Michigan History Conference Historical Society of Michigan Friday-Saturday, October 2nd & 3rd, 2020 Conquering the Cough: Grand Rapids Women Beating Disease Julie Hoogland, Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History Council Sue Thoms, Spectrum Health Beat 1:00 pm on Saturday, October 3rd Whooping cough was a killer disease fought during the 1930s and 1940s by innovative […]
*Access to Virtual Online Presentation* Click Here to Register for Zoom Event and GRHS YouTube Presentation Click Here The story of the women’s suffrage movement in Grand Rapids began as early as 1874 when Grand Rapids and Kent County suffragists organized and brought national leader Susan B. Anthony to Grand Rapids. Hosted by Grand Rapids […]
On Wednesday, October 14th, 7:00 pm, join Michigan Capitol Historian Valerie Marvin for “A Woman’s Place Is Under the Dome: Michigan’s Capitol and the Woman’s Suffrage Movement”! Join this program to relive important suffrage moments under Michigan’s dome, where you will also find Grand Rapids women lobbying and finally, in 1921, sitting in the state […]
Reading into Suffrage History Virtual Book Discussion Wednesday, October 21st, 7:00 - 8:30 pm Death in Ten Minutes by Fern Riddell Free & open to the public Register here! Co-sponsored by the Grand Rapids Public Library & the Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History Council Death in Ten Minutes is a biography of Kitty Marion, who […]
Reading into Suffrage History Virtual Book Discussion Wednesday, November 18th, 7:00 - 8:30 pm All Bound Up Together by Martha S. Jones Free & open to the public Register here! Co-sponsored by the Grand Rapids Public Library & the Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History Council In All Bound Up Together, Martha S. Jones explores the […]
This is an online event through the Women League of Voters GGR. https://www.facebook.com/events/1798650416965285
This is a virtual presentation through the Grand Rapids Public Library. https://www.grpl.org/event/ebony-road-players-present-anne-and-emmett/
"Solidarities: White Women and Women of Color's Activism to Secure the Vote," opens the 12th Annual Kutsche Local History Roundtable. While the Nineteenth Amendment ostensibly provided women the right to vote, access to the ballot was not equal. Because many Black, indigenous, women of color remained disenfranchised, this presentation will place women's suffrage in conversation with the […]
Join author Catherine Grace Katz for a virtual discussion on her book about Kathleen Harriman, a champion skier, war correspondent, and daughter of US Ambassador to the Soviet Union Averell Harriman; Sarah Churchill, an actress-turned-RAF officer, whose father Winston depended on her astute political mind; and Anna Roosevelt, chosen instead of her mother Eleanor to […]