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Suffrage100MA Newsletters & Open Letters

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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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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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April 2022 Newsletter

April 26, 2022 By Admin

This issue includes a link to watch our recent virtual event with Professor Martha S. Jones and Charlotte Golar Richie, co-sponsored with GBH Network Forum. And also includes an update with links to the suffrage trail marker project and a job description for a consultant for our online women’s history center.

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September 2020 Newsletter

September 26, 2020 By Kevin Gilnack

In this issue, we’re excited to highlight all of the amazing work that our Partners did to commemorate the 19th Amendment. We’re also proud to unveil our new partnership with the Safe Elections Network and our upcoming Get Out The Vote Town Hall on October 1st at 5:30pm. We’re also excited to announce our new program, “The 100 Classrooms Initiative,” which is focused on inspiring college students to VOTE!

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July 2020 Newsletter featuring MAWOCC

July 30, 2020 By Kevin Gilnack

In this issue, we are excited to highlight one of our amazing partners, The Massachusetts Women of Color Coalition, and their continued fight to ensure that women of color are included in every conversation, board room, and at the polls.

We are also pleased to unveil more details of our virtual August 26th event to commemorate the passage of the 19th Amendment. Our event, which is now digital due to COVID, will be an engaging compilation of videos with speakers including Governor Charlie Baker, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley. You won’t want to miss it!

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June 2020 Newsletter featuring New Bedford Whaling Museum

June 23, 2020 By Kevin Gilnack

In this Pride month edition of The Suffragist, we’re pleased to highlight the contributions of Marie Equi of New Bedford and as June is also Caribbean Heritage Month, we have also included a link to the wonderful work of Caribbean suffragists below.

We are also pleased to highlight the fantastic work of the New Bedford Lighting the Way Project. The museum, in collaboration with their strong, diverse, community-driven steering committee has elevated the stories of the women of the South Coastthrough high-quality programs (including their commemoration of the 19th Amendment) and impactful partnerships with community groups, schools, and even the National Park Service — as highlighted in SouthCoast Today!

This edition also includes important updates around Women’s Equality Day on August 26th and our statewide centennial commemoration and offers shareable content you can reuse about voter registration.

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May 2020 Newsletter featuring Newton Suffrage Coalition

May 16, 2020 By Kevin Gilnack

In this edition of The Suffragist: the Suffrage100MA Newsletter, we’re delighted to highlight Asian Pacific American Heritage Month along with a social media posting, and to feature the great work of the Women’s Right-to-Vote Coalition of Newton.

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March 2020 Newsletter featuring Randolph Women’s Suffrage Coalition

March 31, 2020 By Kevin Gilnack

This March 2020 Newsletter highlights the Randolph Women’s Suffrage Coalition and our own Suffrage100MA Vice President, Katrina Huff-Larmond, who is also a Randolph Town Councilor and member of the Randolph Women’s Suffrage Coalition. We are excited to share some great ideas from the Randolph Women’s Suffrage Coalition’s successful local collaborative efforts. We hope it inspires you to think about what you can do to elevate the important stories of the suffragists — stories that aren’t told often enough.

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Suffrage100MA during COVID-19

March 23, 2020 By Kevin Gilnack

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, our work to honor the suffragist’s legacy and our commitment to voting is more important than ever. In the last week, voting has been interrupted in seven states: Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland and Ohio. Those states have had to postpone their presidential primary elections due to the Coronavirus and more news is coming out every hour.

In Massachusetts, four special primary elections are scheduled to take place on March 31st. We urge you to read the release by Suffrage100MA Partner MassVOTE regarding its support of efforts by Senate President Spilka, House Speaker DeLeo, and town and city clerks to postpone those elections due to the dangers posed by COVID-19.

This is a crisis none of us have experienced in our lifetimes, and the months ahead will be difficult. We are incredibly grateful to have been able to travel around the Commonwealth participating in forty-six suffrage centennial events sponsored by our Partners and others this year already!

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October 2019 Newsletter

October 22, 2019 By Kevin Gilnack

As we get closer to the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, anticipation and excitement are building as more and more organizations across the Commonwealth are hosting activities that highlight the indefatigable women – and men – who often risked much to obtain the right to vote for women. We are honored to be working with local and national organizations to share the powerful and inspiring stories of the suffragists.

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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