Celebrating Women with Roxcy Bolton
Date and Time
Thursday Aug 26, 2010
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM EDT
10 a.m. - 2 p.m.; Special presentation at 11 a.m.
Location
HistoryMiami, 101 West Flagler Street, Downtown Miami
Fees/Admission
HistoryMiami Members: FREE; Non-Members: $8 which includes Museum Admission
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Contact Information
Victoria Cervantes
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Description
The 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granted women the right to vote. In 1971, the U.S. Congress designated August 26th as Women?s Equality Day to not only commemorate the passage of the 19th Amendment, but also to call attention to women?s continuing efforts toward full equality.
For three decades, Roxcy Bolton has been Florida's leading women's rights activist, instrumental in establishing the Rape Treatment Center, the first of its kind, at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami and organizing Florida's first Crime Watch meeting to help stem crime against women.
Join HistoryMiami in ?Celebrating Women? with a one-time display of memorabilia from collection items donated to HistoryMiami by Roxcy Bolton herself. Among the items on display are personal photographs, documents, a rocking chair and her home office desk.
