Exhibit Opening: Evanston Women and the Fight for the Vote

Evanston Women and the Fight for the Vote opens with a free community open house on Sunday, March 8th - International Women’s Day - from 1 - 4 p.m. This new exhibit at the Evanston History Center commemorates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment which gave American women the right to vote.

Evanston Women and the Fight for the Vote shares the story of the critical role that Evanston women like Frances Willard, Elizabeth Boynton Harbert and Catharine Waugh McCulloch and many others played in the local, state and national women’s suffrage movements. The exhibit will explore the tactics and strategies that suffragists used through the use of original artifacts, archival materials, costumes and photographs from the EHC collection.