New York City has been home to a remarkable breadth of transformative women, and the scene of innumerable movements for women’s equality and empowerment.
Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation has numerous ways to celebrate and explore women’s history in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. Many of the women in these collections have had statewide and national impacts.
Their Women’s Suffrage History Map explores dozens of sites connected to the struggle for women’s suffrage, and the people, organizations, and events that made it possible.
The map was created to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and is divided into seven thematic chapters which include early and radical suffragists, the mainstream movement, immigration and labor, Black American suffragists, the “Suffragents,” and organizational history.
They include places like 135 MacDougal Street, the former site of Polly’s Restaurant, where the radical feminist debate group Heterodoxy held its early meetings.
The Civil Rights and Social Justice Map is a broader, “living” resource launched by Village Preservation in 2017 (and recently updated). It now documents over 225 locations across Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo that were pivotal to various movements for equality, including more than 60 connected to women’s history and the women’s movement.
On the map check out 26 Bleecker Street, the former Margaret Sanger Health Center, a place critical to the history of reproductive rights.
Their Transformative Women Tour Map offers an opportunity to see the homes and learn about the lives of dozens of women who changed politics, the arts, and culture.
The Women’s History Tour on their South of Union Square Map contains 20 sites connected to crucial events, figures, and organizations in women’s history, and some amazing women writers, artists, educators, and activists.
Village Preservation’s Oral History Collection includes conversations providing the personal perspectives and experiences of more than thirty of the most recently impactful women from Jane Jacobs to Mimi Sheraton, Marlis Momber to Penny Arcade, Deborah Glick to Ayo Harrington, Joan Davidson to Frances Goldin and Doris Diether, and many more.
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