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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Commemorate Centennial of 19th Amendment<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">On August 26, 1920, the United States ratified the Nineteenth Amendment giving women the right to vote.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">To learn more about, participate in, or to honor this momentous anniversary, take some time to check out local and national efforts surrounding this event:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Local<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Oregon Women’s History Consortium’s
<a href="http://www.oregonwomenshistory.org/">website</a> has research and education about this period of history.
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Call for putting Oregon sites on the National Votes for Women Trail Map.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Visit Oregon Historical Society’s online exhibit,
<a href="https://ohs.org/museum/exhibits/nevertheless-they-persisted.cfm">Nevertheless, They Persisted: Women’s Voting Rights and the 19<sup>th</sup> Amendment</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Oregon State Archives online exhibits,
<a href="https://sos.oregon.gov/archives/exhibits/suffrage/Pages/default.aspx">On Her Own Wings: Oregon Women and the Struggle for Suffrage</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.oregonwomenshistory.org/uncategorized/chalk-the-vote/">#ChalkTheVoteOR Campaign</a> Aug. 23-29, a collaboration between
Oregon Women’s History Consortium and Oregon Historical Society. This campaign encourages folks to grab some chalk, find an outdoor space, copy some voting amendment text that you can find on the website, and post your creation using the hashtag #ChalkTheVoteOR.
For more info or inspiration visit <a href="http://www.oregonwomenshistory.org/uncategorized/chalk-the-vote/">
here</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Submit an Oregon site that is significant to women’s history in Oregon to the State Historic Preservation Office. The online form can
be found <a href="http://makeoregonhistory.org/">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">National<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">High Desert Museum is collaborating with 15 other Smithsonian Affiliate museums on Thursday Aug. 27 for a special online lecture, Suffrage
Stories: A Complicated Narrative. <a href="https://smithsonian.zoom.us/webinar/register/6815971623462/WN_qcoHG9Q-TJeMj00l14yTRg">
Register here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">National Air and Space Museum’s “<a href="https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/womens-suffrage-stories-archives">Women’s Suffrage
Stories in the Archives</a>”.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">National Park Service’s
<a href="https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/19th-amendment-centennial-checklist.htm">
Checklist for 19 Ways to Commemorate the 19<sup>th</sup> Amendment Centennial.</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">National Trust for Historic Preservation – Where Women Made History page
<a href="https://savingplaces.org/where-women-made-history#.X0aG_G5FxPZ">https://savingplaces.org/where-women-made-history#.X0aG_G5FxPZ</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Various articles to check out:<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle">
<li class="MsoPlainText" style="mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Five You Should Know - African American Suffragists:
<a href="https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/five-you-should-know-african-american-suffragists">
https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/five-you-should-know-african-american-suffragists</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoPlainText" style="mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">African American Women and the 19<sup>th</sup> Amendment:
<a href="https://www.nps.gov/articles/african-american-women-and-the-nineteenth-amendment.htm">
https://www.nps.gov/articles/african-american-women-and-the-nineteenth-amendment.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoPlainText" style="mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Suffrage Isn’t ‘Boring History.’ It’s a Story of Political Geniuses:
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/us/women-voting-rights-suffrage-centennial.html">
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/us/women-voting-rights-suffrage-centennial.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoPlainText" style="mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">In 1920, Native Women Sought the Vote. Here’s What’s Next:
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/style/19th-amendment-native-womens-suffrage.html?referringSource=articleShare">
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/style/19th-amendment-native-womens-suffrage.html?referringSource=articleShare</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoPlainText" style="mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">The Woman Suffrage Movement:
<a href="https://www.womenshistory.org/resources/general/woman-suffrage-movement">
https://www.womenshistory.org/resources/general/woman-suffrage-movement</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoPlainText" style="mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Forgotten Suffragists:
<a href="https://www.neh.gov/article/forgotten-suffragists">https://www.neh.gov/article/forgotten-suffragists</a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Share your photos of Oregon’s heritage on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter using #oregonheritage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Oregon Heritage News is a service of Oregon Heritage, a division of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. The news editor can be contacted at
<a href="mailto:heritage.info@oregon.gov" target="_blank">heritage.info@oregon.gov</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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