Fest of Us: Women's Voting Rights: Know Your History

WOMEN’S VOTING: KNOW YOUR HISTORY

Saturday August 10, 2pm - 5pm

Chase House at Epiphany Center for the Arts

Chicago Women's History Center (CWHC) is presenting a table with educational resources about the complex history of women's suffrage, black women's suffrage, and suffrage for African Americans in Illinois and the U.S. CWHC hopes to provide wider context to the history of Voting Rights in the U.S. as part of the Fest of Us! festival at Epiphany Center for the Arts on August 10, 2024.

ABOUT CWHC

The Chicago Women’s History Center (CWHC) is a non-profit, educational organization whose mission is to develop, preserve, and share resources for the study of Chicago women’s history. CWHC supports the documentation and dissemination of Chicago women’s history through research, writing, teaching, publication, preservation, interpretation, and public education. CWHC serves as dynamic network of academic scholars, teachers, archivists, librarians, media professionals, community leaders, activists and members of the general public, all interested in the power of Chicago women’s history to inform the present and inspire the future.

The Chicago Women's History Center was founded in 1971 as the Chicago Area Women’s History Conference to support research, writing, teaching, preservation, and dissemination of women's history in Chicago. The oldest continuing non-profit women’s history organization in the nation, CWHC has carried out its mission through public programs, academic seminars, and workshops, curriculum development, support of elementary, secondary, college and university
educators, walking and bus tours, and publications, documentaries, and public performances. In 1990 CWHC embarked on a major research and writing project that resulted in publication of the award-winning Women Building Chicago, A Biographical Dictionary 1790-1990 edited by Rima Schultz and Adele Hast, published by Indiana University Press in 2001.

CWHC houses resources that can be used by future scholars, teachers, students, filmmakers, new media professionals and those interested in researching Chicago and women’s history. The process of doing this project, and the products it produces, will help restore Chicago women’s rightful place in the history of social activism. In addition, the project will empower future generations of people as they use it to trace their activist roots and learn from and be inspired by the vital work of Chicago women.

Golden Hour at Epiphany:

Stop by Epiphany for Golden Hour beforehand for free live music, drinks and lite bites in the Café Bar! Doors open at 5pm with 1/2 priced bottles of wine and other specials until 7:00pm

Please note that outside food or beverages are not permitted in the venue.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Epiphany Center for the Arts, 201 South Ashland Avenue, Chicago, United States