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The Women's Vote Project

presents the

CELEBRATION OF THE CENTURY

THE RATIFICATION OF THE 19TH AMENDMENT

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2020

together with

FROM THE DIRECTOR

In August, 2020, Cleveland and the nation will celebrate one hundred years since the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was ratified, giving American women the right to vote! This glorious moment is one we share with our champions — girls, young women, older women and all our sisters in between.

The majesty of this moment came about in part through the efforts of local heroes who have fought uncompromisingly for equal rights, so it's time to celebrate both the victories and the struggles that led up to the ratification and to the unfinished agenda we join to advance.

Cherie Dimmerling

Executive Director

Women's Vote Project

WELCOME TO THE CENTENNIAL!

Welcome to a once-in-a-lifetime celebration of the start of empowerment. The Celebration of the Century marks the start of the power to vote for America's women. So here we are, exactly one hundred years later. We celebrate the heroes of the struggle and celebrate what will be. And we celebrate the champions, young girls, older women and all our sisters in between.

Join us for a special day you won't forget.

The Women's Vote Project, in preparation for the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States — the entitlement of the right to vote for women — is still basking in the joyous sold-out Summer, 2019 event hosted at The City Club of Cleveland.

Along side our distinguished partners, Laurel School, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Ursuline College, it was the only event celebrating the passage of an Act of Congress on June 4, 1919 that started the ratification process.

And what an event!

Keynoted by the Honorable Melody Stewart, Ohio Supreme Court Justice, and with a special presentation by the Executive Director of Washington, D.C. Capitol Historical Society and former Mayor of the City of Cleveland, the Honorable Jane Campbell, both Justice Stewart and Mayor Campbell rocked the audience with their history-making accomplishments and observations. Former Member of Congress, the Honorable Mary Rose Oakar, made clear to a unified, non-partisan audience that the battle for equality starts new every day.

The Women's Vote Project did something that has never been done before. That was to recognize the historical and innovative heroes in the American women's rights movement, Susan B. Anthony, The Plain Dealer's Rachel Dissell, Harriet Tubman, U.S Court of Appeals Judge Florence Allen, WKYC President Micki Byrnes, the Honorable Judge Donna Cogeni Fitzsimmons and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

"What an experience for the young women and girls who attended. They took home with them a piece of American history that will shape their lives."

As inspiring as the Summer, 2019 event was, the Women's Vote Project looks back with pride, but notes that it also foreshadowed what is to come with August, 2020 ratification festivities.

CONTINUE THIS GREAT HISTORICAL MOMENT FOR WOMEN AND
FOR ALL OF US. WE INVITE YOU TO BE OUR CELEBRATION PARTNER!