Suffrage 2020
The WLA is dedicating 19 days to commemorating the 100th anniversary of the enactment of the 19th Amendment. Join us in remembering those who fought for women鈥檚 suffrage and the continuing journey towards a more equitable society. August 26-October 29, 2020, follow us on as we highlight the following events & resources. Scroll down past the 19 days for even more articles & activities. Special thanks to the University Libraries, Gannon Center for Women and Leadership, and our community partners, the Polish Women's Alliance of America and the Legion of Young Polish Women.
* DAY 1 *
August 26, 2020, marks the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the 19th Amendment. Join the National Women's History Museum for a day of programming, get an introduction to the 19th Amendment, and learn how "Not All Women Gained the Vote in 1920".
+ 8/26 EVENT: (National Women's History Museum)
+ (National 奥辞尘别苍鈥檚 History Museum)
+ (PBS)
* DAY 2 *
How did Chicago women win suffrage for themselves and other women? A special online presentation by the Glessner House will reveal how women worked behind the scenes in politics beginning after the Civil War to gain the right to vote. .
+ 9/16 EVENT: (Glessner House)
* DAY 3 *
Make your own suffrage pins & posters. Learn about some of the symbols of the movement and get inspired from this digital exhibit of memorabilia. Then share your creations by tagging the or emailing your photos to WLArchives@LUC.edu.
+ (U.S. National Park Service)
+ (Kenneth Florey, 奥辞尘别苍鈥檚 Suffrage Memorabilia)
+ Video tutorial:
+ Use one of our
* DAY 4 *
Even after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, the fight for the vote and equality continued for women of color. Join Jane Addams Hull-House Museum in conversation with Martha S. Jones author of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote and Insisted on Equality for All and Leslie Harris, professor, department of history, Northwestern University.
+ 9/17 EVENT: (Jane Addams Hull-House Museum)
* DAY 5 *
See the suffrage movement through the eyes of one of its courageous participants with PBS鈥檚 interactive audiovisual experience. This dynamic exhibit will introduce you to the women involved in the movement, their strategies, and the legacy left after the 19th Amendment.
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* DAY 6 *
The online exhibit, Votes for Delaware Women: A Centennial Exhibition, was curated by Anne Boylan, University of Delaware professor and Mundelein College alumna. Her papers are housed here at the WLA. Check out the exhibition and learn more about Dr. Boylan through her finding aid.
+ (Anne Boylan)
+ Anne Boylan Papers finding aid (Women and Leadership Archives)
* DAY 7 *
Join a presentation by author, speaker, and educator, Michelle Duster, hosted by Loyola鈥檚 奥辞尘别苍鈥檚 Studies & Gender Studies program. Duster will discuss the racial divisions that her great-grandmother, Ida B. Wells, and other suffragists experienced and the continuing struggle for African American women to be included in documentation and commemorations of the movement.
+ 9/29 EVENT: (LUC 奥辞尘别苍鈥檚 Studies & Gender Studies, Departments of History and Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences, and Gannon Center for Women and Leadership)
* DAY 8 *
September 22, 2020 is National Voter Registration Day. Register to vote and ask questions at the virtual office hours, learn about the 2020 election, and hear from women around the world as they share what voting means to them.
+ 9/22 EVENT: (草莓社区 Libraries)
+ (草莓社区 Libraries)
+ 鈥� video (ABA International)
* DAY 9 *
鈥淭he 19th Amendment was an important but incomplete victory in the struggle for women's voting rights.鈥� The online exhibit, Truth Be Told, uses portraits and artifacts to highlight the efforts of Black women. Learn their names and stories in this digital collection.
+ (Evoke)
* DAY 10 *
How long does it take to learn about the 鈥渏ail door pin鈥� worn by some suffragists or the official cartoonist of the National 奥辞尘别苍鈥檚 Party? Only 60 seconds! Park rangers at the Belmont-Paul 奥辞尘别苍鈥檚 Equality National Monument have created a series of short videos about the people, places, and pop culture of the suffrage movement.
+ (U.S. National Park Service)
* DAY 11 *
Suffrage School is in session! Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library has created engaging lessons with short videos in which guest instructors tell the story of women鈥檚 suffrage through historical documents and objects. Check out Loyola鈥檚 own Dr. Michelle Nickerson in her lesson on how nativism became entwined with the efforts of suffragists.
+ (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University)
+ (Michelle Nickerson, LUC Associate Professor of History)
* DAY 12 *
Get creative today with these coloring pages featuring political cartoons, suffragist portraits, and the 鈥淪uffrage Cat鈥�! Share your creations by tagging the or emailing your photos to WLArchives@LUC.edu.
+ coloring book (Kansas City Public Library, Missouri Valley Special Collections)
+ coloring book (Library of Virginia)
+ coloring page (U.S. National Park Service)
* DAY 13 *
Browse the virtual book display featuring 19 suffragists and find your next read! All books featured are available for the LUC community to check out as eBooks.
