Fri 2/5 @ 10AM
Good news! The Western Reserve Historical Society’s Cleveland History Center reopens for visitors on Friday February 5. For the time being, it’ll be open from 10am-4pm Fridays and Saturdays — and advance reservations are required.
This means that its new exhibit Women and Politics: Empowered to Vote/Empowered to Lead, which debuted August and has been partly viewable online since then, can now be seen in person. It looks at the engagement of women in the political life of the U.S. from the earliest suffragettes through the ratifcation of the 19th Amendment in 1920 giving women the right to vote, to the election of the country’s first woman vice president.
“The experiences and contributions of women, African Americans, and immigrants are a focus of the Western Reserve Historical Society, and are the core message of the guest experience,” says WRHS president/CEO Kelly Faclon-Hall. “Women and Politics will shed light on the pivotal, albeit sometimes forgotten role Northeast Ohio played in the fight for the 19th Amendment.
The exhibit will be on view through September 30. Also on view are Carl and Louis Stokes: Making History about Cleveland’s first Black mayor and his brother, longtime congressman from Cleveland’s east side; and Celebrate Those Who Give Black, about Black philanthropy in Cleveland.
Get tickets here.