A Day of Jubilation
Mark your calendars for November 8, 2010 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.at the Capitol
in Olympia for a “Day of Jubiliation” commemorating the 100th anniversary of the
vote to amend the Washington constitution for women’s right to vote in the state.
The WSHS/Women’s History Consortium are working with the Office of the Washington
Secretary of State on a full day of events, exhibits, performances, activities and
celebrations. For more information, contact Shanna Stevenson, WHC Coordinator at
360-586-0171 or e-mail:
sstevenson@wshs.wa.gov
or Ingrid Pharris at the Office of the Secretary of State at 360-902-4142 or e-mail:
ingrid.pharris@sos.wa.gov.
NEH Grant Award
The Washington State Historical Society/Women’s History Consortium (WHC) has been
awarded a $215,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for
“Washington Women’s History: Providing Access and Preservation for Important Collections
through the Washington Women’s History Consortium.”
The grant will provide funding for access and preservation of important women’s
history collections at the
Washington State Historical Society,
Western Washington University,
the
University of Washington,
Washington State University
and
The Evergreen State College.
These institutions are all part of the Women’s History Consortium. The products
from this grant will be available on the WHC website at www.washingtonwomenshistory.org.
The website currently offers a wide array of resources from all of the WHC member
institutions along with federated search capability for Consortium member collections.
The grant has been designated as a “We the People” award featured by NEH as one
that encourages and enhances the teaching, study, and understanding of American
history, culture, and democratic principles. The grant will run through May, 2012.
For more information contact the grant administrator
Shanna Stevenson, Coordinator of the Consortium at WSHS.
The Era Rights Amendment Oral History Project focuses on the views of women who
worked both for and against the passage of the amendment in Washington State or
who were members of organizations that were involved in these campaigns. The project
incorporates the perspectives of members of pro-ERA groups including the National
Organization for Women, the American Association of University Women, the League
of Women Voters, and the Washington ERA Coalition as well as anti-ERA supporters
of STOP ERA and Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum. It also provides insights on the
role of legislators, judges and attorneys who reviewed the political and legal issues
associated with the amendment as well as a journalist who documented the era. The
oral history interview process allows these individuals to share their own memories
of the ERA campaign and their assessment of its impact on women in the state.