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19th Amendment Centennial Celebration

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Announcing Wisconsin's
19th Amendment Centennial Virtual Celebration | 1920-2020
recorded 8/15/20

Tribute Videos on the Suffrage Centennial
from Members of the Centennial Planning Committee

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First Lady Kathy Evers delivered the Democratic Radio Address on the centennial celebration of women's suffrage and the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Listen

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Service, Sacrifice, Incomplete Citizenship: Women Seeking the Right to Vote Through Military Service

Video & Blog Post

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THOUGHTS ON WOMEN'S RIGHT TO VOTE from Women in the
Wisconsin State Legislature

Video Series: Celebrating Big Moments: 100 Years
of Women’s Suffrage from Wisconsin Historical Society

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Wisconsin 19th Amendment Centennial Bell Ringing
with First Lady Kathy Evers | August 26, 2020

(skip ahead to minute 7:30 of the video for the start of the program)

A sampling of bell ringings across Wisconsin | Noon, August 26, 2020
Wisconisn's Virtual 19th Amendment Centennial Celebration

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League of Women Voters of Greater Green Bay Click to Enlarge or Print

First United Methodist Church Dept of Veterans Affairs Madeline Island Museum

of Whitewater WDVA | Sec. Mary Kolar

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Waukesha County Historical Society Sheboygan County Historical Society

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Manitowoc County Historical Society Polk County Historical Society

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League of Wisconsin Municipalities

For more pictures and videos of bell ringings across Wisconsin, visit:

https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/WIVotesforwomen

https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/womensvote100

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Articles and Resources

Women's Suffrage Centennial Update, National Newsletter August 16-22 (pdf)
from the National Women's History Alliance

Senator Tammy Baldwin, former Israel Prime Minister Golda Meir among influential women on Wisconsin list Kathy Flanigan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Aug. 18, 2020)

For 11 Wisconsin women, the 19th Amendment was only the beginning. 100 years later, the fight continues, Nusaiba Mizan, Green Bay Press-Gazette (

Aug. 18, 2020)

In Her Words: Suffrage at 100, Jennifer Harlan, Veronica Chambers and Jennifer Schuessler, The New York Times, newyorktimes.com (August 18, 2020)

Commentary: Grandma Cele, the Unknown Ojibwe Suffragette - On the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, a granddaughter writes in praise of the bold, outspoken, and frequently overlooked Native women who fought for the vote. by Mary Annette Pember, Daily Yonder (August 18, 2020).

In Her Words: Queer Suffragists, Maya Salam, The New York Times, newyorktimes.com (August 20, 2020)

WI Role in 19th Amendment, Struggles that Still Exist, Mike Moen, Public New Servce-WI (August 21, 2020)

Two Bald Guys: Celebrating Women's Suffrage Centennial, Wisconsin Intitute for Public Policy and Service (video, recorded live August 21, 2020) - featuring Rebecca Kleefisch, former WI lieutenant governor, former executive director of Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission; Barbara Lawton, first woman elected as WI lieutenant governor, member of Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission; and Julie Bunczak, WIPPS program manager, coordinator for virtual Women's Suffrage Series, launch September 22nd.

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