The 46-year-long campaign for woman suffrage in New Mexico is rich and deep. But, as with other aspects of women’s lives, most of their stories—political, economic, social—are not found in history books or taught in schools. In this presentation, Sylvia Ramos Cruz, M.D. shares history about the suffragists whose contributions to that struggle are still being unearthed in family lore, memoirs, songs, newspapers, and a few precious, oft-quoted scholarly works.

This event is put on in partnership with the Los Alamos League of Women Voters and the exhibition Women's Votes, Voters' Voices, which is showing in the Step Up Gallery at Mesa Public Library from 8/21/21-9/21/21.