The Suffrage Centennial Display Panel Project

This year, 2020, will mark the one hundredth anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution — enabling women to vote. Suffrage100MA is partnering with the Commonwealth Museum to present “Suffragist of the Month” display panels from August 2017 through August 2020, the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. By the completion of the project, all of the names listed on the last panel, “Prominent Suffragists,” will have a panel.

The first panels were unveiled at the Women’s Equality Day event, August 24, 2017. The panels are on display in the Commonwealth Museum lobby, are featured below, and are on the Commonwealth Museum’s website.

Ida B. Wells23-Wells

Frances WillardSuffrage-Willard

Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
15-Ruffin

Maria Louise Baldwin
14-Baldwin

June 25, 1919: Massachusetts Ratifies the 19th Amendment
Suffrage-June-25-panel 1

June 25, 1919: Massachusetts Makes History
Suffrage-June-25-panel 2

Matilda Joslyn Gage
13-gage

February 24, 1919: Suffragists Protest Pres. Wilson
Suffrage-Wilson-Protest

Harriet Tubman
12-Tubman

Julia Ward Howe
11-Howe

Lucy Stone
10-Stone

Louisa May Alcott
9-Alcott

Amelia Bloomer
8-Bloomer

Ernestine L. Rose
7-Rose

Frederick Douglass
6-Douglass

Sojourner Truth
5-Truth

Sarah and Angelina Grimké
4-Grimke

3-Foster-Worcester-Takes-The-Lead

Abby Kelley Foster
3-Abby-Kelly-Foster

Lucretia Mott
2-Lucretia-Mott

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1-Stanton-Founding-Mother