The Main Floor gallery in the library is currently displaying a collection of posters created by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services and the National Portrait Gallery titled "Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence".
The exhibit is a celebration of the centennial of the 19th Amendment that secured voting rights for women in the United States,
ratified on August 18, 1920. The exhibit "explores the complexity of the women's suffrage movement and the relevance of this history to American's lives today."
Some of the themes addressed in the exhibit are women's political activism, the racism that challenged universal suffrage, the scope of suffrage movements, both at the national and local level, and the political machinations that made suffrage a possibility.
The campus community is invited to come to the library (masks on) and check out the exhibit. For more resources on the suffrage movement and voting rights, please check out these resources:
https://www.womensvote100.org/learn
https://www.2020centennial.org/learn
https://www.2020centennial.org/new-primary-sources
https://www.si.edu/spotlight/votes-for-women
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