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Speakers and Resources for the Celebrating the 100th Anniversaries of the League of Women Voters
and the 19th Amendment (As of 12/4/19)
Speakers: Lori Osborne – Museum Director at Frances E. Willard House and Director of the Evanston Women’s History Project https://franceswillardhouse.org/about-us/Phone: 847-475-3410 Email: [email protected] speaks on a wide range of topics dealing with women's history, the suffragists and their work, the 19th Amendment, the LWV and historic sites related to the quest for suffrage.
Lori is also working on a website, Suffrage 2020 Illinois: https://suffrage2020illinois.org/
Gary Midkiff - Professor http://www.garyemidkiffcompany.com/ Outstanding Cell: 224-522-1312 Email: [email protected] Recommended by Mary G.
Gary delivers a lecture on the 19th Amendment and the role of women suffragists and the LWV in its passage. He has presented this to Leagues in this area.Gary's knowledge of foreign policy and current events far exceeds that of any news commentator today. Patrons look forward to his programs, knowing they will be getting a college-level course in one evening. Denise Blaszynski, Programs Coordinator, St. Charles Public Library
Kay Shelton, President, Lincoln Highway Association and Professor at NIU. Recommended by Nancy
Phone: 815-456-3030 Email: [email protected] Power Point on Suffrage Movement (polished presenter)
Lincoln Highway Association 136 N. Elm St. P.O. Box 308, Franklin Grove, IL 61031Annie Logue, Past-President, LWV Chicago Recommended by Nancy
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Phone:(312) 939-5949 Email:[email protected] 332 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 634, 60604
Marjy Gilbert, President of LWV Cook County, Lawyer, Phone: ??? Email: [email protected] about social justice issues Recommended by Nancy
Dr. Joan Marie Johnson, Professor Northwestern University 1-222 Crown, Evanston Campus, Recommended by Nancy
Phone: 847-467-7565 Email: [email protected] Recommended by Nancy
Author: Funding Feminism (2018) (Power Point) Article about her presentation: https://dailynorthwestern.com/2017/11/06/city/feminist-writer-emphasizes-role-wealthy-women-suffrage-movement/
Jan Flapan - former president of the Illinois LWV Phone: 312-951-1234 Email: [email protected] Jan has speeches she has prepared and given on the19th amendment and the League of Women Voters. **Jeanne Schultz Angel Recommended by Marge Phone: (773) 426-4885 E-mail: [email protected] Bachelor’s degree in anthropology and a master’s degree in History from Illinois State University. Executive Director of the Lombard Historical Society, and of the Illinois Association of Museums. Currently she is the Executive Director of the Nineteenth Century Charitable Association in Oak Park, Illinois.
She will be speaking on March 16 at 1:15 at The Nineteenth Century Charitable Association in Oak Park on “Casting the Historic Vote.”
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Kathleen Carpenter, 45-minute program (also 30minute version): “Activists and Achievers: Women at the 1893 Fair.”
Email [email protected]. Outstanding - Recommended by Pris
Chicago's 1893 World's Fair was a showcase of art, architecture, ideas and inventions. It was also a showcase for women. One of the first female lawyers in the country, Phoebe Couzins, arrived at the Fair full of plans to discuss women’s rights, while educator Fannie Barrier Williams demanded more involvement for African-American women in the exhibits. Learn about these women and some of the artists, sculptors and muralists whose work was so compelling that we still discuss them 125 years after the Fair.
Kathleen will offer the program at no cost to Leagues in the Chicagoland area. Kathleen has been a docent for the Chicago Architecture Center since 2006 and conducts a variety of tours. Prior to that she had a career in the non-profit sector.
Maureen Flanagan, Ph.D.
