Primary results suggest sea change for women in Massachusetts politics By Stephanie Ebbert Globe Staff,Updated September 7, 2022, 8:12 p.m. Attorney General Maura Healey made her first campaign appearance for governor with her new running mate, Kim Driscoll, at the Worcester Public Market.LANE TURNER/GLOBE STAFF For the first time, a Massachusetts election was dominated by […]
Telegram & Gazette: Suffragist Sarah E. Wall honored with marker at location of home that city took in 1863
October 25, 2022 – A marker honoring a 19th-century Worcester suffragist was unveiled Monday at Sycamore and Main streets. The marker observes Sarah E. Wall’s efforts toward women’s rights when she refused to pay property taxes on her home at 2 Sycamore St. starting in 1851 on account of not being able to vote as a […]
Spectrum News 1: Trail marker for women’s suffrage movement leader Sarah E. Wall unveiled in Worcester
October 24, 2022 – The City of Worcester unveiled a trail marker for women’s suffrage movement leader Sarah E. Wall Monday. Wall was a women’s rights activist and abolitionist from Worcester. The marker, at the corner of Sycamore Street and Main Street, is near Wall’s former property and is part of the National Votes for […]
Worcester Unveils Sarah E. Wall Women’s Suffrage Trail Marker
Contact: Fredie Kay WORCESTER, Mass. (October 20, 2022) — Suffrage100MA and the City of Worcester will proudly unveil an historic women’s suffrage marker honoring the legacy of Sarah E. Wall, on Monday, October 24 at 4:00pm at the corner of Sycamore Street and Main Street (GPS address: 681 Main Street, Worcester, MA). The marker will celebrate […]
Sarah E. Wall Women’s Suffrage Marker in Worcester
On Monday, October 24, 2022, Suffrage100MA and the City of Worcester, MA unveiled an historic women’s suffrage marker honoring the legacy of Sarah E. Wall at the corner of Sycamore Street and Main Street, Worcester, MA. The marker celebrates Wall’s tax protest for women’s voting rights and will encourage passers-by to learn more. The marker […]
Voting Resources in Massachusetts
Voting resources courtesy of: Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, MassVOTE and League of Women Voters of Massachusetts. Register to Vote (multiple languages available via MassVOTE) Check your registration status Find your polling place Identification requirements Early voting information Mail-in ballot information Find your federal, state and local races at Vote411. Registering to Vote – […]
Dorchester Reporter: Public Garden is host to anniversary celebration of Women’s Equality Day
September 8, 2022 – Women’s Equality Day at the Boston Public Garden on Aug. 24 celebrated the 102nd anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment that gave many women in the United States the right to vote with an event hosted by Suffrage100MA and the Boston Mayor’s Office of Women’s Advancement that discussed reproductive […]
Featured Suffragist
Learn about other leaders in the movement and important suffrage milestones by visiting our Suffrage Centennial Display Panel Project! Featured Suffragist: Sojourner Truth
Boston Globe: Markers give suffragists their due: ‘If they did it back then, we can do it now’
Boston Globe, August 28, 2022 — More than 200 markers — five in Massachusetts — are being installed through the National Votes for Women Trail. An initiative of the National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites, the trail commemorates the centennial in 2020 of the adoption of the 19th Amendment guaranteeing women voting rights, and includes […]
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