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VIRTUAL TALK: “When Women Won the Right to Vote: History, Myth, and Memory” with Lisa Tetrault
September 23, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
$10.00
WHEN WOMEN WON THE RIGHT TO VOTE:
History, Myth, and Memory
How well do you know the 19th Amendment? When women achieved passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, they did not win the right to vote—despite repeated claims that they did. Just what, then, did the women’s suffrage amendment do? Join Dr. Lisa Tetrault for a discussion of this often misinterpreted and misunderstood history and discover how 1920 is part of a much larger and longer story about the pursuit of voting rights, a struggle that is unfinished and ongoing today.
Dr. Tetrault is an Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University and the author of the prize-winning book, The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898. She is also the second recipient of the Falmouth Historical Society’s Katharine Lee Bates Historian Award. The award was established in 2019 to honor educators, authors and chroniclers whose historical scholarship has enriched their communities, their states and their country. It is named for Falmouth’s iconic, beloved daughter who poem “America the Beautiful” in is widely acclaimed as America’s hymn.
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NONMEMBERS $10/MEMBERS $5
2020 WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE COMMEMORATION PROGRAMMING
“Gaining the Vote: The Road to Women’s Suffrage” Virtual Series
August 2020 marks the centennial of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing American women the right to vote. The Museums on the Green has been awarded a Discussion Grant from Mass Humanities/the National Endowment for the Humanities to support “Gaining the Vote: The Road to Women’s Suffrage,” a series of virtual talks and performances highlighting the long road to women’s suffrage. We’ll feature upcoming programs in our Calendar as they become available.
WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE RESOURCES:
RECOMMEND READING LIST & ONLINE RESOURCES
WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE TIMELINE
UNTOLD TALES OF FALMOUTH: “Women Who Said ‘Why Not?'”
MANY THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
