Mountain Views News          Saturday, July 3, 2010

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Mountain Views News Saturday, July 3, 2010

Exhibit to Celebrate the 90th Anniversary 
of Woman’s Suffrage 

 LOS ANGELES – Heritage Square Museum's latest exhibit Their 
Rights and Nothing Less: A Celebration of Women’s Suffrage will 
open on June 19th and runs through September 26th. Complete 
with original, rarely-seen ephemera from the early years of the 
suffrage movement, a special section of the exhibit will be dedicated 
entirely to the efforts of women in Los Angeles who led the fight for 
equality 9 years before its ratification at the National level. 

 This year marks the 90th anniversary of the passage of the 19th 
Amendment to the Constitution giving women the right for women 
to vote. More accurately, the language does not reference women in 
the affirmative; what it does is not deny the right to vote based upon 
gender.

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied 
or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. 
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate 
legislation.

 The 19th Amendment was proposed on June 4. 1919. Ratification 
was completed on August 18, 1920 by Tennessee, by a one-vote 
margin. It was certified on August 26, 1920. Of course, the 
fight for women’s rights began much, much earlier. In 1792, A 
Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political 
and Moral Subjects was published by Mary Wollstonecraft, which 
responded to an issue even more basic and immediate than voting 
rights—the right—indeed the necessity for women to receive an 
education. Although almost inconceivable to think of now, this was 
considered a radical position which provoked a dramatic, although 
not necessarily negative, response. Starting with this simple idea, 
women have been fighting for equal rights ever since. 

Curated by Mitzi March Mogul, Their Rights and Nothing Less 
takes a critical look at the incredible effort it took to gain that right 
and includes original artifacts from the early years of the struggle. 
In addition, the exhibit continues after the vote was won to look at 
critical issues fought and won by the women's rights movement after. 
Including ephemera and artifacts from a never-before-seen private 
collection, the exhibit is a must for every woman...and man. The 
exhibit is made possible thanks to sponsors Planned Parenthood of 
Pasadena, 9 to 5-the National Association of Working Women, Bob 
Taylor Properties and the Glendale Printing Center. 

 Celebrating 41 years preserving and interpreting the history of 
Southern California, Heritage Square is a living history museum 
whose eight historic structures to tell the story of the development 
of Los Angeles like no place else. Heritage Square Museum is open 
for regular tours Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, from 12:00 PM 
to 4:30 PM. The exhibit is included in the museum’s admission fee: 
$10/adults, $8/seniors, $5/children ages 6-12. 

 The Museum is located at 3800 Homer Street, off the 110 Pasadena 
Freeway at Avenue 43, just north of downtown Los Angeles. For 
further information, visit our website at www.heritagesquare.org 
or the museum blog at http://heritagesquare.blogspot.com. 

An excerpt – the Story of Olive Percival 

On July 19th, Heritage Square Museum will debut Their Rights and 
Nothing Less: Commemorating the 90th Anniversary of Women's 
Suffrage. The exhibt highlights several examples of women, (some 
you may have heard of and some who you have not) who led the fight 
for women's rights.

Olive Percival is one such story.

Like so many others, Olive Percival, her mother, and sister were 
lured to Southern California by the temperate climate, as well as the 
opportunities it presented. She was born in a log cabin; her father 
died when she was only ten years old.

Although Olive lived on a relatively modest salary (which never 
exceeded $150 a month), she managed to buy land in the Arroyo Seco, 
where she built a home called “Down-hyl Claim.” Down-hyl Claim 
was the setting for frequent gatherings by local and visit celebrity 
authors, artists, actors, society leaders, professionals and intellectuals 
and her diaries, which date from 1889 to 1943 are a chronicle of this 
life and read like a Who’s Who of important residents of Los Angeles.

Olive began her writing career in 1896 and is probably best known for 
her 1911 “Children’s Garden Book.” She eventually became a regular 
contributor to the Los Angeles Times, writing on subjects ranging 
from women’s suffrage to gardening. In 1910, following the bombing 
of the Los Angeles Times building by anarchists, she wrote an article 
entitled “Would Woman’s Vote Suppress Anarchy?” in which she 
made the persuasive case that for America to be truly democratic, 
liberty must be granted to all.

As for equal suffrage, I have never in my life heard one sane argument 
against it. I think the only argument that men who are opposed to the 
measure have ever advanced…is that they do not want women to lose 
their delicacy and charm by rough contact with matters political. This 
is not sentiment, but sentimentality. There is no sense or intelligence 
about it.


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Pet First-Aid and CPR Event 
What to do when your 
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