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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) Novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist, journalist, orator and activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was one of the most dynamic orators and best-known writers of the 19th century.

Ida B. Wells

Ida B. Wells

Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) Journalist, educator and activist Ida B. Wells was a forceful advocate for Black Americans and women, and played an essential role in the Women's Suffrage movement.

Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) A lifelong advocate for both civil rights and voting rights, Susan B. Anthony was one of the leaders of the modern Women's Suffrage movement that followed the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848.

Lucy Stone

Lucy Stone

 Lucy Stone (1818-1893) During the Civil War, Stone helped found the Woman's National Loyal League, which espoused full emancipation and enfranchisement for all Black Americans. After the war, she helped establish the American Equal Rights Association (AERA), an organization focused upon granting universal voting rights in the United States.

Alice Paul (1885-1977)

Alice Paul

New Jersey native Alice Paul, along with her longtime colleague Lucy Burns, was one of the driving forces behind final passage of the 19th Amendment granting Women's Suffrage.

Lucretia Mott

Lucretia Mott

Lucretia Mott was the most prominent white woman in the abolition movement, and continued to use her status and notoriety to fundraise and advocate for the rights of both Black Americans and women after the Civil War

Women's History Month

Women's History Month

March is Women's History Month

Shirley Chisom

Shirley Chisom

Shirley Chisom League member and the first African American woman in Congress and the first African American woman to run for president.

Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women's rights in the nineteenth century

Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt served as the League’s vice president for legislative affairs in the 1920s

Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks Civil Rights activist

Upper Dublin Legislative Meet & Greet

Upper Dublin Legislative Meet & Greet

Upper Dublin Legislative Meet & Greet

Keswick Registration Drive

Keswick Registration Drive

Keswick Registration Drive

College Registration Drive

College Registration Drive

College Registration Drive

National Voter Registration Day event at Arcadia University 9/20/2022

National Voter Registration Day event at Arcadia University 9/20/2022

National Voter Registration Day event at Arcadia University 9/20/2022.  We partnered with the university's Civic and Global Engagement Program.  A nice event!  Photo credit Alison LaLond Wyant.

 

Voter registration

Voter Registration at Manor College Aug 26, 2022

Voter Registration at Manor College, Aug, 2022

The Abington-Cheltenham-Jenkintown Area

The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan political organization that encourages informed and active participation in government. Over the last century, we have fought for election protection, democratic reforms, and equal access to the ballot all while maintaining our commitment to nonpartisanship and fostering an informed electorate.  

 Our mission is to empower voters and strengthen democracy.  We salute the voters, poll workers, ballot counters and other election officials who persevered throughout this election cycle, in the face of a pandemic and the variety of electoral processes spawned, in large part, in response to the challenges it presented.  Their efforts both echo and reaffirm the work of previous generations who have struggled to preserve the democracy for which so many. 

In honor of Women's History Month, let's remember Carrie Chapman Catt, founder of the League of Women Voters

 

Carrie Chapman CattBorn in Wisconsin in 1859, Catt campaigned for women’s suffrage for decades. On February 14, 1920, roughly six months before the passage of the 19th Amendment, Catt founded the League of Women Voters. Designed to help 20 million women carry out their new responsibilities as voters, Catt called the League "a mighty experiment." "…[N]o one could tell…in which direction its evolution would go," Catt remarked at the League’s 1921 National Convention.

To read more about her, click here

 

 

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Governor Shapiro Implements Automatic Voter Registration in Pennsylvania, Joining Bipartisan Group of States That Have Taken Commonsense Step to Make Voter Registration More Streamlined and Secure

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This story originally aired on WKBN.

In this week’s segment with WKBN Community Affairs Director Dee Crawford, Crawford sits down with Leah Sakacs, president of the League of Women Voters of Greater Youngstown. 

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This letter to the editor was originally published in InForum.

Barbara Headrick, Fowzia Adde and Nicole Donaghy urge legislators to kill a bill that "would require naturalized US citizens who have not updated their ID since naturalization to prove their citizenship in order to vote. This bill targets New American voters who have been recently naturalized."

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It’s been a busy few weeks in the PA House, with more focus on legislative rules than we would have thought possible. The outcome is not perfect, but it is an encouraging step toward a more responsive legislative process.

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Pennsylvania has a new congressional map!  

Statement From The League Of Women Voters On Approved Legislative Maps
February 4, 2022