Living history suffragette march, SF

Subject: Living history suffragette march, SF
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 07:16 PM

The Living History program at San Francisco Maritime NHP will be prersenting a suffragette rally and march on Hyde Street Pier this Saturday, March 11, beginning at noon. We're turning back the clock to 1901, and you're invited to take part.

If you know any suffragette songs, and would like to sing them at this event, you're needed! We'll have some period clothing available, but any such clothing you own and can wear is very welcome. Take part in the march, or be a bystander and cheer or jeer them (but please don't throw anything at them :-).

For more info, call the visitor center at 415-447-5000. Hope to see local and visiting 'catters there!

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: Living history suffragette march, SF
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 10:11 PM

Oh boy, would I love to be there! Now more than ever, we need to safeguard the freedoms the suffragette movement brought us. Good for all of you who participate!

Subject: RE: Living history suffragette march, SF
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 01:15 PM

Good sentiments there, Kat.

This is part of the park's Women's History Month program, a special emphasis month that is celebrated by national parks and many other institutions across the country.

If anyone has any suffragette songs of the movement's turn of the century period, please post, eh? Thanks!

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: Living history suffragette march, SF
From: Melani
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 02:21 PM

Have fun, ladies and gents! Wish I could be there. radriano, in an amazing feat of research, has apparently turned up some suffragette songs. I hope to learn them for next year.

Subject: RE: Living history suffragette march, SF
From: GUEST,Willa
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 05:09 PM

Check the DT for 'I am a Suffragette'-written 1912

Subject: RE: Living history suffragette march, SF
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 06:21 PM

Apparently you can lsiten to samples of a whole CD called "Songs of the Suffragettes" by Elizabeth Knight at this site. I found it, from another site, where I did listen to "Give the Ballot to the Mothers."

Please be sure to tell us how it goes, eh?

Subject: RE: Living history suffragette march, SF
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 01:08 PM

Thank you, Kat! Thanks, Willa, but we're in the year 1901 at this event, so that song hadn't been born yet :-).
We'll miss you, Melani.
Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: Living history suffragette march, SF
From: yrlancslad
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 01:52 PM

As one of the few males whose character, (as a socialist, member of the Independant Labour Party and Keir Hardie supporter), will be on the side of the women marchers I will be there, though temporarily disabled, cheering them on and urging revolution!

Subject: RE: Living history suffragette march, SF
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 11 Mar 06 - 07:13 PM

The event went very well! Twelve suffragettes rallied on Hyde Street Pier, with one costumed male detractor, who got into a brief debate with one of the marchers, the living history program's costume mistress who organized the marchers and made a speech from the historic Tubbs cordage building's porch. I made a brief speech in support of votes for women, in my role as a workingman, exhorting the public to support those who raised us and brought food to our table. A costumed female detractor said I was a "disgusting disgrace to my gender." Then, the march began, with suffragettes wearing "Votes for women" sashes, carrying a large banner and signs, and singing suffragette songs. Down Hyde Street Pier, into the visitor center, then along the streets to the Maritime Museum, and back to the pier through Victorian Park they marched. Some driving by honked horns in support, some on the streets appauded and shouted encouragement, one bystander took on the role of a detractor, shouting "Go back home where you belong! Go cook dinner!"

Many onlookers were amused by the sight, but mixed with that were outbursts of pride and delight that this was happening. Living History, when done accurately and with commitment, can bring out strong emotions, just as we feel emotions when watching a movie, though we also know that it is staged.

Altogether a successful afternoon. Thanks again for your help on songs, and to yrlancslad.

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: Living history suffragette march, SF
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Mar 06 - 09:55 PM

Bravo! Thanks for describing it for us, CR! It sounds wonderful!

Subject: RE: Living history suffragette march, SF
From: LadyJean
Date: 11 Mar 06 - 11:01 PM

In 1915, 50,00 women marched through New York demanding the vote. They were lead by Inez Millholland Boissevan, riding on a white horse. Teachers carried chalkboards with slogans on them. Lillian Russell, the biggest star of the day, marched with everybody else. It must have been something to see, and I'm sorry I missed your rally in San Francisco. What a great way to teach history!

Subject: RE: Living history suffragette march, SF
From: Cats
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 06:26 AM

I've just picked up this thread as I have been away at Womens Trade Union Congress Conference this week. I am really proud that sisters, and brothers, all over the world are still remembering those valiant women, and men, who banded together to get the right to vote for women and working class men [that's so often forgotten]. I am extraordinarily proud of my grandmother, Emma Bourne, who went to Holloway prison in London and was force fed for being a suffragette. The family still has her Holloway Badge which was presented to her personally by Emily Pankhurst. On the day I was allowed to vote for the first time I wore her rossette to the polling station. At conference this year there was a motion to get International Women's Day recognised in the UK as a Bank Holiday!

Subject: RE: Living history suffragette march, SF
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 05:31 PM

Thank you, Cats, for contributing to this thread, and LadyJean for that piece of history. That is an amazing connection, Cats! I'll show this to our living history program coordinator and to the program's costumer who was chiefly responsible for organizing the march. We have already decided to build on it and present it annually.

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: Living history suffragette march, SF
From: GUEST,Cats
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 09:07 AM

All the best with it. Perhaps next year we have an International Womens Day thread... I wonder how many countries we could get people to contribute from? Let's book 8th March 2007 now!!!

Subject: RE: Living history suffragette march, SF
From: SunnySister
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 05:04 PM

This sounds like it was a lot of fun! I wish I had been able to go- what a sight to see in that area.

Chanteyranger, you always organize or help put on such fun and interesting things in the bay area. Thanks again for your time and dedication to the community and to remembering history.

Couldn't help but think that if your group could have done a bra burning reenactment, the crowds that would have shown up would have been enormous!

-- SunnySister, sending her best your way and your family's

Subject: RE: Living history suffragette march, SF
From: yrlancslad
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 07:41 PM

Yes, the sufferagette march was fun, but we're not done yet folks-next month is Earthquake! On April 18th it will be the 100 year anniversary of the great San Francisco earthquake and on Saturday the 15th April the Living History group at the Maritime Museum are doing a re-enactment on the Hyde Street Pier, hopefully without causing quite the panic among the tourists that the "War of the Worlds" broadcast did!
Come along and see the fun as with the help of the soldiers we attempt to evacuate the refugees crowded down at the Pier,if you have period clothes and would like to join us, or if the idea of returning to 1901 (our normal re-enactment time) every 2nd Saturday appeals then we can provide a limited number of historically correct garments for both male and female, PM me for more information. If you live in the Bay area come join the fun-our goal is to outnumber the visitors!

Subject: RE: Living history suffragette march, SF
From: yrlancslad
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 08:43 PM

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