Welcome to California 2020 Women’s Suffrage Project
Our Misson
The CA 2020 Women’s Suffrage Project supports the 2020 Suffrage Centennial education projects and Centennial celebrations throughout the state of California in 2020. California has a profound connection to the national suffrage campaign and this project is committed to collaborating with every county in the state to build a more inclusive suffrage narrative and celebrate the accomplishments of all women past and present.
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2020 California Suffrage Project Leadership Team
Leasa Graves
Assistant Director of the National Women’s History Alliance
Paige Melinauskas
NWHA student intern
Wendy Rouse
regional coordinator & California suffragist google map manager
Serene Williams
regional coordinator & webmaster
Our History
When male voters went to the polls in California in 1911, one of the questions on the ballot was: Should women be allowed to vote? The issue of woman suffrage was being raised across the country and 5 states, all in the west, had approved the radical and controversial idea. Women had been working for decades to win the franchise.
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California 2020 Suffrage Gallery
