{"id":9519,"date":"2021-03-12T13:53:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T18:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=9519"},"modified":"2021-04-15T14:24:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T18:24:18","slug":"celebrating-the-100th-anniversary-of-the-19th-amendment-in-the-midst-of-covid-19-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=9519","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment in the Midst of COVID-19 – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is Part 1 of a two-part article. Part 2 can be accessed here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

SCRC planned an exhibit of materials to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution in the fall of 2020. The exhibit was intended to coincide with a panel discussion on the Equal Rights Amendment to be held in Fenwick Library. Each fall the Libraries partner with Mason’s OSHER Lifelong Learning Institute<\/a> (OLLI) to facilitate an event in which members of OLLI serve as panelists to discuss historical events and movements. A Mason faculty member serves as moderator.\u00a0 The events are open to the university community and the public. SCRC creates an exhibition of its materials pertaining to the theme of the historical event about which the panel discussion will deal. And each year a visit to the exhibition for attendees was part of the program. The title for this exhibit would be “The 19th Amendment in the 20th Century”.<\/p>\n

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Poster for hanging in the window of a home to detail a resident’s voter status. League of Women Voters of the Fairfax Area records, C0031<\/p><\/div>\n

With the prolonged library closures due to COVID-19, we had to adapt both the OLLI event and the exhibition to work in an online setting. We chose the venerable Omeka digital exhibitions platform to create an exhibition of photographs, rare books, and manuscript items. We have used Omeka for about a decade and, while not terribly fancy, we’ve found it to be a fairly stable and easy to use CMS which, essentially, gets the job done. The digital exhibition can be found at http:\/\/artemis.gmu.edu\/SCRC\/exhibits\/show\/nineteenthamendment100<\/a><\/p>\n

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Entry page for “The 19th Amendment in the 20th Century” digital exhibit.<\/p><\/div>\n

The exhibit contains 29 items selected from several collections, as well as rare books.\u00a0 It covers about 150 years of the history of the Womens’ Rights Movement, from 1869 to present in 5 sections.:<\/p>\n