The
Connecticut Historical Society and
New Haven Museum will offer a free program, “The Work Must be Done: Women of Color and the Right to Vote,” from 1-3 p.m. Aug. 26. The program, which will be
held online via Zoom, marks Women’s Equality Day, commemorating the day on which the Nineteenth Amendement was made law, prohibiting states and the federal government from denying citizens the right to vote based on sex.
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‘Women of Color and the Right to Vote’ program set for Aug. 26
Aug. 5, 2020
1of2The Women’s Twentieth Century Club, circa 1901.Photo: Contributed /
2of2Colored Women's Liberty Loan Committee, October 21, 1917Photo: Contributed photo
“While celebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote this year, the New Haven Museum (NHM) recognizes that women of color remained largely disenfranchised despite passage of the 19th
Amendment,” the release said. “... The Connecticut Historical Society (CHS) will present exciting new research on the women of color who worked for women’s suffrage and advanced voting rights” in the program.
The program will include “conversation on the importance of having a history that is inclusive,” the release said. “Ilene Frank, CHS chief curator, Karen Li Miller, CHS research historian,
and Professor Brittney Yancy of Goodwin University will raise up the stories of women such as (African-American reformer and political activist Mary Townsend) Seymour, Rose Payton, Minnie Glover, Sarah Brown Flemming, and others.”
“Participants will gain a broader understanding of the role women of color played in the women’s suffrage movement and of the restrictions, stemming from systemic racism, that limited
women of color from being more officially involved in the movement,” Frank said in the release.
The program was made possible with support from Connecticut Humanities, the release said.
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