Join the Grand Rapids Chamber and Downtown Grand Rapids, Inc. for the ATHENA Legacy Tour! Led by the Greater Grand Rapids Women's History Council, this bus tour will explore and celebrate the legacies of the women who built Grand Rapids. Click here to register!
Melissa Fox will present this program for the Rockford Area Historical Society at the Community Cabin. Upon U.S. entry into WWI, national women's groups transformed their organizational structures for war work. Grand Rapids women were among midwestern leaders whose pioneering efforts have been too long neglected. Get ahead of history--credit them!
GGRWHC's Julia Bouwkamp, 1:00 pm & 6:00pm. Community Archives and Research Center (CARC) 223 Washington St SE, Grand Rapids. To register, please RSVP at info@ggrwhc.org or 616-574-7307; numbers will be limited. See actual objects from the movement: pennants, buttons, convention ribbons, posters, a touring carpet bag, and suffragist dresses!
“Susan B. Anthony Slept Here! National Suffrage Strategy & 1899 West Michigan,” Jo Ellyn Clarey, 7:00 pm, Rockford Area Historical Society, Rockford Community Cabin, 220 N. Monroe St, Rockford. Free & open to the public
GGRWHC panel: “Between ‘Suffragette’ Noise and Silent Stunts: Suffrage Print Culture in the Last Decade,” Melissa Fox, Ruth Van Stee, Katelyn VerMerris (Sophia Brewer, chair), Sixth Annual Midwestern History Association conference, GVSU Hauenstein Center at DeVos Center, Free & open to the public. Stay tuned for more detail.
On July 16th, 2020, between 7:00 pm and 8:00 pm, we will honor “Michigan’s greatest suffragist,” Emily Burton Ketcham, at an informal gathering by her grave site on the anniversary of her 1838 birth in Grand Rapids. Watch for fuller directions within Rosedale Memorial Park, Standale; plan on social distancing and have a mask, just […]
Getting the Vote: Michigan Women and the Path to Suffrage Zoom: Saugatuck-Douglas History Center, Tuesday Talks July 28 at 11:00 a.m. Free -- for directions, RSVP via Eventbrite For the past year, GGRWHC board member Ruth Stevens has hit the road charting the path to suffrage across southwest Michigan. Now she’s gone virtual! At her […]
Relax at Rosa with the GGRWHC! Thursday, August 20th, Noon to 1:30pm Grand Rapids Art Museum Patio The Relax at Rosa lunchtime entertainment series downtown occurs from Noon to 1:30 PM every Thursday through September 10th at Rosa Parks Circle. Local food trucks will be on site—and so will we! Look for the ladies in […]
Here Lies a Suffragist: Celebrate the Centennial Socially but Safely! Our August 26th grave-decorating project, Here Lies a Suffragist, https://www.ggrwhc.org/suffrage-grand-rapids/ will substitute for our original in-person celebration. Please help us honor representative local suffragists on the centennial date of the Nineteenth Amendment, Wednesday, August 26th, 2020! Here’s the plan! First, read through our Here Lies a […]