The first in a three-part online video series commemorating the 100th anniversary of women getting the right to vote in the United States from the Nyack group “Suffrage Forward” premiered earlier this month. The series kicked off with a performance by Carol Simon Levin as former first lady Abigail Adams, who in the early years of the founding of our country, fought, unsuccessfully, for women’s right to vote, as it was already legal at that time in the colony of New Jersey…
113 years later the 19th amendment was ratified in 1920. To catch the first video in “The Power of Persistence” series, visit www.SuffrageForward.org. The series continues with part two on August 6th.