Please note that all March programming is suspended at this time until further notice. This includes the March 14, 21, and 28 walking tours and the March 21 scholar series. We plan to reschedule these programs in the summer months and encourage you to visit this website for program updates.

This not to be missed Scholar Series lecture will feature three scholars who have each researched key aspects of the fight for women’s suffrage in Colorado and in the United States.

Heather Jordan (PPLD Archivist) will describe suffragist Susan B. Anthony’s epic 1877 campaign via railway and stagecoach, delivering speeches across Colorado to miners, farmers, ranchers, and others.

Professor Katherine Scott Sturdevant (PPCC Senior History Professor) will share the remarkable story of how Colorado women gained the right to vote by state referendum, and discuss the short and long term impacts of this success.

Finally, Chris Nicholl (Associate at the Special Collections of PPLD) will bring to light the harrowing accounts of the militant suffragists of Colorado Springs who risked their lives and freedom to win the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.