.org/category /indiana-womens-suffrage-centennial

Michigan Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History

Council, Maine Iowa https://www.ggrwhc.org/suffrage-home th Maine Suffrage Centennial, 19 Amendment Centennial Votes for Women 100, https://www.mainesuffragecentennial.o Commemoration, https://19th- (LWV of Washtenaw County), rg/ amendment-centennial.org/ https://votesforwomen100.org/

Oakland County, Maryland https://www.oakgov.com/boc/Program Maryland's 19th Amendment Centennial s/Pages/Women's-Suffrage-Centennial- Commission, Maryland Commission for Celebration.aspx, Women, LWV of MI, https://www.lwvmi.org/ https://dhs.maryland.gov/maryland- commission-women/

Kansas 19th Amendment Centennial, https://19thcentennial.com/ LWV Kansas, https://lwvk.org/centennial

State Archives, Minnesota https://msa.maryland.gov/mdvotesforw LWV of Minnesota, omen/ https://www.lwvmn.org/ Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, https://mdwomensheritagecenter.org/ Mississippi Preservation Maryland, League of Women Voters of Mississippi, https://ballotandbeyond.org/ https://my.lwv.org/mississippi

Women’s Suffrage Centennial Update 2020 - 2021

Missouri LWV Southern New Mexico, https://www.ohiosos.gov/secretary- League of Women Voters of Missouri, https://www.lwvsnm.org/ office/office-initiatives/ohio-womens- https://lwvmissouri.org/ NM Humanities, suffrage-centennial/#gref League of Women Voters of Metro St. https://nmhumanities.org/women2020 Louis, http://lwvstl.org/index.html / Missouri Women, National Hispanic Cultural Center, https://missouriwomen.org/ http://www.nhccnm.org/ LWV Central New Mexico, Montana https://www.lwvcnm.org/two- Montana Women’s History, centennials/#news http://montanawomenshistory.org/ New York Nebraska New York State Women’s Suffrage LWV of Greater Omaha, Commission, https://www.lwvgo.org/category/100ye https://www.ny.gov/programs/new-

ars/ york-state-womens-suffrage- commission Oklahoma New York Humanities, Oklahoma Historical Society, https://humanitiesny.org/ny4suffrage/ https://www.okhistory.org/about/suffra Women Leading the Way, ge http://www.suffragettes2020.com/ Oklahoma Women’s Coalition, Monumental Women, https://www.okwc.org/19th- https://monumentalwomen.org/ amendment-100-years-later/ Women’s Suffrage NYC Centennial Consortium, Oregon https://womenssuffragenyc.org/ Nevada Oregon Women's History Consortium,

Nevada Women’s Suffrage Celebration http://www.oregonwomenshistory.org/ North Carolina Committee, She Changed the World, https://nv19thamendmentcentennial.co Pennsylvania https://www.ncdcr.gov/about/featured- m/ PA Women’s Suffrage 100, programs/she-changed-world-north- The Nevada Women’s History Project, https://womenvote.dced.pa.gov/ carolina-women-breaking-barriers www.nevadawomen.org, is a related Justice Bell

site Foundation, https://www.justicebell.org North Dakota Vision 2020 – North Dakota Woman Suffrage New Hampshire https://drexel.edu/vision2020/program Centennial Committee, New Hampshire Women Vote 100, s/women-100/ https://www.facebook.com/NDWSCC https://www.nhwomenvote100.org/ Brandywine Museum –

NH LWV, http://lwvnh.org/ https://www.brandywine.org/museum/ exhibitions/votes-women-visual-history

New Jersey NJ Women Vote 2020, Discover NJ History, https://discovernjhistory.org/njwomenv ote2020/ Ohio Alice Paul Institute, Ohio Suffrage Centennial, https://www.alicepaul.org/ https://www.ohiosuffragecentennial.com Rhode Island Secretary of State, XIX: Shall Not Be Denied, New Mexico https://www.sos.state.oh.us/secretary- https://www.shallnotbedenied.org/ League of Women Voters of New Mexico, office/office-initiatives/ohio-womens- Women’s Fund of Rhode Island, Radical https://www.lwvnm.org/ suffrage-centennial/ Women, https://wfri.org Women’s Suffrage Centennial Update 2020 - 2021

League of Women Voters of Rhode Island, http://www.lwvri.org/January_6.html#s 03

South Carolina LWV of South Carolina, http://www.lwvsc.org/

Related Sites: Utah Women’s History, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, https://www.utahwomenshistory.org/ https://www.wvpublic.org/topic/100- educational site years-ago#stream/2 Utah Heritage, https://utahheritage.org/

Wisconsin The Wisconsin 19th Amendment Suffrage Centennial Celebration Committee, LWV of Wisconsin, https://womenvotewi.wi.gov/pages/ho South Dakota me.aspx Her Vote, Her Voice, https://www.hervotehervoice.org/ A project of the South Dakota Historical Society Foundation, https://www.sdhsf.org/special_projects/

Vermont Vermont Suffrage Centennial Alliance, https://vtsuffrage2020.org/ LWV, https://my.lwv.org/wisconsin/centennial

Tennessee -information Tennessee Woman 100, Wisconsin Historical Society, https://tnwoman100.com/ https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/ TN Woman Suffrage Heritage Trail, https://tnwomansuffrageheritagetrail.co Wyoming m/about/ Wyoming Women's Suffrage Celebration, TN Suffrage Centennial Collaborative, 2019-2020, https://www.mtsuhistpres.org/tennessee https://wyowomensvote150.wyominglw -woman-suffrage-centennial- v.org/ Wyoming Women's Suffrage Celebration, collaborative/ Virginia U of WY, Virginia Museum of History & Culture, http://www.uwyo.edu/engagement/stat https://www.virginiahistory.org/2020 ewide-events/suffrage.html Turning Point Suffragist Memorial, Wyoming Office of Tourism, https://suffragistmemorial.org/ https://travelwyoming.com/suffrage- events Washington Celebrating 100 Years of Women Washington D.C. Change Makers, Washington State LWV in DC, https://my.lwv.org/district- Texas Historical Society, columbia/national-capital- Texas Women’s Foundation 19th https://www.suffrage100wa.com/ area/celebrating-centennial Amendment Centennial Project, LWV National, “She is me” campaign, https://www.txwf.org/countherin/ West Virginia https://www.lwv.org/sheisme West Virginia Centennial Celebration of Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Utah the 19th Amendment, Monument, Better Days 2020, https://sos.wv.gov/about/Pages/WV19 https://www.nps.gov/bepa/index.htm https://www.betterdays2020.com/ Amend.aspx National Women’s History Museum, https://www.womenshistory.org/  Women’s Suffrage Centennial Update 2020 - 2021

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