VOTES FOR WOMEN | Turning Point Suffrage Memorial Open!

May 16, 2021—The Turning Point Suffrage Memorial was formally opened today. 

The  program was well thought out, was preceded and followed by well-executed videos, and the memorial itself was shown in an inspiring way.

I was personally pleased to see that the old feuds between the activists (Inez Milholland was proud to call herself a suffragette) of the National Woman's Party and the legislation-oriented suffragists in NAWSA were united in their support of the memorial.

Also, it was encouraging to see the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority properly represented. It was originally an offshoot of Alpha Sorority at Howard University. Its twenty-two members were allowed to join the suffrage march in 1913. A century later, the Deltas were the main participants!

Congratulations to Jane Barker and Pat Wirth for pulling this off.

Here's a YouTube video prepared for showing before and after the show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sSlMlbAEHE

Here is the Farifax County attractions listing:

https://www.fxva.com/listing/turning-point-suffragist-memorial/2080/

TURNING POINT MEMORIAL | Deltas Donate $100,000!

"The Turning Point Suffrage Memorial Association wishes to extend its appreciation and thanks

to its long-time partner, Delta Sigma Theta, Inc., for its generous $100,000 gift toward construction of the memorial. In light of the loss of anticipated government grants, this major gift will allow the association to complete two major segments of the memorial that had been put on hold!"

In 1913, there were more than 5,000 white marchers and fewer than 100 Black marchers in the parade for Votes for Women headed up by Inez Milholland Boissevain. She had championed, in opposition to Alice Paul's fears about having Black women marching in the parade in segregated Washington, the inclusion of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority that had recently been created at Howard University.

In 2013, the ratio of Black to white marchers was reversed. More here: https://inezmb.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-significance-of-march-of-deltas.html.