Date/Time
2/28/2026
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Eastern
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Event Description
"Deeds, Not Words". Inpsired by the militant tactics of the Pankhursts in England, Alice Paul led a militant younger generation to take women's suffrage over the finish line. Come and learn more!How militant suffragists, under Alice Paul’s leadership, finally took women’s suffrage over the finish line in 1920 after a 75-year battle. Everything was stacked against them – but their determination was underestimated. And so is ours! Hear what we can learn from them.

Patricia Nugent gives voice to those who might otherwise be silenced, following a career as a school district administrator and adjunct communication professor. Feeling a deep connection to our foremothers who blazed a trail, she authored the play “The Stone that Started the Ripple” about a modern-day reunion of the founding suffragists, and
published the nonfiction anthology “Before They Were Our Mothers: Voices of Women Born Before Rosie Started Riveting.” She chaired the Women's Rights Awareness Campaign for the Saratoga County League of Women Voters, instrumental in helping to pass the NYS ERA.
Location
UNITED STATES


return to League of Women Voters of Rochester Metro Area