Pulaski Technical College: Advancing Equality For Women Exhibit Opens September 1 In The Windgate Gallery

Press release from Pulaski Technical College:

August 30, 2021

At the founding of our country, women’s roles were rigidly defined and women were generally excluded from political and, in many ways, public life. Enslaved women were excluded entirely. Considered under the protection and authority of their husbands long into the 19th century, most women could not vote, own property, make contracts, go to court, or control any money they earned.

Visitors will explore how a diverse group of suffragists—individuals who supported giving voting rights to women—fought for more than 70 years using many different strategies and how women continued to seek equality after the 19th Amendment. The exhibit also features profiles on eleven women and—through National Archives records—how they lived and worked, pushing boundaries of what was accepted and expected of women. The women featured are Sarah Emma Edmonds Seelye, Harriet Tubman, Annie Oakley, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin, Willa Brown, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Shirley Chisholm, Sandra Day O’Connor, and Ellen Ochoa.

Windgate Gallery hours are 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. on Saturdays.

Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Kurt Leftwich, CHARTS Programming and Box Office Coordinator at kleftwich@uaptc.edu or (501) 812-2831.

This press release was produced by Pulaski Technical College. The views expressed here are the author’s own.