Women’s History Hindsight: The Struggle for Suffrage
Sunday, March 23, at 4:00 p.m.
– Ellie Carlson, Presenter
For Women's History Month, RHS is featuring a talk by historian and performer Ellie Carlson of Ellie Presents, on the history of the suffrage movement that won the right to vote for women.
Her presentation will focus on the influence of trade and teacher’s unions, women in higher education, fundraising through cookbooks and bazaars, marches, songs, letter writing campaigns and how women’s influence over the voting men in their lives brought about the reform.
About the Presenter: Elizabeth Carlson, also known as Ellie, is a historian and a performer with concentration in the domestic arts. For over thirty years, she has worked as a curator in small to mid-sized museums. Ellie has a B.A. with honors from Roosevelt University and a Masters of Historical Administration and Museum Studies from the University of Kansas. She completed her professional internship at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in the Division of Costume in 1987. She is the recipient of over twenty-five Illinois Association of Museums, Illinois State Historical Society and American Association for State and Local History awards.
Members: $10 | Non-members: $20 | Students under 18: $5
Ridge Historical Society
10621 S. Seeley Ave., Chicago, IL 60643
Limited Capacity. Get tickets here: https://bit.ly/RHS-suffrage
RSVP: ridgehistory@hotmail.com 773.881.1675