Galveston District celebrates Women’s Equality Day
From right, Rebecca Marks Jimerson portrayed both Mary Church Terrell and Ida B. Wells, Marcy Hanson played Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Marilyn Harris as Susan B. Anthony and Beverly Ferguson, narrator, during the Women’s Equality Day observance at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District Headquarters, Aug. 10, 2023. The ensemble cast shared the story of the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, the first convention to promote women’s right to vote, and the decades of protesting it took to pass the 19th Amendment in 1920. Dozens of people attended the observance in person and online.