Please Join Us.  The Inez Milholland Centennial campaign is seeking Partners who will help fund and implement this campaign during 2020.  Partners, individuals and organizations, are invited to:
  • Educate people about the life and sacrifice of Inez Milholland and other American suffragists,
  • Promote the Votes for Women story in their own constituencies,
  • Encourage young people to register and vote,
  • Comment on Inez Milholland and other suffragists in person, print and social media, and
  • Set up local events honoring Inez and other suffragists during Women’s History Month in March and later in the year.  
 
Partners can make a one-time contribution of $50 or $100 or more to the Inez Milholland Centennial through the National Women's History Project's website, nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org.  All partners receive
  • an “Honor Inez” button,
  • a 50% discount on future orders, 
  • a subscription to our online newsletter, 
  • recognition on our website and in our materials, and
  • a copy of the book, "Remembering Inez."
The two levels of on-line donations make it simple to support our effort.  Large groups and generous individuals can choose to be $100 Partners, while smaller groups and generous individuals can choose to be $50 Partners.  Supporters can also donate any amount by check.  We really appreciate and depend on your support and involvement.

The Inez Milholland Centennial is a project of the 40-year-old National Women’s History Alliance in Santa Rosa, California.  Marguerite Kearns and Robert P. J. Cooney, Jr. serve as co-chairs.  Marguerite Kearns, the granddaughter of New York State suffrage activist Edna Kearns, is a writer who edits SuffrageCentennials.com.  Robert Cooney, an editor and graphic designer, wrote “Winning the Vote: The Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement” and edited “Remembering Inez: The Last Campaign of Inez Milholland, Suffrage Martyr.” (AmericanGraphicPress.com)  He started the Woman Suffrage Media Project in 1993.


Dates and Events

Inez Milholland is buried in Lewis, New York, deep in the Adirondack mountains.  A mountain there has recently been named in her honor.  The campaign encourages commemorative events, conferences, film screenings, and book signings there and in New York City, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., and other locations.  Inez was born in Brooklyn on August 6, 1886, collapsed in Los Angeles on October 23, 1916, and died there on November 25, 1916.  Her memorial under the U.S. Capitol dome was on Christmas Day.

 PictureInez Milholland, on the right, led the 1911 woman suffrage parade in New York City with Sarah McPike and Alberta Hill.



















We will keep supporters up to date by email and our digital Inez newsletter.  We are happy to report that Linda Lumsden’s biography, “Inez: The Life and Times of Inez Milholland,” has been reissued by Indiana University Press.  

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Please email us with any questions or communications at agp@ebold.com.

The RememberingInez.com website offers more information about Inez, portions of her final 1916 speech, and downloadable photographs. 

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The goal of the campaign is to do more than just make Inez someone only to be appreciated from a distance.  She deserves to be known as a real, complex woman who is representative of tens of thousands of American women who worked and sacrificed together to accomplish something that must have seemed impossible at the time.  The Inez Milholland Centennial honors them and the great prize of democracy they won for half the country.