Please be sure to see the attached flier/ a call for photos we can post in a huge collage to celebrate the suffrage centennial—due by July 31 as well as the blog below my message here. NM is in the news because we played a very important role!
We are planning multiple ways to celebrate the centennial of the women’s vote and Women’s Equality Day, August 26!
Soon I will send out info how to link to the Zoom July 1 to see the suffrage panel at 1pm in advance of the national premiere of the American Experience: The Women’s Vote, July 6-7.
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In Santa Fe, we are planning a car parade following the route national and NM suffragists took in 1915, the very last time the NM legislature could have passed full suffrage for women. If we can do safe distancing, we may have some small celebration at the new Santa Fe County Courthouse opposite Nina Otero Warren’s home. Her role in the suffrage movement is being recognized nationally because it fleshes out the fact that the suffrage movement was more diverse than most people think.
Nina Otero Warren, a leader in the National Women’s Party and the League of Women Voters of NM, is important**
https://www.nps.gov/articles/new-mexico-and-the-19th-amendment.htm
Nina Otero Warren is one of the 20 top suffragists https://www.nps.gov/subjects/womenshistory/20-for-2020.htm
https://www.nps.gov/people/nina-otero-warren.htm
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/sphere-of-usefulness-new-mexico-and-womens-suffrage/article_d3a8babc-6f97-11ea-ab2a-23fc6a5b19dc.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share
See the flier and Suffrage in Spanish below!
Onward!
From: Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission [mailto:media@womensvote100.org]
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2020 1:59 PM
To: mermachen@cybermesa.com
Subject: Herstory Corner: June 25
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New Mexico's Hispanic suffragists, armed with economic security and the political clout of long-established Spanish-speaking families, were a formidable political force. Learn more in this week's blog on The Suff Buffs. |
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Historic White House Fence at Suffragist Memorial |
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The Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission is excited to announce that the forthcoming Turning Point Suffragist Memorial in Lorton, Virginia, which will honor the activists who fought for women’s right to vote, will include a historic section of the White House fence in front of which suffragists protested over 100 years ago. |
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Suffrage Artifact: Arresting the Picketers |
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| Suffragists first began picketing outside the White House gates in January 1917, the first group ever to do so. On June 22, 1917, just 103 years ago, police began arresting the picketers on charges of obstructing sidewalk traffic. The National Woman's Party presented many of the women who had been imprisoned with this Jailed for Freedom pin, which depicts a small silver prison door with a heart-shaped lock, in honor of their commitment to the cause. Learn more on Smithsonian National Museum of American History's website. |
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Kid's Corner: Herstory Time |
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It's #ThrowbackThursday! We're throwing it back to our special Mother's Day edition of Herstory Time, in which WSCC Commissioner and First Partner of California Jennifer Siebel Newsom shares the story of the mom who saved suffrage! Enjoy this special storytime with the whole family, featuring "The Voice that Won the Vote" by Elisa Boxer, illustrated by Vivien Mildenberger, and published by Sleeping Bear Press. |
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Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission P.O. Box 2020, Washington, DC 20013 |
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