Edward J. Cashin Memorial Woodrow Wilson Lecture and Symposium

Virtual Edward J. Cashin Memorial Woodrow Wilson Lecture and Symposium on Women’s Suffrage, 11/6-11/7

Friday, Nov. 6 at 6:30pm Suffrage in Song by Michael Lasser, Music Historian

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Nov. 7 at 10am the Symposium on Women’s Suffrage will continue with two speakers: Lisa Landers whose topic is The Women’s Suffrage Movement in the Progressive South and Dr. Sonya Ramsey’s lecture, Church Ladies, Club Women, and Political Sorors: Black Women’s Struggle for Voting Rights, 1913 to the Present, views the Suffrage Movement through the lens of race. The program will be available at 10:00am. Please click here to view.

Lisa Landers, the head of Georgia Historical Society’s educational programs and educational outreach for K-12 students and teachers, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Political Science from Auburn University and a Masters of Arts in Education from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Dr. Sonya Ramsey is Associate Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is the Co-Editor, Book Reviews for The History of Education Quarterly. In 2000 she earned her Ph.D. in United States History from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

We’d like to thank the following organizations who collaborated with us to help make this program possible: the Augusta Museum of History; Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History; the Morris Museum of Art; and The Imperial Theatre. Their organizational efforts are supported by the Augusta-Richmond County Historical Society and Augusta University Center for the Study of Georgia History.

The Edward J. Cashin Memorial Woodrow Wilson Lecture is made possible in part by the Center for the Study of Georgia History at Augusta University.