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The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing and protecting women’s constitutional right to vote. This historic centennial offers an unparalleled opportunity to commemorate a milestone of democracy and to explore its relevance to the issues of equal rights today. The Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative, a collaboration of women-centered institutions, organizations, and scholars from across the US, works to ensure that this anniversary, and the 72-year fight to achieve it, are commemorated and celebrated throughout the United States.
Museums, institutions, nonprofits, and groups around the country are celebrating and honoring the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment and the work of the remarkable women who fought for its passage with special programs, events, and exhibits throughout 2020.
Visit https://www.2020centennial.org/exhibits-2 to visit many of these virtually.
For Massachusetts events and information, visit Suffrage 100 MA at https:// suffrage100ma.org
To see “Suffragist of the Month” display panels from 2017 to now, visit https://suffrage100ma.org/suffrage-centennial-display-panel-project/
The panels are on display in the Commonwealth Museum lobby and are on the Commonwealth Museum’s website at https://www.sec.state.ma.us/mus/suffragists.html
Panels include information on the suffragist movement, and on individuals including Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin who established clubs for Black women that advocated civil rights and suffrage; Maria Louise Baldwin, who began with participation in school committee elections; Matilda Joslyn Gage, a suffragist writer and speaker who began her activism as an abolitionist, advocated for the rights of Native Americans, and her son-in-law was L. Frank Baum who wrote the “Wizard of Oz”; Harriett Tubman, who helped many slaves escape by the Underground Railroad; Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” and was committed to abolition and women’s equality and suffrage; Lucy Stone, who has been called eh “heart and soul” of the suffrage movement, founding the Boston based American Woman Suffrage Association and becoming editor of “The Woman’s Journal,” the most influential national publication advocating women’s suffrage; Louisa May Alcott, who wrote “Little Women”; Amelia Bloomer, known for her controversial advocacy of dress reform; Ernestine L. Rose, who became one of America’s leading suffragists after invalidating a marriage arranged for her in Poland; Frederick Douglass, who played a pivotal role in the debate; and many others.
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