15 October 2019 at 12:00AM
National Woman’s History Alliance write about the 19th Amendment Anniversary
Diversity and Inclusion
The 2017 book The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy, by Peter Temin examines the how the middle class is vanishing while those in poverty struggle.
The National Woman’s History Alliance has a Gazette (that you can download) containing a variety of information, such as planned activities across the country next year to celebrate the centennial along with numerous links to the latest information. Events in New York State include:
- The Women’s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, https:// www.nps.gov/wori/2020.htm, will feature speakers, multimedia and musical events throughout 2019 and 2020, Also, rangerled programs, special exhibits, and new web content for the centennial. Events in both years include Convention Days, July 19-21, 2019 and “Equality Weekend” in August.
- The Elizabeth Cady Stanton Women’s Consortium, https://www. ecswc.org/, plans to unveil a statue of Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 2020 and host a symposium on March 28. with Kristen Visbal, of Fearless Girl Fame, as keynote speaker.
- The Staten Island Museum, which has a Women’s Suffrage exhibition opening in March 2020, has digitized two almost-full runs of the rare suffrage publications, The Suffragist and The Woman Voter, https://archive.org/details/ statenislandmuseum. New York’s suffrage centennial was in 2017 and it was widely celebrated.
- New York State Women’s Suffrage Commission, https://www.ny.gov/ programs/new-york-state-womenssuffrage-commission. Humanities New York, https:// humanitiesny.org/ny4suffrage/, produced five 2-minute educational videos, a centennial craft guide for making buttons, pins and pennants, and more. HistoryPin offers reflections on suffrage in NY, https://www.historypin. org/en/suffrage-stories-how-women-gotthe-vote/.
- New York City teacher and artist Mireille Miller continues to expand her groundbreaking art and storytelling project, Women Leading the Way, http:// www.suffragettes2020.com/.
Refer to https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2019_vote_gazette_fnl.pdf for more activities and history.
