Join us Sunday, June 7 at noon on Youtube for a special premier of our new documentary.
All Citizens
The Lombard women who voted 29 years before the
19th amendment and the story of those who made it possible.
On April 6, 1891 fifteen Lombard women, led by Chicago attorney
Ellen A. Martin, marched into their local polling place and demanded to vote. It was 29 years before the 19th amendment to the United States Constitution secured women’s right to vote nation-wide.
Martin and her colleagues, all prominent Lombard women, were able to vote because 22 years earlier, Civil War General, Benjamin Sweet, author of the founding charter of Lombard, deliberately wrote “All Citizens… shall be entitled to vote at any election.”
Tim Frakes Productions and the Lombard Historical Society are proud to present this new documentary that tells the story of these suffrage pioneers in this, the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment.
All Citizens. A documentary by Tim Frakes with the Lombard Historical Society.
Watch the Promo Trailer
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