May

14 2020

Voting: Around the World in 80 Years via ZOOM

10:45AM - 12:00PM  

This Federation event will be held at Knesset Israel 16 Colt Road
Pittsfield, MA 01201
federation@jewishberkshires.org

Contact Nancy Maurice Rogers
413-442-4360 x15
nrogers@jewishberkshires.org

Via Zoom 

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The Jewish Federation Connecting with Community program welcomes Cassandra Peltier, Executive Director of the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum in Adams, MA.

The Women's Suffrage Movement in the US was not an isolated phenomenon.  Women's rights to vote were granted and rescinded many times in many countries, states, and provinces in the centuries leading up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution.  The beginning of the US Women's Suffrage Movement was marked officially by the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, yet women's right to vote was not nationally codified for another eight decades.

We will look at some of the long-standing social and political climates which kept women from the polls as well as some of the historical events and remarkable women that helped the movement reach its goals.

This free program is part of the Federation’s Connecting With Community Series.