New Map Highlights Women's Suffrage Story In Lower Manhattan

GREENWICH VILLAGE, NY — Tuesday is the centenary of the adoption of the 19th Amendment, and the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation is doing its part to highlight the key role Lower Manhattan played in the women's suffrage movement.

The 19th Amendment prohibited discrimination in voting in the United States based upon sex.

The law passed in 1920 was the culmination of generations of effort by motivated women and men, many of whom lived, worked, and protested in Greenwich Village and the East Village.

To pay respect to the Lower Manhattanites who were at the forefront of the women's suffrage movement — the Greenwich Village historical organization created an interactive story map — allowing you to see the exact block where prominent suffragettes lived and moments happened.

You can access the map here.

"You'll find women who dedicated their lives to the cause, and the men who back them up; labor leaders and socialites; 20th-century movers & shakers, and lonely 18th-century pioneers; traditionalists and revolutionaries," the Greenwich Village Society For Historic Preservation said in a news release.

The interactive map includes retellings of the Women's Suffrage Parade of 1915 that kicked off in Washington Square Park, the story of the fierce suffragette Louise Bryant, and tales of W.E.B. Dubois' commitment to the women's suffrage movement through his magazine based in Lower Manhattan.

The map also offers an option to journey through each location in a pre-picked order by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation.