Registration open: "In Her Own Right: A Century of Women's Activism, 1820-1920" symposium, March 18-19, 2021

[Graham,Margaret]

The Philadelphia Area Consortium for Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) and In Her Own Right project team invite you to join us in exploring a century of women’s activism leading to the passage of the 19th Amendment. The symposium celebrates more than 5 years of work on the In Her Own Right project. 

Please visit our website for event details and registration. 

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Program Overview (preliminary schedule subject to change)

Thursday, March 18, 2021

• 9:00 – 10:00am Opening Plenary and Session #1
• 10:15 – 11:30am Friendship and Relationships Between Women
• 11:45am – 12:45pm Professional Women
• 2:00 – 3:00pm
• Track 1: Peacemakers
• Track 2: Women in Politics
• 3:15 – 4:15pm
• Track 1: Undisputed Dignity: Preserving Anna Julia Cooper's Legacy Through Her Archives
• Track 2: Alice Paul at the University of Pennsylvania: A Study of “The Legal Rights of Women in Pennsylvania” (1912)

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Thursday, March 18, 6:00 - 8:00pm

Keynote Speaker: Martha S. Jones
Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, Professor of History, and a Professor at the SNF Agora Institute at The Johns Hopkins University

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Friday, March 19, 2021

• 9:00 – 10:30am Perspectives on Suffrage
• 10:45 – 11:45am Philanthropy with Strings
• 12:00 – 1:00pm Antislavery Women
• 2:00 – 3:30pm
• Track 1: Prominence and Memory
• Track 2: El Voto Feminino: Women and Suffrage in New Mexico's Past and Present
• 3:45 – 4:45pm
• Track 1: Lives Recreated in the Reconstruction Era
• Track 2: Social Change in the WWI Era

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Please visit our website for event details and registration. 

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Margaret Graham
Interim Director 
Legacy Center: Archives & Special Collections

 

College of Medicine

Drexel University

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