Events of 2005

League of Women Voters^®
Wichita - Metro

Highlights of 2005

Alternative Christmas. HERstory Alive pageant. Suffrage Marchers. 85th Anniversary of the Nineteenth Ammendment.

Alternative Christmas

At the Alternative Christmas Fair the League sponsored a table for "Justice for Future Citizens". Betty Ladwig, Mary Knecht, Ernestine Krehbiel and Nona Ponder (not pictured) helped at the table where people could "buy" a small token ornament in exchange for a donation.

HERstory Alive pageant

League presentation at the Wichita Riverfest 2005 of HERstory Alive pageant. The original script was written by Wichita League to describe final years of struggle to pass the 19th Amendment.

Suffrage Marchers

League members Gwen Mukes, Minny Zell Brown and Vivian Wasser dress as suffrage marchers fighting for the right to vote.

85th Anniversary of the Nineteenth Ammendment

Wichita League members with former Kansas Senator Nancy Kassebaum Baker, who was the first woman elected to the Senate in her own right. August 26, 2005 the Wichita League celebrated the 85th anniversary of women's right to vote.

League members with Eleanor Clift.

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