“Cast Your Vote, The 19th Amendment,” is a virtual program taking place on Saturday, March 6th for Michigan Girls Scouts to learn about the suffrage movement, how voting affects our […]

This is an event through the Grand Rapids Historical Society. Where you live has always undeniably determined the opportunities you have access to, including education, employment, health care, transportation, green […]

Join the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs for their 13th annual Rocking Chair Experience! This year the theme celebrates the women who have fought for the […]

"Grand Rapids Women & Their Work During the Great War," ends the 12th Annual Kutsche Local History Roundtable during March. The Greater Grand Rapids Women's History Council’s Katelyn Bosch VerMerris […]

A Decade of Upheaval:  Grand Rapids Women and Public Office in the 1910s will take us back to a heady decade when Grand Rapids women in increasing numbers stepped onto […]

Hats off to the trailblazing women of Grand Rapids! Decades before the Nineteenth Amendment granted American women the right to vote, many had led serious political lives and even run […]

On this 51st Earth Day we are remembering and celebrating the life and work of environmentalist Joan Luedders Wolfe who founded West Michigan Environmental Action Council in 1968 and was […]