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Our Story: 100 Years of Women's Right to Vote
"Our Story: Portraits of Change" is a 1,000 square-foot interactive photo mosaic and art installation, made up of over 3,000 photos to create a portrait of suffragist and civil rights activist Ida B. Well. The artwork was created by artist Helen Marshall of The People's Picture, commissioned by the Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission, and produced by Christina Korp, Purpose Entertainment. Our Story commemorates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and women's right to vote in the United States.
Ida B. Wells was one activist in a movement of many, represented by thousands of historic photographs of suffragists within the mosaic. Among her many accomplishments and endeavors, Wells founded the Alpha Suffrage Club in 1913, the first African American women's suffrage organization in Chicago. On March 3, 1913, during the Suffrage Parade in Washington DC, she famously protested racial segregation by refusing to march in the back of the procession, instead taking her rightful place with the rest of the delegation of British suffragists. She was a leader of the suffrage movement who fought to ensure Black women would not be left behind in the campaign for women's rights.
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