"Kansas Women Have Done It!" Agitating for the Women's Vote: Women's Vote Celebration, Riley County Historical Society and KSU Literature Track of English Department (co-sponsored by LWVMRC)

"Kansas Women Have Done It!" Agitating for the Women's Vote: Women's Vote Celebration, Riley County Historical Society and KSU Literature Track of English Department (co-sponsored by LWVMRC)

Votes for Women-Celebrating 100

Location

The Douglass Community Center Annex
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Tuesday, March 3, 2020 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm

"Kansas Women Have Done It!" Agitating for the Women's Vote 

Celebration of Women’s Vote in Manhattan, Kansas

The LWVMRC is proud to be a co-sponsor of this exciting event:

In collaboration with the Riley County Historical Society, the Literature track of the English Department at Kansas State University is celebrating the anniversary of the women’s vote.The date for the event is March 3rd, 2020, the birthday of the activist Susanna Madora Salter (March 2, 1860 – March 17, 1961), the first woman mayor and one of the first women elected to any political office in the United States. Salter is also a Kansas State alumni (she attended Kansas Agricultural College).

 Join us for an evening of celebration of Suffragist songs, poetry and diary readings, and honoring those who paved our way.  

“’Kansas Women Have Done It!’: Agitating for the Women’s Vote” 

Venue: Douglass Community Center Annex

Presenters:

1) Katharina Bossman (soprano)  - suffragette songs

2) Krista Everhart (MA 20) Photos from the Salter Museum

3) Kristin Chaney (Social Work BS 21) Spoken Word Artist

4) Brittani Ivan (English MA ’19), “A Different Colored Lens: What Harriet Parkerson’s Diaries Have to Say"

5) Angela Hubler (Professor, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies), “Free State? Racism and Votes for Women in Kansas”

6) Suzanne Orr (Assistant Professor, History), "'Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women': Opposition to Women's Suffrage in Kansas"

7) Ann Birney, Historical Reenactment