2020 Marks 100 Years of Women Voting – Centennial Celebrations Move Online

Many of us have been looking forward to 2020 for various reasons. For the women empowerment community, this is a milestone year to celebrate 100 years of women suffrage. Like the brave pioneering women of the past, Women 100 will go where no man has dared to go! Their carefully planned series of events have been forced to go 2020-style with ever-evolving pandemic plans. Although we are disappointed that these events will not be in-person (with sisters clutching hands and hearts), Vision 2020 has made tremendous progress in moving to a virtual platform.

Join Us August 26 for Toast to Tenacity!

Vision 2020 will celebrate the kickoff of Women 100: A National Celebration of American Women, with Toast to Tenacity™ on August 26, Women’s Equality Day! Join us for the webcast at 12 pm ET featuring a toast from the Philadelphia Eagles, Philadelphia Orchestra musicians and the debut of a new music video by award-winning singer-songwriter Meghan Cary.

Watch the webcast at Women100.org. It will be streaming live from Independence National Historical Park (INHP) with prerecorded segments woven in. The 90-minute program will mark the centennial of the 19th Amendment and women’s hard-fought battle for voting rights.

Speakers include:

Vision 2020 President Lynn Yeakel, who will host and emcee the event
First-time voters
Historians and authors telling stories about the suffrage campaigns of African American women
The Hon. Marjorie Rendell, senior judge of the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and Alexis Hudson Ward, director of libraries at Oberlin College & Conservatory, telling about the battles fought by three generations of suffragists
INHP Superintendent Cindy McLeod explaining the significance of Independence Hall to the women’s suffrage movement
Author Neylan McBaine describing the contributions of activist women in the American West, many of whom won local voting rights decades before national suffrage.

Meghan Cary will perform her women’s empowerment anthem River Rock and premiere a new music video with a virtual choir assembled to promote voter mobilization this election season. (Learn how you can be in Cary’s video.)

At 1 pm ET, Vision 2020 will lead a toast to the tenacity of the suffragists by raising a glass of grape juice (in 1920 wine was illegal due to Prohibition). Several sister toast events across the country will be featured via livestream.