Ballot & Beyond

Ballot & Beyond

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Ballot & Beyond episodes

  • Mrs. Edward H. Harris, Sr. | Suffragist By Any Name
    This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, is written and read by Christine R. Valeriann, founder of the Women’s Equality Day Celebration across Maryland Coalition and a volunteer with Maryland Women’s Heritage Center.
    As president of the Just Government League of Allegany County in rural Western Maryland, Mrs. Edward Harris led the organization at a critical time, through two of the most seminal moments in Maryland’s suffrage history. Her activism is well-documented, but in typical fashion for the time, she is always referred to as either Mrs. Edward Harris or Mrs. Edward H. Harris, Sr., and never credited under her own name, which was possibly Ellen. Under any name, she deserves her due as one of Maryland's leading suffragists.
    Ballot & Beyond is powered by Preservation Maryland, the state’s largest and oldest non-profit dedicated to Maryland’s public history, built heritage, and cultural landscapes.
    14 min
  • Sadie Jacobs Crockin | Visionary Jewish Suffragist
    This episode of Ballot & Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women's Heritage Center, is adapted from a biographical sketch of Sadie Jacobs Crockin written by scholar Barry Kessler. The reader is Sally T. Grant, granddaughter of Sadie Crockin.
    A life well-summarized by the Jewish Museum of Maryland: "As a woman, an American, and a Jew, Sadie Jacobs Crockin championed many causes.  Throughout her life, she brought women together in organizations that empowered diverse Americans to participate fully in civic life.  Crockin exemplified the college-educated, progressive “New Woman” of her day who joined women’s club for self-improvement and to effect social change.  Under her leadership, the Baltimore chapter of the League of Women Voters helped women exercise their newly won right to vote.  She was the founding president of the Baltimore chapter of Hadassah, the first Zionist women’s organization.  Once she had firmly established these and other organizations locally, Crockin achieved statewide prominence as an advocate for social justice and women’s rights."
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    10 min
  • Ellen Newbold La Motte | Activist & Adventurer
    This episode of ballot beyond contributed by the Maryland Women's Heritage Center. Was written and is being read by Dr. Amy Amy Rosenkrans. 
    Ellen Lamont's entire life could be considered a high adventure. A Delaware socialite. She chose to become a nurse, writer, activist, and world traveler. She went to England to document the activities of the suffragette movement.
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    9 min
  • Reverend Doctor Pauli Murray | The Will To Thrive
    This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, is written and read by Christine R. Valeriann, a long-time board member of the Baltimore chapter of the National Organization for Women and a volunteer with the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center.
    The Reverend Doctor Pauli Murray was ahead of her time and a pioneer in the areas of civil rights, feminism, labor, the law, academia, gender, and religion. Fifteen years before Rosa Parks, Murray was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a Virginia bus. Twenty years before Greensboro, she organized a sit-in to desegregate a restaurant. And 40 years before the language of intersectionality, she was invoking the race-sex analogy to describe black women’s positionality within the law.
    Ballot & Beyond is powered by Preservation Maryland, the state’s largest and oldest non-profit dedicated to Maryland’s public history, built heritage, and cultural landscapes.
    14 min
  • Laura Byrne | Serving Suffrage With A Smile
    This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was researched by Dan Materazzi, authored by Paulette Lutz and Executive Director Shawn Gladden of the Howard Co. Historical Society.  It was read by Elizabeth Bobo, First Female County Executive in Maryland and longtime history, voting rights and gender equity advocate.  She is also the Howard Co. Year of the Woman liaison and a volunteer with Maryland Women’s Heritage Center.
    On the local level, Mrs. Bernard J. Byrne, also known as Laura Laurenson Byrne, led the fight for Women’s Suffrage in Howard County along with her daughter Laura Byrne Hickok. As the President of the Howard County Just Government League, Laura Byrne worked tirelessly to inform and educate all women of Howard County regardless of race, religion, or political persuasion.  Often traveling all over the county, when most of the roads were dirt or gravel, she visited the ladies on the farms who did not get into town frequently or did not have access to newspapers. In 1911, the Evening Sun in Baltimore reported the Suffrage Movement in Howard County to be flourishing. Most of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Howard County took place between 1910 and 1920.     
    Ballot & Beyond is powered by Preservation Maryland and PreserveCast with support from Gallagher Evelius & Jones and the Maryland Historical Trust.
    12 min
  • Emilie Doetsch | Lawyer & Journalist
    This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was written by Tina Sheller, assistant professor of Visual and Material Culture at Goucher College. The reader is Tina Sheller. 
    Emilie Doetsch was a suffragist, lawyer, journalist, and political activist, who participated in the famous Suffrage Army march from New York to Washington, D.C. in February 1913 as a “war correspondent” for a Baltimore newspaper.
    Ballot & Beyond is powered by Preservation Maryland and PreserveCast with support from Gallagher Evelius & Jones and the Maryland Historical Trust.
    10 min
  • Catherine Sweet | Foiled Early Voter
    This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was written and read by Judy A. Carbone, President of AAUW-Garrett County Branch and a volunteer with Maryland Women’s Heritage Center.
    Catherine Sweet may have remained unknown to history if it were not for a front-page article published in The Sun of Baltimore, Maryland, on May 8, 1896.  The article was about the first municipal election in the town of Loch Lynn Heights in Garrett County, Maryland.  Catherine almost was the first woman to vote in a municipal election in the state, but in the end, that distinction was not to be hers.
    Ballot & Beyond is powered by Preservation Maryland and PreserveCast with support from Gallagher Evelius & Jones and the Maryland Historical Trust.
    10 min
  • Edith Houghton Hooker | Dynamic Suffrage Driver

    This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was written by Diane E. Weaver, Ph.D. The reader is Diane Weaver.

    Edith Houghton Hooker was a critically important and arguably an essential figure in the Maryland campaign for women’s suffrage. Without her drive and dynamism, we would have little awareness of the commitment of Maryland suffragists to achieve the right to vote.

    Ballot & Beyond is powered by Preservation Maryland and PreserveCast with support from Gallagher Evelius & Jones and the Maryland Historical Trust.

    8 min
  • Margaret Brent | Colonial Suffragist

    This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was written by Audrey Partington. The reader is Kalin Thomas. 

    Two hundred years before the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, Margaret Brent became the first woman in the American colonies to request the right to vote.

    Ballot & Beyond is powered by Preservation Maryland and PreserveCast with support from Gallagher Evelius & Jones and the Maryland Historical Trust.

    10 min
  • Billie Holiday | Voice of Protest

    This episode of Ballots and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was edited from the Maryland Archives biography by Kalin Thomas, a volunteer with Maryland Women’s Heritage Center.   It is read by Larzine Talley, musician who frequently performs Billie Holiday’s music and sings in her style.

    In just a short lifetime, Baltimore-raised Holiday became one of the nation’s most famous African American jazz musicians. In 1938, she joined Artie Shaw’s Orchestra, forming one of America’s first racially integrated bands. Her talent helped her break the segregation rules of Jim Crow, as she enjoyed access to some of the best labels, orchestras, and song choices throughout America and Europe.  

    Ballot & Beyond is powered by Preservation Maryland and PreserveCast with support from Gallagher Evelius & Jones and the Maryland Historical Trust.

    11 min

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To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and the enfranchisement of women in America, Preservation Maryland and Gallagher, Evelius & Jones LLP has created Ballot & Beyond, an…