Wpmen’s Suffrage Car in Nevada, Photo Courtesy Wikimedia.

You are invited to attend a lecture:  Suffrage Road Trip by Ann Gass on Saturday, March 25, from 1;30 pm – 2:30 pm in the USM Glickman Library, Portland.  Ms. Gass will present material from her book – “We Demand:  The Suffrage Road Trip.”  This will be an in-person event.

In 1915, four women left San Francisco for Washington, D.C. on a desparate and dangerous mission to demand an amendment to the U.S. Constituion that would enfranchise women. The story unfolds through the eyes of unsung heroes Ingeborg Kindstedt and Maria Kindberg, middle-aged Swedish immigrants who own the car, do all the driving and fix what goes wrong.  Among many other adventures, the women lose their way in a trecherous Nevada desert and get stuck in the mud in Kanas.  Can they arrive in Washington at the appointed day and time.

The lecture will be held in the University Events Room, 7th floor of the Glickman Library.  Parking is available in the garage on Bedford Street.

This is the final lecture in the 2023 Wnter Lecture Series hosted by Spirits Alive.