Event

One Woman One Vote: Jeannette Rankin on Suffrage and War (6:30p)

To commemorate the centennial year of the 19th Amendment, Colorado Humanities is proud to present this living-history portrayal of Jeannette Rankin, a woman of the American West and the first woman to serve in the U.S. Congress. She ran for Congress to fight for women’s suffrage, believing more humanitarian laws would come when women had a voice in their government. In her first session in Congress, she was required to take a stand on war: she never waivered in her conviction that “peace is a woman’s job.” This portrayal focuses on her rise to political prominence during the volatile climate of the last years of the suffrage fight and her legacy of courage as a pioneering woman politician of the West.

Scholar and historic interpreter Mary Jane Bradbury draws on over 25 years as an educator, actor, and author to bring history to life.