May 8, 2018 · 4:54 pm

Alice Paul tea program to be presented in Sarasota, Florida after premier in California!

The Next Performance of Tea with Alice and Me: Black Box Theater ~ Sarasota, Florida is scheduled for Friday, May 11, 2018, Performance at 5 p.m. Sponsored by the New College of Sarasota, Florida’s Gender Studies program. This event is free. Introduce Alice’s tea to your city, organization, school or club. Contact: Wild West Women, Inc., Martha Wheelock, Producer at (800) 428-7136 or martha@wildwestwomen.org

Wild West Women is the proud producer of “Tea with Alice and Me,” a full-length one-woman performance that takes the audience to women’s tearooms ~ Seneca, Selfridges, The National Women’s Party, Women’s Bookstores. Of course it is really about a cup of revolution served up in nonviolent direct action. From 1775 through today, Zoe Nicholson takes you on her militant, revolutionary, feminist call to action. Hundreds of pictures and personal stories transport the audience to each time and place she describes.

SuffrageCentennials.com has been publishing for five years to bring you the news and views of suffrage centennial events and celebrations across the United States. Marguerite Kearns is editor. Follow by signing up when we share new posts.

Suffrage Wagon News Channel (SuffrageWagon.org) is a sister site to Suffrage Centennials. SWNC has been publishing since 2009.

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May 7, 2018 · 5:22 pm

Call for nominations—National Women’s History Project

The National Women’s History Project Theme for 2019 is:Visionary Women: Champions of Peace & Nonviolence

This year the National Women’s History Project honors women who have led efforts to end war, violence, and injustice and pioneered the use of nonviolence to change society.  These Honorees embraced the fact that the means determine the ends and so developed nonviolent methods to insure just and peaceful results.

For generations, women have resolved conflicts in their homes, schools, and communities. They have rejected violence as counterproductive and stressed the need to restore respect, establish justice, and reduce the causes of conflict as the surest way to peace. From legal defense and public education to direct action and civil disobedience, women have expanded the American tradition of using inclusive, democratic and active means to reduce violence, achieve peace, and promote the common good.

From women’s rights and racial justice to disarmament and gun control, the drive for nonviolent change has been championed by visionary women. These women consciously built supportive, nonviolent alternatives and loving communities as well as advocating change. They have given voice to the unrepresented and hope to victims of violence and those who dream of a peaceful world. Contact the National Women’s History Project for more information. nwhpnominations@gmail.com by May 31, 2018.

Make sure you, your friends, schools and organizations are planning for 2020 when U.S. women will have been voting for 100 years. Visit the centennial blog for Inez Milholland, the U.S. suffrage martyr. The National Women’s History Project sponsored a year-long observance of the 100 years since Milholland’s death in 1916. Help remember Inez during 2020.

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May 5, 2018 · 6:54 pm

Public History Project continues as the U.K. celebrates its suffrage centennial honoring women’s rights!

The East End Women’s Museum in London is headed toward a permanent home in 2019 to 2020. Right now supporters are describing themselves as a “kitchen table museum” without an office or a building for sponsoring events, exhibitions, and a growing collection of resources for schools and researchers.

 When a proposed women’s history museum in 2015 on Cable Street in East London turned out to be a museum of a woman-hating killer, Jack the Ripper, women’s museum supporters decided to make the missing museum a reality.

“Crass Jack the Ripper tourism is nothing new, but the museum located on Cable Street in London represents a huge missed opportunity,” stated a release circulated by the East End Women’s Museum. “East London has an incredibly rich social, political, and cultural history and women were part of all of it although their voices are seldom heard. Those are the stories we want to tell—stories that illuminate the lives of East End women, not only their deaths. We want to showcase the histories of women from the East End so that they are relevant to life in the East End today. We will share what we learn and help people in other places make women’s museums of their own.”

Follow SuffrageCentennials.com for updates on centennial news. Find out about the continuing journey of the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon, a symbol of the first wave of women’s rights organizing. Don’t forget the U.S. suffrage martyr Inez Milholland who died in 1916 for women’s voting rights.

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· 8:09 am

It is up to us to build and support the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial!

$20 for 2020

The Turning Point Suffragist Memorial will open in Lorton, Virginia by 2020, the nation’s suffrage centennial, with your help. Your $20+ tax deductible donation comes with perks. Here they are:

$20+ donation: Your name or the name of a person or organization you wish to honor on the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial Association website dedication page.

$100+ donation: Your name or the name of a person or organization you wish to honor on a scrolling, interactive monitor within the Memorial

Plus everything above
$101+ donation: A signed certificate as a member of the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial Association

Plus everything above
$1000+ donation

Your selection of a name to be inscribed on the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial Donor Wall
Invitation to the Memorial’s ribbon cutting celebration in 2020. There are more perks. Find out more at the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial web site.

