Votes for Women: Massachusetts Leaders in the Woman Suffrage Movement

In the nineteenth century, Massachusetts was the center for the national struggle for women's rights. Long before the Civil War, Bay Stater Lucy Stone and other abolitionists launched an organized suffrage movement at the first National Woman's Rights Convention, held in Worcester. After the war, state activists founded the Boston-based American Woman Suffrage Association that led campaigns across the country. Barbara F. Berenson will discuss her new book, which explores how these activities laid the foundation for the next generation of suffragists to triumph over tradition. Copies of the book will be sold at the event. 

Barbara F. Berenson is the author of Boston and the Civil War: Hub of the Second Revolution and Walking Tours of Civil War Boston: Hub of Abolitionism. She co-edited Breaking Barriers: The Unfinished Story of Women Lawyers and Judges in Massachusetts. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, she works as a senior attorney at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Visit barbarafberenson.com for more information.