Women's History Month


The 2024 National Women’s History Theme
is
Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

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Women focused events of interest

(re)FOCUS: Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts
January 27 - May 31, 2024

(re)FOCUS celebrates the 50th anniversary of Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts/1974 a citywide festival recognizing women artists. With over 150 exhibitions, panels, lectures, workshops, and demonstrations it was one of the first large-scale surveys of the work of contemporary American women artists. More information. Link to information about (re)FOCUS: Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts, January 27 - May 31, 2024

Past Women's History Month Programs Link information on Women for Greater Philadelphia's past women's history month honorees


Resources, Programs, Exhibits and Events

Read the National Women's History Alliance 2024 Women's History Magazine

Visit the UN Women website.

UN Women is the UN organization delivering programmes, policies and standards that uphold women’s human rights and ensure that every woman and girl lives up to her full potential.

National Women's History Alliance

Free Library of Philadelphia
Women's History Month Programs

Our History Project
Every Family Has a Story. Let's Find Yours.
Our goal is to create enthusiasm and interest in women’s history by expanding access to the resources needed to find suffragist ancestors.

Visit the National Womens History Museum events page here.
Crusade for the Vote
Suffragists Unite: National American Woman Suffrage Association

National Archives, Women’s History Month
Learn about the history of women in the United States by exploring their stories through letters, photographs, film, and other primary sources.

The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history.  View the combined resources at www.womenshistorymonth.gov/

National Trust for Historic Preservation
Explore Places Where Women Made History

Center for American Women and Politics

League of Women Voters

Votes for Women: A Visual History
Presented by Brandywine River Museum of Art
This exhibition at the Brandywine River Museum of Art examines the visual culture of the suffrage movement, revealing how the “look” of women’s rights developed.
View online

Women's Suffrage and Voting Laws in Wyoming
Special thanks to Hailey & Margaret for providing us with this link.

Explore Where Women Made History
National Trust for Historic Preservation


Book List and other Reading Material

View an Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States edited by Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar here.
Militant Women Suffragists—National Woman's Party
Black Women Suffragists
Mainstream Suffragists--National American Woman Suffrage Association




A biography of HARRIET "HATTIE" PURVIS, 1839-1904 by Women for Greater Philadelphia member Nancy Santucci Cohen is part of Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States.

Philadelphia Abolitionist, Suffragist, and Social Reformer
Harriet "Hattie" Purvis was a member of a distinguished black Philadelphia family who shaped the political debate around abolition, suffrage, and women's rights. It is important to understand that Hattie's enthusiastic and personal commitment to social reform resulted from her exposure to her parents' values and beliefs. READ MORE

The Revolution
"Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less!"
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Parker Pillsbury publish the first edition of The Revolution in 1868. View digital images of 215 issues of The Revolution online using this link to The Watzek Library of Lewis & Clark College

Elizabeth Cady Stanton "The Declaration of Sentiments 1848
Read the original text of The Declaration of Sentiments on the U.S. National Park Service website.

National Womens History Museum Biographies of Women
Follow this link to read about historical pioneers and contemporary newsmakers that continue to impact the world.

Library of Congress
View the National American Woman Suffrage Association Digital Collection

Celebrate Women’s History Month with the Free Library!
Visit the Free Library of Philadelphia's Women's History Month Blog




Past Women's History Month Programs


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