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Home » Media » Letters to Our Community » What’s next for Suffrage100MA (beta)

What’s next for Suffrage100MA (beta)

April 11, 2022 By Kevin Gilnack

UPDATE: We’re hiring a Consultant to Develop Plan for an Online “MA Women’s History Center”

April 11, 2021

Dear Suffrage100MA Community,

As we shared in December, our goal has always been to share the herstory, so that people – especially young people – will be inspired to vote and become civically active. In furtherance of that goal, we are creating an online Massachusetts women’s museum and cultural center to provide a more comprehensive history/herstory resource for the general public and students that will inform the ongoing movement for equality and equity into the future!

We’re excited to share that Suffrage100MA a Consultant to Develop Plan for an Online “MA Women’s History Center!”

This initial hire will play a vital role in the process to immortalize the rich, diverse history of Massachusetts women and inspire civic engagement for generations to come.


What’s next for Suffrage100MA

December 21, 2021

Dear Suffrage100MA Community,

Thanks to the help and participation of supporters like you, 2021 has been an incredible year of progress, innovation, reflection, and recommitment by Suffrage100MA.

Looking Back

A Conversation with Ida B. Wells' great-granddaughter Michelle Duster video screenshotWe were pleased to hold virtual events such as our book talk with Ida B Wells’ great-granddaughter Michelle Duster throughout the year, as well as our in-person Women’s Equality Day at the Swan Boats with Sen. Joan Lovely, Rep. Pat Haddad, and other valued partners.

As the Massachusetts state coordinator for the suffrage marker project of the National Votes for Women Trail and the Pomeroy Foundation, Suffrage100MA has been honored to participate and assist with the many details necessary to obtain historical suffrage markers for Massachusetts. The Pomeroy Foundation is generously donating approximately five markers per state, and it appears that at least four and hopefully five markers will be manufactured and installed in Massachusetts in 2022. Stay tuned!

The Fight for Women's Suffrage: Looking Back, Marching ForwardWe were also thrilled to launch our new 1,000 Classrooms Initiative, which aims to empower future generations to vote and advance equality by sharing suffragists’ inspiring histories through our film, “The Fight for Women’s Suffrage: Looking Back, Marching Forward.”

Please donate to help us continue this important work.

As we continued to immortalize and share more of the suffragists’ stories, our board and staff embarked on a critical visioning process, seeking the input of Partners, staff, volunteers, and other stakeholders to determine what comes next for our organization.

Marching Forward

Our conclusion: THE WORK IS NOT DONE and therefore we will be building on the foundation of Suffrage100MA to create an online Massachusetts women’s museum and cultural center to provide a more comprehensive history/herstory resource for the general public and students that will inform the ongoing movement for equality and equity into the future! (UPDATE: We’re currently hiring: Read our “Consultant to Develop Plan for an Online ‘MA Women’s History Center’” job description!)

Please consider becoming a foundational supporter of this new effort to preserve and share Massachusetts’ suffrage herstory, its intersection with abolition & other movements, and its national context to inform and inspire future generations by making an end of year donation now.

Obtaining the vote was part of the movement for women to achieve equality but women are still not equal! The history – I mean herstory – of women obtaining the vote did not end with the 19th Amendment being added to the U.S. Constitution, August 26, 1920. It took decades after 1920 for people of color to obtain voting rights, and, as we all know, voting access and voting rights are being limited today rather than expanded. Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) and the LGBTQ+ communities are still fighting for basic rights, the Equal Rights Amendment (drafted by Alice Paul and others in 1923!) is not yet adopted!

Our goal has always been to share the herstory, so that people – especially young people – will be inspired to vote and become civically active. Your ideas are welcome as we explore and create our online museum! Once this virtual work is developed and the pandemic is much more under control (it will be!), we look forward to exploring developing a “brick and mortar” Massachusetts women’s museum/cultural center.

We will be exploring a new name for our organization and finalizing our new vision and mission statements for the organization moving forward. We so appreciate the terrific suggestions stakeholders like you have made during this process and we continue to welcome your input as we move forward.

2021 has been an exciting year of growth and evolution, and we can’t wait to see what we can do together in 2022! Please invest in this work to make sure that future generations will continue to be inspired by the suffragists to advance the movement for equality for all.

Thank you for your continued interest and support!

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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