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Check out Suffrage100MA's recent headlines, press clips, and media appearances. Please email Suffrage100MA Founder & President Fredie Kay, Esq. with media inquiries.

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 […]

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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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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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Salem News: Salem’s Remond family honored with historic women’s suffrage marker

July 20, 2022 By Michelle Juralewicz

July 9, 2022 – Suffrage100MA and Hamilton Hall in Salem recently unveiled a historic women’s suffrage marker honoring the legacy of Salem activists, the Remond family. The marker, unveiled June 23, celebrates the Remonds’ suffrage and abolition work and encourages passers-by to learn more. It is one of five new Massachusetts marker sites on the […]

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Herald Citizen: Danvers’ Anne L. Page was a trailblazer. Now, she’s honored with a Women’s Suffrage trail marker

June 2, 2022 By Michelle Juralewicz

June 2, 2022 – Danvers Historical Society and Suffrage100MA unveiled an historic Women’s Suffrage marker honoring the legacy of educator Anne L. Page May 26 at the Page House, 11 Danvers St., Danvers Square. The marker celebrates Page’s work for women’s rights as a founder of the Danvers Women’s Association, and became one of five […]

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New Historical Markers Honoring Women’s Suffrage History Trail In MA

May 6, 2022 By Admin

BOSTON (WBZNewsRadio) – A new historical trail is coming to Massachusetts with five markers celebrating landmarks of both women and men who worked to get women the right to vote. It’s all part of the National Votes for Women Trail and is sponsored by the National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites and celebrates those who […]

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Trail marker for women’s suffrage movement leader Sarah E. Wall being installed on Main Street corner in Worcester

April 1, 2022 By Admin

In celebration of Women’s History Month, Suffrage100MA, a nonprofit commemorating the adoption of the 19th Amendment, is installing five historic women’s suffrage markers across Massachusetts.

A historic women’s suffrage trail marker for Sarah E. Wall is being installed this spring, as part of the National Votes for Women Trail. The sign will be at the intersection of Sycamore Street and Main Street.

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Daily Hampshire Gazette: City Briefing: New historical marker for Sojourner Truth Memorial Park in Northampton

January 26, 2022 By Kevin Gilnack

NORTHAMPTON — A new historical marker will grace Sojourner Truth Memorial Park now that the city has accepted a donation from the Pomeroy Foundation, which is installing roadside markers throughout the country to commemorate suffragists and their work. The City Council approved a plan last week to install the marker in the park on Pine […]

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Dorchester Reporter: Women’s Equality Day marked at Public Garden

September 10, 2021 By Kevin Gilnack

Ayanna Polk unveils Ida B. Wells museum display panel at Suffrage100MA's 2021 Women's Equality Day event

Ayanna Polk of Dorchester was among those who gathered at the Boston Public Garden on Aug. 26 to mark Women’s Equality Day, the anniversary of the day in 1920 when the 19th Amendment was added to the US Constitution after decades of activism to enfranchise women.

Three suffragists —Ida B. Wells, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Boston-born Radcliffe College alumna Maud Wood Park— were memorialized at the event. Polk helped to unveil a panel that focused on Wells.

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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