The Heritage Society offers a finale for Women’s History Month with an online lecture on March 31
On Wednesday, March 31, from noon to 1 p.m., The Heritage Society is presenting a final lecture, “The Unfinished Business of Suffrage”, that complements their current museum exhibit “Houston Women Cast Their Ballots: Celebrating 100 Years of the Right to Vote!” Author, historian and co-curator of the exhibit, Anne Sloan will be delivering a salute to Houston women online and on Zoom.
To celebrate Women’s History Month, attendees will first attend a pre-recorded, online lecture that highlights and honors the following female leaders who reside in Greater Houston and are gamechangers in their fields of expertise:
- Nitza Margarita Cintrón, former Chief of Biomedical Operations and Managing Director of the Life Science Research Laboratories at NASA (JSC);
- Congresswoman Sylvia R. Garcia, U.S. Representative for Texas’s 29th congressionaldistrict;
- Milicent Mimi Goldschmidt, a microbiologist who made a profound impact on the U.S. SpaceProgram;
- Lisa Falkenberg, Houston Chronicle’s Vice President ofOpinion;
- Edith Irby Jones, known as the “Barrier-Breaking Doctor in theSouth”;
- Alicia DeJohn Kowalski, full professor at M.D. Anderson CancerCenter;
- CongresswomanSheila Jackson Lee, S. Representative for Texas’s 18th congressional district;
- Ruth J. Simmons, first Black president of Smith College and the first Black female president of an Ivy League university; and
- Eileen K. Stansbery, Deputy Director, Exploration Integration and Center, and Chief Scientist at NASA Johnson Space Center.
Participants will then join us in a live Q & A session via Zoom about the unfinished work we must do to reach full equality…utilizing the 19th Amendment and using our voice to make the necessary changes 100 years later!
Members can participate for free by emailing tours@heritagesociety.org.
Non-members are invited to participate for $5 and register https://www.heritagesociety.org/monthly- lecture-series.
More about the Exhibit: The Heritage Society’s current exhibit “Houston Women Cast Their Ballots: Celebrating 100 Years of the Right to Vote!” is available from 10 AM to 4 PM, Wednesday – Saturday, until March 31, 2021. Admission tickets and private tour tickets may be purchased here. Virtual tours tickets are available here. Past exhibit lectures are available on their YouTube channel.
More about The Heritage Society: The Heritage Society’s park grounds and museum tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, educational programs, film, video, and now online content. Founded in 1954 by a number of public-spirited Houstonians to rescue the 1847 Kellum-Noble House from demolition, The Heritage Society has since saved an additional nine historic buildings, moved them from various locations to join the Kellum-Noble House in Sam Houston Park, and restored them to reflect their respective eras. These 10 buildings, along with the museum gallery, serve as historic reference points and exhibition spaces for more than 23,000 artifacts that document life in Houston from the early 1800s to the mid-1900s. To see a 2021 calendar of events, head here. For more information about our safer private tour and event options in 2021, please contact info@heritagesociety.org.