I am honored to moderate the panel of Accomplished Women who play significant roles in the commemoration of the womens Suffrage Centennial in 2020. My name is colleen and i serve as the vice a chair of the Suffrage Centennial commission which was a commission created by congress to help coordinate and organize the activity. Like everyone our commission had to deal do a curve ball due to cuthe pandemic. The commission and the staff had to switch course and adapt many plans, programs and activities. We made a shift in the commissions legacy projects. What, i mean, by legacy projects are historical markers, statutes, monuments or installations that would have permanency beyond 2020. I think the strategic decision is beneficial for the longterm. Some highlights of the commission included providing Additional Support for the turning point suffrage memorial in virginia now completed and located near the site of the former prison. Weveea provided thousands of books about the suffrage to the l
Next we visit the womens Equality National monument to see her work. My name is jennifer krafcic. At the belmont national monument. On capital hill in washington d. C. This house was the fifth and final headquarters at the National Womens party and the National Womans Party ways founded by alice paul as the Congressional Union for womens suffrage. And that became the National Womens party in 1916. This group of women spent seven years actively lobbying the president and congress for a federal suffrage amendment. When they received it in 1920, they wrote and began lobbying for the equal rights amendment. When they were lobbying for suffrage, they were work all over the country. Actively garnering support from western women voters and bringing the fight directly to the president s doorstep. They had headquarters on Lafayette Square where they could walk out their door and be right at the president s doorstep in a matter of minutes and they began picketing the white house. One of the firs
Next we visit the womens Equality National monument to see her work. My name is jennifer krafcic. At the belmont national monument. On capital hill in washington d. C. This house was the fifth and final headquarters at the National Womens party and the National Womans Party ways founded by alice paul as the Congressional Union for womens suffrage. And that became the National Womens party in 1916. This group of women spent seven years actively lobbying the president and congress for a federal suffrage amendment. When they received it in 1920, they wrote and began lobbying for the equal rights amendment. When they were lobbying for suffrage, they were work all over the country. Actively garnering support from western women voters and bringing the fight directly to the president s doorstep. They had headquarters on Lafayette Square where they could walk out their door and be right at the president s doorstep in a matter of minutes and they began picketing the white house. One of the firs
Next we visit the womens Equality National monument to see her work. My name is jennifer krafcic. At the belmont national monument. On capital hill in washington d. C. This house was the fifth and final headquarters at the National Womens party and the National Womans Party ways founded by alice paul as the Congressional Union for womens suffrage. And that became the National Womens party in 1916. This group of women spent seven years actively lobbying the president and congress for a federal suffrage amendment. When they received it in 1920, they wrote and began lobbying for the equal rights amendment. When they were lobbying for suffrage, they were work all over the country. Actively garnering support from western women voters and bringing the fight directly to the president s doorstep. They had headquarters on Lafayette Square where they could walk out their door and be right at the president s doorstep in a matter of minutes and they began picketing the white house. One of the firs
Next we visit the womens Equality National monument to see her work. My name is jennifer krafcic. At the belmont national monument. On capital hill in washington d. C. This house was the fifth and final headquarters at the National Womens party and the National Womans Party ways founded by alice paul as the Congressional Union for womens suffrage. And that became the National Womens party in 1916. This group of women spent seven years actively lobbying the president and congress for a federal suffrage amendment. When they received it in 1920, they wrote and began lobbying for the equal rights amendment. When they were lobbying for suffrage, they were work all over the country. Actively garnering support from western women voters and bringing the fight directly to the president s doorstep. They had headquarters on Lafayette Square where they could walk out their door and be right at the president s doorstep in a matter of minutes and they began picketing the white house. One of the firs