Calendar 2019

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Event

5:30 p.m., Dayton Woman’s Club, 225 North Ludlow. Join us for a stroll through Dayton in the 1800s prior to the 19th Amendment. Ms. Higgins, a Dayton native, was a suffragette, African American civic Leader and community activist. She was part of the Dayton Woman’s Suffragist Association, which unlike many suffragist groups across the country, actively sought to work with African American women and immigrants. Jewelia will be represented by historian and artist Andrea Walker-Cummings, a member of the African American Visual Arts Guild who creates her art through hand needlework. Cost is $40. Cash bar. RSVP to the League office (937-228-4041, email league@lwvdayton.org) or by using the PayPal link below.

6:00 - 8:00 p.m., Rumbleseat Wine, 5853 Far Hills Ave, Dayton. Enjoy wine and delicious hors d’oeuvres and celebrate: WOMEN’S EQUALITY DAY, the 1920 certification of the 19th Amendment; the amazing efforts of the Suffragists to procure the vote; and the continuing efforts for equal rights for women. Cost is $35. Send your check, made out to the Dayton Area LWV Education Fund, to the League Office: Talbott Tower, 127 N. Ludlow St. Dayton, 45402, or reserve your place using the PayPal link below. For more info, call the League office at 937.228.4041, league@lwvdayton.org).

Join us for dinner at the Dayton Art Institute with speaker Susan Page, Washington Bureau Chief for USA Today, political contributor for CNN & MSNBC, and author of The Matriarch, Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty. Tickets are $100 in celebration of 100 years of women’s securing the right to vote. Contact the League office at 937-228-4041, email league@lwvdayton.org, to make your reservation, or use the PayPal link below.