Women's History Month Display in the Reference Room

On November 6, 1917, women won the right to vote in New York State. This occurred nearly seventy years after women organized to demand their right to vote at the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y. in 1848. Women organized conventions, parades, and marches and drew attention to their cause with posters, pamphlets, buttons, signs, postcards, and songs. Many women throughout New York State sought their rights in a wide variety of ways, privately and publicly, by attempting to vote and staging protests over the decades. The five-panel traveling exhibit includes topics relating to the Women's Suffrage Movement specifically in New York State. Stop by the Reference Room to read about how these brave women changed history.