Wild West Women Events & News
Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence, is open at the National Portrait Gallery
To celebrate the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in the United States, Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence, is open at the National Portrait Gallery March 29, 2019 – January 5, 2020. Votes for Women features more than 120 portraits and objects spanning 1832 to 1965 that […]
Pasadena Celebrates 2020 in the Tournament of Roses Parade
Dear Wild West Women,
In 1911, the West led the way to winning the vote. Today thousands of women are joining together to celebrate the 19th Amendment Centennial. 1920 ~ 2020.
A small group of amazing persistent women has set their Centennial goal on a “Votes for Women” float in the Tournament of Roses Parade on January 1, 2020. They have invited each of us will be […]
The Battle for Women’s Suffrage in the US: 24 Amazing Photos
One hundred years ago this week, on June 4, 1919, the U.S. Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which would guarantee women the right to vote, and sent it on to the states for ratification (which took another 14 months). The battle for women’s […]
The Long Battle for Women’s Suffrage
With the centennial anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment approaching, a look back at the surprising history of giving women the vote
If you look at black-and-white photographs of suffragists, it’s tempting to see the women as quaint: spectacles […]
20 Suffragists To Know for 2020
105 Years of Women’s Suffrage in California
It’s hard to imagine that less than 100 years ago, all women did not have the right to vote in the United States. Many […]
Tea With Alice and Me Comes to Long Beach
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 20, 2018
Zoe Nicholson to perform Tea with Alice and Me in her own town.
Beverly O’Neill Theater, 300 E Ocean Blvd, Long Beach CA
Hosted by Second District Councilwoman, Jeannine Pearce
Friday, March 30, 2018
One of the places that the suffrage movement helped to open to women—we always had a little tearoom always at our headquarters where most newspaper people […]
Tea With Alice and Me to Premiere January 7, 2018
Suffragist, Activist, ALICE PAUL’S life and work presented in solo performance
With Zoe Nicholson, writer, scholar, for one day only, January 7, 2018
Alice Paul inspired “women not to give up, making them share her conviction that the political equality of women “is worth sacrificing everything for, leisure, money, reputation, and even our lives” […]