Women’s History Month
WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
March 2022
Paying tribute to women of the local community in a celebration of history and culture and in recognition of the community’s struggle for inclusion and equity.
DOLORES HUERTA: NEGOTIATING IDENTITIES IN SERVICE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE, ACTIVISM, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Presented by Sandra E. Garcia, Glendale Unified School District Spanish FLAG & History teacher
Sandra E. Garcia
In honor of Women’s History Month, come learn more about the life, work and legacy of Dolores Huerta. Learn about her struggles to eliminate pesticides from many of the same crops that end up in your cup of tea. Learn how topics such as intersectionality, gender/ethnic bias, social justice, activism, and advocacy collide in the life-story of this iconic woman and the lives of those she touched. Reflect on the ways Huerta negotiated some of her various identities and overcame many of the challenges she faced, all while exploring your own. And finally, come ready to be inspired and be called to action by her example and extraordinary life.
MARCH 29, 6:30PM - 7:30PM
ZOOM PRESENTATION
Dolores Huerta
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN ROSIE THE RIVETER EXPERIENCE WITH BETTY REID SOSKIN, AGE 100
Virtual Author Talk
Join Betty Reid Soskin, a 100 year-old ranger with the National Park Service, assigned to the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California and Dr. Gary Shaffer, Director of Glendale Library, Arts & Culture as they discuss her tremendous history and experience as an African American Female during World War II. Betty grew up during the depression, her family was part of the Great Black Migration from the South, settling in the Bay Area. She worked in the Army Air Force and the Boilermakers Union during WWII. She has been an activist, musician, and is currently the oldest National Park Ranger serving the United States.
In February 2018, she released a memoir, Sign My Name to Freedom, available for checkout as an eBook.
AVAILABLE ON OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL
ROSIE THE RIVETER: CELEBRATED
Image displays and bookmark series
In honor of Black History Month, Women’s History Month and Rosie the Riveter Day, the Library has created special displays at all eight sites with images of African American Rosie the Riveters.
Bookmarks of these images will also be available.
FIND MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ROSIE THE RIVETER BY CLICKING BELOW
EQUALITY TEA
Korean-American performance artist, Jaime Sunwoo, illustrates an American Women’s Suffrage Movement steeped with inequality in her film Equality Tea.
In her film, Sunwoo brews tea infused with truth. She shines a light on the dark history of western tea consumption and recognizes the disenfranchisement within the suffrage movement. She acknowledges the many women of color that spoke up for women’s rights, for women’s suffrage and for equality.
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By the mid-1800’s, the abolitionist movement was reaching a fever pitch, Civil War was looming around the corner, and American women were ready to demand the same rights as men. At the time, women could not own property after they were married, women had no legal claim to the money they earned, and women were denied the right to vote.
Gathered in Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s parlor, over cups of tea, Lucretia Mott, Stanton and others discussed the need for women’s rights. There, Stanton drafted the Declaration of Sentiments, a document that was read days later at the first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, NY. This declaration, modeled after the Declaration of Independence, called for the enfranchisement of women.
From there, the Women’s Rights Movement and the Women’s Suffrage Movement were under way in America. Fundraisers, in the form of Suffrage Teas, were held by wealthy white women across the nation. Here, white women gathered to stir up the cause over some “Equality Tea,” “Votes for Women Tea” or “Suffrage Tea.”
Excluded from these Suffrage Teas were Black suffragists and other women of color. While the suffrage movement continued to agitate the nation, Black suffragists were refused entry to suffrage meetings and were forced to march at the back of suffrage parades; that is, when they were allowed to march at all.
Korean-American performance artist, Jaime Sunwoo, illustrates an American Women’s Suffrage Movement steeped with inequality in her film Equality Tea.
In her film, Sunwoo brews tea infused with truth. She shines a light on the dark history of western tea consumption and recognizes the disenfranchisement within the suffrage movement. She acknowledges the many women of color that spoke up for women’s rights, for women’s suffrage and for equality.
This year, as we celebrate Women’s History Month and remember the more than 70 year climb for women’s suffrage, we ask you to remember the women of color that helped us achieve the right to vote. These remarkable women are:
• The Women of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the oldest continuously functioning democracy in the world.
• Native American Activists Zitkála-Šá and Susette La Flesche Tibbles, who fought for Native American Rights.
• Native Hawaiian suffragist Wilhelmina Dowsett, who led Hawaiian women, fellow Hapa women, and Asian women to fight for suffrage in Hawaii.
