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SUMMARY:Generating Resources: Indexing an Army of Women
DESCRIPTION:Western Michigan Genealogical Society \nSaturday\, September 12th\, 2020 \nVirtual Program (Click Here for Zoom Link) \nGenerating Resources: Indexing an Army of Women\nJo Ellyn Clarey\, Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History Council\nNovember 1918\, 14\,000 local suffrage supporters \nGenealogists don’t always look to mass movements to locate individuals\, especially women–or consider taking the next step toward resource creation when they discover a forebear’s name in a group listing. This program will call for the creation of indexes akin to the lists of Civil War soldiers\, to assemble armies of women\, making them forever easier to find. It will illustrate the riches to be yielded beginning with participant lists from early women’s social movements on the local level. The records of early women’s organizations were rarely considered worthy of archival collections or even attic space; so there are often no minutes or correspondence files. But we know that disciplined searches of newly digitized newspapers can result in columns of the names of women who were committee members of local literary societies and WCTU chapters\, as well as those who embarked on political activities and wartime work. (This program will look beyond the WWI women’s registration cards\, so well known in Grand Rapids. But those 23\,000 names represent only one wartime project.) Still\, energetic searches of newspapers often stop short with the discovery of just one particular name–even when it is one among 14\,000 others who published their names in support of women’s suffrage in 1918 Grand Rapids. This program will discuss the benefits of placing ancestor names into their rich and intersecting contexts\, and the need to structure a process for doing that. \nBy profession a literary scholar\, Jo Ellyn Clarey has redirected her path into the world of local women’s history in Grand Rapids\, Michigan\, where she has been tracking down the forgotten contributions of area women. For the Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History Council\, she continues advancing long-term projects highlighting the roles of local women in the Michigan suffrage movement; overseeing a complete elective history of the city’s women; and organizing research on U.S. women’s immense\, but little known\, work during WWI. She has also served on the boards of the Grand Rapids Historical Society\, the Grand Rapids Historical Commission\, and acted as liaison to the Michigan Women’s Studies Association\, whose statewide conference she has chaired. Clarey has presented at and organized programming for numerous institutions and academic conferences. \n 
URL:https://www.ggrwhc.org/event/generating-resources-indexing-an-army-of-women-2/
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SUMMARY:DEMOCRACY 101: Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Voting Rights
DESCRIPTION:*Online via Zoom \nThe 19th amendment has been praised for a century as a landmark for women’s rights. Who gained the right to vote and who didn’t? What can you do to shape the next 100 years? Join us for presentations and remarks from President Mantella\, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson\, and more. \nDEM 101 occurs on Wednesdays throughout the semester. \nVisit gvsu.edu/service/dem101 for more events!
URL:https://www.ggrwhc.org/event/democracy-101-celebrating-100-years-of-womens-voting-rights/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200916T190000
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SUMMARY:Reading into Suffrage History
DESCRIPTION:Reading into Suffrage History \nVirtual Book Discussion \nWednesday\, September 16th\, 7:00 – 8:30 pm \n The Woman’s Hour by Elaine Weiss \n  \nFree & open to the public \nRegister here!\nCo-sponsored by the Grand Rapids Public Library \n& the Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History Council \n  \n \nThe Woman’s Hour is the inspiring story of activists winning their own freedom in one of the last campaigns forged in the shadow of the Civil War and the beginning of the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights. It features summer in Tennessee one hundred years ago. And Elaine Weiss will join us on September 16th to discuss her groundbreaking book featuring the nail-biting climax of the 72-year-fight to ensure all citizens the right to vote. \nTennessee ratified the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on August 18th\, and on the 26th it became the law of the land. We met Weiss when she visited Grand Rapids in 2018 to talk about The Woman’s Hour\, and you may have seen her recently in 2020 centennial documentaries–The Vote and Carrie Chapman Catt on PBS\, and more. We can ask her about progress on the mini-series to be based on this book! It includes Weiss’s report on an extraordinary moment in May 2020 when the voice of the daughter of a slave was heard inside the house chamber of the Tennessee Capitol. Scroll down to meet Juno Frankie Pierce! More here. \nPrior to the shut-down\, we had planned to follow our big August 26th celebration with opportunities to talk about books on suffrage history. Now the partnering groups are taking it virtual! Colleen Alles will represent the Grand Rapids Public Library\, joined by Ruth Stevens for the GGRWHC. They will sketch out questions to start\, but will try to keep the structure loose and also link content to the local history of Grand Rapids’ own suffragists. \nPlease join us even if you couldn’t finish the books. You will be inspired to keep reading! Anyone interested is welcome\, but the virtual Zoom discussion will require an RSVP through EventBrite. \nFind your own books or check one out from the Grand Rapids Public Library!  \nAs soon as possible\, use this GRPL link to place a hold. You might need to wait for a book to become available. And when you place a book on hold\, it will be available for pickup at GRPL through GRPL to Go \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.ggrwhc.org/event/readings-in-suffrage-history/
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SUMMARY:PAULA MONOPOLI: CONSTITUTIONAL ORPHAN\, A CONSTITUTION DAY CELEBRATION
DESCRIPTION:*You can reserve for this event until Sept. 24th at 7:00 pm.   \nThe ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in August 1920 represented a significant movement in American history. It promised women in our republic change in their political\, civil\, and social statuses. What followed was a decade of dispute among women’s movements\, emerging from it a thin conception of the Nineteenth’s constitutional meaning as a nondiscrimination rule in voting. Why did this thin conception prevail over a broader one that included equal citizenship and gender equality? Moreover\, what is the lasting role of the Nineteenth in the Constitution today? \nIn celebrating Constitution Day and the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment\, the Hauenstein Center welcomes Paula Monopoli\, the Sol and Carlyn Hubert Professor of Law and founding director of the Women\, Leadership\, & Equality Program at Maryland Carey. In her new release\, Constitutional Orphan: Gender Equality and the Nineteenth Amendment\, Paula explores the roles of suffragists in the constitutional development of the Nineteenth Amendment. Drawing on historical sources\, case analysis\, and legal scholarship\, Paula will offer broader ways in which the Nineteenth could be used today. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.ggrwhc.org/event/paula-monopoli-constitutional-orphan-a-constitution-day-celebration/
LOCATION:Hauenstein Centery for Presidential Studies\, Loosemore Auditorium\, 401 Fulton Street West\, Grand Rapids\, Michigan\, 49504
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