Phione ? 312.567.3956 Email [email protected] or [email protected]
Retired from Illinois Institute of Technology in 2016 where she served as a professor of history and chair of the Department of Humanities. Among the books she has written are America Reformed: Progressives and Progressivisms, 1890s-1920s (Oxford University Press, 2007), Seeing With Their Hearts: Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good City, 1871-1933 (Princeton, 2002)
Need contact information: Lewis College of Human Sciences10 West 35th Street, 14th Floor Chicago, IL 60616
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Other possible speakers:
Audra Wilson, Executive Director of LWVIL Phone: 312-939-5935 #33 Email: [email protected]
Bonnie Cox – immediate past president of the Illinois LWV Phone: 815-777-9282, Cell 815-238-1725 Email: ([email protected])
Performing Arts:Moments in Time – Staging History - Outstanding
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Annette Baldwin – The Long Road to Victory: From Pedestal to Politics and Prison in the Battle for Women’s Suffrage. Excellent Phone: 630-279-0856 E-Mail:[email protected] Website: www.staginghistory.com
Ms. Baldwin presents five women suffrage leaders, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman CattPersistent Women on the Road: Historian, actor, lecturer Annette Baldwin has traveled the Chicago area and the U.S. presenting historical portrayals, lectures and Readers Theater in nineteen states: to public libraries, historical societies & museums, community & professional organizations, colleges & universities, corporate & government offices, State Humanities Chautauquas, as well as at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.WomanLore: Performing Women in History - OutstandingBetsey Means and Eileen Vorbach http://www.womanlore.com/actors.html http://www.womanlore.com/women_stanton.html
For bookings and further information, please contact Betsey and Eileen at 773-528-4957 to discuss your project further.Solitude of SelfA Conversation with Elizabeth Cady Stanton Performed by Eileen Vorbach Adapted and directed by Betsey Means
" The highest happiness of society and the individual is always in the same direction...life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
About Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was an American social activist and leading figure of the early woman's movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first women's rights convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized woman's rights and woman's suffrage movements in the United States.
A prolific author whose works include "Solitude of Self" and "The Woman's Bible," Stanton once wrote that "the prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history".
Working Women's History Project http://wwhpchicago.org/
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They have a short play about the suffrage movement in Illinois that's really well done. Recommended by Annie
The Remy Bumppo Theater Box Office: 773.975.81501229 W. Belmont Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60657
THE AGITATORS by Mat SmartApril 30 – June 6, 2020
Featuring Core Ensemble Member Eliza Stoughton and guest artist and Steppenwolf Ensemble member James Vincent Meredith.This play features the tempestuous yet enduring 45-year friendship of Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony as they shape the course of American history.
Broadway Playhouse 175 East Chestnut Street Chicago Box Office: 800-775-2000“What the Constitution Means to Me” March 4 to April 12This boundary-breaking play breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of American women. At fifteen-years-old, Heidi Schreck earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful, and achingly human new play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that dictated their rights and citizenship. See the play The New York Times calls "not just the best play on Broadway this season, but also the most important." Cabaret Show: The 19th Amendment Turns 100!Anita KallenEmail: [email protected] cabaret artists Catherine Thomson and Anita Kallen are staging a performance to prove that “well-behaved women seldom make history.” They celebrate – in song and HERstory –
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the rabble-rousing pioneers who won the right to vote for the women of America. Their first performance of this exciting new show -- at Davenport’s Cabaret in Chicago -- was a sellout! An enthusiastic audience enjoyed music by Lennon & McCartney, the Sherman Brothers, Parton, Schwartz, Porter, Doyle and others, as Anita and Catherine wove in the story of women’s suffrage from second-class citizenship through work in the abolitionist movement, and eventually, to the campaign for women’s own enfranchisement and the passage of the 19th Amendment. Award-winning pianist Beckie Menzie, is the show’s Music Director and pianist. Anita and Catherine are now excited to be taking this musical celebration of voting rights for women “on the road” to community and women’s organizations, libraries, museums, universities, theaters, and other venues -- all in time to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment! Video clips from the show’s debut: https://youtu.be/OqXzuA4OzDY Movies:
Iron Jawed Angels,
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. AnthonyOne Woman One Vote, Selma, Suffragette – This is the story of the struggle to vote in England led by Emmeline Pankhurst. Pankhurst had a strong influence on Alice PaulMary Poppins – suffrage in England.
