Join us for a socially distant, health compliant (masks required and provided) event commemorating the 19th Amendment!

https://www.facebook.com/events/301884114380523/

-Celebrate women who are local community leaders

-Acknowledge that BIPOC/LGBTQ suffragettes were excluded, use this opportunity to give them greater visibility and work towards building trust between white and BIPOC/LGBTQ women
-Educate and engage more voters about how to participate actively in our democracy
-Commit to increasing representation of women in government, especially BIPOC/LGBTQ
-Support the Black Lives Matter movement
-Census outreach

The 19th Amendment is a complicated amendment to celebrate because only white women were granted the right to vote in 1920--the majority of Black women had to wait until 1965--and the reason it worked out this way is because white women chose to move faster alone than farther together. Some speakers/groups we invited have chosen not to participate because they feel this is a racist amendment. We feel that ignoring the 19th Amendment and the factors that caused Black women to be excluded and discriminated against will only cause history to repeat itself. We must address, acknowledge and learn from mistakes--no matter how painful--in order to not repeat them.