Celebrating 100 Years of the Women's Vote: A Midwest Perspective

Join us at Stillwater Public Library to Celebrate 100 Years of the Women’s Vote: A Midwest Perspective. One hundred years ago, the Minnesota Legislature ratified the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting women the right to vote and ending the 72-year struggle for woman suffrage. To celebrate this centennial anniversary, the library, in partnership with League of Women Voters of White Bear Lake Area and American Association of University Women (AAUW) of the St. Croix Valley, will present a traveling exhibit and a special program focused on the campaign for suffrage and current voter advocacy work:

Kristin Mapel Bloomberg, Professor of Women’s Studies at Hamline University will speak from 6:30 to 7:30 PM. Arrive early to view the traveling exhibit panels and stay to hear the talk.

Dr. Bloomberg’s research interests focus on nineteenth-century women’s culture and social movement in the nineteenth century Midwest and trans-Mississippi west. She has published on a variety of topics relating to American women writers, Minneapolis women’s study and self-improvement clubs, early Methodist Episcopal women and coeducation, the St. Paul Society for the Hard of Hearing, and the Political Equality Club of Minneapolis. Her greatest research focus, though, is on the subject of Nebraska woman’s rights advocate Clara Bewick Colby, editor and proprietor of The Woman’s Tribune, which was the second-longest-running woman’s rights journal in the United States.