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March 30, 2016 · 10:16 pm

2020 Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative Created

The League of Women Voters of the U.S. (LWVUS) and the Sewall- Belmont House & Museum (SBHM), organizations with roots in the 72 year campaign for women’s voting rights has announced the creation of the 2020 Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative (WVCI), a collaboration commemorating the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment which added women’s right to vote to the U.S. Constitution.

The WVCI will be led by a steering Committee and a larger task Force, which collectively represent the various segments of the historical women’s suffrage movement, contemporary women’s organizations, and scholars. The list of members can be found sewallbelmont.org/learn/womens-vote-centennial

The WVCI Steering Committee honored the convening of this initiative at a public program hosted by the Sewall-Belmont House & Museum and co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters on Wednesday, March 30, 2016. The program was entitled “Women and Politics: Advocacy, Activism, and Influencing Policy.”

The first project of the WVCI is a logo contest. The Initiative invites individuals and groups to contribute their design skills and creativity to the development of a logo and slogan (slogo) for use by anyone celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. The contest, which opens March 30th, will accept submissions through June 30th, 2016. A celebrity judge panel will help select the winner in time for an announcement on Women’s Equality Day, August 26, 2016. Details for the Slogo Contest and WVCI activities can be found at sewallbelmont.org/learn/womens-vote-centennial/.

Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative Task Force:

Miriam Bader, New York, Director, Education, Lower East Side Tenement Museum

Lucy Beard*, New Jersey; (Executive Director, Alice Paul Institute)

Robert P.J. Cooney, Jr.*, California
Author, Winning the Vote: The Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement
Director, Woman Suffrage Media Project

Roberta Francis*, New Jersey
Founding Chair, ERA Task Force, National Council of Women’s Organizations

Noemi Ghazala*, New York
Superintendent, Women’s Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls

Lisa Kathleen Graddy*, Washington, D.C.
Deputy Chair and Curator, Division of Political History
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Lis Harper*, Houston
Digital Consultant, Sewall-Belmont House & Museum

Page Harrington**, Washington, D.C.
Executive Director, Sewall-Belmont House & Museum

Deborah L. Hughes, New York
President & CEO, National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House

Jennifer Krafchik*, Washington, D.C.
Deputy Director and Director of Strategic Initiatives, Sewall-Belmont House & Museum,

Barbara Irvine, New Jersey
Founding President, Alice Paul Centennial Foundation, Inc.

Ida E. Jones, Ph.D., Maryland
Archivist, Morgan State University

Marguerite Kearns, New Mexico
Co-Chair, Inez Milholland Centennial Observance

Ann Lewis*, Maryland
Co-Chair, President’s Commission on the Celebration of Women in American History, 1998-2000

Elizabeth Maurer, Virginia
Director of Programs, National Women’s History Museum

Molly Murphy McGregor*, California
Executive Director and Founder, National Women’s History Project

Denise D. Meringolo, Maryland
Director of Public History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Kathleen Pate, Arkansas
Board Member, Arkansas Women’s History Institute

Sally Roesch Wagner, Ph.D., New York
Founding Director, The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation
Adjunct Faculty, The Renée Crown University Honors Program, Syracuse University

Judith Rosenbaum, Ph.D., Massachusetts
Executive Director, Jewish Women’s Archive

Jennifer Scott, Illinois
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

Nancy Tate**, Washington, D.C.
Immediate Past Executive Director, League of Women Voters of the United States

Marsha Weinstein, Kentucky
Co-Founder and Vice President, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Trust
Board Member, National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites
Co-Chair, NCWHS’ National Votes for Women Trail Committee

Sydnee Winston*, Virginia
Associate Producer, National Programming, WETA-TV

Pat Wirth, Virginia
Executive Director, Turning Point Suffragist Memorial Association

Jill Zahniser*, Minnesota
Historian and Co-Author of Alice Paul: Claiming Power (2014)

* Steering Committee member **WVCI Co-Chairs

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March 16, 2016 · 6:03 pm

TRAILER: Inez Milholland film coming in late April from filmmaker Martha Wheelock!

