WASHINGTON D.C. UNION STATION - AUGUST 24-28, 2020 1. 14. SUSAN B ANTHONY A noted abolitionist, suffragist, traveling lecturer, and Devoted her life to equality. She is one of the most visionary itinerant preacher. famous women in American history for her role in the women’s movement. 2. Prominent abolitionist and suffragist, she was the first 15. NANNIE HELEN BURROUGHS woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree. Founder of the National Training School for Women and Girls to educate Black women and help them 3. JEANETTE RANKIN secure better jobs. An American politician & women’s rights advocate. She was the first woman elected to the United States 16. Congress. She rescued enslaved people through , and fought for civil rights and women’s 4. suffrage. One of the first leaders of the women’s rights movement. She organized the first Women’s Rights 17. MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE Convention in 1848. The founder of the National Council of Negro Women, she organized an advisory group to President Franklin 5. ZITKÁLA-ŠÁ D. Roosevelt, known as the “Black Cabinet.” A Yankton Dakota Sioux writer, educator, and activist who fought for women’s suffrage & Native American 18. rights. Founder of the National Woman’s Party in 1913 and implemented innovative tactics such as picketing 6. outside the White House. A key participant in the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession, she greatly influenced the movement. 19. IDA B WELLS Born into slavery, she became a suffragist and 7. crusading journalist who devoted her life to the causes An ordained Methodist minister who served as of equality and racial justice. president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. 20. CRYSTAL EASTMAN In 1920, after campaigning for the 19th Amendment, 8. MARY CHURCH TERRELL she helped found a precursor to the American Civil President of the National Association of Colored Liberties Union. Women, and one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree. 21. President of the National American Woman Suffrage 9. Association in the final years of the movement who An advocate for immigrants and the urban poor. She later founded the League of Women Voters. was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 22. A suffragist and strong advocate for ending slavery. 10. CARY She dedicated her life to speaking out against racial An anti-slavery activist, journalist, teacher, and lawyer. and gender injustice. She was first Black woman newspaper editor in North America. 23. FRANCES HARPER An abolitionist, suffragist, teacher, public speaker, 11. ADELINA OTERO-WARREN and a founder of the National Association of Colored She distributed suffrage literature in English and Women. Spanish, and became one of New Mexico’s first women elected officials. 24. ROSALIE JONES Organizer of marches to draw attention to the suffrage 12. cause. She was known as “General Jones” because of A passionate activist, she spent more time in prison for her following. her protests than any other suffragist. 25. ALVA VANDERBILT BELMONT SEARCH FOR ! 13. MABEL PING-HUA LEE Used her social standing to help raise money and The first Chinese woman in the United States to earn a organize the National Woman’s Party. doctorate, she played an important part in the suffrage FIND HER PHOTO IN THE ARTWORK movement. ‘Our Story: Portraits of Change’ is an interactive photo mosaic and art installation depicting a portrait of suffragist and civil rights activistda I B. Wells, created by artist Helen Marshall ofThe People’s Picture, commissioned by the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission, and produced by Christina Korp, Purpose Entertainment. Our Story commemorates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and women’s right to vote in the United States.

Ida B. Wells was one activist in a movement of many, represented by the thousands of historic photographs of suffragists within the mosaic. Among her many accomplishments and endeavors, Wells founded the Alpha Suffrage Club in 1913, the first African American women’s suffrage organization in Chicago. During the March 3, 1913 Suffrage Parade in Washington, D.C., she famously protested racial segregation in the parade by refusing to march in the back of the procession, instead taking her rightful place with the rest of the delegation of Illinois suffragists. She was a leader in the suffrage movement who fought to ensure Black women would not be left behind in the campaign for women’s rights. Her leadership, courage, and determination in the face of formidable obstacles represent the spirit of the American women’s suffrage movement.

Suffragists began their organized fight for the ballot in 1848 when they demanded the right to vote during the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. For the next 72 years, women leaders protested for the right to the ballot. Today, more than 68 million women vote in elections because of the courageous suffragists who never gave up the fight for equality. With the physical and virtual mosaic, we honor their dedicated efforts to expand American democracy.

With thanks to the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission, The People’s Picture, Purpose Entertainment, the Library of Congress, University of Chicago, Hargrove, and Union Station Washington D.C. www.ourstory100.com