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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

December 2022: 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 […]

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Fall 2022 Newsletter

November 2, 2022 By Michelle Juralewicz

In this issue, Suffrage100MA reminds everyone to VOTE on November 8! Other news and photos from recent events include unveilings of Massachusetts women’s suffrage markers, our Women’s Equality Day celebration in August, and Roaring Twenties Lawn Party. PLUS – the latest news on Suffrage100MA’s transition into the Massachusetts Women’s History Center!

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Telegram & Gazette: Suffragist Sarah E. Wall honored with marker at location of home that city took in 1863

October 26, 2022 By Michelle Juralewicz

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 […]

Filed Under: In The News, Suffrage Markers

Spectrum News 1: Trail marker for women’s suffrage movement leader Sarah E. Wall unveiled in Worcester

October 26, 2022 By Michelle Juralewicz

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 […]

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Worcester Unveils Sarah E. Wall Women’s Suffrage Trail Marker

October 20, 2022 By Michelle Juralewicz

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 […]

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Dorchester Reporter: Public Garden is host to anniversary celebration of Women’s Equality Day

September 15, 2022 By Michelle Juralewicz

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 […]

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Boston Globe: Markers give suffragists their due: ‘If they did it back then, we can do it now’

August 29, 2022 By Michelle Juralewicz

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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Boston Globe – August 28, 2022

August 29, 2022 By Michelle Juralewicz

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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