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RCW 27.34.370 Responsibility 5


(5) Developing recommendations for statewide commemoration of the centennial of the adoption in 1910 of the fifth amendment to the Washington state Constitution, guaranteeing women's suffrage.

This report was submitted to Governor Christine Gregoire, Chair Kathy Haigh and Members of the House State Government Operations and Accountability Committee; and Chair Jim Kastama and Members of the Senate Government Operations and Elections Committee on September 1, 2006. Copies of the report are available from the Women’s History Consortium, 211 21st Avenue SW, Olympia, WA 98501, 360-586-0171, or email: Shanna Stevenson, WHC Coordinator. A copy of the Centennial Report can also be downloaded from the WHC website.

OUTCOME:

  • Completion and submittal of required Suffrage Centennial Recommendations Report on September 1, 2006

PLANNED SUFFRAGE CENTENNIAL COMMEMORATION OUTCOMES:

  • Programs and projects in partnership with existing organizations statewide.
  • Major exhibit at three venues and traveling exhibit.
  • Book about the history of Washington Women’s Suffrage and associated themes.
  • Educational materials for the public and schools.
  • Special events and programs statewide through a local grant program.
Seattle General Hospital Nursery.

Three suffragists post signs advocating women's suffrage on the side of a low wood structure in Seattle. Asahel Curtis took this photogrpah for the Washington Equal Suffrage Association.

Ten raspberry pickers, all women, stand in a row at the edge of a raspberry field in Western Washington.

Three American Red Cross women wearing heavy coats and Red Cross caps, offer bottles of milk and doughnuts from baskets to rows of African American soldiers returning to Fort Lewis at the close of World War II. Photo by Turner Richards, Tacoma, WA.