Inez Milholland’s birthday—How will you celebrate?

We’re giving you plenty of heads up. Months to plan for something special in August of 2019. There’s the birthday of Inez on August 6th, and then on August 26th, Women’s Equality Day. More people than ever are aware of the US suffrage martyr, Inez Milholland. And we want to make sure the awareness extends into 2020.  What are you planning? There are plenty of resources to make your event special. Start with the film, “Forward into Light.” Find out more at InezMilholland.org

And the blog, InezMilholland.wordpress.com has plenty of background and inspiring material. Also, the centennial web site: InezMilhollandCentennial.com

LetsRockTheCradle.com is a public service for interested people and the media about the suffrage centennial celebration in 2020 when US women will have been voting for 100 years.

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Inez Milholland included in national votes for women trail!

NEWS: There was an Inez Milholland march in January this year. Smaller than last year, but respectable nonetheless. Congrats.

National Votes for Women Trail – GoFundMe from NCWHS on Vimeo.

When you visit Lewis, New York you’ll see road markers pointing you to Milholland’s former home and grave. It’s the destination for many travelers and a spot on the growing national Votes for Women Trail that’s raising funds to build a web site directing travelers to important women’s history sites across the nation. This is an important part of the upcoming 2020 votes for women centennial observance in the United States. Give the US suffrage martyr the attention she deserves.

Have you seen the film about Inez? Visit InezMilholland.org.

You’ll find the resources valuable on InezMilhollandCentennial.com

Spread the word about this blog, InezMilholland.wordpress.com that has been publishing since 2016 when the Women’s History Alliance (formerly the Women’s History Project) devoted a year to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Milholland’s death.

Inez Milholland will receive the recognition she deserves in 2020, the US celebration of US women voting for 100 years. Stop by SuffrageCentennials.com to find out some of the preparation (and anticipation) for 2020.

For media inquiries: LetsRockTheCradle.com is a public service to highlight the US preparation for 2020 when US women will have been voting for 100 years.

Suffrage Wagon News Channel features an important symbol of the first wave of the women’s rights movement in the US. The “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon will be on exhibit at the New York State Museum in Albany, New York. Visit the site to find out exhibition information for 2020. Activist Edna Kearns who used the wagon for grassroots organizing in 1913 in NYC and on Long Island knew and worked with Inez Milholland. Marguerite Kearns is the granddaughter of Edna Kearns.

Inez Milholland’s personal papers are at Harvard University

The finding aid from the Harvard University library: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

© President and Fellows of Harvard College

Descriptive Summary

Location: Collection stored off site: researchers must request access 36 hours before use.
Call No.: MC 308; M-80
Repository: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
Creator: Inez Milholland
Title: Papers of Inez Milholland, 1906-1916
Date(s): 1906-1916
Quantity: 1.04 linear feet (2+1/2 file boxes) plus 1 oversize folder, 3 reels microfilm (M-80)
Language of materials: Materials in English.
Abstract: Correspondence, speeches, etc., of Inez Milholland, suffragist, reformer, and lawyer.

Immediate Source of Acquisition:

Accession number: 79-M92

The papers of Inez Milholland were purchased by the Schlesinger Library from Norma Millay in April 1979.

Processing Information:

Processed: November 1980

By: Sharon M. Vardamis

TERMS OF USE:

Access. Originals are closed; use digital images or microfilm M-80.

Conditions Governing Use:

Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Inez Milholland as well as copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors’ heirs or assigns.

Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library’s usual procedures.

MICROFILM OF COLLECTION:

 

• 1. In organizing the material the processor added page numbers and dates, where necessary, to the correspondence, articles, and newsclippings. Page numbers and other information added by the processor are in square brackets.
• 2. Fragments of Milholland essays, articles, and speeches in folders #30, 32, and 36, were numbered and filmed consecutively. The reader should be aware, however, that the text is not always consecutive.
• 3. The collection included envelopes for some of the correspondence between Milholland and Eugen Jan Boissevain, and some of these have been filmed. The reader should note the following: a) envelopes filmed were left where they were originally found and do not necessarily accompany the letters they precede or succeed; and b) those included were filmed to indicate where the recipient was residing, so that only the first envelope after each change of address was filmed.

REEL LIST (M-80)

• Folders 1-11: M-80, Reel 1
• Folders 12-28: M-80, Reel 2
• Folders 29-50: M-80, Reel 3

 

Preferred Citation:

Inez Milholland Papers, 1906-1916; item description, dates. MC 308, folder #. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

$1 stickers for Inez Milholland

THESE INEZ MILHOLLAND STICKERS are cheap and handy to put on notebooks, to personalize objects and personal possessions, and a way you can spread the word about our US suffrage martyr. Buy them through the Women’s History Alliance store (formerly the National Women’s History Project). The store at the Women’s History Alliance is the first place to look for gift ideas.

Thank you, Inez Milholland!

Dutch women filmmakers have produced a film, “Ahoy!” that features American suffragist Inez Milholland as an example (among others) of women who continue to inspire us today. Statement from the Dutch women who produced “Ahoy!” –a work shown at two film festivals.

With pride we present our film Ahoy! unsurpassed women of the world.The film is about a young woman who gets inspired by the lives of heroines. When  the leadroll dreams, some heroines come to live. Eventually she makes a decision. In this film we want to honor female leadership and courage of women all over the world and show their relevance for women in our time.

The idea of the film  came  as a result of a year project ‘Heroines Woldwide’ from our Dutch women’s organization Zeeuwse Wereldvrouwen. Our women’s group is located in the south of the Netherlands, the province Zeeland (Sealand). We live on a peninsula. We meet every week and the participants are Dutch women and women from all over the world, young and old etc. The goal of our organization is to empower women and to increase awareness in society about the role of women. We work through education, art, film, poetry, and with projects. At the moment we are working on the project Silent Voices, about violence against women.

During the year-long project, “Heroines Worldwide,” all women chose a heroine from their own original country and shared it with the group. In this way we got to know many unknown heroines. We made a Wall of Fame in our room where we have our weekly meetings. For most of us, Inez Milholland was totally unknown. We were excited when we heard about her. Her story is so inspiring and visual. We definitely wanted her in our film. We found out a lot of heroines who died young and dedicated their life to womens’ rights.

Making the film was a real adventure. We did everything ourselves. The film is entirely shot on iPhone. And women of our group played the heroines. We asked the community to help us with locations and horses.This project has really changed us. Actually, playing the heroines, literally crawling into their skin, changed the spirit of our group. On the 14^th of February 2014, we joined the One Billion Rising movement and we went on the streets to demonstrate against violence against women and we also danced Break the Chain. With us was a Dutch heroine Aletta Jacobs  (also in our film) she came to life, to demonstrate with us and hold a speech for the public. We are not to be stopped now.

Thank you Inez Milholland, and all the other heroines.

The film has shown at Film By the Sea in Vlissingen and Cineffable, Filmfestival International Lesbien et Feministe du Paris.
www.roslinprager.nl       http://vimeo.com/61417700        www.zeeuwsewereldvrouwen.nl

 

 

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