A special community program portraying the life and accomplishments of the nationally-recognized Oregon suffragist, Abigail Scott Duniway, will be held at the Hermiston Public Library this evening at 6:30 p.m.
Duniway was an American women’s rights advocate, newspaper editor, and writer whose efforts were instrumental in gaining voting rights for women. In 1912 she authored the Oregon Woman Suffrage Proclamation and her tireless work as an activist played an important role in later passage of the 19th Amendment, which granted the right to vote to all U.S. women.
The program will be presented by Judy Allen of Wallowa County, a historian and career researcher. Allen became engrossed in the suffragist’s life story, as Duniway is an ancestor of her husband.
All ages are welcome to attend. The free program at the library is sponsored by Libraries of Eastern Oregon (LEO) as part of its ArtPlace America project: “A Sense of Place, Engage at the Library!” ArtPlace America has provided LEO with funding to deliver a wide range of art and cultural programs throughout the region over the next year.
