Tuesday, February 25 at 6 pm  Susan B. Anthony Dinner at Williams Inn organized by Williamstown League of Women Voters.  Williams President Maud Mandel will speak on “Thinking About Women’s Leadership:  Personal and Professional Observations.” Cost: $40. Reservations requested. Email zrobi@hotmail.com.

 

Monday, March 9 at 7 pm “Time for Ilhan”

Guest Speakers: Tracy Baker White of Greylock Together and Maddy Art of Mount Greylock REV (Register, Educate, Vote) will speak about local voter engagement initiatives. On November 8, 2016, a young, hijab-wearing mother of three named Ilhan Omar made history, becoming the first Somali Muslim woman to be elected to state office in America.  This documentary chronicles her hard-fought campaign for the Minnesota House of Representatives preceding her election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018.

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Sunday, April 5  at 3 pm The Clark Art Institute will screen the 2015 film "Suffragette" ( in which Meryl Streep performs a cameo as British Suffrage leader Emmeline Pankhurst)  at 3 pm (run time:  1 hour 46 minutes) with an introduction and Q&A led by Dr. Barbara Winslow.  Reception hosted by the Williamstown League of Women Voters to follow.  Celebrate visionary women throughout history – and in your own life – at a First Sunday Free Day commemorating the centennial of women’s constitutional right to vote.  Explore images of women from the time of the suffrage struggle in the collection with a special self-guide. At a Statement-Making Station, design a button or sash that expresses something that matters to you.  Take your picture with a woman in your life and decorate a frame to make a keepsake for yourself or for her.
 

Monday, April 13 at 7 pm “Salt of the Earth”

Guest Speaker:  Jacqueline Hidalgo, Williams College Associate Professor of Latina/o Studies and Religion (also on hand, Evelyn Lambert, who was an extra in the film)

When an injunction stops New Mexican zinc miners from protesting their unsafe working conditions and unequal pay compared to their Anglo counterparts, the women in their families take to the picket line.  This 1954 dramatic film directed by Herbert Biberman, was written and produced by other blacklisted filmmakers and features actual miners and their families along with professional actors including Will Geer and Rosaura Revueltas.

 

Monday, April 27 at 7 pm “Norma Rae” at Images Cinema

Guest Speaker: Guest Speaker: Karen Burkart, a union organizer with UNITE HERE

Sally Field won an Oscar in 1979 for this film directed by Martin Ritt based on some of the real experiences of a third-generation textile worker at J.P. Stevens in North Carolina who became involved in a union organizing campaign.

 

Monday, May 11 at 7 pm “Hidden Figures”

Guest Speaker: Haydee Lindo, Williams College Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Three brilliant African-American mathematicians at NASA – Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson) Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae) – serve as the brains behind the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning achievement that turned around the Space Race and galvanized the world.

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Sunday, June 28 A Local Suffrage Exhibit will open at The Williamstown Historical Museum

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Saturday, July 4 at 11 am Fourth of July Parade in Williamstown organized by Williamstown League of Women Voters (We’ll dress in white again and wear sashes.  Young people are invited to carry signs: “I will vote in 20XX.”)

 

 

Thursday, August 26  North Adams Downstreet Art Day  “Women Center Stage

 

September 23, 2020 a talk on voter suppression, especially dealing with African-American voters, by Dr. Martha Jones of Johns Hopkins University, co-sponsored by several departments at Williams College in Griffin Hall

 

October 2020 (date and venue to be announced) Art Historian Patricia Leach will give an illustrated lecture on the “New Woman” as depicted in art works.

 

November 2, 2020 Celebrating Phoebe Jordan program at New Ashford School House which will feature suffrage songs put together by Deb Burns and Audrey Thier and the performance of a short play from the early suffrage movement directed by Ruth Giordano.  Phoebe Jordan was the first woman to vote in a national election after the 19th Amendment was passed.