History Channel https://www.history.com/ They have multiple short films available
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Coloring Sheets:
Jane Ruby, a graphic artist is creating a series of coloring sheets that can be used to help celebrate the Centennial events. Contact her for more information.
Jane’s phone is 646-467-3622 Email = [email protected]
Books:
The Woman’s Hour by Elaine Weiss
A well-told account of the battle for the passage of the 19th Amendment in Tennessee. This was the final state available to ratify the Amendment. Recommended by Mary
If Elaine is free on a prearranged date, she will spend some time with your group via phone conversation to answer your questions. Virtual Visit Request Form: http://elaineweiss.com/book-clubs/
Q & A Discussion Guide: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/318833/the-womans-hour-by-elaine-weiss/9780143128991/readers-guide/
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/stirring-engrossing-womans-hour-recounts-battle-suffrage#stream/0
I am also working on a “Guide to Key Characters” for this book. Mary
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One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Women’s Suffrage Movement by Marjorie Spruill WheelerA collection of writings on the suffrage movement in America. The essays illustrate the diversity and complexity in the fight for the vote. Thanks, Marge
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After Suffrage: Women in Partisan and Electoral Politics before the New Deal by Kristi AndersenAn account of both the accomplishments and disappointments experienced by women in the decade after suffrage. Thanks, Marge
The Woman Who Never Fails: Grace Wilbur Trout and Illinois Suffrage by Carolyn O. Poplett and Mary Ann PorucznikHer story and her fight for women’s suffrage. Recommended by Marge
WHY THEY MARCHED: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote by Susan Ware. As a well-known historian affiliated with Harvard University. Susan Ware's new 2019 book includes individual chapters on various US suffragists including Alice Stone Blackwell, Ida Well-Barnett,and Maud Wood Park among many others. Recommended by Sharon
SUFFRAGE: Women's Long Battle for the Vote by Ellen Carol DuBoisThis will be published in February 2020. As a well-known historian who has written many books on the US woman suffrage movement, Ellen DuBois' new 2020 book synthesizes information "on the full scope of the movement...through portraits of its bold leaders and devoted activists." Recommended by Sharon
Votes for Women, A Portrait of Persistence by Kate Clarke Lemay in connection with the exhibit at the National Portrait Museum“Votes for Women This richly illustrated book reveals the history and complexity of the national suffrage movement. For nearly a hundred years, from the mid-nineteenth century onward, countless American women fought for the right to vote. While some of the leading figures of the suffrage movement have received deserved appreciation, the crusade for women’s enfranchisement involved many individuals, each with a unique story to be told. Weaving together a diverse collection of portraits and other visual materials—including photographs, drawings, paintings, prints, textiles, and mixed media—along with biographical narratives and trenchant essays, this comprehensive book presents fresh perspectives on the history of the movement.” National Portrait Gallery Recommended by Sharon
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Vote for Women!: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot by Winfred Conkling (a juvenile nonfiction book) A narrative exploring the women and events that were part of the fight for the right to vote. Recommended by Marge
Tours and Programs
Fifteen Evanston Women Who Persisted: http://evanstonwomen.org/2018/06/12/fifteen-evanston-women-who-persisted/The 2018 Tour Evanston Women’s History Map highlights the stories of fifteen Evanston women and women’s organizations around the
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theme She Persisted. It provides a fun, informative and relevant summer activity for self-guided walking, biking and driving tours. The map costs $10 and will be available for purchase from 1-4 pm Thursdays and Sundays at the Frances Willard House, and Thursday-Sunday at the Evanston History Center.The map is created from research completed by staff, interns and volunteers of the Evanston Women’s History Project, in partnership with the Frances Willard House Museum and Shorefront Legacy Center. The map includes brief historical information about each woman or organization. For more detailed information, you can find them in the research database. Frances Willard, Evanston College for Ladies, Catharine Waugh McCulloch, Margery Carlson Lorraine Morton, Florence Walrath, Carrie Crawford Smith, Mayme Spencer, Dr. Isabella Garnett, Dr. Elizabeth Webb Hill, Helen Cromer Cooper, Gladys Dick, Alice Bunker Stockham, Idea Strong Hammond, Marguerite Stitt Church
The Chicago Architecture Center offers over 85 different tours each year; Pris recommends these four tours focusing on women or their works:“Graceland Cemetery: Women of Influence” a walking tour in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago.
