Downtown Springfield Association
Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence

Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence

September, 11 2020 | 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

157 Park Central Square Springfield, MO 65806
http://historymuseumonthesquare.org/
4178311976 info@historymuseumonthesquare.org

$10-$16


In honor of the 100th anniversary of women receiving the right to vote when the 19th Amendment was ratified, the History Museum on the Square announces a new exhibit, Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence that will run from August 19, 2020 to September 27, 2020.
The crusade for women’s suffrage is one of the longest reform movements in American history. Between 1832 and 1920, women citizens organized for the right to vote, agitating first in their states or territories and also, simultaneously, through petitioning for a federal amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Based on the National Portrait Gallery exhibition of the same name, Votes for Women seeks to expand visitors’ understanding of the suffrage movement in the United States. The poster exhibition addresses women’s political activism, explores the racism that challenged universal suffrage, and documents the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment which prohibits the government from denying U.S. citizens the right to vote on the basis of gender. It also touches upon the suffrage movement’s relevance to current conversations on voting and voting rights across America.
Votes for Women Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery. This project received support from the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative. We have also highlighted many local political activist women.