{"id":244537,"date":"2011-09-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/womens-suffrage-parade-honors-100-years-of-womens-right-to-vote\/"},"modified":"2011-09-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T07:00:00","slug":"womens-suffrage-parade-honors-100-years-of-womens-right-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/womens-suffrage-parade-honors-100-years-of-womens-right-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Suffrage Parade honors 100 years of Women’s Right to Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some parade attendees dressed in period appropriate outfits. (Photo by Jocelyn Maggard)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Por Jocelyn Maggard |<\/strong> Reportero SDUN<\/p>\n

The late summer afternoon sun shone through the trees atop the Kate Session\u2019s statue in Balboa Park where approximately 120 women, and a few men, gathered for the California Centennial Suffrage Parade on August 25.<\/p>\n

One hundred years ago, California was the sixth state to grant women the right to vote, and The Women\u2019s Museum of California held their sixth annual suffrage parade in honor of the Centennial.<\/p>\n

The date for the parade was chosen to coincide with Women\u2019s Equality Day on August 26, said Ashley Gardner, the museum\u2019s executive director.<\/p>\n

The parade\u2019s announcement on the museum\u2019s website reminded participants to grab their signs and hats. Many did dress up. Twenty-five members of the San Diego Costume Guild were at the parade, wearing outfits
\nlike women would have worn in 1911, adding more festivity to the parade.<\/p>\n

Evah Allen of the costume guild said this was the first of the museum\u2019s women\u2019s suffrage parade in which they marched.<\/p>\n

Around 6 p.m. marchers chanted the words \u201cThey thought they were in Heaven, in 1911, when California women finally got the vote,\u201d as they went into Balboa Park via the Cabrillo Bridge, and finished at Spreckels Organ Pavilion where members of the San Diego Women\u2019s Drum Circle kept the beat.<\/p>\n

Judy \u201cThe Beauty\u201d Forman, civil rights activist, philanthropist, and owner of the award-winning Big Kitchen Caf\u00e9 in South Park, was a key personality of the event and composed the chant.<\/p>\n

Before the march, elected officials such as California State Senator Christine Kehoe, former Assembly member and congressional candidate Lori Saldana, and Congressman and San Diego mayoral candidate Bob Filner, and Gardner, spoke on the historical and political value of the Centennial celebration, and why women have to continue to stand up for their rights.<\/p>\n

Filner, noting his life-long activism in civil rights, quoted Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. who said, \u201cWe\u2019ve come a long way, but we have a long way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kehoe reminded the crowed that women were not given the right to vote, but they won it, and added that the next step is to elect more women into public office.<\/p>\n

Other represented groups included Planned Parenthood, YWCA, League of Women Voters, the Older Women\u2019s
\nLeague, American Association of University Women, the National Organization for Women, and WSTOPFASD, a group from El Cajon working to prevent Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.<\/p>\n

A few men made it to the Aug.25 event; some were dressed in period clothing. Tom Leech, a local San Diego
\nwriter, says he knows many of the women involved in the event, including Gardner, and likes to support the cause and the museum.<\/p>\n

For more information about the Women\u2019s Museum of California visit womensmuseumca.org.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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