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The Vermont Suffrage Centennial Alliance invites you to a commemoration of the 101st anniversary of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote. The pandemic led to us having to reschedule the 2020 Centennial Parade and SuffrageFest event.Special Guests include Melody Mackin, former chair and vice chair of the Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs; Nicole Nelson, Vermont indie musician and recording artist; Cynthia Cagle, Latina artist and muralist who will be creating her last work "Voting Matters" live at the event, Dr. Jean Szilva, professor emeritus at UVM Laner College of Medicine and Mia Schultz, the President of the Rutland Chapter of the NAACP, who will be emceeing the event!
Pulitzer prize-winning author and historian, Annette Gordon-Reed will deliver the keynote presentation and the afternoon will focus on multi-layered messages relating to voting with additional speakers, poets, music, and more.
Gordon-Reed is also scheduled to be at the Kellogg Hubbard Library in Montpelier where she will briefly discuss her book, "On Juneteenth" and sign copies of the book which will be available for purchase. Tentatively planned for 12:30 p.m. Please register via our EventBrite link if you are interested in attending this book signing.
Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. She won sixteen book prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize in History and National Book Award for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family.
The Vermont Suffrage Centennial Alliance is a project of the League of Women Voters of Vermont Education Fund.
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Event Venue
Trouver des billets, Montpelier
Tickets
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