• Activist Mabel Pin-Hua Lee, who organized fellow Chinese Americans in New York City’s Chinatown to advocate for women’s rights and suffrage.
• Latinx activists Maria de Lopez, the first woman to give a speech in Spanish in support of women’s suffrage.
• Adelina Otero-Warren who led the movement in New Mexico.
• Ida B. Wells, Sojourner Truth, Mary Church Terrell, and the many Black abolitionists and suffragists who implicitly recognized that Black liberation and women’s empowerment are intertwined.
— Equality Tea, Jaime Sunwoo
Now, brew yourself a cup of your favorite tea, sit down and enjoy Equality Tea by Jaime Sunwoo.
Equality Tea by Jaime Sunwoo
Original score by Matt Chilton, based on an 1895 suffragist anthem by Augusta Gray Gunn.
Commissioned by Park Avenue Armory and The Laundromat Project for "100 Years | 100 Women."
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed).
THE ENGINEER’S WIFE BY TRACEY ENERSON WOOD
Celebrate Women’s History Month with this month’s Online Book Club selection.
Based on the true story of an American icon, The Engineer's Wife delivers an emotional portrait of a woman transformed by a project of unfathomable scale, which takes her into the bowels of the East River, suffragette riots, the halls of Manhattan's elite, and the heady, freewheeling temptations of P.T. Barnum. The biography of a husband and wife determined to build something that lasts—even at the risk of losing each other.
SPECIAL TGT WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH EPISODES
FRIDAYS AT 4:30PM
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In honor of Women's History Month, we are offering an opportunity drawing for "Votes for Women” teacup set in recognition of the countless women who dedicated themselves to the cause of women’s suffrage.
To be in the running for the tea cup and saucer, complete the survey.
Also, stop by and grab a bag of tea from one of our branches (while supplies last).
STARTING MARCH 21
ALL AGES
FOR TEENS
FOR CHILDREN
AT BRAND
LOCAL RESOURCES
YWCA of Glendale - The YWCA of Glendale provides confidential services and education to community in an effort to end domestic violence. The services include case management, legal assistance, counseling, referrals, childcare as well as temporary community living at an undisclosed, safe location.
League of Women Voters of Glendale/Burbank - The League of Women Voters is a non-partisan political organization that encourages informed and active participation in government. It also works to increase understanding of major public policy issues and influences public policy through education and advocacy
Downtown Women’s Center - The Downtown Women’s Center (DWC) envisions a Los Angeles with every woman housed and on a path to personal stability. Its mission is to end homelessness for women in greater Los Angeles through housing, wellness, employment, and advocacy.
Women's Advocacy Club - Women’s Advocacy Club is a global non-profit charity organization. As it continues to grow, it hopes to connect with more like-minded people to raise importance to gender, mental health, and social justice issues.
Prototypes - Prototypes rebuilds the lives of women, children and communities impacted by substance use, mental illness and domestic violence. We promote self-sufficiency while ensuring safety and shelter for those in need.
Af3irm Los Angeles - The LA chapter hosts annual International Women’s Day celebrations, participates in anti-war and pro-immigrant rallies and forums, and often host AF3IRM’s Red Feminist Radio. In the past, they have hosted fashion shows to highlight AF3IRM’s campaigns and worked with high school youth to fight against domestic violence and rape.
GENERAL RESOURCES
National Women’s History Museum - For the last twenty years, the National Women’s History Museum has served as the largest online cultural institution dedicated to US women’s history.
As an institution, it has galvanized support for preserving, illuminating, and sharing the powerful history of women in America.
Women’s History - Learn about the half of history missing from many history books with biographies, articles, timelines and other resources on the women—famous and lesser-known—who have shaped our world.
The National Women’s History Alliance - is a leader in promoting Women’s History and is committed to the goals of education, empowerment, equality, and inclusion.
Smithsonian Institution - To create a more equitable America, the Smithsonian is researching, disseminating, and amplifying the histories of American women through its American Women’s History Initiative in preparation for the future Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum. The Smithsonian wants the role of women in American history to be well-known, accurate, acknowledged, and empowering.
Women’s History Month - The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history.
YWCA - This March, in honor of Women’s History Month, YWCA will launch their 31 Days of Women’s Impact Initiative, during which they’ll highlight the achievements of women past and present in a wide range of industries while highlighting how they’re continuing the work of empowering the women of today and tomorrow.
