California women won the right to vote in 1911, nine years before the federal franchise. The Berkeley History Center will celebrate the centennial in its upcoming exhibit Berkeley Women Vote: Celebrating California Suffrage 1911-2011, opening Sept. 18.
Women and men are sought to to kick off the yearlong commemoration in Berkeley of the centennial by re-enacting a votes-for-women march at the Parade on Sept. 11, 2011.
The parade unit will assemble at 8 a.m. dressed as 1911 suffragists in period-appropriate clothing to march in the parade, which begins at 10 am.
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Women and men interested in joining the band of 1911 suffragists should contact Phyllis Gale or Nancy Bickel at berkeleywomenvote@gmail.com.
