From 2019-2020, #SuffrageSisters and #SuffraGents will celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote at events and programs across your state!

State Initiatives

• Governor Gavin Newsom declared November 1, 2019 California Women’s Equality Day in honor of the 100th anniversary of California’s ratification of the 19th Amendment.

• California municipal buildings were illuminated in purple and gold on November 1, 2019 to recognize the suffrage centennial.

• November 9, 2019: “California Votes for Women: A Golden State Suffrage Celebration Hosted by California First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom,” a day commemorating California women’s suffrage with free/reduced admission and special activities at the California Museum.

• California First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom is one of fourteen Commissioners on the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission.

• The Sonoma County 2020 Women’s Suffrage Project is working with the National Women's History Alliance to commemorate the centennial in Sonoma County.

Resources

• 105 Years of Women’s Suffrage in California, Berkeley Library of the University of California

• Suffrage Circle of Women in Long Beach, CA

• California 2020 Women’s Suffrage Project

• California and the 19th Amendment, National Park Service

• California Women Suffrage Centennial, California Secretary of State

• Progressive Era: 1890–1920s: Women Suffrage, Museum of California

• Suffragists in California, Turning Point Suffragist Memorial

• California suffrage history, California Secretary of State