Those interested in organizing special Inez Milholland programs will be able to launch their program initiatives with a new 15-minute film that will be available in late April 2016. Wild West Women and filmmaker Martha Wheelock are busy preparing for the release. Here’s the trailer:

Inez Milholland is one of sixteen 2016 Honorees being recognized by the National Women’s History Project at a special Women’s History Month luncheon in Washington, DC. The noon event will be held at The Hamilton Live on March 19, 2016. For tickets, visit nwhp.org. For more information and photographs, visit InezMilhollandCentennial.com.

SuffrageCentennials.com is working to bring the story of Inez Milholland to American voters in this election year.

Visit the InezMilhollandCentennial.com web site for educational resources. Sign the digital petition supporting President Obama’s awarding of a presidential citizens’ medal in 2016.

GOODIES and resources with links. Plenty to support your programs.

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March 9, 2016 · 2:30 pm

Great resources for the 2016 Inez Milholland centennial!

Websites: InezMilhollandCentennial.com

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shop.nwhp.org/inez-milholland-centennial-c279.aspx

Announcement of Inez Milholland centennial launch for 2016.

Film: Martha Wheellock’s trailer for “Inez Milholland: Forward Into The Light”

youtube.com/watch?v=8UsYHHCaO6k, also Wild West Women films.

Song: www.lindasongs.com/audio/Inez.mp3

Linda Allen, lindasongs.com, album: “Here’s To The Women.” Song: “If You Had Seen Inez”

www.lindasongs.com/pages/discography.htm

Books: “Remembering Inez: The Last Campaign of Inez Milholland, Suffrage Martyr” by Robert P. J. Cooney, Jr. (American Graphic Press) www.RememberingInez.com

“Inez: The Life and Times of Inez Milholland” by Linda J. Lumsden (Indiana U. Press)

Interview: Radio interview with biographer Linda J. Lumsden on Inez Milholland (see above for book links)

http://www.albany.edu/talkinghistory/ualbany/ua-lumsden-inez-milholland-1.mp3

Account of 1916 Memorial for Inez Milholland in Washington, DC: Reading from “Jailed for Freedom” by Doris Stevens on tributes to Inez Milholland, recorded by Librivox and edited by Suffrage Wagon News Channel.

https://soundcloud.com/lets-rock-the-cradle/inez-milhollands-story-from

A nomination for Inez Milholland to receive a presidential citizens medal is on the desk of President Obama. Please sign the petition in support of this recognition.

Inez Milholland is one of sixteen 2016 Honorees being recognized by the National Women’s History Project at a special Women’s History Month luncheon in Washington, DC. The noontime event is being held at The Hamilton Live on March 19, 2016. For tickets, visit nwhp.org.

SuffrageCentennials.com is working to bring the story of Inez Milholland to American voters in this election year.

Visit the InezMilhollandCentennial.com web site for information about how you can sponsor an Inez event for your organization, become a partner during 2016, order books and buttons. and much more!

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March 1, 2016 · 1:54 pm

Women’s History Month and the launch of the Inez Milholland centennial for 2016

A group of grassroots activists and a California Congresswoman have joined forces to honor suffragist Inez Milholland on the centennial of her death while campaigning for Votes for Women.

A nomination by Representative Jackie Speier (D-CA) to President Obama for Milholland (1886-1916) has landed on the desk of U.S. President Barack Obama requesting that he honor the nation’s suffrage martyr, Inez Milholland, with the Presidential Citizen’s Medal in 2016. This second highest of civilian awards recognizes Americans who have made a significant contribution to the nation’s progress. Citing her “vital” leadership in the suffrage movement, Congresswoman Speier called Milholland “a shining star in the pantheon of inspiring leaders” in the early 20^th century. The nomination is featured on the web site, InezMilhollandCentennial.com.

The Inez Milholland Centennial campaign is part of the National Women’s History Project, the 35-year-old educational center responsible for the month of March being officially designated as National Women’s History Month. Journalist Marguerite Kearns, descendant of a suffragist and editor of the SuffrageCentennials.com website, is co-chair along with Robert P. J. Cooney, Jr., author of “Winning the Vote” and editor of “Remembering Inez: The Last Campaign of Suffrage Martyr, Inez Milholland.”

