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Ballot & Beyond
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To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and the enfranchisement of women in America, Preservation Maryland and Gallagher, Evelius & Jones LLP has created Ballot & Beyond, an audio biography series on the contributions of Maryland's remarkable women, past and present.
Episodes
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Edith Houghton Hooker | Dynamic Suffrage Driver
This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was written by Diane E. Weaver, Ph.D. The reader is Diane Weaver. Edith Houghton Hooker was a critically important and arguably an essential figure in the Maryland campaign for women’s suffrage. Without her...
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Margaret Brent | Colonial Suffragist
This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was written by Audrey Partington. The reader is Kalin Thomas. Two hundred years before the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, Margaret Brent became the first woman in the American...
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Billie Holiday | Voice of Protest
This episode of Ballots and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was edited from the Maryland Archives biography by Kalin Thomas, a volunteer with Maryland Women’s Heritage Center. It is read by Larzine Talley, musician who frequently performs Billie Holiday’s music and...
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Mary Risteau | Early Elected State Delegate
This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was written and read by Kathi Santora, a volunteer with Maryland Women’s Heritage Center. In 1922, just two years after the 19th amendment empowered women with the right to vote, Harford County citizens…
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DuBois Circle | Inspired Fighting Against Injustice
This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was written by Beverly Carter, Archivist of the DuBois Circle, and read by Reverend Canon Sandye A. Wilson, President of the DuBois Circle. In 1906, a distinguished group of women in Baltimore, Maryland was...
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Florence & Bertha Trail | Sisters in the Struggle
This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was written and is being read by Dr. Amy Rosenkrans. The Trail Sisters worked diligently to win the vote for Maryland’s women. Their writing, speeches, and constant activism did not end when the battle was…
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Madeleine Ellicott | By Women, For Women
This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was written by Diane E. Weaver. The reader is Dr. Diane Weaver. Madeleine Ellicott’s lifelong goal was to improve the lives of women and children and to secure equal rights for all human beings. She fought...
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Quaker Women of Sandy Spring | Education & Equality
This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was written by Pamela Young. The reader is Allison Weiss, Executive Director, Sandy Spring Museum. Sandy Spring, Maryland, was settled in 1727 by Quakers who strongly valued education and social justice. Many...
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Dr. Lillian Welsh | Academic Voice for Suffrage
This episode of Ballot & Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was written by Tina Sheller, assistant professor of Visual and Material Culture at Goucher College. The reader is Tina Sheller. During the early years of the twentieth century, the leadership of…
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Harriet Tubman | Abolitionist & Suffragist
This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, is adapted from a biographical sketch of Harriet Tubman written by Dr. Kate Clifford Larson. Dr. Larson is a scholar and the author of the Tubman biography, “Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman…
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Mary Pickersgill | Star-Spangled Seamstress
This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was written by Amanda Shores Davis, Executive Director of the Star-Spangled Banner House. The reader is Kate Campbell Stevenson, member of the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center Board of Directors and Maryland...
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Margaret Briggs Gregory Hawkins | Education is Power
This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was written by Ida Jones, Ph.D, University Archivist, at Morgan State University in Baltimore. Dr. Jones is the reader. Margaret and her active West Baltimore social and civil contemporaries were engaged in...
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Lilian Reeves Crawford | Local Suffrage Leader
This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, is written and read by Christine R. Valeriann, founder of the Women’s Equality Day Celebration across Maryland Coalition and a volunteer with Maryland Women’s Heritage Center. Inspired by the Suffrage Hikers...
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Elizabeth Forbes | Jailed for Freedom
This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was written and is being read by Dr. Amy Rosenkrans. Women from all parts of the state fought to gain the right to vote. Elizabeth Forbes of Harford County was one of those women. While many in her social...
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Clara Barton | Battlefield to Ballot Box
This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was written by Audrey Partington. The reader is Kalin Thomas. Clara Barton is best known for founding the American Red Cross and nursing wounded soldiers during the Civil War. Lesser known is Barton’s support...
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Edna Latimer | Hiking for Suffrage
This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was written and read by Judy A. Carbone, President of AAUW-Garrett County Branch and a volunteer with Maryland Women’s Heritage Center. Edna Story Latimer was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1878. She was a...
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U.S. Senator Verda Welcome | True Public Servant
This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was written by Ida Jones, Ph.D, University Archivist, Morgan State University in Baltimore. Dr. Jones is the reader. Verda Mae Freeman Welcome was an American teacher, civil rights leader, and Maryland state...
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Elizabeth King Ellicott | Women in Government
This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was written by Diane E. Weaver, Ph.D. The reader is Diane Weaver. Elizabeth King Ellicott was a central figure in the Maryland campaign for women’s right to vote. Her vision of a government that included women...
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The Melvin Family | Rural Suffrage Leaders
This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was written, and read by Jean Thompson, an independent researcher and volunteer writer with Maryland Women’s Heritage Center. The library and archives at Goucher College were invaluable for research. Nannie V....
