OHIO Libraries Celebrates the Centennial Anniversary of the Women鈥檚 Suffrage Movement
January 21, 2020
This year, there is excitement in the air in honor of the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the passage of the 19th Constitutional Amendment to grant women the right to vote. Winning that right involved thousands of American women lobbying for what many Americans considered a fundamental change in the Constitution.
In honor of this hard-won victory, a series of exhibits, presentations, films and special events are being held by 91探花 Libraries鈥 in collaboration with the OHIO departments of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies; English; History and Film; as well as the Honors Tutorial College; OHIO Museum Complex; Contemporary History Institute; Center for Campus and Engagement; Black Student Cultural Programming Board; Margaret Boyd Scholars; Multicultural Center; Women鈥檚 Center; and the Athena Theater.
Here is a small list of celebratory events beginning in January and ending in May 2020:
Jan. 15 through May 1, 2020
Exhibit: Women Pioneers, Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage
The display uses historical materials to highlight key women and moments in the movement through time and place, including here in Ohio
- Fourth floor/Alden Library
Jan. 21 at 7 p.m.
Film:
The film 鈥溾hronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition.鈥
- Athena Theater
Feb. 3 from 4 to 5:00 p.m.
The discussion and tour will be led by Harmony Renn and Saraya Abner, student researcher-curators of the exhibit.
- Fourth floor/Alden Library
Feb. 19 from 3 to 4:30 p.m.
Join us for a conversation between Sara Egge, associate professor of history at Centre College, and Katherine Jellison, OHIO professor and chair in history, discussing Egge鈥檚 book, 鈥淲oman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest.鈥
- Fourth floor/Alden Library
Feb. 25 at 7 p.m.
Film:
The film focuses on 鈥溾Wilma] Mankiller鈥檚 leadership [role, which] enabled the Cherokee Nation to become one of the most economically and culturally successful tribes in America.鈥
- Athena Theater
Mar. 3 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Women Fight for the Vote:
Come and go as you please to help us 鈥溾ranscribe documents from throughout the women鈥檚 suffrage movement so that documents may be easily searched and accessed by contemporary readers.鈥
- Fifth floor/Voinovich Room 513 /Alden Library
Mar. 24 at 7 p.m.
Film:
The film highlights 鈥溾 working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.鈥檚 growing suffragette movement.鈥
- Athena Theater
Modernizing Your Suffrage Sash
A hands-on craft session, 鈥溾articipants may modernize a suffrage sash to represent their affiliation with current political or social movements.鈥
- Mar. 24 from 4 to 6 p.m./Women鈥檚 Center
- Apr. 4 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m./ Friends Room319/Alden Library
Apr. 6-26
Exhibit:
鈥淭丑颈蝉 special traveling exhibit will examine and celebrate the path taken by Ohio women to achieve the right to vote.鈥
- Fourth floor/Alden Library
Mar. 24 at 7 p.m.
Film:
This film examines 鈥溾n American feminist who risked her life to fight for women鈥檚 citizenship and the right to vote. She [later]founded the separatist National Woman鈥檚 Party.鈥
- Athena Theater