A dedication ceremony to honor Hester C. Jeffrey with a plaque at Memorial AME Zion Church. The plaque will join hundreds of other markers on the National Votes for Women Trail.
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Susan B. Anthony Women’s Suffrage Marker Dedication
Greenwich Junior-Senior High School 10 Gray Avenue, Greenwich, NY, United StatesA dedication ceremony for a new Women’s Suffrage marker commemorating Susan B. Anthony will be held at her childhood home in Greenwich, New York.
Way Beyond Seneca Falls: Women’s Suffrage, an Unfinished Revolution, and the Power of Place in NY
This presentation highlights the importance of grassroots action by women and men, both Black and white, in New York State’s historic movement for woman suffrage.
Book Launch: “A National Park for Women’s Rights” by Judy Hart
Wesleyan Chapel, Women's Rights National Historical Park 136 Fall Street, Seneca Falls, NY, United StatesA panel discussion with the author Judy Hart includes Q&A. Afterward, meet Judy who will sign copies of her book, available for purchase in the WRNHP Visitor Center.
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NCWHS Women’s History Month Virtual Event with Dr. Camesha Scruggs
Dr. Camesha Scruggs will present “Ladies Learning Labor: Domestic Service Education in the Early 20th Century”
Dress Reform and Women’s Rights
Oneida Community Mansion House 170 Kenwood Avenue, Oneida, NY, United States
$10
Hybrid Lecture (in-person or via Zoom) – Ashley Hopkins-Benton, Senior Historian and Curator of Social History at the New York State Museum.
In the early 19th century, women’s rights reformers were interested in tackling a variety of issues that were holding women back, including the very clothes they wore! For many reformers, the movement soon coalesced around work toward the right to vote (seen as the best way to affect change in other areas), but that didn’t stop many from trying reform dress, or what became known as the Bloomer Costume.