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Contemporary Conversations

Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Right to Vote

This event is in commemoration of the 100-anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote in the USA.

The program will provide presentations from scholar and University Archivist at Morgan State University, Dr. Ida E. Jones, author of several African American biographies, including “Mary McLeod Bethune, True Democracy and the Fight for Universal Suffrage,” and from journalist and Curator of Programming for Planet Word Museum, Rebecca Boggs Roberts, author of “Suffragist in Washington, D.C. – The 1913 Parade and the Fight for the Vote.”

The discussion will be moderated by Diane Hibino, Co-President of the League of Women Voters of Montgomery County.

The event is co-sponsored by Friends of the Library, Montgomery County, Inc.

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