The Campaign for Woman Suffrage in Virginia

The Campaign for Woman Suffrage in Virginia

Campaign for Woman Suffrage in Virginia
Thursday, August 27, 2020 - 2:30pm to 3:30pm

Author, Marianne Julienne, an editor at the Library of Virginia's Dictionary of Virginia Biography project, will share photos and talk about African American women and suffrage in Virginia, particularly voter registration in 1920. Half the time will be reserved for questions. Julienne earned her history degree at JMU and a Master's in Public History at the University of South Carolina. She has worked at the Library of Virginia since 1999. 


The Campaign for Woman Suffrage in Virginia is by Brent Tarter, Marianne E. Julienne, Barbara C. Batson, (Charleston, The History Press, 2020). The Library of Virginia has an exhibition on the same topic and the biographies and photographs are available online at https://edu.lva.virginia.gov/suffragebiographies/

 

To obtain a link to the virtual meeting, RSVP to SHRLeague [at] gmail.com with "Woman Suffrage" as the subject.