Category: Media

Category: Media

There are two upcoming events related to the ongoing project Century of Action: Oregon Women Vote, 1912-2012:

Century of Action on KBOO radio, March 4

CoA Project Director Janice Dilg and CoA President Eliza Canty-Jones will be guests on KBOO‘s Bread and Roses program this Friday evening. Host Nicole Vulcan will highlight the upcoming woman suffrage centennial during her show in honor of International Women’s Day March 8.

Tune in to hear more about the new Century of Action website, the history of women getting the vote, their political work in the state, and maybe even some historical suffrage songs.

Turn your dial to 90.7 FM this Friday March 4 at 6:00 p.m!

Century of Action Kick-Off, Salem, March 8, 2011

Century of Action: Oregon Women Vote, 1912-2012 will be having a kick-off event March 8, 2011, which also happens to be International Women’s Day. They are co-hosting this event with Sec. of State Kate Brown, and it will be held in the Capitol Building in Salem from 5:30-7:00 pm. The evening’s program will be from 6-6:30 and will comprise several speakers, a launch of the Century of Action website, highlight the upcoming Oregon Blue Book with woman suffrage as its theme, and the first reading of the Declaration of Statewide Celebration by Oregon Heritage Commission Director Kyle Jansson.

The Northwest History Network has played a critical role in getting the Century of Action project off the ground. CoA Project Director Janice Dilg would like the opportunity to publicly thank NHN for its early and ongoing support for the project and provide a venue for NHN to become more widely known. We are anticipating 75-100 guests that will include elected officials and supporters of the suffrage centennial.

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John Terry, “Multnomah County tax measure aims to keep Oregon Historical Society going,” Oregonian, Oct. 16, 2010, p. B2:

    Multnomah County voters have the opportunity to keep the [Oregon Historical S]ociety’s doors open at 1200 S.W. Park Ave. Measure 26-118 on the Nov. 2 ballot is a five-year levy to reinforce the society as well as the Troutdale, Crown Point Country, Gresham and Fairview-Rockwood-Wilkes historical societies.

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OPB Radio’s Think Out Loud program recently aired a show on Aug. 26 focused on “The Political Power of Women“:

    You’ll hear it all over the press this week: ninety years ago women across the United States won the right to vote. This came, of course, after a decades-long suffragist movement and after a slow progression of women gaining rights, state by state. In Oregon, women were actually granted the right to vote eight years before the 19th Amendment was ratified on August 26, 1920. To a large extent this was thanks to local activist Abigail Scott Duniway. . . .

This show did not feature a representative of Century of Action (CoA), but the conversation and online comments relate directly to many of the topics that the CoA project is covering. Also, CoA Project Director Jan Dilg posted a comment.

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