Women's Votes, Women's Voices
Washington Women's Suffrage Centennial Exhibit
Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture
October 30, 2010 to May 7, 2011
Washington State celebrates its centennial of permanent women's suffrage in 2009-2010.
This exhibit highlights the history of the struggle to attain women's right to vote
in Washington State and illuminate how women's voting influenced territorial and
state history as well. The exhibit tells the story of how women from various ethnic
and economic groups have achieved a voice in public life, despite barriers through
organizing and activism. The exhibit stresses how suffrage was a springboard to
women's achievements throughout Washington's history and extending into the present,
how women organizing for change have made a difference in Washington. The exhibit
is co-curated by the Washington State Historical Society and the Northwest Museum
of Arts & Culture. Information about a smaller traveling exhibit based upon the
larger exhibit is available at
http://www.washingtonhistory.org/heritageServices/traveling_exhibits.aspx.
More information about the exhibit is available on the Northwest Museum's
website.
Listen to a
or
download the transcript
of curator and author Shanna Stevenson describing the historical context of the
Women’s suffrage exhibition at the Washington State History Museum, from February
28 to September 27, 2009.
Catherine Blaine:
Seneca Falls and the Womens Rights Movement in Washington
Traveling Exhibit Services
The Catharine Blaine exhibit celebrates the 2010 Washington Women’s Suffrage Centennial
through an exploration of the effect of reform ideas of new settlers on the development
of women’s rights in Washington State.
For more information view the
Traveling Exhibit Services
page.
From Parlor to Podium: Territorial Suffragists of Olympia
March 13, 2010 through June 2011
A New Exhibit from the Washington State Historical Society and the Washington Women’s
History Consortium
Focusing on the territorial suffrage campaigns centered in Olympia and the women
and men who worked to secure the vote for Washington women in the territorial period,
the exhibit highlights how the suffrage movement went from homes to the public sphere
as women and men organized for women’s rights. The exhibit places the 1910 victory
in the context of both the 19th century national movement and the complex Washington
Territorial suffrage saga. The exhibit features interpretive panels as well as period
images, clothing, artifacts and furnishings.
The exhibit complements other projects and programs of the Women’s History Consortium,
part of Washington State Historical Society, which is leading the commemoration
of the centennial of women’s right to vote in Washington in 2010.
Equal Rights for Washington Women
Traveling Exhibit Services
Equal Rights for Washington Women is a new exhibit by historian Shanna Stevenson,
author of Women's Votes, Women’s Voices, the story of women's suffrage in Washington.
Washington women had voted from 1883 to 1888, but their voting rights were revoked
by the Washington Territorial Supreme Court. Washington’s victory in 1910 was a
pivotal event in the campaign which culminated in the 19th amendment to the U.S.
Constitution in 1920 enacting women’s suffrage nationally. The exhibit further describes
how Washington women with the vote have continued the struggle for equal rights.
View the panels used in the Equal Rights for Washington Women traveling exhibit.
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For more information view the
Traveling Exhibit Services
page.
Moving Forward, Looking Back
Washington's First Women in Government
2nd Floor, Legislative Building Olympia
WA
January 2010-December 2010
In 1910, Washington became the fifth state in the nation to give women the right
to vote, a full ten years before the women's suffrage was adopted nationwide with
the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920.
"First Women in Government" begins in 1913 when Frances Axtell and Nena Jolidan
Croake took the oath of office as the first State Representatives of their gender.
Over the next 80 years 12 more women became the first women to hold major elected
office in Washington.
Learn more about these remarkable women at
www.heritagecenter.wa.gov.
For more information please call (360) 902-4195 or email info@heritagecenter.wa.gov.
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