Celebrate Women's Equality Day at the Workhouse on Sunday

The Workhouse Prison Museum is hosting Women's Equality Day, the 93rd anniversary of the adoption of the 19th Amendment (giving women the right to vote) on Sunday, Aug. 25. The event is being presented by the Workhouse Prison Museum and the Turning Point Suffrage Memorial Association and will be held at building, W-9 at 9601 Ox Rd.

Learn more about the history of the 1917 suffragist imprisonment at the Occoquan Workhouse and the plans to build the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial at Occoquan Regional Park nearby.

Activities will include films and displays on the suffragist movement which brought the largest expansion of democracy in America. There will be  suffragist re-enactors and children's activities throughout the day. 
The schedule: 

• 12:30pm: "The Suffrage Prisoners at Occoquan," illustrated talk by Alice Reagan, Associate Professor of History, Northern Virginia Community College 
• 1:15pm: "About the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial," talk by Emily McCoy, Chair of the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial, which will include a 3-D animation "fly-through" of the planned memorial. 
• 1:45 pm: Appearance by suffragist e-enactor Lynne Garvey-Hodge 
• 2:30-  3:30pm:  Photo opportunity with costumed suffragists. Watch "The War of the Roses," an award-winning student film about the conflict between Tennessee legislators opposed to suffrage (red roses) and those in favor of giving women the right to vote (yellow roses). Tennessee was the last state to ratify the 19th amendment in 1920.  
• 3:30pm: Performance of suffragist songs. Singers from the Metropolitan Academy of the Arts give voice to the music sung at the turn of the century in support of women's right to vote.