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September 5, 2017New Exhibition Explores Albany and Anti-Suffrage Movement
The year 2017 marks the centennial of woman’s suffrage in New York State. There is no suffrage story without the anti-suffrage story. On September 2, 2017, the Albany Institute of History & Art will open Spotlight: Albany & Anti-Suffrage.
Albany was considered a stronghold of the anti-suffrage movement. This exhibit tells the story of the women who first met in 1894 before the New York Constitutional Convention convened, organized the Albany branch of the New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, lobbied to make their views heard in 1915, and lost their fight in 1917.
A special opening of the exhibition will take place on Thursday, September 7 at 10 a.m. at the Albany Institute of History & Art, located at 125 Washington Ave, Albany, NY 12210. Free parking is available in the museum’s lot at the corner of Dove and Elk Streets.
Exhibition Events & Programs (more to be announced):
-Spotlight: Albany & Anti-Suffrage | gallery talk | Thursday, September 7 | 1PM | Included with museum admission
-Spotlight: Albany & Anti-Suffrage | gallery talk | Thursday, September 14 | 1PM | Included with museum admission
-Votes for Women: Examining the Woman Suffrage and Anti-Suffrage Movements through Political Cartoons | Humanities New York Public Scholars Program | Sunday, September 17 | 2PM | Free admission
-Women’s Suffrage: A Documented History | reading + discussion series | Thursdays, September 21—October 26 | 6PM |Free, but registration required |This program is made possible by a grant from Humanities New York
-Voting 101: Everything We Forgot or Never Knew about Elections and Voting in New York State | community event| Thursday, October 5 | 6PM | Free admission
