The Shoulders We Stand On: Maryland Fighters for 20th-Century Women’s Suffrage
Monday, March 3, 2025 6pm to 7pm
About this Event
400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
On March 3, the anniversary of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Parade, watch and feel the fight for woman suffrage in letters, newspapers, song, and swag. Learn about the struggles by and between suffragists in Maryland, from Ida Cummings (sister of Harry S. Cummings, first Black Baltimore Councilman) to Emma Funck (creator of Pratt's Woman Suffrage Collection). Voting rights for women were added to the US Constitution in 1920 with the Nineteenth Amendment. Learn why the amendment was not ratified in Maryland till March 29, 1941, and voting rights weren't enforced till the Voting Rights Act of 1964.