Friday, August 21, 2020 - 12:00am to Wednesday, August 26, 2020 - 11:45pm
View the rest of the eight day virtual tour from Spokane to Seattle on the Washington State Historical Society's YouTube Channel.
One city is added each day, August 19th to the 26th.
You can also see them on @washingtonhistory and @suffrage100wa Facebook pages. Please do check them out and share!
Our first stop on the Suffrage Special Whistle Stop Tour is Spokane, where our friends at The Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture will introduce us to local resident and Washington suffrage leader, May Arkwright Hutton and women from Spokane who are carrying on her legacy of activism today.
Suffrage Special Whistle Stop Tour: Pasco
Suffrage Special Whistle Stop Tour: Pasco
All Aboard Whistle Stop #2!
Hosted by Franklin County Historical Society, at this 'whistle stop' we will learn about the early suffrage movement in Southeastern Washington before bringing it forward into the present era, celebrating the women of Hanford and Washington's first Muslim woman elected to public office, and ending with Elizabeth Cady Stanton's famous Solitude of Self speech, as performed by women of Pasco.
Hosted by Franklin County Historical Society, at this 'whistle stop' we will learn about the early suffrage movement in Southeastern Washington before bringing it forward into the present era, celebrating the women of Hanford and Washington's first Muslim woman elected to public office, and ending with Elizabeth Cady Stanton's famous Solitude of Self speech, as performed by women of Pasco.
All Aboard Whistle Stop #3!
Visit our friends at Kittitas County Historical Museum for the third stop on our Suffrage Special Whistle Stop Tour. Here in Ellensburg, we learn about local suffrage leader Emma Smith DeVoe who lived nearby Thorp and visit a statewide virtual cemetery!
Visit our friends at Kittitas County Historical Museum for the third stop on our Suffrage Special Whistle Stop Tour. Here in Ellensburg, we learn about local suffrage leader Emma Smith DeVoe who lived nearby Thorp and visit a statewide virtual cemetery!
Forward together,
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