Please join us in Celebrating Womens Equality Day Today, 6:30-8:30 p.m.!

Today, our nation celebrates the Women’s Equality Day for the 96th time. In only four years, we will be celebrating the centennial of this historic day recognizing the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave women the right to vote and to full citizenship for the very first time.Please join us and attend the Equality Day Lecture Series today, 6:30-8:30 p.m. It is sponsored by the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial Association and Gunston Hall, home of George Mason. The location is Gunston Hall, 10709 Gunston Road, Lorton, VA 22079.The program will include a video and lecture about suffragist martyr, Inez Milholland Boissevain, as well as how the Constitution and Bill of Rights affected women during the Suffragist Movement and still do today. Nationally renowned historian, Edith Mayo, Curator Emeritus in Political and Women’s History at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, will be presenting. Join us and learn more about the suffragist movement, George Mason, and the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial project. Light refreshments will be served and the program will begin promptly at 7 pm.

Questions? Contact Adarsh Trehan, at PR@lwv-fairfax.org