Votes for Women! October 12, 2009

Votes for Women!
Monday, July 06, 2009—Saturday, December 26, 2009
Time: 9:00 AM–5:00 PM
Place: Cafe Cases, FREE EVENT

Votes for Women! commemorates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia on November 27, 1909. Among the small group of civic-minded women were writers Ellen Glasgow, Mary Johnston, and Kate Langley Bosher, artists Adèle Clark and Nora Houston, physician Kate Waller Barrett, and reformer Lila Meade Valentine. Within its first few months, the league began a public campaign to win Virginia women the right to vote. Within a few weeks of the national victory in 1920, the Equal Suffrage League was succeeded by the nonpartisan Virginia League of Women Voters, which began work to make the new vote an informed one. The League sponsored registration drives, voter education programs, and lobbying efforts on behalf of social welfare issues.