The second in a series of lectures celebrating the centennial of California women winning the right to vote on Oct 10, 1911. Local historian and East Bay activist Sandra Threlfall will enact the story of San Francisco heiress Maud Younger whose visit to the slums of turn-of-the-nineteenth century New York City turned her into an activist for working women particularly waitresses. Return to San Francisco in 1908, she organized a union for waitresses and the Wage Earners Equal Suffrage League which helped win the 1911 special election that made California the sixth state to grant women full suffrage, nine years before the 19th amendment passed.
The series of five lectures on Thursday evenings from Oct 13 through November 10 are sponsored by the Contra Costa and the Martinez Historical societies and are underwritten by the Chevron Federal Credit Union.
