LA COUNTY CELEBRATES 100 YEARS OF WOMENS SUFFRAGE
LA COUNTY CELEBRATES 100 YEARS OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE August 2019 August 26 th, 2020
Motion by LA County Supervisors on August 6, 2019
CIVICS PARTICIPATION AND ENGAGEMENT All Departments, Cities, and Register to Vote School Districts - Youth - Cities, Mayors and City Manager - LACOE - LAUSD - Next Steps - VSAP - Census - Unique populations - 400, 000 unregistered women in LA County that are eligible to do so.
OUR PARTNERS v. LA County Women & Girls Initiative v. LA County Commission on Women and Girls v. LAC Registrar-Recorder & County Clerk v. LAC Library v. LA County Arts Department v. Natural History Museum v. LA County Communications v. Los Angeles County Dept. Of Education
CENTENNIAL WEBSITE We highly encourage community members to check our website, as the website will be evolving and updated over the year. Let us know when your community is hosting something and we’d love to feature it. Let us know by answering survey: what you are hosting and how we can partner and/or connect you with resources? (3 weeks) Find out what LA County departments are hosting through-out the year Keep up with when we host our public meeting between WGI and LACCW and our county partners Already on the website are various Educational Resources put together by Los Angeles County Dept of Education. LACOE https: //www. lacounty. gov/wp-content/uploads/19 th-Amendment-Instructional-Resources. pdf
WHAT IS NEXT? Exhibit: on the Centennial at the Natural History Museum during the summer of 2019 Permanent Commemoration: Currently the new LA County Arts Department is working on ideas and a timeline of how we can best create a permanent installation to celebrate 100 years of LA Women’s History, we will know more about this closer to December 2019. Curriculum: “develop a literature review or regional women leaders active in the community since the time of the ratification. The literature review will be done from a multi-cultural, multi-generational lens given the unique patterns of migration and immigration Los Angeles County has witnessed over the last 100 years, this information will be used to develop curriculum for schools to educate students of all ages about the importance of civic engagement and the history of women in Los Angeles County” - Interactive map of Women nonregistered Outreach: Ongoing - Calendar of events leading to August 2020 Toolkits: “Hosting a Voter Registration Drive in LA County” Send us your names, ideas or records: Imelda Padilla: ipadilla@ceo. lacounty. gov Edward Sumcad: ESumcad@rrcc. lacounty. gov Patrick Alsoszatai-Petheo: PAlsoszatai-Petheo@rrcc. lacounty. gov Or let us know on the website: wgi. lacounty. gov
OUTREACH & COMMUNICATIONS Twitter for our County partners: @LACWGI- LA County Women and Girls Initiative @Countyof. LA- LA County Communication Hashtags #LACWGI #LACCW @LACounty. RRCC- LAC Registrar-Recorder & County Clerk #19 th. Amendment @LACounty. Library- LAC Library #100 yearsofvoting @LACounty. Arts- LA County Arts Department @NHMLA- Natural History Museum @lacoeinfo- Los Angeles County Dept. Of Education wgi. lacounty. gov #100 Women. Leaders. Of. LACounty #LACWomen. Vote #LAVotes #Votefor. Women
WHERE DO I REGISTER TO VOTE? California Secretary of State Website: registertovote. ca. gov LA County: LAVOTE. net https: //lavote. net/
WHAT CAN YOUR CITY DO? 1) Community? 2) Employees? 3) Partners? *Resolution *Float in local parade *Host a speakers series *Work with your library, schools, parks to do something with youth *permanent commemoration *Host a movie night *reach out to the County for a Register to Vote drive *Work with senior community on a reenactment *Invite people to County website for resources *elevate the 100 years on traditional and social media. This was only one, maybe two generations ago!!!!
HISTORY In the last 50 years! O 1963 - The Right to Equal Pay Act O 1972 - The Right to Run in Marathons (originally excluded because of a now debunked claim that long-distance running could cause infertility) O 1973 - The Right to Reproductive Freedom (Roe Vs Wade) O 1973 - The Right to Serve on a Jury O 1974 - The Right to Credit (Equal Credit Opportunity Act- before women would have to answer questions related to marriage and family planning) - The Representation Project. “Passed by Congress in 1919 and fully ratified in 1920, the 19 th Amendment became part of our national Constitution after decades of protest and struggle. The passage of the 19 Amendment did not, however, ensure suffrage for all women, as Native Americans did not gain the right to vote until they were granted U. S. citizenship in 1924, Asian Pacific Islander Americans did not gain the right to vote until 1952, and African American and Latinx Americans suffered voter suppression tactics that disenfranchised them until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the 1975 Expansion of the Voting Rights Acts” - Motion by Kuehl & Solis: August 6, 2019.
HISTORY IN CALIFORNIA • The first suffrage campaign in California took place in 1896. It failed. • The second California suffrage campaign started in 1910, when a progressive Republican administration came to power. • The suffrage movement was primarily based out of San Francisco, where a majority of California’s population (and political power) resided. - Votes for Women Club led by Clara Shortridge Foltz - Political Equality League led by John Hyde Braly • Los Angeles had a strong anti-suffrage contingent. The Los Angeles Times did not support the movement. • North or south, the suffrage campaign worked with other progressive and socialist groups like the Women’s
HISTORY IN CALIFORNIA • Union of California and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. • Individual speakers and campaigners came not only from progressive and socialist groups, but religious, civic, and professional groups as well. • Election Day for Proposition 4 was October 10, 1911 - The Measure was defeated in San Francisco - The Measure barely passed in Los Angeles • Suffragists were starting to plan another campaign when voting reports came in from other counties indicating the vote was swinging in their favor. • Suffrage passed by only 3, 587 votes. - Final tally was 125, 037 to 121, 450
OUTSTANDING LOCAL SUFFRAGE FIGURES * Clara Shortridge Foltz - www. laalmanac. com/crime/cr 62. php * John Hyde Braly books. google. com/books? id=a. X 5 KAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA 40&ots=Hv 2 za. R 6 yk 3& dq=john%20 hyde%20 braly%20 california%20 suffrage&pg=PA 40#v=onepage& q=john%20 hyde%20 braly%20 california%20 suffrage&f=false * Caroline Severance - www. womenhistoryblog. com/2014/01/carolineseverance. html
OTHER ONLINE SUFFRAGE MATERIAL 1) California Women Suffrage Centennial -bit. ly/2 Nn. Kij. F 2) Women Get the Right to Vote (California State Archives) www. sos. ca. gov/archives/women-get-right-vote/ 3) How we won the vote in California: A true story of the campaign of 1911 archive. org/details/howwewonvoteinca 00 solo (a hard copy of this item is also in the Califoriana Collection. Look at Page 30 to view the names of leaders in the LA movement) 4) “L. A. ’s Leading, now forgotten, suffragette” articles. latimes. com/1998/jun/07/local/me-57469 5) Suffragettes on Parade – tessa. lapl. org/cdm/singleitem/collection/photos/id/101609/rec/1 6) Voter Information Guide for 1911, General Election - bit. ly/2 xk. IMVJ
Thank you for your time. IMELDA PADILLA COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OUTREACH IPADILLA@CEO. LACOUN
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