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On July 19-20, 1848 at the First Women's Rights Conference in Seneca Falls, NY the demand for women's right to vote was first voiced. After 72 years of unrelenting campaigning, on August 26, 1920, U.S. women finally won the right to vote. In 1971, at the behest of Rep. Bella Abzug ( D-NY) August 26 was officially declared by Congress as "Women's Equality Day."
 This August 26th will be the 91st anniversary of the Suffrage Amendment and VFA urges you to celebrate.Invite your daughters, granddaughters and friends over to commemorate this great day. You could show them the exciting 10-minute film, Equality, I Am Woman, which was taken of the August 26, 1970 March for Equality down New York's Fifth Avenue. The film documents the largest gender-equality event in US history, when over fifty thousand women, men and children gathered to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage.
It features Helen Reddy singing I Am Woman, narration by Gloria Steinem and VFA's president, Jacqui Ceballos, excerpts from Betty Friedan's speech in Bryant Park, and images by famed photojournalist Bettye Lane and others.
The memory of thousands of women, men and children marching, walking, skipping and running joyously down New York's Fifth Avenue in the finale of Women's Equality day -- a day when demonstrations and marches were taking place all over the country -- will forever be imprinted in the minds of all who took part as the most important and joyous time of the early Movement and it will inspire women of the world for all generations. As Kate Millett said after this March, "We are a Movement now!"
The film was a big hit at our June 17th memorial to Betty Friedan at the National Arts Club in New York City. Guests were clapping and singing with Helen Reddy and many said it was the most inspiring event they'd attended since the early days of the Movement.
Send a check for your DVD copy in the amount of $15 made out to VFA and mail to VFA, Box 44551, Phoenix, AZ 85064 and we'll mail a video of the movie to you immediately.
Thanks for all you did and are doing to create a better world where women and men share rights and responsibilities equally.
Happy August 26th!
Jacqui Ceballos, Sheila Tobias, Muriel Fox and officers and Board of VFA.
www.vfa.us
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Veteran Feminists of America