Native-born West Virginian, and a US Historian, Suronda Gonzalez, is leading a WV team for a suffrage project seeking to crowdsource an "Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States [1]" She is working to coordinate authors for biographies about Suffragists from West Virginia.
She is looking for historians and students of history interested in researching and writing 500-word biographical sketches of suffrage supporters in their state.
In the first phase of our work, we have received excellent sketches written by high school, community college, and four-year college students, working under the direction of their history faculty. We also have had volunteers who are graduate students or independent historians, who have written one or two biographical sketches. Complete biographical sketches will be submitted on a rotating basis in 2018 and 2019 in order to post the sketches on the website in time for the centennial of the passage of the nineteenth amendment which assured all women in the United States the right to vote.
She thought this might be a perfect project for members of the League of Women Voters. Here is a link with all the individuals included in the WV entries [2]. You can see which ones are available (in the salmon color). Please send her any information you may have, and local Presidents please share this with your members!
Contact Information: Suronda Gonzalez, Chair surondagonzalez@gmail.com Cultures And Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) Consortium [3] P.O. Box 24152 | Rochester, NY 14624 | 607.768.4603
Links: ------ [1] http://chswg.binghamton.edu/WASM-US/crowdsourcing/NAWSA_description.html [2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-VcnvdgtsU5JhHHBLWn9zW5zdaZ6eC1u8xzj... [3] https://clacconsortium.org/