Votes for Women: Massachusetts Leaders in the Suffrage Movement

On Sunday, March 15 at 2 p.m. at the Needham Free Public Library, Barbara Berenson, the author of Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement: Revolutionary Reformers, will discuss Massachusetts’ role at the center of the national struggle for woman suffrage. The presentation is co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Needham and the Friends of the Needham Library. The event is free and open to the public; no registration is required.

This event is part of the commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, which granted voting rights to women in 1920. Berenson gives Massachusetts suffragists the attention they deserve, beginning with Lucy Stone and her colleagues who demanded the vote and launched the first National Woman’s Rights Convention in Worcester in 1850, through 1920 with the passage of the 19th Amendment.

The presentation will be followed by Q & A followed by book sales and signing.

For more information, contact president@lwv-needham.org or visit www.lwv-needham.org or friendsneedhamlibrary.org/.