Suffrage100MA In the News

Suffrage100MA, the Greater Boston Women’s Vote Centennial, and the Boston Mayor’s Office of Women’s Advancement kicked off a year of commemorations, celebrating 100 years since the 19th Amendment was adopted in 1920, at Faneuil Hall.

The Randolph Women’s Club has become a partner in Suffrage 100 MA, a statewide organization which plans events throughout the year to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment which gave women the right to vote.

This video presents selected scenes from a reading of the play ‘I Want To Go To Jail’ at the State House on Feb. 28, 2019.

The play is about six suffragettes arrested and jailed in Boston in February 1919 for picketing during President Woodrow Wilson’s visit. The presentation in the Boston State House was hosted by the Women’s Suffrage Celebration Coalition of Massachusetts, the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center and the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail.

Fredie Kay of Needham, founder and president of the Women’s Suffrage Celebration Coalition of Massachusetts, organized the event at the Grand Staircase. The performance was by the theater troupe “We Did It For You! Women’s Journey through History.”

On Thursday, top women lawmakers reflected on their service to the Commonwealth, and they vowed to help women overcome anything that gets in their way of living a free and prosperous life.

The Women’s Suffrage Celebration Coalition of Massachusetts said the next item on their agenda is getting a woman in the White House.

This video presents selected scenes from a reading of the play ‘I Want To Go To Jail’ at the State House on Feb. 28, 2019.

The play is about six suffragettes arrested and jailed in Boston in February 1919 for picketing during President Woodrow Wilson’s visit. The presentation in the Boston State House was hosted by the Women’s Suffrage Celebration Coalition of Massachusetts, the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center and the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail.

Fredie Kay of Needham, founder and president of the Women’s Suffrage Celebration Coalition of Massachusetts, organized the event at the Grand Staircase. The performance was by the theater troupe “We Did It For You! Women’s Journey through History.”

In 2010 Needham resident Fredie Kay founded the Women’s Suffrage Celebration Coalition of Massachusetts, dedicated to commemorating the adoption of the 19th Amendment of the Constitution in 1920.

Kay was prompted to start the WSCC from a discussion with then-Attorney General Martha Coakley. Since then, Kay and the WSCC have recruited 50 partners and received fiscal sponsorship from the Women’s Bar Foundation.