AAUW Ely Branch
SAVE THE DATE!
“Women’s Lives Transformed – the 19th Amendment to Today”
Please join us for a Women’s Suffrage Conference
Let’s Celebrate the 100 Year Anniversary of our Right to Vote!
When: June 26 and 27, 2020
Where: Vermilion Community College, Ely, Minnesota
Speakers:
Dr. Sara Evans, Author and Historian
Dr. Annette Atkins, Author and Historian
Linda Wharton, JD, Political Scientist
(concentration in gender discrimination and the law)
Presenter Biographies
Sara Evans Dr. Evans is a Regents Professor Emeritus in the history department at the University of Minnesota. She has also worked as the editor of Feminist Studies and a consulting editor of the Journal of American History. Her books include: Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left(1979), Born for Liberty: A History of American Women (1989), Wage Justice: Comparable Worth and the Paradox of Technocratic Reform (1989) (with Barbara J. Nelson), Free Spaces: Sources of Democratic Change in America, 2nd edition, (1992) (with Harry C. Boyte), Journeys That Opened Up the World: Women, Student Christian Movements, and Social Justice, 1955-1975 (2003), and Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century’s End (2003).
Annette Atkins Annette Atkins is a professor emerita at Saint John’s University and the College of Saint Benedict in Minnesota. A scholar, teacher, and public historian, she specializes in transforming serious research into compelling stories. She is the author of Harvest of Grief: Grasshopper Plagues and Public Assistance in Minnesota, 1873–78 (1984), a book about nineteenth-century rural poverty; We Grew Up Together: Brothers and Sisters in Nineteenth-Century America (2001), a Choice outstanding academic publication about adult sibling relationships; Creating Minnesota: A History from the Inside Out (2007), a path-breaking reinvention of state history which won awards from American Association for State and Local History and Western Writers of America.
Linda Wharton Throughout Linda Wharton’s life and career, she has remained dedicated to advancing the status of women and working to eradicate gender discrimination. Ms. Wharton served as the managing attorney at the Women’s Law Project in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she specialized in both litigation and legal reform related to gender discrimination. She also served as co-lead counsel in the landmark case Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Linda Wharton has also contributed to scholarly literature in the area of gender discrimination, and has served as Chair on the Board of Directors of the National Women’s History Project and the Women’s Rights Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association. Currently, Ms. Wharton is a Professor of Political Science at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
** Invitation and Registration Materials emailed in Winter, 2020
***This conference is made possible through the generosity of the Brunfelt-Sainio Memorial Fund.