Sisters March

10/06/2026

What would Ida B. Wells and Jane Addams do? What better way to celebrate women than joining hands and hearts for justice?
Join our 55th Anniversary Brunch
on October 17, 10:30am - 1:30pm at the Chicago History Museum. Purchase your ticket at www.chicagowomenshistory.org/.../p/55th-anniversary
Afterwards, put your civic engagement hat on and march
to preserve democracy.
No Kings Nationwide Day of Action
kicks off at 3:30pm!
Let's March Together...
Meet us at Oz Park 3:30-5pm, after our 55th Anniversary brunch!

Voting early means your voice is locked in and safe, days before anyone else can decide what happens next, and it gives you room to fix anything that goes wrong, a signature mismatch, a missing form, waiting in a line that's too long, or not being able to make it if your shift runs late.

No matter what the laws look like where you live, early preparation is universal. Cast your ballot at an early voting site (where available), request and return an absentee ballot, double check your registration, or make it a whole day! However you do it, our goal is to make a clear voting plan, and vote early.

Make your plan at https://www.nokings.org/nkve-resources

10/06/2026

Voting early means your voice is locked in and safe, days before anyone else can decide what happens next, and it gives you room to fix anything that goes wrong, a signature mismatch, a missing form, waiting in a line that's too long, or not being able to make it if your shift runs late.

No matter what the laws look like where you live, early preparation is universal. Cast your ballot at an early voting site (where available), request and return an absentee ballot, double check your registration, or make it a whole day! However you do it, our goal is to make a clear voting plan, and vote early.

Make your plan at https://www.nokings.org/nkve-resources

10/01/2026

Join us for a special virtual screening of OUTCRY: ALCHEMISTS OF RAGE followed by a discussion with producer, artist, activist and film participant Whitney Bradshaw and director, cinematographer Clare Major. It is a chance to celebrate the power of art and how our voices matter.

This event is part of the 2026 Fall of Freedom — "an open instigation to artists, venues and institutions across all disciplines to put your work in the world on October 2nd, 3rd, & 4th, countering fascist repression and censorship with joyful communities of defiant creativity. Art matters. Courage is contagious. Take part!"

🗓️ Saturday, October 3, 2026
⏰ 10:00 AM PT
📍 Virtual via Zoom (registration required)

🎟️ Register for this free screening now at bit.ly/oaor-fof-26 (link in bio)

🔗 Get more information at falloffreedom.com

08/28/2026

08/28/2026

Moon gazers across the Americas, Africa and Europe could see the deep lunar eclipse on Thursday night. The Earth’s shadow created a near-total blood moon. https://nyti.ms/3Up0bd8

08/27/2026

Today marks Women's Equality Day — the anniversary of the 19th Amendment's certification in 1920, guaranteeing women the right to vote.

At the Chicago Women's History Center, we're honoring ten women — spanning nearly two centuries — whose courage and persistence shaped that fight and the decades of equality work that followed it, right here in Chicago:

⭐ Myra Bradwell (b. 1831) — first woman admitted to the Illinois bar
⭐ Fannie Barrier Williams (b. 1855) — civil rights activist, co-founder of the National Association of Colored Women
⭐ Jane Addams (b. 1860) — Nobel Peace Prize laureate, founder of Hull House
⭐ Catharine Waugh McCulloch (b. 1862) — Illinois suffragist, first woman Justice of the Peace in the U.S.
⭐ Ida B. Wells (b. 1862) — investigative journalist, anti-lynching crusader, co-founder of the NAACP
⭐ Agnes Nestor (b. 1880) — glove workers' union leader and labor rights advocate
⭐ Bessie Abramowitz Hillman (b. 1889) — labor organizer, co-founder of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
⭐ Pearl M. Hart (b. 1890) — pioneering Chicago defense attorney, advocate for women & LGBTQ defendants
⭐ Heather Booth (b. 1945) — civil rights & political organizer, founder of the Midwest Academy
⭐ Carol Moseley Braun (b. 1947) — first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate

Equality wasn't won once — it's been built generation by generation, by women who refused to wait their turn. Who inspires you? Tell us in the comments. 👇

08/23/2026

in 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer drew national attention when she testified before the Democratic National Convention’s credentials committee, challenging Mississippi’s all-white delegation. She detailed violence against Black Americans in Mississippi, including her own beating in the Winona jail.

“All of this is on account of we want to register, to become first-class citizens,” she said. “And if the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?”

Before she could finish, President Lyndon Johnson’s office got the networks to cut away from her testimony for an impromptu press conference at the White House. But later that night, Hamer’s testimony ran on all the networks.

Asked why she kept pushing for the civil rights of Black Americans, she replied, “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.”

The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party failed to unseat the all-white delegation, but four years later, Hamer returned in triumph, receiving a standing ovation as the first Black delegate from Mississippi since Reconstruction.
https://mississippitoday.org/2024/08/22/1964-fannie-lou-hamer-dnc/

08/21/2026

Tomorrow! Our friends at the Lombard Historical Society are hosting a special screening this Saturday, August 22nd, our own Chicago Women's History Center Board Director and filmmaker Rana Segal.

Rana will present "On the Wings of Change: A Chicago Suffrage Mural," a 56-minute documentary spotlighting the ten Chicago suffragists depicted in the mural at Harrison and Wabash. The film traces their fight for the vote — the work, the setbacks, the sheer persistence — from 1869 through the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920.

📅 Saturday, August 22, 2026
🕐 1:00 – 2:30 PM

📍 23 W. Maple Street, in the Carriage House (Lombard, IL)

Space is limited, so be sure to register!
Link in comments.

Join the Lombard Historical Society for an afternoon of film, history, and conversation about the women who helped change Chicago!

08/20/2026

Does this really surprise anyone?