The First 150 Years of Making Love Visible So That All May Be Heard November 1865 to November 2015 Feb 14, 2016

Celebrating All Year Long! Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library Display Closing Tomorrow!

Celebrating All Year Long! The First 150 Years of Making Love Visible Fireside Chats April 10th after the Service! More time for: Sharing stories Asking questions Deeper descriptions

Women’s Suffrage! I, Laura J. Watkins, Petition delivered January 31, 1880 to the California State Senate: I, Laura J. Watkins, a citizen of the United States, a resident of California, City of San José… being a taxpayer… and believing that taxation without representation is tyranny, hereby respectfully petition your honorable bodies for the removal of all political disabilities that she may exercise her right to vote… Lilllian Harris Coffin, Mrs. Theodore Pinther, Jr. and Mrs. Theodore Pinther, Sr.

Unity Society’s Suffragists Dr. Alida C. Avery Marie Herrmann Laura J. Watkins Catherine Smith Sarah Knox-Goodrich

California State Constitution SECTION 1: Every native male citizen of the United States, every male person who shall have acquired the rights of citizenship under or by virtue of treaty of Queretaro, and every male naturalized citizen thereof, who shall have become such ninety days prior to any election, of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been resident of the state one year next preceding the election, and of the county in which he claims his vote ninety days, and in the election precinct thirty days, shall be entitled to vote at all elections which are now or may hereafter be authorized by law; provided, no native of China, no Idiot, no Insane person, no person convicted of any infamous crime, no person hereafter convicted of the embezzlement or misappropriation of public money, and no person who shall not be able to read the constitution in the English language and write his name, shall ever exercise the privileges of an elector in this state; provided, that the provisions of this amendment relative to an educational qualification shall not apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with its requisitions, nor to any person who now has the right to vote, nor to any person who shall be sixty years of age and upwards at the time this amendment shall take effect.

Amendment to California State Constitution San Francisco Call 28 Sep 1890 San Francisco Call 22 Apr 1911 The legislature of the State of California, at its regular session commencing on the second day of January, nineteen hundred and eleven, two thirds of the members elected to each of the two houses of the said legislature voting in favor thereof, hereby proposes that section one of the article two of the constitution of the State of California be amended so as to read as follows:

Amendment to California State Constitution Section 1. Every native citizen of the United States, every person who shall have acquired the rights of citizenship under or by virtue of treaty of Queretaro, and every naturalized citizen thereof, who shall have become such ninety days prior to any election, of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been resident of the state one year next preceding the election, and of the county in which he or she claims his or her vote ninety days, and in the election precinct thirty days, shall be entitled to vote at all elections which are now or may hereafter be authorized by law; provided, no native of China, no Idiot, no Insane person, no person convicted of any infamous crime, no person hereafter convicted of the embezzlement or misappropriation of public money, and no person who shall not be able to read the constitution in the English language and write his or her name, shall ever exercise the privileges of an elector in this state; provided, that the provisions of this amendment relative to an educational qualification shall not apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with its requisitions, nor to any person who now has the right to vote, nor to any person who shall be sixty years of age and upwards at the time this amendment shall take effect.

Women’s Suffrage in California Defeated in 1896 St. Elizabeth’s Day Home 1907 Squeaked by in 1911

Suffrage 1911 Ida Husted Harper, Selena Solomons, Carrie Chapman Catt, Anne Bidwell, (seated) Lucy Anthony, Dr. Anna H. Shaw, Susan B. Anthony, Ellen Clark Sargent, and Mary Hay Elizabeth Gerberding, Mary Sperry, and Nellie Eyester

Registered to Vote!

Anti-Lynching Next Month: Join us! Saturdays ~1pm-4pm California Room California Governor Rolph publicly praised the mob: “The best lesson ever given the country. I would like to parole all kidnappers in San Quentin to the fine, patriotic citizens of San Jose.” Join us! Saturdays ~1pm-4pm California Room 5th floor MLK Library knrivers66@gmail.com (408) 888-0757 Brooke Harte