+ (草莓社区 Libraries)
* DAY 14 *
Are you more like Alice Paul or Sojourner Truth? Learn more about yourself and these influential suffrage activists with this fun quiz. Then be sure to check out some of the online exhibits and resources featured in our 19 Days to get to know more about these women!
+ (奥辞尘别苍鈥檚 Museum of California)
* DAY 15 *
Thanks to the generosity of the Polish Women's Alliance of America (PWAA), the WLA is pleased to share English translations of select Glos Polek articles from 1913-1920 discussing suffrage and women's role in society. Glos Polek (The Polish Women's Voice) is a publication from the PWAA. Follow the link below to read the translations and view the original issues in Polish.
+ Glos Polek Suffrage Articles (Women and Leadership Archives, Polish Women's Alliance of America)
* DAY 16 *
Suffragists published cookbooks to show that they could engage in the public sphere and still excel at caring for their families. The cookbooks also helped them spread their message and raise funds for the cause. Find your next cooking or baking project, as well as some entertaining notes and poems, in these cookbooks from 1890 and 1915. We鈥檙e also sharing a centennial cookbook published by the American Bar Association celebrating the courage of the suffragists. Share your photos and experiences by tagging the or emailing us at WLArchives@LUC.edu.
+ (NPR)
+ (Michigan State University Libraries)
+ (Project Gutenberg)
+ (American Bar Association)
* DAY 17 *
The Chicago History Museum invites visitors to explore women鈥檚 activism in Chicago to secure the right to vote 鈥攁nd beyond鈥� with their new online exhibition, Democracy Limited: Chicago Women and the Vote. Curated by Loyola Associate Professor Dr. Elizabeth Fraterrigo, the exhibit connects themes of the past with the present, which remind us that while injustice and inequality persist, so do activist women. Check back to see future installments of the exhibition.
+ (Elizabeth Fraterrigo, Chicago History Museum)
* DAY 18 *
Be a virtual volunteer and help the voices of the suffrage movement come to life. The Library of Congress wants your help transcribing the diaries, letters, and other historic documents so they are more accessible for everyone.
+ (Library of Congress)
* DAY 19 *
The dynamic program by PBS about the fight to pass the 19th Amendment is available to stream or can be seen on your local PBS station. And along with watching The Vote, don鈥檛 forget to cast your vote on November 3rd!
+ (PBS)
* ADDITIONAL EVENTS *
8/17 鈥� 4-6 PM CST: Virtual Community Screening and Conversation of The Vote (WTTW) . After the screening, Sylvia Ewing, Director of Strategic Communications, Marketing, and Outreach at Elevate Energy will moderate a live conversation featuring Lori Osborne, director of the Evanston 奥辞尘别苍鈥檚 History Project and Frances Willard House Museum in Evanston; Alice Palmer, former Illinois State Senator; and Rebecca Sive, political analyst and women鈥檚 leadership strategist and historian. The panel will discuss Illinois鈥� role in the 奥辞尘别苍鈥檚 Suffrage Movement, how race impacted 奥辞尘别苍鈥檚 Suffrage and voting today.
8/18-8/27 鈥� multiple events: Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote (National Archives Foundation and National Archives) Some event topics include "The Suffragist Playbook: Your Guide to Changing the World", Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, "19: The Musical", Ida B. Wells, and 100 Years Later: Women in Charge of the Ballot Box.
8/25 鈥� 7 PM CST: Rights, Responsibilities, and Roadblocks: Critical Stories Leading to the Passage of the 19th Amendment and Beyond (Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Woman鈥檚 Club of Evanston, 奥辞尘别苍鈥檚 Vote 100 Evanston) . More . Discussion of what barriers still exist, preventing American voices from being heard. Panelists: Honorable Judge Carole Kamin Bellows, Illinois State Senator Laura Fine, and writer/historian Rima Lunin Schultz.
8/26: Suffrage Selfie Parade (奥辞尘别苍鈥檚 Museum of California) for ideas of how to join the suffrage selfie parade across social media. Use #SuffrageSelfie and tag @womensmuseum.
8/26 鈥� 7 PM CST: Strength in Suffrage: Tracing 100 Years and 100 Stories of Women's History (Chicago Women's History Center) This virtual program features the work of two talented Chicago artists, Ginny Sykes (LUC Women's Studies and Gender Studies MA alum) and Carron Little, who will address the individual emancipation of one hundred women through image and one hundred years of lived experience transformed into lyrical poetry.
9/23 鈥� 6 PM CST: Bold Women. Change History. presentation (History Colorado) Smithsonian Institute Historian and archivist Lisa Kathleen Graddy charts the birth of American suffrage to the heady days of women running for president. . .
10/22-11/5: Various election-related events (草莓社区) Events include Social Justice Speaker: Jamira Burley, Managing Election Expectations, Dialogue in Divisive Times, Catholic Vote 2020: How Will Faith be a Factor, and more. Register for events and find voter information at LUC.edu/vote.
10/27 鈥� 7 PM CST: Evanston Women and the Fight for the Vote 鈥� Curator Lori Osborne will give a talk based on her research for the exhibit. Hosted by EHC and EWHP. . .
