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SUMMARY:Conquering the Cough: Grand Rapids Women Beating Disease
DESCRIPTION:Michigan History Conference \nHistorical Society of Michigan \nFriday-Saturday\, October 2nd & 3rd\, 2020 \n  \nConquering the Cough: Grand Rapids Women Beating Disease\nJulie Hoogland\, Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History Council\nSue Thoms\, Spectrum Health Beat\n1:00 pm on Saturday\, October 3rd\nWhooping cough was a killer disease fought during the 1930s and 1940s by innovative public health scientists\, women on a shoestring budget\, who pioneered unorthodox field studies and inspired a creative community collaboration in Grand Rapids. Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering ran one of the few U.S. public health laboratories in the nation dedicated to vaccine development\, and their history in the development of controlled clinical trials is important. But\, until recently\, they have been left out of the standard histories of methodology and practice. \nIn September 2019\, the Community Legends project unveiled a sculptural grouping of Kendrick\, Eldering\, and lab assistant Loney Clinton Gordon on the south porch of the Michigan State University Research Center\, 400 Monroe Ave NW. This righting of historical amnesia with bronze public statuary honors one forgotten story of women\, race\, and vaccine development. \nForgotten histories and lessons will be revealed—that one creative solution can lead to another. The creation of the DPT vaccination—can shine a light on pressing social issues: pandemic\, vaccines\, race\, and gender. \nTo register for this online conference. \nDownload entire conference schedule. \n 
URL:https://www.ggrwhc.org/event/conquering-the-cough-grand-rapids-women-beating-disease/
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SUMMARY:Women Should be Seen and Heard:  Grand Rapids and the Fight for the Vote
DESCRIPTION:*Access to Virtual Online Presentation* Click Here to Register for Zoom Event and GRHS YouTube Presentation Click Here \nThe 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 suffragists Marion Carr Bliss and Cordelia Briggs\, Anthony met with local suffrage leaders and spoke at Luce’s Hall in downtown Grand Rapids to large audiences. While the 1874 campaign was unsuccessful\, suffragists persisted and finally claimed victory in 1918 when male electors voted to amend the Michigan constitution to grant women the right to vote.  \nAlong the way\, women in Grand Rapids petitioned\, marched\, spoke\, canvassed\, and organized as they fought for the right to vote.  Highlights from their campaign include the 1888 election of Harriet A. Cook to the Grand Rapids School Board\, the hosting of the 1899 convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association at St. Cecilia Auditorium in Grand Rapids\, suffragists’ 1914 “take over” of the Grand Rapids Press\, and the final push in 1918 when suffragists blanketed the city with posters and flyers as they pressed their cause.  Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History Council board member Ruth Stevens will tell this story using archival photographs and the words of Grand Rapids suffragists that have been preserved in newspaper articles\, scrapbooks\, and rare oral interviews. \nRuth Stevens is a retired professor of Legal Studies at Grand Valley State University.  She earned a J.D. from the University of Michigan and a Master’s in Library and Information Science from Wayne State University\, and she is currently a member of the board of the Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History Council. Stevens has done extensive research on early school voting rights for Michigan women and has a special interest in the role of local suffrage organizations within the Michigan and national suffrage movements.  During this centennial year celebration of the 19th Amendment\, she has spoken to local history societies in Dowagiac\, Coloma\, Niles\, Saugatuck\, and now in Grand Rapids.  Stevens was an editor for GGRWHC’s 2020 digital suffrage exhibit\, authored materials for the Michigan Girl Scouts “Right to Vote Centennial” patch\, and created a Michigan suffrage quiz available on the website of the 2020 Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative. For these materials and more on women’s suffrage\, see:  https://www.ggrwhc.org/suffrage-home/.
URL:https://www.ggrwhc.org/event/ggrwhc-for-the-grand-rapids-historical-society/
LOCATION:Virtual – Additional Details Forthcoming
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SUMMARY:“A Woman’s Place Is Under the Dome: Michigan’s Capitol and the Woman’s Suffrage Movement”!
DESCRIPTION: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 senate. The fight for woman’s suffrage began in Michigan in 1846\, when woman’s rights advocate Ernestine Rose gave two speeches in Michigan’s first Capitol. Click here for a quick Wiki introduction to the little-heralded-but-marvelous Rose. \n \nThis virtual program is sponsored by the History Hounds series of the Historical Society of Michigan for a nominal charge. For details and to register\, please click here. \nIf you are a member of the GGRWHC\, you can attend free. (Otherwise\, it is $7.) To get the organizational member number of the Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History Council\, please email us or call: info@ggrwhc.org or (616) 574-7307. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.ggrwhc.org/event/a-womans-place-is-under-the-dome-michigans-capitol-and-the-womans-suffrage-movement/
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED--"Beyond 100 Years of Suffrage: Moving Forward Envisioning an Inclusive Future\,” Northwestern Michigan College\, Traverse City MI
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URL:https://www.ggrwhc.org/event/beyond-100-years-of-suffrage-moving-forward-envisioning-an-inclusive-future-northwestern-michigan-college-traverse-city-mi/
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SUMMARY:Reading into Suffrage History
DESCRIPTION:Reading into Suffrage History \nVirtual Book Discussion \nWednesday\, October 21st\, 7:00 – 8:30 pm \nDeath in Ten Minutes by Fern Riddell \n  \nFree & open to the public \nRegister here!\nCo-sponsored by the Grand Rapids Public Library & \nthe Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History Council \n  \n \n Death in Ten Minutes is a biography of Kitty Marion\, who became one of the UK’s most militant suffragettes. The book illustrates the British campaign using Kitty’s life\, and it doesn’t end in 1918 when some British women got the vote. In fact\, many US suffragists and UK suffragettes went on to use their skills for other causes and social movements. Kitty was no exception. More here. \nWe are delighted that two specialists in British women’s history will provide context and help us to make connections between the US/UK sister movements. Former GVSU administrator and history professor Gretchen Galbraith will join us from her new home at SUNY Potsdam in New York\, where she is dean of the School of Arts & Sciences; and Pamela Walker\, Professor of History at Carleton University\, will join from her home in Canada! They will help us understand how UK and US governmental systems are different\, and why that made a difference; how political parties were involved differently in the two countries; how and why both movements split apart along the way; and when history writing and language can be controversial\, and deserve discussion in itself! \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\, representing the Grand Rapids Public Library\, will join Gretchen Galbraith\, Pamela Walker\, and a host 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.
URL:https://www.ggrwhc.org/event/reading-into-suffrage-history/
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