Event Info: https://www.novaparks.com/parks/occoquan-regional-park/events/womens-equality-day-celebration
Celebrate Women’s Equality Day with guided tours of the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial by docents in period attire, artifact displays and light refreshments.
A keynote address will be presented by Virginia Lieutenant Governor Ghazala Hashmi, the first Asian American and Muslim elected to statewide office. American Association of University Women CEO, Gloria Blackwell will provide perspectives and suffragist stories will be shared by historian Shirley M. Marshall, author of A Radical Suffragist in Washington, DC.: An Inside Story of the National Women’s Party.
This free event is being presented in partnership with American Association of University Women of Virginia (AAUW-VA), Virginia Chapter National Organization for Women (Virginia NOW), Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. – Fairfax County Alumnae Chapter, and The League of Women Voters of Virginia (LWV-VA).
The Turning Point Suffragist Memorial at Occoquan Regional Park commemorates the millions of women who engaged in the Suffragist Movement. The Suffragists’ decades-long persistence resulted in the greatest expansion of democracy the world had ever witnessed when twenty-five million women won the right to vote with the certification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, now known as Women’s Equality Day.
Occoquan Regional Park | Lorton
