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Goucher College Women’s Suffrage Marker Dedication

Historic Marker Unveiling
Friday, February 28th, 2020 1:30pm to 3:30pm
Goucher College: 1021 Dulaney Valley Road, Towson, MD

Goucher College and the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center will host a dedication for a new historic marker commemorating the institution’s contributions to the suffrage movement. The marker is the second placed in Maryland on the National Votes for Women Trail, a committee of the National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites.

The marker dedication will take place beginning at 3 p.m. in front of the Dorsey College Center on campus. The program that afternoon will begin with a program at Buchner Hall featuring several presentations about Baltimore’s women’s suffrage movement. Speakers include: Dr. Jean H. Baker, professor emerita at Goucher College; Dr. Ida Jones, archivist at Morgan State University; and Beverly Carter, archivist with the DuBois Circle of Baltimore.

Marker Inscription
GOUCHER COLLEGE
FACULTY & STUDENTS CAMPAIGNED
FOR WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE, HOSTED
SUFFRAGE SPEAKERS & MARCHED IN
WASHINGTON DC 1913. STUDENTS
PICKETED WHITE HOUSE 1917.
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2019