Reclaiming Our Voice: New Jersey's Overlooked Role in Fighting for Women's Suffrage

Join us for a presentation by Carol Simon Levin, a professional storyteller and independent historian who specializes in telling the stories of “fascinating women history forgot” through first-person portrayals.

In this presentation, Carol portrays Lillian Feickert, president of the NJ Woman Suffrage Association from 1912-1920, to explore the overlooked role of NJ in the long, frustrating fight for women's suffrage. She tells how some NJ women once had the vote, then lost it for over a century, how nationally-known suffrage advocates Lucy Stone and Elizabeth Cady Stanton staged tax and voting protests in the state, Dr. Florence Spearing Randolph brought black women into the movement, and Alice Paul became the dynamo who re-energized the push for a federal amendment. This program demonstrates that women were not “given” the vote, but fought for it for generations!