The two activists have started a digital petition (www.change.org/p/help-honor-an-american-hero) and postcard campaign so individuals and organizations can show their support for the nomination. The project’s website offers further details, information and resources about Milholland, and newly issued “Honor Inez” buttons. The project welcomes partners and invites the participation of schools, individuals, and groups throughout the country.

This year is the centennial of Milholland’s death in Los Angeles of exhaustion and pernicious anemia. The loss of the charismatic, thirty-year-old New York attorney intensified women’s efforts for the ballot and led to the picketing of the White House in January 1917. “Milholland’s death reignited the drive for a Constitutional amendment and tragically emphasized the price American women were forced to pay to win their own civil rights,” noted Kearns.

“2016 is also an election year,” Kearns observed, “when American women will be remembering the long and difficult 72-year campaign for Votes for Women nationally that they finally won through the 19^th Amendment in 1920.”

While highlighting Inez’s story, the centennial project encourages communities throughout the country to research their own local and state suffragists and celebrate their achievements.

As Cooney noted, “Inez Milholland was one of tens of thousands of women who worked for equal rights between 1848 and 1920, and we should know many more of them by name.” The effort is part of the preparation for the national suffrage centennial in 2020.

A new 15-minute film, “Inez Milholland: Forward into Light,” is in the process of completion by producer Martha Wheelock of Wild West Women. A trailer for film, which is scheduled to premier in April, is posted on YouTube.

SuffrageCentennials.com is working to bring the story of Inez Milholland to American voters in this election year.

Visit the InezMilhollandCentennial.com web site.

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February 24, 2016 · 10:25 am

Six days left on Kickstarter campaign for Inez Milholland film

Inez Milholland: America’s suffrage martyr. She died for women’s right to vote.

Just six days left to join the campaign to introduce Inez Milholland to American voters. You can be a part of the push to distribute the beautiful short documentary, Inez Milholland ~ Forward into Light. With your help, Martha Wheelock and Wild West Women (wildwestwomen.org) will be sending 10,000 free copies to schools, libraries, organizations and anyone working to encourage voting.

Make it happen today ~ click over to Kickstarter, choose a reward and make a pledge. You can see the trailer there too. Kickstarter http://tinyurl.com/hjzoqdw Everyone should know about Inez. OR Send a tax-deductible contribution marked “Inez” to NWHP, 730 Second St #469, Santa Rosa, CA 95402.
The National Women’s History Project will help distribute the INEZ film.

SuffrageCentennials.com is working to bring the story of Inez Milholland to American voters in this election year.

Visit the InezMilhollandCentennial.com web site.

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January 10, 2016 · 1:33 pm

Suffragist Inez Milholland is a “shining star,” according to U.S. Representative Jackie Speier

Sign the petition urging U.S President Obama to award suffragist Inez Milholland with a Presidential Citizen’s Medal.

In a letter where U.S. Representative Jackie Speier nominated suffrage activist Inez Milholland for the Presidential Citizens Medal, America’s suffrage martyr was described as “…a shining star in the pantheon of inspiring leaders of the women’s suffrage movement in the early 20th century.”

During the 2016 election year, Milholland will be honored. It’s the centennial year of Milholland’s death. And during 2017, Milholland will also receive her share of recognition during the centennial observance of New York State’s suffrage centennial when New York women will have been voting for 100 years.

U.S. Representative Speier described Milholland’s sacrifice in her letter to U.S. President Obama:

“Inez Milholland continued working tirelessly for the women’s suffrage movement for several years when she embarked –against medical advice because of a medical condition– on a grueling five week, eleven state tour of the western United States. At one of the stops…while speaking at a rally advocating for the constitutional amendment for universal suffrage, she suddenly collapsed. Her last public words were ‘Mr. President, how long must women wait for liberty’? She never recovered and died in a hospital some weeks later at age 30 in 1916. Suffragists at that time termed her a ‘martyr’ for women’s suffrage. She was given a martyr’s remembrance on Christmas Day, attended by over a thousand people under the rotunda at Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol –the first woman to be honored in this way.”

U.S. Representative Speier concluded: “As the centennial of her death and of the 19th Amendment approach, I can think of no better way to honor her memory than with this long overdue award. Therefore, I am proud to submit the name of Inez Milholland as a nominee for the Presidential Citizen’s Medal.”

