We Honor the Women Whose Fight for Equal Rights Continues
With your help, we will educate, inspire, and empower present and future generations to remain vigilant in the quest for equal rights.
DID YOU KNOW?
Women were not included in the Constitution until the 19th Amendment.
The ratification of the 19th Amendment led to the largest single one-day increase of potential voters in the history of the United States.
It took 72 years to pass and ratify the 19th Amendment, and the Equal Rights Amendment has yet to be adopted to this day.
SUFFRAGIST SPOTLIGHT
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A lifelong women’s rights advocate, author, and friend of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn...
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Organizer, writer, speaker and early supporter of a movement that would become the NAACP, Mary Morris Burnett was...
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A national and state leader in the women’s suffrage movement, Anne Dallas was the daughter of a prominent...
LOOKING AHEAD & IMPORTANT DATES
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Lucy Burns and Katherine Norey become first women arrested while picketing White House; they were never brought to...
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Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is signed by President Nixon, one of the most important...
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Dedication of the new Jean R. Packard Occoquan Center at the Occoquan Regional Park. Activities from 2:30 until 5 pm followed by concert.
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President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act; Title VII prohibits sex discrimination in employment.
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Suffragists crash the Centennial Celebration in Independence Hall to present the Vice President with the “Declaration of the...
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Suffragist Catherine Flanagan
by Her Granddaughter Patricia McDonald On my maternal side, I am honored to have a grandmother who also...
“The Quest for Equal Rights: From Purple Sashes to Pink Hats” Raises $40,000
On June 11, 2017, almost 150 supporters turned out to see a reading of the play, “Take Up...
Cafe Latino Interviews Pat Depew Wirth
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