Suffrage CentennialsimagesFollow SuffrageCentennials.com on our Facebook page, Twitter, email subscription, and the Quarterly Newsletter. Sign up for email on this web page. Keep up to date with postings, audio podcasts, and videos. Plan for your suffrage centennial event in 2020. Remember Inez Milholland, the U.S. suffrage martyr from now through 2020 (InezMilholland.wordpress.com). And support the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial.

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May 2, 2018 · 9:57 pm

Hints that the 2020 suffrage centennial is getting closer!

The upcoming 2020 national suffrage centennial is getting closer. One way to tell is the appearance of first wave women’s rights activists like Alice Paul appearing in a major network show, “Timeless.” She is framed for murder and needs a top woman Sherlock type to bail her out. It’s the second season of “Timeless,” episode 7.

Alice Paul is identified as being responsible, due to her persistence, with the passage and ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Alice herself wouldn’t have insisted on the credit. Many tens of thousands of women across the nation participated in the agitation for decades.

And Alice Paul wouldn’t have called herself a “suffragette,” which is part of the TV promotion for the show, even though she did work in England with the suffrage movement there. American activists would have more likely called themselves “suffragists” than “suffragettes.”

It is about time that the entertainment industry recognizes a part of American history that has been marginalized for most of the 20th century. We’ll be hearing more about these courageous activists as 2020 approaches when U.S. women will have been voting for 100 years.

Follow SuffrageCentennials.com. We have been publishing since 2013. The UK is celebrating its suffrage centennial in 2018. Image is from “Timeless” publicity.

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May 1, 2018 · 1:45 pm

Reminder about New York Museum exhibit closing soon!

May 13, 2018 is the closing of the “Votes for Women”exhibit at the New York State Museum in Albany, New York. It will be your last chance to see the wagon on exhibit for now anyway. And the suffrage exhibit is terrific. For more information about the wagon: SuffrageWagon.org

Also, keep in mind that the honoring of Inez Milholland, the U.S. suffrage martyr, continues with her centennial blog: InezMilholland.wordpress.com  Her centennial web site: InezMilhollandCentennial.com 

SuffrageCentennials.com continues publishing. Link up with us as the 2020 national suffrage centennial approaches in 2020. Follow by email, Twitter, and Facebook.

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April 30, 2018 · 3:56 pm

Help with the Equal Rights Amendment!

The work is ongoing to push toward the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment on or before 2020 when U.S. women will have been voting for 100 years. In the above video, Honorable Rep.Lou Lang, sponsor of ERA in the Illinois House, shares his optimistic perspective on the ERA.

The ERA passed the Illinois Senate and it is still to go before the state House. There is a virtual phone bank for the ERA. Ratify ERA Illinois activists have set up virtual, open phone banks for the 10 top priority target districts in Illinois. Volunteers can call from anywhere. All you need is a computer and a phone. You will be calling friendly voters who live in the target districts, asking them to call their state reps. and advocate for the ERA. And ask them to attend the Rally in Springfield (IL) on May 8.

Phone numbers and scripts are all provided. Fill out this form and instructions will be emailed to you. Here’s the Facebook event about it: Virtual Phone Bank for the ERA

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April 27, 2018 · 1:47 pm

Suffrage Centennial News and Views! Louise Slaughter & New York State Museum

The New York State Museum has its “Votes for Women” exhibit on view through May 13, 2018.The “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon is in the museum lobby. Make sure you see it NOW!

The “Spirit of 1776″suffrage wagon is on exhibit through Mother’s Day in 2018.

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April 25, 2018 · 7:01 pm

Suffrage Movement Information—More of it than ever!

Surf the internet with an inquiring mind and it’s amazing what can be found. Make sure you know the difference between the words “suffragist” and “suffragette.” Here’s a resource.

The Pomeroy Foundation has been funding suffrage-related road markers through New York State. These markers are attractive and add value to a community’s awareness of its history. The suffrage marker program has been popular, according to Pomeroy representatives. Contact the Pomeroy Foundation for news of past accomplishments and new programs coming soon.

Volunteers have been doing a fabulous job tracking new books and a straight forward way of presenting the suffrage movement in its larger context, especially race issues, so the subject matter is accessible to those of us following the long and difficult struggle for women’s rights that continues to this day. It’s worth signing up for the listserv and following the web site. It’s an amazing example of what can be accomplished with determination and persistence by an ever-growing group of people across the nation.

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April 24, 2018 · 4:20 pm

Dedication ceremony today in Huntington, NY for roadside historic marker!

The historic roadside marker in Huntington, New York (Long Island) became official today with a brief ceremony at Wall and Main Streets commemorating a 1913 event where the “Spirit of 1776” wagon used by suffragist Edna Kearns and others was part of a parade and suffrage rally.

The Long Island Woman Suffrage Association applied for and received funding for the roadside historic marker through the William G. Pomeroy Foundation. The foundation has installed hundreds of historic markers throughout the State of New York. According to Pomeroy officials, the suffrage history roadside markers have been especially popular.

For more information, follow Suffrage Wagon News Channel (SuffrageWagon.org).

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