Friday, October 07 2011 - 05:38 AM
"Votes for Women" League of Women Voters AV Celebrates 100 years
On Tuesday October 11, the League of Women Voters Antelope Valley will celebrate the Centennial of the passage of the referendum in California that gave women the right to vote. This event will begin at 11 a.m at Poncitlan Square in Palmdale.

“In 1848, a group of fearless women launched a grassroots campaign aimed at winning the right to vote, boldly declaring that women are fundamentally equal to men and set about convincing the rest of the country that women deserve the right to vote”, according to Centennial Committee Chair Denise Latanzi. Suffragettes were successful gradually at state and local levels over many decades. On October 11th, 1911, California became the sixth state to allow women to vote, a full nine years before women achieved the right nationwide with the passage of the 19th Amendment. Today, women represent 53% of the states voting public.

The League will not only celebrate the courageous women involved with the suffrage campaign, but the men of California who came out and voted for it.

We will also be honoring our own Patricia Shaw, who was the moving force behind this event. We will have something for people to sign to deliver to her at the square.

Also, on October 13th, the League will host the Palmdale Mayoral Forum at the Palmdale School District offices, beginning at 6 p.m.

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