NWHM Newsbytes

The U.S. Senate approved legislation on December 6 directing the Joint Committee on the Library to accept and display a donated statue of Sojourner Truth in the United States Capitol Building. Truth, a leading 19th century abolitionist and suffragist, will be joining her contemporaries Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott as one of the few women and as the first African American woman to be so honored on Capitol Hill. Read More
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This September, NWHM proudly announces the launch of a new cyber exhibit The History of Women in Education to correspond with students returning to school. The exhibit traces women's education options in the 1700's, 1800's, and 1900's and includes several biographies of important women to the education movement. The exhibit was researched, written, and produced by NWHM Summer 2006 Intern Albrey Diece.

On Friday, August 25, 2006, Emmy-Award-winning reporter Hillary Howard interviewed NWHM President Susan Jollie and NWHM Board Member and women’s historian Doris Weatherford on the Washington Post Radio for the anniversary of woman suffrage. August 26 is proclaimed “Equality Day” each year to mark the anniversary of the ratification in 1920 of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote. Read more..

August 26th is the anniversary of national woman suffrage and is designated as Equality Day. Read about Equality Day, find Equality Day events in your area, and read Presidential Proclamations for Equality Day from the past 12 years. To celebrate Equality Day, you can also view NWHM's new cyber-exhibit Rights for Women: The Suffrage Movement and Its Leaders.

The National Women’s History Museum is proud to announce the addition of four new members to the Museum’s Board of Directors. “We’re delighted to add such a distinguished group of women to our Board,” said Museum President Susan Jollie. “Their accomplishments and diversity will serve us well as we move forward to secure a permanent home for the Museum." The new Board Members are Johanna Hardy, Director, Legislative Affairs for Rolls-Royce North America, Inc; Alma Morales Riojas is President and CEO of MANA; Margaret Alexander Parker, Founder and President of The Alexander Company; and Doris Weatherford, leading women's historian and women's history author.

Over the summer of 2006, NWHM launched two cyber exhibits, one examining the history of the woman suffrage movemetn and the other looking at women's role during World War II. Read more...

NWHM is proud to announce the launching of a new "Members Only" section of the Web site as a new membership benefit. On the Web page, members can gain inside information on the legislative efforts of NWHM, access archived newsletters (the quarterly newsletters are a membership benefit), and view additional images of past events and exhibitions. Members were sent a password they can use to access the page. If you are interested in becoming a member, $25 per year, please send us an e-mail at staff@nwhm.org or write to us at PO Box 1296, Annandale, VA, 22003.

NWHM Coalition Members show support of the NWHM legislation for a permanent museum site. Read more...

At the beginning of June 2006, NWHM staff received a letter from one of our members, sharing why he is a member of NWHM. Read Tom Sweet's letter to NWHM.

NEW GSA CHIEF VOICES SUPPORT FOR NATIONAL
WOMEN’S HISTORY MUSEUM IN WASHINGTON

Lurita Doan, the newly named Administrator of the General Services Administration, said May 22nd, 2006, at her confirmation hearing with the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, that it would be a “privilege” to work with Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) in support of the development of the Old Post Office Annex on Pennsylvania Avenue for the establishment of the National Women’s History Museum (NWHM). Read more...

NWHM PRESIDENT SUSAN JOLLIE ATTENDS DIRECTOR'S FORUM ON
THE CHALLENGE OF BUILDING THE NATIONAL
MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE

On May 16th, 2006, NWHM President Susan Jollie and NWHM Program Director Holly Kearl attended a Director's Forum at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where they listened to Lonnie G. Bunch II, the director of the new Smithsonian museum the National Museum of African American History and Culture, speak about the challenges that his organization has faced, is facing, and will face in building a new museum - and she found that the African American Museum's experiences are in many ways similar to the NWHM's. Read more...

In March 2006, Susan Jollie and NWHM Program Director Holly Kearl met with a George Washington University Advanced Interior Design class from the Master's Program to discuss the class's upcoming project on designing the interior of the Annex of the Old Post Office - NWHM's desired museum space....Two months later in May, the GWU class presented their finished project to Ms. Jollie, staff, and board members. Read more...

For Mother's Day, Fox News interview NWHM President Susan Jollie about the NWHM campaign for a women's history museum where women, including mothers, can be honored. The news clip is particularly focused on the NWHM fundraiser the Roll of Honor and Remembrance, which allows people to honor their mothers and other female role models by donating $25 to the museum and then the honoree's name is displayed on the NWHM Web site and later will be displayed in a permanent place at the museum. Click HERE to view the 1 minute video clip

In April 2006, the Hibbing, Minnesota, chapter of the American Association of University Women held a ceremony honoring the women workers at Eveleth Mines who filed the first class-action sexual harassment lawsuit. Their story became the basis for the 2005 movie North Country. NWHM President Susan Jollie wrote a letter commending their efforts and the letter was read at the ceremony and each woman received a copy. Each woman was presented with a NWHM button with the quote, " Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History." Read about the event, the story behind North Country and Jollie's letter....

The National Women’s History Museum launched a nationwide Campaign on March 2, 2006, at the National Press Club to promote enactment of The National Women’s History Museum Act during this session of Congress. The NWHM's 31 member National Coalition of over 8 million women (including the newest member Federally Employed Women) have joined NWHM in calling for women and men around the country to express their support of the passage of the National Women’s History Museum Act. Read more...

THE NATIONAL WOMEN’S HISTORY MUSEUM ANNOUNCES A CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN TO DESIGNATE THE VACANT ANNEX NEXT TO THE OLD POST OFFICE PAVILION AS A PERMANENT MUSEUM SITE

The National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) announces efforts to raise public awareness of women’s history and urges Congress to pass The National Women’s History Museum Act. Read more...

Women’s rights leader and activist Betty Friedan passed away on February 4th, 2006, at the age of eighty-five. Read more...

NATIONAL MALL SITE IS CHOSEN FOR THE NATIONAL
MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE

On January 30, 2006, the Smithsonian's Board of Regents approved a museum site for the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Congress, which has had the museum under consideration since the 1980's, instructed the Regents to choose from four sites, two on the Mall and two nearby. The location they have selected is at the southwest corner of 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, a central location near the Washington Monument. NWHM extends its congratulations to the Museum! Read more...

Civil rights leader Coretta Scott King passed away early this morning, January 31, 2006, at the age of 78. Read more....

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