The Inez Milholland Centennial observance is a special project of the National Women’s History Project. Marguerite Kearns and Robert P.J. Cooney Jr. are cochairs of this national initiative. Visit the web site for more information. Become a partner. SuffrageCentennials.com is a partner in the Inez Milholland centennial observance.

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December 30, 2015 · 7:50 pm

Does your organization have a 5-year plan for suffrage centennial events?

2017 is big year for women’s suffrage movement events and special programs! on Vimeo.

The year 2017 seems like a long way into the future to be planning for women’s suffrage centennial events and special programs. But work is already underway for 2017 and the 100th anniversary of the Silent Sentinels picketing the White House in 1917. And 2017 is also the year for the New York State suffrage centennial.

Projects in the works include a national suffragist memorial in Lorton, Virginia; the continuation of the Women on 20s campaign; a proposed statue of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in NYC’s Central Park; a new effort by the National Women’s History Project to gather support for the designation of August 26th as a national holiday; and a 2016 centennial observance for Inez Milholland, American’s suffrage martyr. There’s also support for funding New York State’s women’s suffrage centennial commission, plus more in the works.

If the education and fundraising arm of your organization is interested in planning ahead, you’ll have access now to some great presenters whose schedules are filling up NOW. Celebrate women’s freedom to vote and be on the front lines in your community and region.

When planning for your organization, consider a five-year plan that will take your group through the 2020 national centyennial observance when American women will have been voting for 100 years.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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December 24, 2015 · 1:50 pm

Letter to NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo supports 2017 suffrage centennial funding!

December 23, 2015

The Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of New York State, NYS State Capitol Building, Albany, NY 12224

Dear Governor Cuomo,

We, the undersigned, write to thank you for signing into law last month the legislation creating the New York State Women’s Suffrage 100th Anniversary Commemoration Commission. New York’s accomplishment in 1917, of women winning the franchise three years before ratification of the 19th Amendment, deserves broad celebration, public education, and promotion.

This anniversary can – and must – be our moment to prominently place New York State in the national and international context that our history deserves, while also helping to shape the future of the struggle for full equality that women have still not achieved. We humbly suggest that it is an opportunity to create a legacy that brands New York State as a place where equality and opportunity for all people are truly valued and celebrated.

Therefore, as you prepare your executive budget for the upcoming fiscal year, we ask that this once-in- a-lifetime anniversary be recognized with resources commensurate to the occasion. Moreover, investments during this period can create tourism destinations that will continue to generate income for the state and local communities and create jobs for years to come.

As the Commission will begin its work in 2016, and the celebrations should build toward the national anniversary in 2020, it is essential that multi-year funding be appropriated. Specifically, we request that funding be included, beginning for:

 staff support and related expenses for the Commission itself;  Centennial events, tourism packages, conferences, and programs during 2016-2020;  investment in “the product” – capital investment funds for the more than two dozen historical and cultural resources related to women’s history statewide; and  marketing to promote the events and sites, including web development, social media, and other mechanisms, for example through I Love NY.

Females comprise more than 51 per cent of the state’s population. The acknowledged birthplace of the American women’s rights movement – and arguably the international women’s rights movement – is in New York State. This is a legacy opportunity that we are confident will benefit the entire state.

Thank you very much for your consideration

Sincerely,

Martha Robertson and Susan Zimet, Friends of Women’s Rights National Historical Park and President, 2020: Project Women.

CC: Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul Mary Beth Labate, Director, Division of the Budget FY2016-2017.

