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 Virginia State Legislature established a Task Force to Commemorate the Centennial of Women’s Right to Vote, headed by the Virginia Museum of History and Culture.
resources
Suffragists in Virginia, Turning Point Suffragist Memorial
Suffragists in Virginia History, Virginia is for Lovers YouTube Channel
Virginia and the 19th Amendment, National Park Service
Virginia and Women’s Suffrage, Virginia Museum of History and Culture
Turning Point Suffrage Memorial, a nonprofit working to establish a suffrage memorial steps from the former site of Occoquan Workhouse, where Alice Paul and other members of the National Woman’s Party were imprisoned for picketing the White House for the right to vote
Visit Struggle at the Workhouse, an exhibit at the Workhouse Prison Museum at Lorton detailing the ordeal and honoring the courage of suffragists who were imprisoned and tortured at the Occoquan Workhouse