What’s new at the Mu? Jamie Capuzza to discuss Ohio’s efforts on women’s suffrage
Learn how Ohio’s women were essential to the national women’s suffrage movement during the Massillon Museum’s Brown Bag Lunch on Sept. 26, beginning at 12:10 p.m. Author Jamie C. Capuzza, a scholar and award-winning teacher will discuss her book, “The Fifth Star: Ohio’s Fight for Women’s Right to Vote.” The event will conclude about 12:50 p.m. to accommodate those who attend on their lunch hours.
Highlights
Covering seven decades of the suffrage movement – 1850 through 1920 – Capuzza will demonstrate how influential Ohio women were. They were first to petition the government for women’s enfranchisement. They helped build infrastructure for the movement by forming the nation’s first state women’s rights organization and by hosting two of the earliest national women’s rights conventions.
Many of the movement’s early leaders were Ohioans, including Frances Barker Gage, a movement leader in the 1850s; Victoria Claflin Woodhull, who briefly lived in Massillon, the first woman to run for the U.S. presidency (1872); and Harriet Taylor Upton, president of the Ohio Women’s Suffrage Association. Also among the national leadership were African Americans with Ohio connections.
In her book, Capuzza draws on suffrage convention proceedings, state congressional reports, local media, and personal letters and diaries of Ohio reformers, creating a vivid portrait of perseverance and determination. “The Fifth Star” will be available for purchase and signing at the Brown Bag Lunch.
Why attend?
The Brown Bag Lunch series is free and open to everyone. Guests may bring lunch or purchase sandwiches, salad, and smoothies at Greatness Cafe in the Museum lobby. MassMu provides complimentary cookies and coffee for attendees. Galleries will be open before and after the Brown Bag Lunch. Visitors can see “John W. Carlson: Set the Twilight Reeling”; the Local History, Photography, and Decorative and Fine Arts Galleries; the Immel Circus; “Innovators of Massillon; First Peoples of North America; Abyssinian Expedition of 1903”; the Paul Brown/Massillon Tiger Football History Timeline; “A Way to Win: Paul Brown’s Innovations”; and “Artists of Group Ten: Ten Point Perspective.”
Details
WHAT – MassMu Brown Bag Lunch Program, Jamie Capuzza, “The Fifth Star: Ohio’s Fight for Women’s Right to Vote.”
WHEN – 12:10 p.m. Sept. 26
WHERE – Massillon Museum, 121 Lincoln Way East, downtown Massillon
MORE – MassillonMuseum.org or 330-833-4061
This article originally appeared on The Alliance Review: What’s new at the Mu? Jamie Capuzza to discuss Ohio’s efforts on women’s suffrage
