• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

 Homepage

100 Years of Votes for Women

  • Home
  • Who We Are
    • About Suffrage100MA
    • Suffrage100MA History
    • Women’s Equality National Monument
  • Suffrage100MA Partners
  • Resources
    • The Fight For Women’s Suffrage: Looking Back, Marching Forward! Film
    • The Suffrage Centennial Display Panel Project
      • Commonwealth Museum Tour
    • Did You Know?
      • The Boston Protest of 1919
      • Featured Suffragists
        • Ida B. Wells
        • Alice Paul
        • Sojourner Truth
        • Jeannette Rankin
        • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
      • Silent Sentinels
      • Suffragist or Suffragette?
      • Women’s Rights Quiz
  • Events
    • Lucy Stone: Voice of the Early Woman Suffrage Movement
    • Massachusetts Blue Bird Day July 19
    • Women’s Equality Day at the Swan Boats
      • Women’s Equality Day 2019
        • Women’s Equality Day 2019 Invitation
        • Women’s Equality Day 2019 Slideshow
    • Suffrage Centennial Kickoff Celebration
      • Suffrage Centennial Kickoff Invitation
      • Suffrage Centennial Kickoff Celebration Slideshow
      • Suffrage Centennial Kickoff Celebration Video Clips
    • I Want to Go to Jail
    • Film Screenings
      • The Divine Order
      • Hidden Figures
      • Suffragette
      • Iron Jawed Angels
    • Forums and Presentations
      • I Want to Go to Jail
      • The Equal Rights Amendment, Why Now?
      • The Woman Behind the New Deal
      • Women’s Leadership Forum
      • A Woman’s Place Is at the Top
    • Marches and Rallies
      • Suffrage100MA Joins Boston March
  • Vote
    • Vote
    • Vote 2020!
  • News and Media
    • Newsletters and Letters
    • Suffrage100MA in the News
    • Press Releases
  • Contact Us
  • Donate
    • Donation History
      • Donation Confirmation
      • Donation Failed
  • Calendar
  • 1000 Classrooms Initiative
You are here: Home / Archives for Events

Events

Suffrage100MA Events

Suffrage100MA has sponsored events annually since its inception in 2010. The first event was to commemorate the 90th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment in 2010.

Events include:Version 2
-Celebrations of Women's Equality Day, August 26, at the Swan Boats in the Boston Public Garden
-Film Screenings relevant to suffrage and women's rights
-Forums and Presentations with speakers, authors, or performances
-Marches and Rallies

Lucy Stone: Voice of the Early Woman Suffrage Movement

April 2, 2021 By Admin

LUCY STONE: VOICE OF THE EARLY WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT April 15, 2021 7:00 – 8:00 pm on Zoom This event is free; Pre-registration is required. Join Lucy Stone biographer Joelle Million, author of Woman’s Voice, Woman’s Place: Lucy Stone and the Birth of the Woman’s Rights Movement to learn what motivated Massachusetts native Lucy Stone to become […]

Filed Under: Events, Featured, Uncategorized

A 19th Amendment Centennial Film

August 19, 2020 By Admin

  “The Fight for Women’s Suffrage: Looking Back, Marching Forward!”  This film, created by Suffrage100MA to commemorate the centennial of the 19th Amendment being added to the U.S. Constitution, gives a versatile glimpse into the suffrage movement, from the abolitionist movement in the 19th century that led to the suffrage movement, to the ratification of […]

Filed Under: Events, Featured

Massachusetts Blue Bird Day July 19

July 10, 2020 By Admin

On July 19, 1915, “Suffrage Blue Bird Day,” approximately 100,000 colorful, tin 12” x 4” Blue Birds were pinned up around the state in an effort to promote passage of an upcoming Nov. 2, 1915 referendum that would have expanded the vote (federal, state and local elections) to women. Unfortunately, the Massachusetts referendum failed, and Massachusetts […]

