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Subject: Centennial Plans are in sight -- Martha Wheelock and Wild West Women
Date: August 11, 2020 at 11:57:17 AM PDT
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Dear Wild Women and Friends,
“Women, be joyful today.” It is our Centennial. It is our day, Women’s Equality Day. Today we celebrate the Perfect 36. The ratification of the 19th Amendment.
This victory for Equality moves me beyond words: 900 local, state, and national campaigns, by foot, by petition, by parade, by speeches, by lobbying, by imprisonment, by non-violent, direct action. All tactics and principles we can praise and imitate.
Be joyous with us, in celebrating the constitutional right to vote.
Our August emailing features: - Carrie Chapman Catts radiant and inspiring speech, Be Joyful Today
- A virtual gift of our Suffrage Films for you, August 18 – August 27
- The invitation to enjoy August 26 with films and festival from The National Women’s History Museum
- The Suffrage Emporium of woman made items, Susan B Anthony items, masks, sashes
March, march—many as one, Shoulder to shoulder and friend to friend. |
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Be Joyful Today
Suffragists were never dismayed when they were a tiny group and all the world against them. What care they now when all the world is with them?
March on, suffragists—the victory is yours.
The trail has been long and winding; the struggle has been tedious and wearying, you made sacrifices and received many hard knocks. Let us celebrate today and when the proclamation comes, I beg you to celebrate the occasion with some form of joyous demonstration, in your own home state. Two armistice days made a happy ending of the war. Let two ratification days, one a national and one a state day, make an ending of the denial of political freedom to women.
Ours has been a movement with a soul, a dauntless, unconquerable soul ever leading on. Women came, served and passed on, but others came to take their places while the same great soul was ever marching on through hundreds, nay a thousand years. A soul immortal directing, leading the women crusade for the liberation of the Mothers of the Race. That soul is here today and who shall say that all the hosts of the millions of women who have toiled and hoped and met delay are not here today and joining in the rejoicing that their cause at last, at last has won its triumph.
Women be glad today. Let your voices ring out the gladness in your hearts. There will never come another day like this. Let the joy be unconfined and let it speak so clearly that its echo will be heard around the world and find its way into the soul of every woman of any and every race and nationality who is yearning for opportunity and liberty still denied her sex.
Be joyful today.
Carrie Chapman Catt National Women Suffrage Association convention on February 13, 1920 in Chicago, Illinois |
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Wild West Women Films Presents The Centennial Film Festival August 18 ~ August 27 Your Home We hope you have fun with your own private showing of our three suffrage films. Have a suffrage party with the family and all you are sharing quarantine. All screenings are free. Votes for Women California Women win the Vote Inez Milholland: Forward into Light Your password is www2020 |
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AUGUST 26 events sponsored by the National Women’s History Museum |
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August 26, 2020 11 a.m. PT, 2 p.m. ET Screening of
Finding Justice: The Untold Story of Women's Fight for the Vote tells the story of how a 2,000-pound bronze bell became a celebrated symbol of the women’s suffrage movement. The creation of suffragists in Pennsylvania who were agitating for the right to vote, the Justice Bell helped rally support around the cause in the last crucial years leading up to the passage of the 19th Amendment.
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August 26, 2020 5 p.m. PT, 8 p.m. ET
Join this free virtual screening of two short films about suffragist Inez Milholland: Inez Milholland - Forward Into Light and Into Light. The films will be followed by a panel discussion with actress Amy Walker, producer Martine Melloul, and Forward Into Light filmmaker and advisor Martha Wheelock. Inez Milholland - Forward Into Light, will introduce you to Milholland, the woman who rode the white horse as a Joan of Arc on March 3, 1913. This film will be followed by Into Light, which takes us to Blanchard Hall in Los Angeles, on October 23, 1916, as Milholland addresses 1,500 cheering and curious attendees. The outcome of that evening would be an inspirational and emotional impetus for the final push for woman suffrage. |
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August 26, 2020 6 p.m. PT, 9 p.m. ET
The National Women's History Museum is pleased to partner with top musicians, changemakers and activist icons for Women Take the Stage: a free, multi-ethnic concert and rally to increase votes by and for women before the November election. Livestreaming on the centennial of the 19th Amendment, the event acknowledges that we have yet to achieve free, fair and safe elections for all.
Viewers will be inspired by performances and stories from Gloria Steinem, Dolores Huerta, Lily Tomlin, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Indigo Girls, BETTY, the B-52s’ Kate Pierson, CA First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom, poet Staceyann Chin, anti-racism leader Rev. Jacqui Lewis, and many more. Opening the show is NY’s groundbreaking Attorney General, Letitia James.
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Susan B. Anthony Dollars Looking for Suffrage mementos or awards? We have mounted Susan B. Anthony dollars on a sterling silver key chain and on a necklace, (adjustable 18" black satin cord). $25 each. |
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#masksbyZoe Since April 2, Zoe has sewn over 2,000 masks. Every one made to order. Zoe has hundreds of fabrics. You can suggest colors and motifs, such as Fall, Halloween, floral, animals, and Batiks. For more information and to order visit Zoe Nicholson dot com |
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“Be Joyful today…March on, Suffragists, the Victory is yours.” And ours.
Lets celebrate together in spirit and song. Buttons, Sash, Hat and Heart for all the women who marched for this Hundredth Anniversary. Whisper or shout to one another, Thank you for my right to vote, I pledge to always vote, and I will help others to be able to vote – for equality, justice, liberty.
Women’s History is a movement. Honoring the dedication, toil, courage and hope of our sister suffragists.
Let us know how you are celebrating and thinking about equality. Martha and Wild West Women.
800-428-7136 818-970-0097 |
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