During Chicago’s period of growth in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, women played a hugely influential role by participating in the Underground Railroad, exhibiting the first Modern Art paintings, creating the juvenile justice system and even foiling a plot to kill President Lincoln. This tour celebrates the achievements of women in Chicago’s early history.
2 Hours long $26 public/Free for CAC members Meet at Clark St & Irving Park
“Women in Chicago Architecture” a bus tour (sold out for 2019, but available to book for a private tour in 2020)“Aqua, Vista, and Lakeshore East” a walking tour featuring 2 of Jeanne Gang/Studio Gang’s buildings Chicago Architecture Center “Riverwalk West”: Carol Ross Barney (who has her own firm in Chicago) and Gina Ford (of Sasaki Landscaping in Boston) designed it and Michele Woods is the City employee who oversaw the building of it and currently manages it. These tours are offered to the public, but can also be given to private groups. Go to www.architecture.org for more information
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on pubic dates and how to arrange private tours. The 2020 public dates will probably be available in March, 2020.
Chicago History Museum – promises to have an exhibit on Women’s Suffrage, the 19th Amendment and the League. It will open in August.
Online Resources:
National Portrait Gallery : Votes for Women: A Portrait of PersistenceMarch 29, 2019 - January 5, 2020https://npg.si.edu/exhibition/votes-for-women - https://npg.si.edu/exhibition/votes-for- women
US National Archives , " Rightfully Hers" Exhibition Program, https://museum.archives.gov/rightfully-hershttps://www.archives.gov/women/suffrage
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Podcast: Petitions, Protest, and Persuasion: Women's Voices in the Records of the National Archiveshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycxJ1VpnmTg&list=PLugwVCjzrJsXQ6jBhixbiXC0GOhHywhtP&index=3&t=0sVideo Panel on May 16, 2019: “Women and the Vote: the 19th Amendment, Power, Media, and the Making of a Movement” http://suffrageandthemedia.org/source/video-panel-women-and-the-vote-the-19th-amendment-power-media-and-the-making-of-a-movement/Introduced by Nancy Tate formerly of the LWVUS
Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Panel Discussion, Video - From the US National Archives promotion for the panel, presented by the 2020 Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative and the National Women’s History Project: “What methods did suffragists use to communicate their message, and how did public representations of women shape the battle for the 19th Amendment? Tamara Keith, a correspondent for PBS NewsHour, led a discussion [May 16, 2019] with panelists Rebecca Boggs Roberts, author of Suffragists in Washington, DC; Elizabeth Griffith, author of In Her Own Right; and Linda Lumsden, professor of journalism, University of Arizona
Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-19-002/
https://www.loc.gov/collections/national-american-woman-suffrage-association/about-this-collection/
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/womens-suffrage/
Women’s History Alliance: Good resource https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/
American Journalism a Journal of Media History http://suffrageandthemedia.org/
NPR – National Public RadioThe 100th Anniversary: Illinois Led the Way To Women’s SuffrageBy TARA MCCLELLAN MCANDREW • JUN 19, 2019 NPR Interview: https://www.nprillinois.org/post/100th-anniversary-illinois-led-way-women-s-suffrage#stream/0
History Channel https://www.history.com/
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Typing in Suffrage, LWV, etc.in the Search Column leads to multiple offerings on Suffrage and on the women who led the movement: Example: Carrie Chapman Catt - HISTORY https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/carrie-chapman-catt
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