Join the League of Women Voters of Huntington to review the decades-long struggle for women’s voting rights in America. New York was a leading state in this struggle, from the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, which saw publication of the suffragists’ “Declaration of Sentiments,” to the landmark 1912 women’s suffrage parade up Fifth Avenue. This talk will feature one of the movement’s primary benefactors, Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, who emerged from the conspicuous consumption of the Gilded Age to become a champion of women’s suffrage and will delve into the influence of these forebears on our work today.
*The League of Women Voters of Huntington, NY is a nonpartisan, grassroots civic organization. The League is proud to be nonpartisan, neither supporting nor opposing candidates or political parties at any level of government, but always working on vital issues of concern to League members and the public. The mission of The League of Women Voters is to empower voters and to defend democracy. The LWVH works within the community to conduct voter registration drives, educate the public on current legislative initiatives, hold candidate forums, and promote civic education for voters.