California Women & their Fight for Civil Rights Celebration | SF

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SF’s HERstory Festival: 100+ Events

In March 2019, the San Francisco Public Library presents HERstory, a month-long celebration of Women’s History Month, honoring and acknowledging the contributions of women and the unique experience of being female today with a diverse array of lectures, films, performances and programs for all ages at every library location.

HERstory 2019 / Women’s History Month Festival
March 1-31, 2019
San Francisco Public Library – All branches
FREE – All programs and exhibits are free and open to the public

HERstory Program Guide (PDF) | See full list of 100+ events

 

Wednesday, March 20, 2019
SF’s HERstory Festival: 100+ Events

Join and find out what motivated these bold women – and the rights they won for us all.

Since the early days of statehood, women in California have been at the forefront of the fight for civil rights. There will have a look at the lives of Charlotte Brown, who fought the color bar on San Francisco street cars in 1863, Selina Solomons who organized shop girls and laundresses to win women’s suffrage, Alice Piper, a 15-year-old Paiute who challenged the segregation of Native American children in Big Pine public schools – and other courageous women.

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