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Women of Ganondagan

Join the women interpretive staff at Ganondagan for a guided tour offered at the top of the hour from 10AM- 4PM. Your guide will be one of the Women of Ganondagan who will give a personal view of the new exhibit “Hodinöhsö:ni’ Women: From the Time of Creation.” The tour will include a viewing of Katsitsionni Fox’s short film “Hodinöhsö:ni’ Women & Women Suffragists: A Hidden History.”

Free with admission to the Seneca Art & Culture Center (Adults/$8; Seniors/$4; Students (12 yrs. – College)/$4; Children (5 – 11 yrs)/$2; Children (birth – 4yrs.)/Free

The film was sponsored in part by a Humanities New York Action Grant.

Women of Ganondagan

Join the women interpretive staff at Ganondagan for a guided tour offered at the top of the hour from 10AM- 4PM. Your guide will be one of the Women of Ganondagan who will give a personal view of the new exhibit “Hodinöhsö:ni’ Women: From the Time of Creation.” The tour will include a viewing of Katsitsionni Fox’s short film “Hodinöhsö:ni’ Women & Women Suffragists: A Hidden History.”

Free with admission to the Seneca Art & Culture Center (Adults/$8; Seniors/$4; Students (12 yrs. – College)/$4; Children (5 – 11 yrs)/$2; Children (birth – 4yrs.)/Free

The film was sponsored in part by a Humanities New York Action Grant.

Recognizing Women’s Right to Vote in New York State

New York State is celebrating the centennial of women gaining the right to vote in New York State on November 6, 1917—three years before the 19th Amendment was passed and women throughout the United States gained the right to vote. The South Central Regional Library Council and the Empire State Library Network has partnered with the Digital Public Library of America on an exhibit, “Recognizing Women’s Right to Vote in New York State.” This exhibit looks beyond the traditional Women’s Suffrage narrative and explores the history behind the movement that made New York State such an important place in the fight for Women’s Suffrage.

Each exhibit includes five poster/panels, showing a different theme:

Woman Suffrage before 1848 – Explores voting in New York State before the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, including in the colonies and among the Haudenosaunee people.

Women’s Rights Activity up to 1848 and the Seneca Falls and Rochester Conventions – Women and men organized to restore the right to vote to women, among other rights.

Pop Culture Suffrage – Suffragists displayed brilliance when it came to promoting their cause, and packaged their message in consumer goods, created songs and theater performances, formed parades and processions, and traveled through rural areas, knocking on doors.

Anti-Suffrage – Most women and men believed that equality for women would lead to the destruction of the state. The Anti-suffrage movement engaged in public debates, created publicity materials to counter those of the suffragists, and argued that support for Women’s Suffrage was unpatriotic, especially during World War I.

Race and Diversity – The early Women’s Suffrage movement embraced women of all races, but overt racism in the later years led some suffragists to argue for the inclusion of all races winning the right to vote—including those effectively denied their voting rights.

This program was funded in part by a Humanities New York Action Grant.

Susan B. Anthony to Wonder Woman–“Women’s Suffrage and the Media” Research Database Chronicles Right-to-Vote Movement

The original version of this post appeared here on June 19, 2017, by NYU.

Women’s Suffrage and the Media,” an online database and resource site launched this month, includes primary and secondary sources that chronicle and examine the suffrage movement as portrayed in news, propaganda, advertising, entertainment, and other aspects of public life.

The database, hosted by New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and conceived by NYU journalism professor Brooke Kroeger and a group of American Journalism Historians Association members, aims to serve a diverse group of users—from middle schoolers and life-long learners to academic researchers and journalists.

“Our purpose in launching now is not only to add value to the New York suffrage centennial celebrations by providing wide access to actual material from the period and the most astute reflections about it, but also to start an ongoing showcase of the impact of media—pro or con, in all its form—on social and political movements,” explains Kroeger. “Undoubtedly, much of the media of the suffrage campaign period was New York-born and New York-borne.”

“Women’s Suffrage and the Media” (suffrageandthemedia.org), launched in the run-up to the 100th anniversary (Nov. 6) of the winning of the right to vote for the women of New York State, is being populated daily. It currently includes materials ranging from contemporary pro-suffrage essays written by W.E.B. DuBois for the Crisis, anti-suffrage cartoons, and Nellie Bly’s seminal New York World profile of Susan B. Anthony as well as a summary of Jill Lepore’s The Suffrage Roots of Wonder Woman (2014) and a 2013 C-SPAN roundtable on the topic.

A team of researchers will add to the site’s resources throughout the centennial celebration period. Its editors are accepting summaries, documents, academic papers, and images. For submission guidelines, please click here. To submit materials, please click here.

The website also serves as a multimedia resource companion to a forthcoming special suffrage issue of American Journalism: A Journal of Media History, which will be published in 2019.

The project, backed by funding from Humanities New York and the Carter Journalism Institute, also includes the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland and the Department of Journalism of the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University.

For questions about the site, please email [email protected].

Photo credit: “A pro-suffrage essay written by journalist George Creel in 1915,” New York University.