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Lucy Fisher Gwynne Branham & Lucy Branham | Mother-Daughter Suffrage Team
This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was written and read by Kathi Santora, a volunteer with Maryland Women’s Heritage Center. Two of the gutsiest Maryland women who fought for the 19th Amendment were Lucy Fisher Gwynne Branham and her daughter...
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Henrietta Lacks | The Immortal
This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was written by Dr. Adele Newson-Horst, Professor of English at Morgan State University. The reader is Dr. Newson-Horst. Henrietta Lacks is best recognized for her immortal HeLa cell line (named for the first…
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Ballot & Beyond: Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn | African American Suffrage History
Through her historical scholarship and teaching career, Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn chronicled the work of African American suffragists, whose contributions had largely been ignored or erased in the official histories of the movement. Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn work excavated these hidden stories from...
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Ballot & Beyond: Victorine Q. Adams | Energizing African American Voters
To improve the representation of African American women and energize women to take advance of their right to vote, Victorine Q. Adams registered Baltimore's African American voters by the thousands in the 1940s. Adams would also serve on the Baltimore City Council as the first African American...
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Ballot & Beyond: Lavinia Margaret Engle | Protecting Women's Voting Rights
For all women, the ratification of suffrage did not mark the end of the fight for women’s voting rights. Women needed to stay organized to overcome any obstacles they might face in exercising their new voting rights, so Lavinia Margaret Engle, helped to establish the Maryland League of Women...
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Ballot & Beyond: Eunice Kennedy Shriver | Special Olympics Founder
After years of planning, Eunice Kennedy Shriver opened the first Special Olympics game in 1968. Her brother, Robert Kennedy, was assassinated just seven weeks before. Today, by one estimate, more than three million Special Olympic athletes from all 50 states and 181 countries around the world…
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Ballot & Beyond: Sandi Timmins | Reducing Domestic Violence Against Women
To Sandi Timmins, equality for women includes the right to be free from domestic violence. While defending that right is everyone’s duty, as executive director of House of Ruth Maryland, Timmins has increased outreach and built innovative training programs for communities, professions, employers,...
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Ballot & Beyond: Maxwell, Kelly, Howard | First Female Voters of Maryland
On Maryland's Eastern Shore, the farming village of Still Pond wrote in its charter a guarantee that women taxpayers had the right to vote in all municipal elections. In 1908, 14 women registered to vote including two African American women. On election day, three of the women along with 72 men...
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Ballot & Beyond: Judge Diana G. Motz | Protecting Women's Rights
Judge Diana G. Motz was the first Maryland woman appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She believes that her experiences as the rare woman in the classroom and in the courtroom later benefitted her as a judge. As a member of The Federal Bench, one of Judge Motz's…
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Ballot & Beyond: Lucille Clifton | Maryland State Poet Laureate
In her work, poet Lucille Clifton explored the African American experience and exalted the human capacity to persevere. As a result of her aptitude for compelling and relevant writing, Clifton won major awards and widespread appreciation. This included in Clifton's distinguished role as Maryland...
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Ballot & Beyond: Lucy Diggs Slowe | First Lady of Tennis
In 1917, Baltimore-native Lucy Diggs Slowe won the first-ever championship match held by the newly established American Tennis Association and thus became the first African American woman to win a national championship in any sport. After her tennis career, Diggs Slowe went on to be appointed as...
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Ballot & Beyond: The Honorable Rita C. Davidson | Serving Maryland's Highest Court
The Honorable Rita C. Davidson accomplished a number of firsts in her civil service career; as the first woman to serve Maryland’s cabinet, the first to serve on the intermediate appellate court, and the first to serve on Maryland's highest court.
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Ballot & Beyond: Dr. Liebe Sokol Diamond | Renowned Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon
Dr. Liebe Sokol Diamond was a pioneer in many ways, and one of the nation's leading pediatric orthopedic surgeons. Liebe was born with congenital ring constriction syndrome which caused the loss of several fingers and toes while in the womb. By the time she was a teenager, she had undergone 25...
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Ballot & Beyond: Sara A. Whitehurst | Jury Service for Women
When women finally secured the right to vote in 1920 after a generations-long fight known as the Women's Suffrage movement, women did not receive the responsibility and opportunity for service via jury duty. Sara A. Whitehurst of Baltimore led the Maryland Committee for Jury Service, an umbrella...
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Ballot & Beyond: Rachel Carson | Science Writer
Rachel Carson changed our world for the better, quite literally, with her 1962 book “Silent Spring,” bringing attention to the contamination of our environment by the use of pesticides. Consequently, Carson gained the title of "the mother of the modern environmental movement." Prior to her...