11/5 鈥� 7-8:30 PM CST: Behind the Tweets: Election 2020 Wrap-Up (LUC Department of History) Immigration. Law & Order. Gender Equity. Urban Uprisings. The Far Right. What's the real story behind all of those tweets and what might happen after the election? Featuring: Tanya Golash Boza (University of California, Merced), Joanna Grisinger (Northwestern University), John Huntington (Houston Community College), Anthony Prachter (independent scholar), Elizabeth Tandy Shermer (LUC), and Leandra Zarnow (University of Houston). Contact dhays1@luc.edu for Zoom link.
11/17 鈥� 6-8 PM CST: Race and Rights: Willard, Wells, Addams (Frances Willard House Museum, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Northwestern University History Department) Panel discussion featuring author Michelle Duster, great-granddaughter of journalist and anti-lynching advocate Ida B. Wells; historian and author Rima Lunin Schultz (her papers are housed at the WLA); Jennifer Scott, Director and Chief Curator, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum; Leslie Harris, Professor, department of history, Northwestern University; and Lori Osborne, Museum Director, Frances Willard House Museum. .
11/19 鈥� 6 PM CST: Recasting the Vote: Native American Activism, Past and Present (Delaware Historical Society) Author Dr. Cathleen D. Cahill recounts the actions of a multiracial group who pushed the national suffrage movement toward a more inclusive vision of equal rights, which remains an unfinished struggle that extends into the 21st century. Dr. Cahill will be joined by Jessica Renae Locklear for a conversation about 20th century Philadelphia-area native histories and communities鈥� issues of concern. .
11/21 鈥� 1-3 PM CST: Saturday Symposium--Our Vote: Suffragist Saturday (University of Delaware College of Arts and Sciences) Talks include: Anne Boylan, University of Delaware professor emerita of history, speaking on the suffrage movement in Delaware. (Boylan's papers are housed at the WLA.) Margaret Stetz, University of Delaware, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of 奥辞尘别苍鈥檚 Studies, discussing theatre and spectacle in the suffrage campaign. Carol Scott, UD student, Africana Studies and Spanish, will speak on her research into suffragist Blanche Williams Stubbs and African American women鈥檚 suffrage. Introduction to 鈥淰otes for Delaware Women: A Centennial Exhibit,鈥� a virtual exhibit of the Special Collections Gallery of Morris Library. . .
* ADDITIONAL RESOURCES *
(National Park Service) Learn more about the U.S. states and territories and their role in ratifying the 19th Amendment. Did your state vote to ratify the amendment? Find out!
(Library of Congress) Explore digital collections, related online resources, external websites, and a bibliography of books providing more information on the 19th Amendment.
(WVCI) Compilation of events, exhibits, and programs throughout the U.S.
(2006 film by Derek Fordjour and Jamar White) Full-length documentary feature chronicling the lives of 22 Howard University Women who marched in the Women's Suffrage March of 1913 and changed the course of history forever.
(NPR) 33-Minute Listen
(Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)) Content featured in this collection explores linkages between women鈥檚 suffrage and other social causes of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (anti-slavery, anti-lynching, education reform and civil rights) as well as racism within the Suffrage Movement.
(USA Today)
(Jewish Women's Archive)
(Edith P. Mayo and the National Women's History Museum) Digital Exhibit
(Smithsonian, Library of Congress, and National Archives) Follow these accounts on social media to experience #19SuffrageStories. .
(New York Times)
(National Museum of African American History & Culture)
(New York Times)
(American Bar Association)
(Society of American Archivists)
(New York Times)
(Illinois State Archives) 100 Most Valuable Documents at the Illinois State Archives
Interpreting the Legacy of Women's Suffrage at Museums and Historic Sites (Book by )
(New York Times)
(Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture)
(Library of Congress) Digital Exhibit
(National Organization for Women)
(Monumental Women)
(奥辞尘别苍鈥檚 Suffrage Centennial Commission) Blog series
(New York Times)
(Evanston 奥辞尘别苍鈥檚 History Project) Includes blog posts from WLA Graduate Assistants, Miranda Ridener & Casey Terry, and WLA Sesquicentennial Scholar, Scarlett Andes
(奥辞尘别苍鈥檚 Suffrage Centennial Commission)
(New York Times)
(Northeast Document Conservation Center)
: Digital Exhibit (Illinois History & Lincoln Collections, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
: Digital Collection (Smithsonian Institution)
(American Bar Association)
Podcast (first episode 8/18/2020) Who actually knows the history of the women鈥檚 suffrage movement? Host Maggie Hart sits down with over a dozen prestigious experts in suffrage history to unpack the heroism and racism, victory and failure, empowerment and rage, and just about everything in-between.
(Smithsonian Magazine)
(New York Times)
(奥辞尘别苍鈥檚 Suffrage Centennial Commission) Official site commemorating 100 years of women鈥檚 right to vote.
(Wyoming Trust & LLC Attorney) Our thanks to Hailey for the contribution!