Sarah Seidman, Curator at MCNY, on Women Political Activists
Event Date and Time: August 21, 2020 7:00 pm
Cost: $0
Location: Facebook Live
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Sarah Seidman, Curator from MCNY, on Women Political Activists
The Puffin Cultural Forum presents Sarah Seidman, the Puffin Foundation Gallery Curator of Social Activism at the Museum of the City of New Yorkand the curator for the ongoing exhibition “Activist New York.”The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, providing voting rights to women. Sarah Seidman will speak about women political activists from the suffrage movement and the women of color who still couldn’t vote after the 19th amendment. This talk will also touch on the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and the queer women of color behind activist movements today.Join our email list: https://www.puffinculturalforum.org/email-sign-up/
Posted by Puffin Cultural Forum on Friday, August 21, 2020
Puffin Summer Lecture Series
The Puffin Cultural Forum presents Sarah Seidman, the Puffin Foundation Curator of Social Activism at the Museum of the City of New York and the curator for the ongoing exhibition Activist New York.
The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, providing voting rights to women. Sarah Seidman will speak about women political activists from the suffrage movement and the women of color who still couldn’t vote after the 19th amendment. This talk will also touch on the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and the queer women of color behind activist movements today.
Free on Facebook Live. Click “Buy Tickets” above to RSVP.
Additional Reading:
- She Resisted: Strategies of Suffrage, interactive from PBS American Experience
- Allison K. Lange, Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women’s Suffrage Movement
- Susan Goodier, No Votes for Women
- Susan Ware, Why They Marched
- Patricia Bell-Scott, The Firebrand and the First Lady, Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice
- Elisabeth Israels Perry, After the Vote and Tetrault, the Myth of Seneca Falls
- Elisabeth Israels Perry, What right to vote? There’s a lie at the heart of American democracy:
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