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Ballot & Beyond: Emma Maddox Funck | Leading Maryland Suffragist
Emma Maddox Funck was a Baltimore woman committed to the cause of women's suffrage. One of her major achievements as President of the Maryland Woman Suffrage Association President was successfully lobbying the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) to bring their 1906 annual…
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Ballot & Beyond: Sarah Hemminger | Social Fabric for Students
Sarah Hemminger is the co-founder of Thread, an organization that supports cohorts of struggling students in the Baltimore City's public school system and builds volunteer families around them. This method aims to create a new social fabric for students who are confronting significant challenges...
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Ballot & Beyond: The Honorable Gladys Noon Spellman | Teacher Turned Legislator
U.S. Representative Gladys Noon Spellman was a civic-minded Maryland school teacher and PTA advocate when she signed onto a reform slate running for the Prince George's County commission in 1962. She became the first woman on the commission and by 1966. In her legislative tenure, Spellman fought...
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Ballot & Beyond: Virginia Hall | Allied Spy of WWII
Virginia Hall served the United States and the Allied forces during WWII as an incredibly vital asset. The Nazis called her “the most dangerous of all Allied spies” in Occupied France and called for her elimination. But Virginia Hall, who had a false leg from a childhood incidence, outran the...
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Ballot & Beyond: Mary Bartlett Dixon | Suffragist Arrested for Protesting
Mary Bartlett Dixon was a skilled nurse and active suffragist who was one of many arrested while silently protesting and demanding the vote for women in front of the White House in Washington, DC in 1917. As a nurse, Dixon was well-aware of the terrible conditions that imprisoned activists…
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Ballot & Beyond: Bea Gaddy | Bringing Everyone to the Table
Bea Gaddy was a great champion and protector of the hungry and homeless in Baltimore, Maryland. While she also sat on the Baltimore City Council for one term, she is perhaps best remembered today for hosting free Thanksgiving dinners for all.
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Ballot & Beyond: Sally Michel | Connecting Parks & People
Sally J. Michel was a great champion of protecting the environment and providing access to Baltimore’s outdoors to the city’s youth.Over the course of her impactful life, Michel was on the board over 57 local and state organizations, including being a founding force for the Parks & People...
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Ballot & Beyond: Juanita Jackson Mitchell | Early African American Women in Law
Juanita Jackson Mitchell was the first African American woman to practice law in Maryland. She fought for justice wherever she found injustice. Juanita Jackson Mitchell was also the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Maryland School of Law. Significantly, her example...
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Ballot & Beyond: Estelle Hall Young | Leading African American Suffragist
Estelle Hall Young was a leader of civic and suffrage organizations in Baltimore, Maryland that supported African American visibility and racial equality. In a racially segregated movement, Young organized an African American Women’s Suffrage Club in 1915 to organize and activate Black women in...
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Ballot & Beyond: Willa Bickham | Over 1 Million Served
In the last 50 years there, Willa Bickham, her volunteers and supporters have fed more than one million people from Viva House in Southwest Baltimore, Maryland. Yet, she feels like she’s the one who benefitted, the one who received beneficence.
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Ballot & Beyond: Dr. Nancy Grace Roman | Mother of the Hubble
Nancy Grace Roman had a lifelong quest to become an astronomer. However, she had to overcome misconceptions about the intelligence, capabilities and proper role of women in society and academia. Despite this, she went on to become an executive at NASA. It was here that she became known as the...
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Ballot & Beyond: Augusta Chissell | Civic Leader
In the years leading up to what is known as the Women's Suffrage movement, strong female voices were coming together and laying the groundwork for women's political engagement. Augusta Chissell was a civic leader in West Baltimore, Maryland that leadership positions in the Women’s Cooperative…
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Ballot & Beyond: Francis Watkins Harper | Fighting for the Rights of All
Francis Ellen Watkins Harper is a legendary civil rights activist who saw the intersection of the fight for abolition and suffrage. Harper was a published poet and author who had been born free in Baltimore in 1825 and campaigned around the country for temperance, abolition, and women’s rights.…
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Ballot & Beyond: Jean Baker | Researching Women's History
Historian and professor Jean Baker played an important role in making a place for women in the historical record. She rightly observed that women are too often excluded from historical and academic accounts and her work in the larger women's movement helped many see that the crux of history…
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Ballot & Beyond: The Honorable Barbara Mikulski | Dean of Women
Senator Barbara Mikulski served longer in Congress than any other woman in U.S. history. During her tenure, she became known as Dean of Women. Not only did she gain this title for blazing a trail in government, including wearing slacks on the Senate Floor, but also for mentoring her colleagues.
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Ballot & Beyond: Lola Carson Trax & Edna Story Latimer | Hiking for Suffrage
Lola Carson Trax and Edna Story Latimer led a hike of a dozen suffragists across Western Maryland in 1914. The noteworthy nature of a dozen women walking for two-weeks through hills and towns was a noteworthy occurrence and fed suffragists' goal to keep the fight in the public eye. Along their…
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To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and the enfranchisement of women in America, Preservation Maryland and Gallagher, Evelius & Jones LLP has created Ballot & Beyond, an audio biography series on the contributions of Maryland's remarkable women, past and present.
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