The Sargent House Museum celebrates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution with a talk by Barbara F. Berenson, author of Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement: Revolutionary Reformers.

The talk is free, but registration is required - please sign-up. 

Few Massachusetts residents today will be surprised that their state, which led the fight to abolish slavery, provided leaders for the simultaneous struggle to earn women the right to vote. But they may be shocked to learn that their state also led the resistance to this change in American life.

Prominent leaders of the suffrage movement Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton have overshadowed the role played by Massachusetts women such as Lucy Stone. But Stone played a vital role, as Berenson explains. And in the racial controversy that bitterly divided the movement’s leadership, Stone proved to be on the right side of history.

A graduate of Harvard Law School, Barbara F. Berenson served as senior attorney at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. In addition to Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement, Berenson is the author of Boston and the Civil War: Hub of the Second Revolution, and co-editor of Breaking Barriers: The Unfinished Story of Women Lawyers and Judges in Massachusetts.