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

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

3. 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

4. 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.

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

6. 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.

7. 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:

8. 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.

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

11. 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

12. Registered to Vote!

13. 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
(408)
Brooke Harte