Signers: New York State Cultural Heritage Network, Lynn Herzig, Coordinator, 63 members; Philip P. Arnold, Ph.D., Director, Skänoñh—Great Law of Peace Center Syracuse University Syracuse, NY; Heidi Bamford, Western New York Library Resources Council Buffalo, NY; Dr. Betty M. Bayer, Professor, Women’s Studies Hobart and William Smith Colleges Geneva, NY; Louise Bernikow, Gotham Center for New York History, New York, NY; Tara Bloyd, “Spirit of 1776” Suffrage Wagon, Santa Fe, NM; Sandi Brewster-Walker, Chair and Executive Director, Long Island Indigenous People Museum; David Bruinix, Macedon, NY; Bonnie Callaghan, South Bristol, NY; Menzo Case, Generations Bank and Right to Run 19K, Seneca Falls, NY; Billye Chabot, Executive Director, Seward House Museum Auburn, NY; Dik Cool, Publisher, Syracuse Cultural Workers Syracuse, NY; Robert P. J. Cooney, Jr., National Women’s History Project Half Moon Bay, CA; Julia Corrice, Chair, New York Heritage Digital Collections’ Women’s Suffrage Centennial Committee South Central Regional Library Council Ithaca, NY; Sarah Craig, Executive Director, Caffe Lena Saratoga Springs, NY; William G. Dolback, President, Ticonderoga Historical Society, Ticonderoga, NY; Patricia F. Dolton, Historian for Town of Greenwich Washington County, NY; Kevin S. Douglas, Advisor, World War One Centennial Commission New York, NY; Adriene Emmo, Treasurer, Friends of Women’s Rights National Historical Park Founding member, Women’s Institute for Leadership and Learning Seneca Falls, NY; Dr. Peter Feinman, Institute of History, Archaeology, and Education Purchase, NY; Susan Goodier, Ph.D., Editor, New York History Journal Public Scholar, New York Council for the Humanities SUNY Oneonta Department of History, Oneonta, NY and Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; Alice Graves, MLIS, Hospital Library Services Program Manager Southeastern NY Library Resources Council Highland, NY; Melinda E. Grube, Ph.D., Cayuga Community College, Phelps, NY; Kimberly Harvish, Educator, Chapman Historical Museum Glens Falls, NY; Robert Hest, Director, New York Cultural Heritage Tourism Network Mountain View, NY; Linda Hoffmann, Ithaca, NY; Andrea Holroyd, Old Songs, Inc. Voorheesville, NY; Barbara Howard, Yonkers, NY Women on the 20s Campaign; Deborah L. Hughes, President & CEO National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House Rochester, NY; Lyle Jenks, President, Board of Trustees 1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse Museum Ontario County, NY; Marguerite Kearns, Co-Chair, Inez Milholland Centennial, National Women’s History Project; Susan Lesser, Ithaca, NY; Bruce Levy, Plainview, NY; Mary-Carol Lindbloom, Executive Director, South Central Regional Library Council Dryden, NY; Kerry Lippincott, Executive Director, Geneva Historical Society Geneva, NY; Judith A. Lonnquist, Esq., Friends of Women’s Rights National Historical Park Seneca Falls, NY; James G. Loperfido, Cayuga County Arts Council Auburn, NY; Jody Luce, Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark Peterboro NY; Katie MacIntyre, Generations Bank and Right to Run 19K, Seneca Falls, NY; Nancy Mion, Bayport, NY; Ilka Morse; Capital District Library Council Albany, NY; Ann Morton, Morton Archaeological Research Services Macedon, NY; Reginald Neale, 1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse Museum Executive Committee Ontario County, NY; Carmen Negron, Wesley Hills, NY; Brian C. O’Connor, MA, MSLS, North Country Community College Saranac Lake, NY; Diane O’Connor, Ticonderoga Historical Society Ticonderoga, NY; Laura Osterhout, M.L.S., Rochester Regional Library Council Fairport, NY; Valerie Paley, Ph.D., Vice President, Chief Historian and Dean of Scholarly Programs, Director, Center for the Study of Women’s History New-York Historical Society New York, NY; Jennifer Palmentiero, Southeastern NY Library Resources Council Highland, NY; Antonia Petrash, Long Island Woman Suffrage Association Glen Cove, NY; Jane Plitt, Campaign Coordinator Friends of the Women’s Rights National Historical Park Seneca Falls, NY; Kathy Rand, Friends of Women’s Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, NY; Diane Robinson, former Farmington Town Historian Farmington, NY; Joan E. Seaman, Long Island Library Resources Council Long Island, New York; Andy Spence, Old Songs, Inc. Voorheesville, NY; Kay Spence, Old Songs, Inc. Voorheesville, NY; Martha Swan, Executive Director, John Brown Lives! Westport, NY; Olivia Twine, Historical Society of Woodstock, Woodstock, NY; Dr. Sara B. Varhus, Vice President for Academic Affairs Nazareth College Rochester, NY; Edward Varno, Executive Director Ontario County Historical Society Canandaigua, NY; Sally Roesch Wagner, Ph.D.; Founding Director, The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, Adjunct Faculty, The Renée Crown University Honors Program, Syracuse University Public Scholar, New York Council for the Humanities; Cassie Ward, Executive Director, New Castle Historical Society, Horace Greeley House Chappaqua, NY; Dr. Marie Watkins, Canandaigua, NY; Judith M. Wellman, Director, Historical New York Research Associates Professor Emerita, State University of New York at Oswego; Kerri Willette, Metropolitan NY Library Council New York, NY; Doris Wolf, Third great granddaughter of Susan B Anthony’s grandmother Waterloo, NY; Carol Ritter Wright, Fairport, NY.

