Program

Meet the first woman to run a full presidential campaign, in 1884! Belva Lockwood, the first woman to be admitted to the Supreme Court Bar, will delight your audience with a lively campaign speech detailing her fight to be admitted to the highest echelons of the American judiciary system, her early struggles as a woman trying to break free of social con-ventions, and her 1884 bid for the presidency.

Working alongside Susan B. Anthony and other suffragists, this remarkable unsung hero in the fight for women's rights lived her life as the model of an independent, educated and ambitious woman.  Lockwood will share her scrapbook of mementos and in her clear soprano she'll sing songs employed by suffrage advocates to make their point.