Southeastern group seeks Women's Suffrage Artifacts
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
by: Tonya Lowentritt
HAMMOND – A group of Southeastern Louisiana University professors and volunteers
is planning events and exhibits in celebration of the 100th anniversary of ratification
of the 19th Amendment in Louisiana. The amendment granted American women the right
to vote, a right known as women’s suffrage, and was ratified on August 18, 1920, ending
almost a century of protest.
The Centennial Women’s Suffrage Project is seeking artifacts from women who participated
in the women’s suffrage movement in Louisiana. The group is interested in items such
as letters, photos, old newspaper clippings, suffrage sashes, copies of speeches,
pins or anything a female relative may have left in commemoration of participation
in the movement, said Southeastern’s Sims Memorial Library Head of Access Services
Angela Dunnington.
“The artifacts will be placed in a temporary display at Sims Library on Southeastern’s
campus and may become part of an exhibit that will travel to museums and libraries
around the state beginning in 2020. All items will be preserved and returned, if the
donor so desires,” Dunnington explained. “An object label will specify the history
of the artifact and its donor.”
To donate or loan an artifact, contact Dunnington at angela.dunnington@southeastern.edu
or Assistant Professor of History Samantha Cavell at samantha.cavell@southeastern.edu.
