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 […]
Mark your calendars for the summer centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment! On the stage at St. Cecilia Music Center and at a reception upstairs later we will revel in the color and spectacle of the 72-year-long women’s suffrage movement and catch a glimpse of developments after 1920. Every year we celebrate August 26th as Equality […]
Western Michigan Genealogical Society Saturday, September 12th, 2020 Virtual Program (Click Here for Zoom Link) Generating Resources: Indexing an Army of Women Jo Ellyn Clarey, Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History Council November 1918, 14,000 local suffrage supporters Genealogists don't always look to mass movements to locate individuals, especially women--or consider taking the next step toward […]
*Online via Zoom The 19th amendment has been praised for a century as a landmark for women’s rights. Who gained the right to vote and who didn’t? What can you do to shape the next 100 years? Join us for presentations and remarks from President Mantella, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, and more. DEM […]
Reading into Suffrage History Virtual Book Discussion Wednesday, September 16th, 7:00 - 8:30 pm The Woman's Hour by Elaine Weiss Free & open to the public Register here! Co-sponsored by the Grand Rapids Public Library & the Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History Council The Woman’s Hour is the inspiring story of activists winning their […]
*You can reserve for this event until Sept. 24th at 7:00 pm. The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in August 1920 represented a significant movement in American history. It promised women in our republic change in their political, civil, and social statuses. What followed was a decade of dispute among women’s movements, emerging from it […]
Michigan History Conference Historical Society of Michigan Friday-Saturday, October 2nd & 3rd, 2020 Conquering the Cough: Grand Rapids Women Beating Disease Julie Hoogland, Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History Council Sue Thoms, Spectrum Health Beat 1:00 pm on Saturday, October 3rd Whooping cough was a killer disease fought during the 1930s and 1940s by innovative […]