Independent historian, lecturer and actor Annette Baldwin will reveal the astonishing legal and social conditions that governed women’s lives and what provoked the women into organization and revolution. Thousands of women with vision, courage, strategic planning, networking and tenacity drove the 72-year battle for women’s right to vote. The struggle ended in August 1920 with ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, recognizing and guaranteeing American women's right to vote. Annette will deliver moving passages from the speeches of Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Alice Paul, spoken as the women may have delivered them.
Annette Baldwin has presented programs on the woman suffrage movement since 1995. Her research includes visits to the homes of Anthony, Stanton, Paul and Catt and two journeys to Seneca Falls, NY, site of the 1848 Women's Rights Convention. Her portrayals and lectures have been presented in 20 states, 30 Chautauquas and at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Baldwin is a former Illinois Humanities Road Scholar.