S02 E16 Maryland: Silent Sentinels and Effigy Ashes

In this episode, three guests talk about the suffrage movement in Maryland.

Some of the events and activists in the MD voting rights campaign:

• In 1648, Margaret Brent went before the Maryland Provincial Assembly and demanded a voice and a vote as a property owner in the Maryland colony.
• Augusta Chissell and Margaret Hawkins were African American women who held many suffrage meetings in their homes in Baltimore.
• Estelle Hall Young was a Black suffragist who created the Baltimore Women's Colored Women's Suffrage Club in 1915.
• Gladys Greiner was a competitive golfer whose militant suffrage activity–such as picketing the White House and going to prison–disappointed her prominent parents, who wrote an op-ed distancing themselves from her actions.
• Corrine Robert Redgrave was a professional actor who used the stage to put on suffrage plays and spread the suffrage message.
• Elizabeth Forbes was a suffrage leader willing to advocate for confrontational actions through the Just Government League.

About our Guests:

Kate Campbell Stevenson is the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center’s Board Chair. She is an activist for women’s and girls’ rights and has been honored by the Maryland State Education Association with the Dorothy Lloyd Women’s Rights Award. 

Dr. Ida B. Jones is the Associate Director of Special Collections and University Archivist at Morgan State University in Baltimore and co-president of the National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites. She received her PhD in American History from Howard University.

Dr. Amy Rosenkrans received her PhD from Notre Dame of Maryland University. She has been awarded the Joseph L. Arnold Prize for Outstanding Writing on Baltimore History by the Baltimore City Historical Society. She is the Secretary of the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center and served as one of the researchers for the Suffrage Bicentennial Project.  

Links to People, Places, Publications:

Maryland & the 19th Amendment (here)

Augusta Chissell Biographical Sketch (here)

Margaret Hawkins Biographical Sketch (here)

Visit the Augusta Chissell and Margaret Hawkins historical marker (here)

Estelle Hall Young Biographical Sketch (here)

Gladys Greiner Biographical Sketch (here) 

Elizabeth Forbes Biographical Sketch (here)

Visit the Elizabeth Forbes historical marker (here)

Corrine Robert Redgrave Biographical Sketch (here)

CM Marihugh is a public history consultant and currently conducting independent research for a book on commemoration of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement. She has an M.A. in Public History from State University of New York, and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College.

Learn more about:

• National Votes for Women Trail (here)
• National Votes for Women Trail - William G. Pomeroy historical markers (here)
• National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (here)

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