See Virginia Minor at Friendship Village South, Thursday, Nov 21, 2:30 pm
See Barbara Kay portray Virginia Minor at Friendship Village South in Sunset Hills on Thursday November 21, 2019.
Virginia Minor was a Missouri suffragette who fought for the right of women to vote. In 1872, she tried unsuccessfully to register to vote. She sued for the right and her suit went all the way to the Supreme Court, where she lost.
The graphic above about the Virginia Minor re-enactment has an American suffrage poster from icollector.com set into it. The poster, on the far right, “Votes for Women 1915,” is highlighted within a white line.
Virginia Minor re-enactment
Presentation and re-enactment by Barbara Kay who portrays Virginia Minor, 1824 -1894, the suffragette who fought to get women the right to vote. In 1872, Virginia Minor tried to register to vote. She was denied, so she sued for the right. She was told by the Missouri Supreme Court that as a woman, she did not have the right to vote. She then went right to the top, the US Supreme Court, where she sued again for the right to vote. She again lost. Why? What did it take for women to finally get the right to vote in Federal elections in 1920? The 100th anniversary of winning that right is coming up in 2020. Learn more about the centennial at the bottom of this page
About the speaker, re-enactor, Barbara Kay
Barbara Kay is a retired history teacher. She portrays a number of historical characters in period dress. These characters include the following:
Martha Washington
Betsy Ross
Mary Lincoln
Clara Barton
Julie Ward Howell
Moly Brown
Dolly Madison
Abigail Adams
Anna Bissel
Barbara Kay portraying Virginia Minor
Photos used
Photos above:
Left; American suffrage poster from icollector.com
Middle; Photo of two suffragettes from TesTeach.com
Right; Campaign button from National Museum of American History blog post, “Traveling for Suffrage Part 4: Riding the rails”
Last; 19th amendment commemorative postage stamp from Sociology Lens
Below; The graphic below has a drawing on the left of Virginia Minor from Wikipedia, and on the right an American suffrage poster from icollector.com, “Votes for Women 1915,” which is highlighted within a white line.
Virginia Minor drawing above from Wikipedia and poster from icollector.com
References on the web to Virginia Minor and women’s right to vote
Virginia Minor
The State Historical Society of Missouri
Wikipedia
National Park Service
History of women’s right to vote
The US Supreme Court case of Minor v. Happersett
An Eye on Suffragists in St. Louis – 2019 events in St Louis remembering suffragists
The American Association of University Women (AAUW)
Oppression of women in 19th century literature
Some men, and women too, campaigned against the right for women to vote: Anti-suffragettes
Working conditions for women in 19th-century
Is the word suffragists or suffragettes?
Colors of the suffragette movement
Women’s right to vote in movies
Iron Jawed Angels
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338139/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Jawed_Angels
The seven best films about women getting the vote, as chosen by the BFI
https://inews.co.uk/culture/film/best-womens-suffrage-films-recommended-bfi/
How women’s suffrage has been represented in American film
https://daily.jstor.org/how-womens-suffrage-has-been-represented-in-american-film/
The 2015 movie “Suffragette” – a review
See “Suffragette” movie trailer from YouTube.com
Photos below are from movie “Suffragette”
The clip below from YouTube.com of the Sister Suffragette song from the Walt Disney movie “Mary Poppins”
Lyrics to the song Sister Suffragette by Glynis Johns
From lyrics.com
We’re clearly soldiers in petticoats
And dauntless crusaders for woman’s votes
Though we adore men individually
We agree that as a group they’re rather stupid!
Cast off the shackles of yesterday!
Shoulder to shoulder into the fray!
Our daughters’ daughters will adore us
And they’ll sign in grateful chorus
“Well done, Sister Suffragette!”
From Kensington to Billingsgate
One hears the restless cries!
From ev’ry corner of the land:
“Womankind, arise!”
Political equality and equal rights with men!
Take heart! For Missus Pankhurst has been clapped in irons again!
No more the meek and mild subservients we!
We’re fighting for our rights, militantly!
Never you fear!
So, cast off the shackles of yesterday!
Shoulder to shoulder into the fray!
Our daughters’ daughters will adore us
And they’ll sign in grateful chorus
“Well done! Well done!
Well done Sister Suffragette!”
The 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote in the US is coming up in 2020. To honor the centennial, the Missouri History Museum is planning an exhibit to open in about 2020.
See Virginia Minor at Friendship Village South, Thursday, Nov 21, 2019, 2:30 pm
