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The Missouri State Museum's "Landing After Hours" program, is held the first Wednesday of each month at the Jefferson Landing State Historic Site,100 Jefferson Street. Join us in-person or via Facebook Live.Doors open at 6:30 and the program starts at 7 p.m. Convenient parking is available in the lot next to the Lohman Building (100 Jefferson St.).
Join us August 6th for "Soothing The 'Savage Hearts of Man'"
Rural areas were often ignored by national and eastern women's suffrage organizations, but women's suffrage groups in the Midwest learned by the late 19th century that these areas must also be targeted to win the hearts and minds of the electorate. In this program, historian Elyssa Ford will share how rural women in Missouri played an important role in the suffrage movement. Across the state, rural communities engaged in suffrage discussions, invited national speakers who bewitched – and sometimes enraged – local audiences, and supported their own suffrage workers.
Within this world of Missouri suffragists, Ford will highlight the compelling story of Maryville's Alma Nash and her all-women band, which traveled to Washington, D.C., for the national women's suffrage parade in 1913. By analyzing the actions of Nash and company at the parade and at home in the Midwest, it is possible to see how a small group of young, rural women engaged with the suffrage movement and how they were shaped not just by the national suffrage discussion but by the local and often heated suffrage debates within their community.
This program is free and open to the public, no reservations are required. For more information please call 573-751-4127.
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Image: Alma Nash and her band from Maryville, MO. courtesy of The Boston Globe 3/3/1913 pg. 4
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Jefferson Landing State Historic Site, 100 & 101 Jefferson St,Jefferson City, Missouri, United States
