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
The Florida Commission on the Status of Women formed a Florida 2020 Women’s Suffrage Planning Committee to ensure statewide observances of the centennial of the passage and ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
Florida Women’s Suffrage Centennial 2020 Commemoration is planning state-wide suffrage centennial commemorations.
resources
Florida and the 19th Amendment, National Park Service
Florida Ratifies the 19th Amendment, The Florida Historical Society
Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment by the Florida Legislature, 1969, The Florida Memory Blog of the State Library & Archives of Florida
The Suffragist Project, a committee run by the Florida Studio Theater planning parades, school programs and performances for the suffrage centennial
Suffragists in Florida, Turning Point Suffragist Memorial
The First Florida Women in Public Office, The Florida Memory Blog of the State Library & Archives of Florida