A Century of Empowered Women
Let's Keep Making History!

Saturday, March 3rd, 10 a.m. to Noon
Oakland City Hall
(map) Mark Dunakin Hearing Room (One)

Free and Open to All
The 12th Street BART station is a short walk from City Hall.

This special forum was a kick-off to Women's History Month.
 
 

 Program:

  • How California Women Won the Vote and What It Meant for the Rest of the Country
    Robert P.J. Cooney, Jr., author of Winning the Vote - The Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement

  • AAUW Oral History Enactors:
    - Abigail Scott Dunniway (1834-1915), "Mother of Women Suffrage in the Pacific Northwest"
    - Eliza Hall Glass (1827-1899), who crossed the U.S on a wagon train and helped to settle San Ramon

  • 2016: Voting Reality, but Longing for Her
    Daphne Muse, Past Director of Mills College Women's Leadership Institute, a writer, poet, and social commentator.

Photos from the event:

Daphne Muse

 

This event was part of the series: A Century of Empowered Women – Let's Keep Making History, presented by
American Association of University Women, Oakland-Piedmont
League of Women Voters, Oakland
National Women's History Project
Progressive Oakland Women for Empowerment and Reform (POWER)


2011 Suffrage Parade Movers and Shakers

  Barbara Lee Nancy Skinner Nate Miley Jean Quan Jane Brunner Libby Schaaf
  US Assembly:
Barbara Lee
CA Assembly:
Nancy Skinner
Supervisor:
Nate Miley
Mayor:
Jean Quan
City Council:
Jane Brunner
City Council:
Libby Schaaf



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