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Reclaiming Our Voice
Reclaiming Our Voice: New Jersey’s Central Role in the Fight for Woman Suffrage
Spotswood Public Library

Tuesday, Mar. 23, 7:00 pm
Lillian Feickert, president of the NJ Woman Suffrage Association from 1912-1920, explores the overlooked role of New Jersey in the long frustrating fight for women’s suffrage. Many do not realize that some NJ women once had the right to vote and then lost it for over a century. Feickert shares stories about how nationally-known suffrage advocates Lucy Stone and Elizabeth Cady Stanton staged tax and voting protests in the state. She describes how Alice Paul became the dynamo who re-energized the push for a federal amendment and how Dr. Florence Spearing Randolph brought black women into the movement.

Participants will learn that women were not “given” the vote, but fought for it for generations.

Presented by Carol Simon Levin.

To register for this program, please click here.

A limited number of Women's History craft kits will be available for Spotswood Library cardholders.  Please click here to register for the craft kit ONLY.

 
Sponsored by New Jersey Council for the Humanities.

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