100 years ago, the U.S. House voted on passage of the 19th Amendment. Passage and ratification of the 19th Amendment meant that women across America would have the right to vote and make their voices heard on key policy development over the next hundred years.
Plain Talk: Celebrate 100 years of fighting for voting rights with the League of Women Voters
Dave Zweifel highlights some of the League's history and current issues the League deals with in Wisconsin. He also mentions the upcoming Anniversary event on June 23.
Thank you to everyone who joined us in Green Lake on June 8. A record 151 were in attendance, representing 19 local Leagues, the Waukesha County Branch of LWV Milwaukee County, and the Lake Michigan Region and Upper Mississippi River Region Inter-League Organizations (ILOs).
Executive Director, Erin Grunze, writes the "Issue of the Week" column for the Milwaukee Shepherd Express on the need for a judicial decision on the legislature calling itself into "extraordinary session" in December 2018.
To: International Joint Commission
From: The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin
Date: June 18, 2019
Re: Address to the International Joint Commission at the June 18, 2019 meeting in Milwaukee
June 25th marks six years since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Shelby County v. Holder decision which overturned essential provisions of the VRA which has led to countless attacks on the voting rights of Americans.
Modern-day suffragists, young and old, women and men, gathered in the shadow of the symbolic Forward statue on Madison’s Capitol Square last Sunday to celebrate Wisconsin’s historic ratification of the 19th Amendment on June 10, 1919.