Florida Suffrage Tea Time

The Florida Commission on the Status of Women, in partnership with the Florida Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission, is excited to announce Florida Suffrage Tea Time, a virtual series of monthly fun and informative interviews, lectures, and discussions on the Woman’s Suffrage Movement. You bring your tea and internet, and we’ll provide the rest!  

2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment which enfranchises US citizens regardless of sex. For 70 years, women throughout the United States had petitioned at the state and national levels for their right to vote, and on August 18, 1920, US women won a huge battle with the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Work was still left to ensure voting rights for all women, especially in the Jim Crow south, and Women of Color would not have full legal voting rights and protections until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Join us throughout 2020 and 2021 as we commemorate and celebrate the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment and the women who faced hot water fighting for their rights.