One hundred years since women won the right to vote. One hundred days until the election. One hundred women with one hundred stories.
Ruth Asawa, best known for her airy, intricate, woven-wire sculptures, is having a moment. The United States Post Office has released a series of commemorative stamps. Her works have sold for record prices at auction. There have been retrospective exhibitions, gallery representation, international acclaim, and even a Google doodle in …
Yayoi Kusama, sometimes called the Princess of Polka Dots, is the most successful living female artist in the world. At age 91, worldwide exhibitions of her brightly colored paintings and happily dotted sculptures regularly sell out. She works nearly every day at her studio, located two blocks away from the …
The League of Women Voters celebrates its centennial this year. As a child of a League member, I was drafted into its service early on.
Same-day registration. Mail-in voting. Voter fraud. Foreign interference. These are the words we’re hearing as the November election approaches. As we take time to celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s voting rights this week, it’s important to acknowledge women who today are working to ensure elections remain free and fair. …
They stood in front of the White House all day, every day (except for Sundays) for two and a half years, bearing silent witness to women’s voting rights denied. Dressed in white, with purple and gold sashes draped over their shoulders, the Silent Sentinels, as these women were known, stood …
Fannie Lou Hamer was an American civil rights activist who first learned she had the right to vote in 1962, more than 40 years after passage of the 19th Amendment. Her courageous fight to register to vote in Montgomery County, Mississippi led to a lifetime of civil rights work that …
The crowd inside the Tennessee State Capitol on Aug. 18, 1920 was colorful, to say the least. Men, mostly state legislators, sported red roses pinned to the lapels of their black suits; women wearing suffragette white filled the visitor’s gallery, yellow roses pinned to their hats, their dresses, even carried …
Women helping women is how Adelaide Johnson rose to modest acclaim as a sculptor in the late 1890’s. Known as the “sculptress of the women’s movement” Adelaide Johnson is best known for The Portrait Monument, a sculpture of suffragette leaders Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Now …
