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Public meeting about bringing the Sewall-Belmont House into the National Park System

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We have a historic opportunity to create a new national park in Washington, D.C., commemorating women’s progress toward equality.

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On July 14, 1917, Julia Hurlbut, vice chairman of the New Jersey branch of the National Woman's Party, leads a Bastille Day picket to the White House to fight for women's right to vote. Hurlbut was arrested and sentenced to 60 days in Occoquan Workhouse.

  camera icon Photo by Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C., courtesy of the National Woman's Party Collection at the Sewall-Belmont House.

Please join us at a public meeting on Monday, April 4, to show support for the designation of the Sewall-Belmont House & Museum as our nation’s newest national park site. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis, and other federal and local representatives will listen to comments to gauge community support for the designation.

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An Audacious Fight

Force-feeding and imprisonment could not stop suffragist Alice Paul’s march forward. A new park site would tell her story.

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The Sewall-Belmont House & Museum, just steps away from the National Mall and the U.S. Capitol Building, served as the headquarters for the National Woman’s Party. Led by Alice Paul, one of the greatest women’s rights advocates and political strategists in American history, the National Woman’s Party fought to expand our democracy through ratification of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote. The house contains the most complete collection of suffrage and equal rights movement artifacts in America. These documents, banners, newsletters, sashes, and lobbying cards are treasures that help tell the story of women in America.

This story deserves to be told by the best storytellers in the business—the National Park Service.

For questions, contact Sam Chiron at schiron@npca.org

calendary icon Date April 4, 2016
  • Time:
    4:30 PM (EDT)
  • Location:
    Sewall-Belmont House, 144 Constitution Avenue, NE, Washington, DC. Please enter through the 2nd Street doors.
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