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Press Release: Women’s Equality Day 2023

August 25, 2023 By Michelle Juralewicz

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Michelle Juralewicz Suffrage100MA  (617) 721-4014 michelle.juralewicz@suffrage100ma.org  Suffrage100MA, Our Bodies Ourselves Today and Mayor’s Office of Women’s Advancement Host Women’s Equality Day in Boston Addressing Women’s Health and Maternal Health Crisis for Women of Color BOSTON, Mass. (August 23, 2023) — Suffrage100MA, in partnership with the Boston Mayor’s Office of Women’s Advancement […]

Filed Under: Press Releases & Media Advisories, Swan Boats, Women's Equality Day Events

Summer 2023 Newsletter

July 24, 2023 By Michelle Juralewicz

Thank you to all who attended (in-person or in spirit) and supported our first-ever Suffrage100MA Gala on June 14, 2023 at The Liberty Hotel in Boston! It was a magical evening honoring our award recipients, Nancy Beeuwkes, Senate President Emerita Harriette Chandler and Charlotte Golar Richie, with award presenters Carol Rose, the Honorable Linda Dorcena Forry, and Senate […]

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Hometown Weekly Needham: Suffrage100MA Hosts First Gala in Boston

June 27, 2023 By Michelle Juralewicz

June 22, 2023 – The first Suffrage100MA Gala took place in Boston on Wednesday, June 14, led by Suffrage100MA Founder & President Fredie Kay of Needham.

Filed Under: In The News, Media

Daily Hampshire Gazette: Sojourner Truth historic marker unveiled in Florence

June 8, 2023 By Michelle Juralewicz

June 8, 2023 – NORTHAMPTON — A new marker is now on display in Florence which celebrates the time that Sojourner Truth spent in western Massachusetts — one…

Filed Under: In The News, Suffrage Markers

Boston Globe: Concert to celebrate ‘Three Women’ of the Boston Women’s Memorial

June 8, 2023 By Michelle Juralewicz

May 4, 2023 – Since 2003, the Boston Women’s Memorial has stood on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall, on the block between Fairfield Street and Gloucester Street. Designed by New York-based artist Meredith Bergmann, the monument includes a trio of bronze sculptures featuring three important literary Bostonian women of the 18th and 19th centuries: United States […]

Filed Under: In The News, Suffrage Markers

Press Release: Sojourner Truth Celebration 5.28.2023

May 17, 2023 By Michelle Juralewicz

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Michelle Juralewicz Suffrage100MA (617) 721-4014 michelle.juralewicz@suffrage100ma.org Sojourner Truth Memorial Celebration in Northampton on May 28 to Award Scholarships and Unveil Women’s Suffrage Marker Presented by the Sojourner Truth Memorial Committee and Suffrage100MA  NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (May 17, 2023) — The Sojourner Truth Memorial Committee (STMC) and Suffrage100MA will host the annual Sojourner Truth […]

Filed Under: Press Releases & Media Advisories

Spring 2023 Newsletter

April 25, 2023 By Michelle Juralewicz

In this newsletter, we happily anticipate our first-ever Suffrage100MA Gala on Wednesday, June 14, 2023 at 6 p.m. at The Liberty Hotel in Boston. We invite the community to attend our other upcoming events, including: Sunday, May 7 at 4pm: Three Women – 20th Anniversary of the Boston Women’s Memorial; and Sunday May 28 at 2pm: Sojourner Truth Memorial Celebration with […]

Filed Under: Newsletters, Newsletters

2023 Women’s History Month Event

March 13, 2023 By Michelle Juralewicz

GLOUCESTER, Mass. (March 14, 2023) — In honor of Women’s History Month, League of Women Voters of Massachusetts (LWVMA) and Suffrage100MA are presenting a Women’s History Month Celebration on Tuesday, March 28th, 2023 at the Gloucester Stage Company in Gloucester, MA. The event will include a screening of Suffrage100MA’s film, “The Fight for Women’s Suffrage: Looking Back, Marching Forward,” followed by a panel discussion, exhibit on Black suffragists and reception. Event co-sponsors include local chapters of LWVMA, the Massachusetts Women of Color Coalition, and the North Shore Juneteenth Association.

Filed Under: Featured, Press Releases & Media Advisories

Give the Gift of MA Women’s History

December 15, 2022 By Michelle Juralewicz

Dear Friend, Since 2010, with the support of friends like you, Suffrage100MA has worked to provide inclusive, educational, cultural, and civic programming about women, including our annual Women’s Equality Day event, centered on promoting the important intersectional history of women’s voting rights and inspiring future generations to exercise their franchise. 2023 is Suffrage100MA’s year of “Looking Forward” — and […]

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Giving Tuesday 2022

November 29, 2022 By Admin

  Dear Friend, This GIVING TUESDAY, cast your support for Massachusetts women’s history! When you donate to Suffrage100MA for Giving Tuesday, it will be matched 100% – so your $25 donation will yield $50, etc!  Thanks to our generous supporters, Suffrage100MA marched ONWARD into 2022 with the suffragist spirit! We were pleased to present in-person […]

Filed Under: Letters to Our Community

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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