Women’s Suffrage Centennial Update 2020 - 2021

Exciting Plans for the Week of August 16-22, 2020

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EBINARS, blogs, podcasts, Art exhibits, museum shows and special zoom panels, virtual events – events are being reimagined with virtual W who would have thought the performances, online tours, in-depth guides 2020 women’s suffrage centennial would and historical materials that everyone can look like this? After years of planning access and enjoy. This update is for mid- and preparation, it was a cruel blow for August; we’ll create another for the week the pandemic to hit just this year. We August 23-30. had a memorable start but then life for Commemorations will continue to take all of us changed completely. place throughout this year and won’t end Now, with experience, people and there. Skydivers, marathoners, classic car institutions have adapted using computer-based fans and a wide array of Americans are changing connections with many modern innovations. While their plans and rescheduling in 2021. We’re happy in normal times we might have just heard about a to extend the celebration and to take more time to celebration in Nashville, now we can share the recognize the suffrage movement as a central part experience through a live stream. of our nation’s history.

List of State Centennial Organizations Included

Published by the National Women’s History Alliance, https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/ Women’s Suffrage Centennial Update 2020 - 2021

CENTENNIAL EVENTS AUGUST 16-22

Women’s Suffrage Centennial Celebrations Here are the two national centennial groups that have event

calendars. Their sites also offer Here are some of the exciting events valuable resources and links to happening between August 16 and organizations in each state. Some 22, including a full day of virtual events require pre-registration. events on August 18, the centennial Commemorations will continue of Ratification in Tennessee. We’ll through 2021, but NOW is the have another update for the following time to celebrate women’s historic week. achievement Many celebratory events, some live and many online, are planned for Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative this week and next throughout the Calendar: country. https://www.2020centennial.org/c There is far too much happening alendar-page to list in any one place, so in addition Events: to this update, check with your https://www.2020centennial.org/n favorite groups and search online for ew-events centennial events in your area. State groups: Tennessee Woman Suffrage Monument https://www.2020centennial.org/l

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page Tuesday, August 18 Ratification Day Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission 10:30 am-12 Central Women’s Suffrage Month Dedication of the Tennessee Woman Calendar: Suffrage Monument in Nashville’s https://www.womensvote100.org/ Centennial Park. A squad of suffragemonth professional women skydivers with Events: centennial banners will begin the https://www.womensvote100.org/ program diving from a plane 6,000 suffragemonth feet above the site. Live news feed, State groups: https://vodayo.com/womansuffrage https://www.womensvote100.org/ monument/. Join a screening of By states One Vote: Woman Suffrage in the

South at 12-1:30 pm CDT,

https://tnmuseum.org/.

4-4:30 pm Eastern Monday, August 17 Exclusive Performance: Opera Singer

WVCI 2020 Torch Maureen Broy Papovich's ERA Song Noon Eastern Cycle including work written in honor National Women’s History Alliance Women's Fight for the Vote: of her grandmother’s work fighting Celebrating 100 Years of the for the Equal Rights Amendment, has a Fall Suffrage Centennial th Update, Gazettes and a Centennial 19 Amendment, a live virtual event https://www.alicepaul.org/newsevent Catalog of products and resources with Hillary Clinton, Elaine Weiss, s/ posted at Centennial2020 on their and Librarian of Congress Carla home page, Hayden. 5 pm Pacific https://nationalwomenshistoryallianc https://www.womensvote100.org/suff California Women Inspire: e.org/. ragemonth Celebrating Women’s Equality in the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Update 2020 - 2021

