Oregon Suffrage Centennial, 1912-2012
One hundred years ago, Oregon women won the right to vote. Oregon Experience is currently producing a half hour documentary to coincide with the centennial. The documentary will air on OPB-TV in the fall.
Meanwhile, the organization, a Century of Action: Oregon Women Vote!, is planning several exhibits around the state, the Oregon Historical Quarterly will publish a special edition, and a series of public programs and performances are in the works.
One of the first events this year will be an exhibit at the Multnomah County Library. Votes for Women! The Oregon Story runs from January 25 – March 6.
Find out more here.
Additional resources for the Oregon woman’s vote centennial:
Oregon Experience: Abigail Scott Duniway, OPB documentary about the “mother of Oregon Suffrage” available online
Historic Oregon Newspapers, features searchable digitized copies of Duniway’s suffragist newspaper The New Northwest
Countdown to Suffrage, an online OPB student intern project featuring a sampling of historic newspaper articles, advertisements and images that represented the people and events leading up to 1912.
Century of Action: Oregon Women Vote, 1912-2012, an organization dedicated to celebrating the centennial
Woman Suffrage Centennial Web Exhibit, an online exhibit from the Oregon State Archives.
February 16th, 2012 at 10:58 am
It’s astonishing that 400 americans have the same amount of wealth as HALF of America! That’s 400 people fighting over 1.5 trillion and 150 Million people fighting over 1.5 trillion. It’s not the top one percent we should feel outraged by, it’s the .01%!!! That’s 30,000 Americans that control the majority of the wealth, politics, power and legislation in this country. … To get to the top 1% according to the IRS you only need to acquire 1.5 million in net worth. Another study says its more like 9 million, either way lots of hard working “job creators” are at that level. And they should enjoy the fruit of their hard work!I’m talking about the top 30,000 americans (thats 1% of the 1%!) that have multiplied their wealth several times over due to tax loopholes, lobbyists, record setting low tax rates on dividends and capital gains. All of this has been slowly accumulating for the last 30 years, but the huge tax breaks mostly benefiting those 30,000 people were put in during the last administration. The fact that we’re the wealthiest country in the world and we still can’t figure out how to make health care affordable for EVERYONE is shocking. And quite frankly shows the greed and lack of morals in the collective conscious of this country.Signed,A women looking for a job and medical/dental