Occoquan Regional Park
Women's Equality Day Celebration
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Celebrate Women’s Equality Day with NOVA Parks, The American Association of University Women-VA Branch and the National Organization of Women-VA Chapter with guided tours by docents in period attire, artifact displays and light refreshments.
Keynote address by Virginia Lieutenant Governor Ghazala Hashmi, the first Asian American and Muslim elected to statewide office. Suffragist stories will be shared by historian Shirley M. Marshall, author of A Radical Suffragist in Washington, DC.: An Inside Story of the National Women’s Party.
The Turning Point Suffragist Memorial at Occoquan Regional Park commemorates the millions of women who engaged in the Suffragist Movement. The Suffragists’ decades-long persistence resulted in the greatest expansion of democracy the world had ever witnessed when twenty-five million women won the right to vote with the certification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, now known as Women’s Equality Day.