Golden State, official online 9:30 am - 4:30 pm Eastern event in Little Rock, Arkansas, will be celebration features special Women with Vision: A Celebration of completely virtual (fee), conversations plus a preview of Leadership Virtual event in Michigan https://runsignup.com/Race/AR/Little forthcoming exhibits, (fee) Rock/SuffrageSprintStroll https://www.californiamuseum.org/c https://shop.zingtrain.com/products/ a-women. women-with-vision-a-celebration-of- 10 am Central leadership Kansas Statewide March to the Polls 7 pm Eastern https://lwvk.org/centennial The Woman’s Hour: 100 Years & Counting… 10 am - 4 pm, Pacific A discussion on the journey to Saturday, August 22 Votes for Women Centennial Festival women’s suffrage and where we have State Capitol Grounds, Olympia, 9 am Eastern yet to go, th Washington, https://carnegiecarnegie.org/our- The release of the 19 Amendment https://www.suffrage100wa.com/pro team/the-womans-hour-100-years- Women Vote postage stamp will take grams counting/ place as part of Equality Weekend – Seneca Falls. This series of online 11 am - 8 pm Pacific 8-9 pm Eastern programs is presented by the Women's Equality Day 2020 Alice Paul and the 20th Century Fight Women's Rights National Historical Celebration across Maryland for Women's Equality: A Living History Park in Seneca Fall, New York, with https://msa.maryland.gov/mdvotesfo Performance, a 40-minute film later events on August 26. rwomen/pdfs/wed2020-flyer.pdf created by the mother-daughter team The weekend will feature a panel of Liz Cannon and Joanna Guy for of living descendants of suffragists Next Issue: August 23-30 the Alice Paul Institute, https://www.alicepaul.org/newsevent s/ Available Now 8-10 pm Eastern Marching from Suffrage toward Several multi-part series have already Equality, a webinar hosted by the launched and are now available, Turning Point Suffragist Memorial, including: https://suffragistmemorial.org/events /marching-from-suffrage-toward- And Nothing Less – Hosts Rosario equality-webinar/ Dawson and Retta’s podcast brings stories left out of our history books, After The March on Alice Paul and a https://www.womensvote100.org/an Black worker in prison will be dnothingless. streaming online, register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/after- The Magic Sash – This seven-part the-march-live-screeningtipping- children's podcast is a journey back in event-tickets-116090137727. time hosted by gymnast Aly Raisman, and civil rights activists, a discussion https://www.womensvote100.org/the by comic artists, a presentation by magicsash.

Thursday, August 20 author Prof. Martha Jones, a virtual screening of Legacies of Suffrage in She Votes! Lynn Sherr and Ellen Goodman co-host an eight-part Noon Eastern the National Parks Service, and, on August 26, a living history portrayal audio documentary podcast on the Keynote Conversation with National suffrage movement, Endowment for the Arts Chair Mary of Alice Paul. Full details at http://www.nps.gov/wori, or https://www.shevotespodcast.com/. Anne Carter, Creativity and Persistence: Art that Fueled the Fight https://www.facebook.com/womensri ghtsnps/ Song Suffragettes – Every Monday for Women's Suffrage, through August 24, this all-female https://www.womensvote100.org/we 9 am - 3 pm Central singer-songwriter collective live binars streams one-hour acoustic Fourth Annual Suffrage Sprint & Stroll Women’s Suffrage Centennial Update 2020 - 2021 performances from Nashville, suffrage movement. Kentucky-based for All offers terrific insights into the https://www.songsuffragettes.com/. but a useful model for others, experiences and achievements of https://whatisavoteworth.org/ Black women. [September 8].

Suffrage Then and Now, Frazier Free Publications from the Museum exhibit, includes introductory National Endowment for the Arts videos for grades 3-6, https://fraziermuseum.org/exhibits/su ffrage

Watch history from home: Martha Wheelock’s “Votes for Women,” “California Women Win the Vote” and “Forward Into Light.” RSVP to Laguna Beach, CA at 19thAmendmentCelebration@gmail. com.

Trailblazers: Women's Fight for the Vote, 55 min. video from WQLN PBS, https://pbsvideo.wqln.org/video/trail blazers-womens-fight-for-the-vote- wpi9ng/

From Rose O’Neill: Artist & Suffragette Turning Point Suffragist Memorial, American Artscape magazine, a 24- 12 videos, page centennial edition exploring Rose O’Neill: Artist & Suffragette https://www.youtube.com/results?sea creativity and the arts, free download, August 6 – September 27 Norman rch_query=turning+point+suffragist https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/file Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA s/American-Artscape-No-2-2020.pdf Original drawings, artwork, exhibit videos, https://www.nrm.org/ New Books

