The League of Women Voters of Montgomery County will officially honor the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote with a champagne celebration at the Lyric Theatre on Saturday, March 14, at 2 p.m. The celebration coincides with the 100th anniversary of the league’s founding.
The league invites everyone to a free showing of the award-winning film “Iron Jawed Angels,” the story of some of the women who worked to secure the passage of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote in the United States.
“All are welcome to see the film,” said Elizabeth Obenshain, president of the Montgomery County chapter. “And, stay for the champagne toast after the film, about 4 p.m.” There will be a few minutes of talking about the efforts to secure the right to vote both locally and across the state. Virginia’s and the local efforts along with the champagne toast to the pioneers’ success.
The celebration is co-sponsored by the League, the Lyric Theatre, and the Montgomery-Radford-Floyd Branch of the NAACP.
Other events to observe the 19th Amendment’s passage are scheduled as follows:
Saturday, March 21, 10 a.m. at Warm Hearth Village Center: Virginia Tech and Radford University students and faculty will present a theatre performance titled “Yellow Rose or Red Rose: Scenes from the Suffrage Movement.”
Saturday, May 2, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.: “Women and the Vote” theatrical presentations by Virginia Tech and Radford University students will be at the Alexander Black House.
The league’s history will be on display at the Alexander Black House in a show coordinated by Grant Hamming.
March 6 to April 5, an exhibit of changes in women’s clothing will be on display at the Wallace Hall Gallery at Virginia Tech.
The local chapter of the league will host election analyst and forecaster Rachel Bitecofer at its annual meeting on Thursday, April 23, at the Warm Hearth Village Center. A senior research fellow at the Niskanen Center in Washington DC, she is assistant director of the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University.
Many organizations will be creating programs to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment which ensured women’s right to vote. The Montgomery-Radford-Floyd Branch of the NAACP, is co-sponsoring many of the events.
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