Suffrage Centennials

The Nellie McClung Foundation has received a Centennial Recognition Award by the Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women (BPW Canada). The BPW Canada’s 45th Biennial National Convention in Calgary presented the award, and it pays tribute to The Nellie McClung Foundation’s vision of rights for women.

Nellie McClung was a founding member of the Calgary BPW chapter. First Vice-President Jenny Gulamani-Abulla, said: “As the local chapter draws closer to its 90th anniversary, we are reminded of Nellie McClung’s famous quote: ‘Women are going to form a chain; a greater sisterhood the world has ever known.'” The Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women is a non-sectarian, non-profit, and non-partisan organization working to improve the economic, political, social and employment conditions of Canadian working women.

The Nellie McClung Foundation has a two-part mandate: to raise funds to create and erect a memorial, now on the grounds of the Manitoba Legislative building. It commemorates the work of Nellie McClung and educates the public about her passion and achievements in pursuit of women’s and human rights.
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Help to “Break the Bronze Ceiling” in NYC’s Central Park. It’s called the Monumental Women campaign of the Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Statue Fund Inc., an all-volunteer, tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) non-profit group that seeks to honor the historical contributions of women.

New York City’s Central Park includes statues of Mother Goose, Alice in Wonderland, Juliet (with her Romeo), and numerous representations of the female form (like angels, nymphs, and allegorical figures). The real women who helped build NYC, the state, and nation were no where to be found during the 163 year history of the Park—until now.  The Statue Fund has won approval from the NYC Parks Department to build the Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Woman Suffrage Movement Monument to honor all those responsible for the largest non-violent revolution in American history: votes for women.  Now the Statue Fund is raising funds to commission and maintain this monument.

Statue Fund President Pam Elam has this to say: “We know that many women deserve to be honored by statues and monuments all over this city and this nation. No one can expect that one statue can meet all the needs and desires of so many people who have been waiting so long for it, but our statue project represents a long-overdue beginning. This effort isn’t just about one statue—it’s about a movement.  And the timing is right. It’s one important way of celebrating the New York State Woman Suffrage Centennial in 2017; the National Woman Suffrage Centennial in 2020; and the 200th anniversary of the birth of Susan B. Anthony in 2020.  Monumental Women’s project contact is: P.O. Box 150-074, Van Brunt Station, Brooklyn, NY 11215; Phone: 347-224-8976

StantonandAnthonyStatueFund@gmail.com   

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Plan for August 26th, the women’s 4th of July! on Vimeo.

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A Nellie Bly special: Trade Cards from the collection of Kenneth Florey on Vimeo.

Kenneth Florey’s suffrage movement collection has added to our understanding of the movement and what it took to win the vote.

The above video highlights trade card images of Nellie Bly. Now, Ken Florey has created two exhibits, “Women’s Suffrage Memorabilia” and “Two Women Presidential Candidates (Victoria Woodhull and Belva Lockwood)” for the online Google Arts & Culture’s American Democracy Collection. Dr. Florey, Professor Emeritus of English from Southern Connecticut State University, has written two books on suffrage artifacts, “Women’s Suffrage Memorabilia: an Illustrated Historical Study” and “American Women Suffrage Postcards: a Study and Catalog.”

The Google Arts & Culture’s American Democracy Collection brings together over 70 exhibits and 2500+ artifacts from 44 institutions dedicated to the preservation of U.S. political history and the practice of American democracy. The exhibition is open for all at g.co/AmericanDemocracy and through the Google Arts & Culture mobile app for iOS and Android.

Google Arts & Culture is a product of the Google Cultural Institute and its partners designed to put the world’s cultural treasures at the fingertips of Internet users and to assist the cultural sector in sharing more of its diverse heritage online. The Google Cultural Institute has partnered with more than 1100 institutions, providing the Arts & Culture platform to over 400 thousand artworks and a total of 5 million photos, videos, manuscripts and other documents of art, culture and history.

Dr. Florey’s two exhibits for the American Democracy Collection include representations of such memorabilia from the Woman Suffrage movement as sashes, china, buttons and badges, postcards, pennants, ballots, sheet music, and photographs. Featured are images of both Belva Lockwood and Victoria Woodhull that have not been published previously in any form.

Dr. Florey’s belief is that memorabilia makes a significant statement about the nature of the suffrage movement. It has provided us with a glimpse of period attitudes and arguments for and against women’s rights that are only partially revealed in speeches, tracts, and documents. His collection has served as a research tool for scholars interested in suffrage history and ideology who have focused their studies not only on postcards but also on such diverse materials as cookbooks, sheet music, and buttons and badges. His website at http://womansuffragememorabilia.com/ continues to be a highly used and respected tool for both historians and collectors.

Below: A short video highlighting the postcards from 2015 book by Kenneth Florey.

“American Woman Suffrage Postcards” by Kenneth Florey on Vimeo.

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More than 95 years after Tennessee’s ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, public art celebrating this achievement will be unveiled during a ceremony on Women’s Equality Day, August 26, 2016, from 11 am to 1 pm. Alan LeQuire has created the sculpture that features five women involved in the final ratification battle in Nashville in August 1920. Tennessee Woman Suffrage Monument, Inc. commissioned the art and it will be prominently displayed in Centennial Park near The Parthenon.  “We are grateful to former Nashville Mayor Karl Dean and current Mayor Megan Barry as well as the Metro Parks Department for their strong support,” said Paula F. Casey of Memphis, TWSM president. “Our volunteer statewide board is donating this $900,000 historically significant sculpture to Metro so that this history will be preserved.”

Artist LeQuire, who completed the bas relief in 1998 that hangs inside the state capitol as well as the Knoxville woman suffrage sculpture in 2006, said: “This is what I want to do with the rest of my career –memorialize these women.” The five women, who are honored in monumental bronze, participated in the final ratification battle in 1920: Anne Dallas Dudley of Nashville; Abby Crawford Milton of Chattanooga; J. Frankie Pierce of Nashville; Sue Shelton White of Jackson; and Carrie Chapman Catt, national suffrage leader who came to Tennessee to direct the pro-suffrage forces from the Hermitage Hotel.

The TWSM board members include Jacque Hillman of Jackson; Linda Knight, Esq., Nashville; Adrienne Pakis-Gillon, Vice-President, Germantown; Rosetta Miller-Perry, Nashville; The Hon. Patricia A. Pierce, Treasurer, Harriman; Alma Sanford, J.D., Nashville; The Hon. Janis Sontany, Nashville; and The Hon. Yvonne Wood, Secretary, Lebanon.Funds are still being raised. To learn more, go to tnsuffragemonument.org.

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