The Battle for the Ballot, a World premier of composer Stacy Garrop’s 16-minute symphonic work commissioned by the Cabrillo Music Festival that features quotes from seven American suffragists, https://cabrillomusic.org/2020- season/rising-ii/rising-ii-video-52b/

Creativity and Persistence, Art That Fueled the Fight for Women's

Suffrage, a 124-page special

What Is a Vote Worth? centennial publication, free download An online collection of resources for Historian Martha Jones’ Vanguard: (see also Aug. 20), educators to use for teaching How Black Women Broke Barriers, https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/file engaged civics and the woman Won the Vote and Insisted on Equality s/Creativity-and-Persistence-0820.pdf Women’s Suffrage Centennial Update 2020 - 2021

Also check /9aNFZT-P7?cid=a8321644-bed3- https://www.okhistory.org/learn/suffr 4253-83b4-f9e84976b2ee#/main age. Louisiana’s Old State Capitol is hosting Lionhearted Ladies: Championing the Right to Vote, showing artifacts from the state’s suffrage movement (extended through the end of next year), https://louisianaoldstatecapitol. org/exhibits-events/louisianas- lionhearted-ladies.

Chicago area residents have a long list of events planned, https://www.dailyherald.com/submitt ed/20200807/mark-your-calendar- 19-events-to-celebrate-the-19th- Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary amendment-honoring-100-years-of- Church Terrell, by Alison M. Washington State Historical Society womens-right-to-vote Parker [December] has organized a Suffrage Special Whistle Stop Tour, which will make From Ohio: “Even though our big Elaine Weiss’ The Woman's Hour: eight virtual “whistle stops” August event was cancelled, we are parading Our Fight for the Right to Vote has 19-26, in front of Harriet Taylor Upton's come out in a Young Adult version. https://www.washingtonhistory.org/ev home in Warren, Ohio . . . safe ent/the-suffrage-special-whistle-stop- distancing of course.” tour/, also https://www.suffrage100wa.com/

States Maryland - Raising Their Voices,

sponsored by the Maryland This is just a sampling to give a sense Humanities Chautauqua 2020, is just of activity in the states. Check with one example of local events in the the national centennial sites (page 2) states that are accessible elsewhere. or the list of state organizations on This one features live performances the following pages. by actresses portraying Alice Paul,

Mary Church Terrell and Tennessee has many different events Fannie Lou Hamer; videos will be happening on and around August 18 posted online, in Nashville, Clarksville, Memphis and Knoxville, https://tnwoman100.com/ and https://tnwomansuffrageheritagetrail. Women’s History Month 2021 com/about/. Recognizing the extension of the The Tennessee State Museum is centennial celebration into 2021, offering an online exhibit tour, the National Women’s History Ratified! Tennessee Women and the Alliance has extended the 2020 Right to Vote, https://tnmuseum.org/. theme with an added phrase: Valiant Women of the Vote: The Oklahoma Commission on the Refusing to be Silenced. Visit the Status of Women is producing a website, make use of the many webcast, posting information on their https://www.mdhumanities.org/event resources and join the NWHA, website, and having the state issue a s/ There’s also a calendar of events https://nationalwomenshistoryallian proclamation, in Montgomery County at ce.org/ or (707) 636-2888. https://www.ok.gov/ocsw/. https://www.laurieannesayles.com/so 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/ California County, Alabama State Bar, California 2020 Women’s Suffrage https://my.lwv.org/delaware/sussex- https://womenrighttovote100.org/ Project, county-delaware/19th-amendment- https://cawomenssuffrageproject.org/ celebration-planning-committee Alaska Long Beach Suffrage 100, No state group found https://lbsuffrage100.com/ Alaska State Museums, 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 Colorado Women, http://fcsw.net/2020- Arizona Celebrates the 19th Amendment, Women’s Vote Centennial // Colorado centennial http://azcelebrates19thamendment.co 2020, History Colorado, AAUW, https://aauw- m/ www.COwomenscentennial.org fl.aauw.net/womens-vote-centennial/ Arizona Women’s History Alliance,

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