Michelle Meaders

 

 

From: Michelle Meaders
Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2022 7:17 PM
To: Jim Harvey; melora palmer; Linda Donohue; Lora Lucero
Subject: FW: I hope you can join me

 

Dr. Cruz has been very active in trying to get the ERA finished in Congress.

 

Aug. 25 is the 102nd Anniversary of women getting the vote in the US.

 

Michelle Meaders

 

 

From: SM Ramos
Sent: Monday, August 1, 2022 3:36 PM
To: SM Ramos
Subject: I hope you can join me

 

Hello, all.

At last, the talk on New Mexico woman suffrage I was to present at the Special Collections Library in March 2020 is here!    It will be at Botts Hall ( in person only) on August 13.  Details below.

 

I will focus on women who won the vote in NM and what they have to teach us as we face persistent gender-based inequity in the US.

 

I would love to see you there for the talk and discussion.

Sylvia

 

Sylvia Ramos Cruz

Sylvia M. Ramos, M.D.

P.O. Box 7398

Albuquerque NM 87194

 

“Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied orabridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” - Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), written by Alice Paul in 1923 and ratified by Virginia, the 38th state needed for it to become the 28th amendment to the US Constitution, in 2020.

 

 

 

Ever Changing, Ever Growing

Ganaron el Voto: Woman Suffrage and Suffragists in New Mexico

 

Saturday, August 13, 2022

10:30am - 12:00pm

Botts Hall

Special Collections Library

 

The 46-year-long campaign for woman suffrage in New Mexico is rich and deep. Hundreds of women were involved. But, as with other aspects of women’s lives, most of their stories—political, economic, social—are not found in history books or taught in schools. In this presentation, we look at an overview of that history and focus on some of the suffragists whose contributions to that struggle are still being unearthed in family lore, memoirs, songs, newspapers, and a few precious, oft-quoted scholarly works.

 

Presenter Sylvia Ramos Cruz is a retired general and breast surgeon, poet, writer and women’s rights activist. 

 

Special Collections Library

423 Central Avenue NE (at Edith Blvd.)

Albuquerque NM 87102

505-848-1376

 

There is meter parking on Edith by the library, across on the south side of Central, and an open lot across the street. (Street parking farther north on Edith is for residents only.)