Virtual Programs
We created virtual programs for many reasons; first, there is so much information, history, and stories, we cannot harvest it all on our own. Secondly, it is interesting to bring in people who know the subject and/or have personal experience. But mostly it is because we want to come together. Travel is expensive but zoom has given us the ability to hear experts, collect panels and reach across the world.
Virtual programs are perfect for a meeting, a celebration, a historic event. It is also interesting to watch We’ll Meet Again or Still Working 9 to 5 and have a Q&A with Zoe.
ERA ~ The Big Picture
Engage Zoe to tell the story of the Equal Rights Amendment, 1906 ~ today. This presentation includes Zoe’s summer of 1982 and current status.
August 27, 1920 Alice Paul did not give up.
July 1, 1982 Zoe Nicholson did not give up.
Alice and Zoe have never given up on the ERA. Even though most women went back to their daily lives, Alice and Zoe carried on. 1920, the VOTE was won and Alice Paul went on to earn 3 law degrees, pay off all suffrage debts and write the Equal Rights Amendment. July 1982, the ERA defeated and Zoe Nicholson got to work publishing her ERA diary, serve on the ERA Roundtable, and found ERA Once and For All.
This is Zoe’s story. This is the story of the Equal Rights Amendment. This is Alice Paul reaching through the decades finishing her mosaic of Equality. Her love for Miss Paul lifts Alice out of invisibility. Her voice is so intimate, it feels like sitting with her in the rotunda. Her relentless activism inspires. Her demand for equality is contagious.
1982, Springfield, Illinois Fast for the ERA
Activist and Artist, Zoe Nicholson tells the story of The Equal Rights Amendment, from Miss Paul’s first insight in 1906, the May 29,2018 ratification in Illinois, including the Centennial Vote where Virginia became the 38th and final state; concluding the Constitutional requirement of a super majority for adding an amendment to the US Constitution.
Here is the story of radical feminists and the unfinished business of Constitutional Equality. Now, more than ever it is apparent that nothing less will create lasting equality, equity, and representation.
Invite Zoe and her story to your group, organization, class or church. She will inform, inspire and take you on a journey you will never forget which includes her proprietary slide show of rare pictures from the Illinois rotunda during the fast. Leave time for a Q&A.
Alice Paul, a Life in Snapshots
I have over 500 pictures and cataloged 3K clippings. Why so many? Because most books, stories and people’s knowledge of Miss Paul take a sharp cut August 18, 1920. Books actually end with the VOTE. She lived another 72 years which include Geneva and Vermont. She worked on Title IX and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She hosted war refugees and helped them begin new lives.
I have chosen 9 photos to assemble a fascinating recollection of her life. 1885 – 1977. Chances are she did something remarkable when she was your age now. I would love to tell you about her.