Suffrage
Author and Johns Hopkins professor Martha S. Jones to speak during annual MLK service
The virtual event will be available to view at 5 p.m. Monday, Jan. 18, on the College’s YouTube page. ... READ MORE >>
Thayer Lecture celebrates 100th anniversary of U.S. women’s suffrage movement
Kate Clarke Lemay, historian and curator for the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., will deliver the fall 2019 Philip Thayer Memorial Lecture at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 2, in Wimberly Recital Hall, inside Presser Hall. The lecture honors the centennial year of national woman suffrage in the United States and complements Lemay’s path-breaking... READ MORE >>
Celebrating the Right to Vote: Profile of an R-MWC suffragist
As the nation celebrates the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment, Randolph College remembers its alumnae who fought for the right to vote. Leading up to the amendment’s passage in Congress on June 4, 1919, students at then-Randolph-Macon Woman’s College were highly involved in the women’s suffrage movement, even starting an Equal... READ MORE >>