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December 22, 2015 · 6:45 pm

ACTION ALERT: Sign letter supporting funding for NYS Suffrage Centennial Commission!

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A letter goes out right before the Christmas break to NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo thanking him for signing the bill creating a New York State suffrage commission that will begin work in 2016. The idea is to add funding to enable gearing up for the 2017 state observance and onward to the national 2020 suffrage centennial when American women will have been voting for 100 years. Send an email TODAY to:

martha.o.robertson@gmail.com

Tell Martha Robertson that you’d like to sign onto the letter so that the goal of 50-60 signers can be met before the holiday. Your signature will make a difference!

Support women’s suffrage friendly blogs and organizations.

NEWS ALERT: Four U.S. states have women’s suffrage centennial celebrations before 2020. Find out more in this video.

Become a detective into the past of women’s suffrage stories on Vimeo.

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December 17, 2015 · 2:09 pm

Bold initiatives underway for the future make equality & women’s history a priority!

Suffrage movement centennial events & celebrations in 2016 on Vimeo.

IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER: Eighty-one percent of the electorate who will pick the U.S. President in 2016 are either women, people of color, or young people between the ages of 18 and 35.

The National Women’s History Project is requesting donations for a new initiative to make August 26th, Women’s Independence Day (also known as Women’s Equality Day), a federal holiday. The NWHP, now in its 35th year, is hard at work in preparation for the 2020 suffrage centennial, as well as the 2016 launch of the Inez Milholland Centennial, a year-long campaign directed by Marguerite Kearns and Robert P.J. Cooney Jr.

When the NWHP started its work in 1980, NWHP executive director Molly Murphy MacGregor said that few outside of academia knew much about women’s history. Establishing a National Women’s History Week, and then a National Women’s History Month, proved to be a remarkably effective way of making women’s history relevant and visible not just in the classroom but in communities and workplaces as well. Now the NWHP is planning a Women’s History Alliance to connect educators, performers, historic sites, agencies, and organizations in their work of recognizing women’s history and preparing for the woman suffrage centennial in 2020. To make a donation, visit the NWHP web site.

Vision 2020 is planning a prominent exhibit at the National Constitution Center in 2020. Highlights of Vision 2020’s program include:

Shared Leadership: Vision 2020 Delegates from four states (Iowa, Massachusetts, Utah, Rhode Island) are drafting a CEO Challenge to increase the numbers of women on corporate boards.
Economic Security: Bobbi Liebenberg, Lisa Passante and Connie Lindsey are serving as conveners, communicators and coordinators of activities to close the gender gap in pay and retirement income by connecting with AAUW delegate leaders in several states and a new Vision 2020 Ally, WISER (Women’s Institute for Secure Retirement).
Youth Education: Delegates and allies are working on STEM education for girls, with support from the Society for Women Engineers, whose leaders attended the Congress. Others are seeking to incorporate the history of women into secondary education curricula, and some are emphasizing social media.
Civic Engagement: The Vision 2020 goal of rallying 100% of eligible women to vote in 2020.

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TRAILER: Inez Milholland film coming in late April from filmmaker Martha Wheelock!

Great resources for the 2016 Inez Milholland centennial!

Women’s History Month and the launch of the Inez Milholland centennial for 2016

Six days left on Kickstarter campaign for Inez Milholland film

Suffragist Inez Milholland is a “shining star,” according to U.S. Representative Jackie Speier

Does your organization have a 5-year plan for suffrage centennial events?

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