Filed Under: Events

Women’s Equality Day 2019

September 30, 2019 By Anne Borg

For this year’s Women’s Equality Day, Suffrage100MA honored Sheroes: African American Suffragists of Massachusetts Maria Louise Baldwin Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin Sojourner Truth Thank you to the many people and organizations who made this year’s Women’s Equality Day event such a warm and inspiring occasion: Guest speakers: Katrina Huff-Larmond, Tanisha Sullivan, Marita Rivero, Stephen Kenney, […]

Filed Under: Events, Featured, Swan Boats, Women's Equality Day Events

Women’s Equality Day 2019 Poem by Rose-Darla Pascal

September 12, 2019 By Anne Borg

Suffrage100MA is honored to share this poem, which was performed by Rose-Darla at the 2019 Women’s Equality Day event. The Importance Of Her Heartbeat By Rose-Darla Pascal What if we could remember what it felt like to be in our mother’s womb? To feel the vibrations of her heartbeat right above our head… To hear […]

Filed Under: Women's Equality Day Events

City of Boston Resolution – Women’s Equality Day 2019

September 12, 2019 By Anne Borg

Thank you to Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn for offering an Official Resolution for Women’s Equality Day 2019 honoring African American Suffragists of Massachusetts, signed by Boston City Council President Andrea Campbell, and all of the Boston City Councilors: Annissa Essaibi George, Michael Flaherty, Althea Garrison, Michelle Wu, Lydia Edwards, Ed Flynn, Frank Baker, Timothy […]

Filed Under: Women's Equality Day Events

Next Page »

Footer

Stay in Touch with Suffrage100MA -
Subscribe to Our Mailing List

Support Suffrage100MA

Help Suffrage100MA commemorate the
centennial of the 19th Amendment.

Stay in Touch with Suffrage100MA -
Follow Us!

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter

Contact Us

Copyright © 2021 · Women's Suffrage Celebration Coalition · Site by Tech-Tamer· Log in

Suffragists Support #StopAsianHate

March 2021

Dear Suffrage100MA Community,

Suffrage100MA stands with the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Community and grieves for the eight victims recently murdered in Georgia, six of whom were women of Asian descent.  Carry the victims in your hearts, light candles for them, learn about their lives:  Daoyou Feng, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Paul Andre Michels, Soon Chung Park, Ziaojie Tan, Delaina Yaun and Young Ae Yue.

The words of this song from the 1949 musical “South Pacific” are more applicable than ever:

You’ve got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You’ve got to be taught
From year to year,
It’s got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You’ve got to be carefully taught.

“You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught” was a highly controversial song, but thankfully, ultimately included in the show. The song was written to address racism against Asians and all people.  The character Lt. Cable, a Caucasian man who has fallen in love with an Asian woman, is distressed by the prejudice against interracial couples and racism in general, sang the song after saying the words “…racism is not born in you! It happens after you’re born…”

James Taylor recorded the song in Nov. 2020.

We must work to end the racism that is “…drummed in your dear little ear…”

In 2020, hate crimes against Asian Americans are up almost 150 percent.  Discrimination against the Asian community has existed in this country since Asians arrived in the late 19th century.  Asians faced discrimination against dignity and equality, and were denied citizenship and the right to vote until the middle of the 20thcentury. After the 19th Amendment was adopted extending the vote to women, discriminatory laws prevented Asian Americans, Native Americans and African Americans from voting for decades and today the crisis for voter accessibility is growing.

According to the Brennan Center for Justice, “In a backlash to historic voter turnout in the 2020 general election, and grounded in a rash of baseless and racist allegations of voter fraud and election irregularities, legislators have introduced well over four times the number of bills to restrict voting access as compared to roughly this time last year. Thirty-three states have introduced, prefiled, or carried over 165 restrictive bills this year (as compared to 35 such bills in fifteen states on February 3, 2020).”

Suffrage100MA is committed to increasing accessibility to the ballot and inspiring voters to exercise their right to vote by sharing the history of those who fought bravely, sometimes losing their lives, for decades and across centuries, to secure the vote.  Let us each recognize the power and importance of voting to express one’s voice

On behalf of the Suffrage100MA Board of Directors –
With deep appreciation to all of you for being on this journey with us,

Fredie Kay
Founder & President, Suffrage100MA