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Washington Women's History Consortium

Women's Voices, Women's Votes
Washington Women's Suffrage Centennial Exhibit

Washington state celebrates its centennial of permanent women's suffrage in 2009-2010. The Women's Voices, Women's Votes exhibit will highlight the history of the struggle to attain women's right to vote in Washington and illuminates how women's voting influenced territorial and state history. The exhibit is co-curated by the Washington State Historical Society, the Women's History Consortium and the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture.




Emma Smith DeVoe, Emma Smith DeVoe Collection, Scrapbook E, Washington State Library.
Emma Smith DeVoe from
the Woman's Journal,
April 1896, Emma Smith DeVoe Scrapbook E

The Emma Smith DeVoe Scrapbooks
1892-1934

The Emma Smith DeVoe Scrapbooks, part of the Emma Smith DeVoe Papers, a digital collection from the Washington State Library, offer a window into the long-time career of the one-time president of the Washington Equal Suffrage Association and the people, events, and issues connected to the movement she led to secure the vote for women in Washington state in 1910.

More information: | Women's Suffrage






Fumiko Hayashida:The
Woman Behind the
Symbol
, a project from
the Bainbridge Island
Japanese American Community

Women's History Local Projects
2007-09

In July of 2007, the Women's History Consortium announced the availability of grants for Women's History Local Projects for the 2007-09 Biennium. Those grants were awarded to non-profit heritage organizations, tribal governments and local government agencies located and conducting activities within the State of Washington for programs and projects which interpret and preserve Washington women's history in one of six theme areas. Twenty-one grant applications were accepted.

More information: | WHC Participants




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