Celebrating Women's History
March is Women's History month, and this year, we are also celebrating 100 years of women voting. We invite you to attend these programs that celebrate women's contribution to the history of our country. These programs are presented in conjunction with the Glencoe, Northbrook, and Glenview Public Libraries and the Glencoe-Glenview chapter of the League of Women Voters to commemorate the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment.
Rightfully Hers Exhibit
Month of March, 2nd Floor
This exhibit illustrates the expansion of the vote to millions of women, before and after the 19th amendment, and its impact today.
Truth Telling: Willard & Wells
Monday, April 27, 7:00-8:00pm, Pollak Room
Learn about Frances Willard and Ida B. Wells, two important leaders in Illinois' suffrage movement, and how their contributions shaped the movement. This program is presented in partnership with the League of Women Voters Glenview/Glencoe.
Other programs in the series hosted by local libraries
Alice Paul: Winning Votes for Women
Friday, April 3, 1:00-2:00pm, Glencoe Public Library, Johnson Room
Actress and historian Leslie Goddard portrays Alice Paul, one of the most determined leaders of the suffrage fight. The performance depicts Paul in the 1910s, as she was pioneering radical techniques to advance the cause. Register online
Casting a Historic Vote: Suffrage in Illinois
Tuesday, April 14, 7:00-8:00pm, Glenview Public Library, Community Room West
Before 1920, women were denied the vote in the majority of elections in the US. Explore the women’s suffrage movement in Illinois, a battle hard-fought by a diverse group of activists, from attorney Ellen Martin, the first woman to vote in the state, to Ida B. Wells, a woman who did not let racism stop her voice. Supported by the Illinois Humanities Council. Register online
(Re)Membering Feminism and the Politics of the Present
Thursday, April 23, 7:00-8:00pm, Glencoe Public Library, Hammond Room
In recent years, the “second wave” of feminism has increasingly been conflated with “white feminism” and critiqued as an exclusionary form of feminist politics in contrast to the more intersectional “third” and “fourth” waves. Dr. Amy Ruth Partridge, associate instructor of gender and sexuality studies at Northwestern University, will consider feminist projects and movements since the 1960s. Register online
