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.

THE VOTE | PBS, American Experience, July 6 and 7, 9 pm

Inez Milholland Boissevain's last words before collapsing in Los Angeles in 1916:
"Mr. President: How long must women wait for liberty?"

July 6, 2020—American Experience on PBS will be showing "The Vote," a two-part series on Channel 13, tonight, July 6th and tomorrow, July 7th, at 9pm. The 19th Amendment, which extended the vote to women, was ratified by the last required state (Tennessee) in August 1920. This year marks the Centennial. Through hundreds of photographs, antique video footage, and illuminating commentary, "The Vote" tells the frustrating but exciting story of the 72-year struggle by American women for political equality.