Women’s History Hindsight: The Struggle for Suffrage

UPDATE: Due to illness, Ellie Carlson will be unable to present "The Struggle for Suffrage" this Sunday. Instead, actress Betsey Means of WomanLore will present a first-person portrayal of suffrage leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton. We apologize for the last-minute programming change.

Women's History Month at the Library continues with this talk by historian and performer Ellie Carlson on the history of the suffrage movement that won the right to vote for women. This presentation will focus on the influence of trade and teacher’s unions, women in higher education, fundraising through cookbooks and bazaars, marches, songs, letter writing campaigns and how women’s influence over the voting men in their lives brought about the reform. Brought to you in partnership with River Forest Township.