Chick History: Recent Episodes
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Participating organizations are planning a series of events to create opportunities for the entire community to participate in dialogue, learning, performances, exhibits and voter education, and to recognize the work it takes to maintain a thriving democracy.
“Interpreting this history is both rewarding and challenging. As with all American history, suffrage comes with many victories and inspiring narratives, but it also comes with complexities and flaws,” said Rebecca Price, Chick History President/CEO.
On occasion of the Centennial Commemoration of the 19th Amendment, Chick History, in partnership with the Beck Cultural Exchange Center and East Tennessee PBS hosted a women's panel inspired by Chick History's project Protecting the Legacy. Black women leaders came together to discuss education, voting and political organizing from the Jim Crow era to today.
Join the Tennessee Woman Suffrage Centennial Collaborative for our second symposium on March 30 in Memphis! Chick History is a member of the collaborative, with a mission of “Celebrating the Achievement, Continuing the Legacy” of the Nineteenth Amendment in Tennessee.
THANK YOU to our donors who contributed to Chick History in 2018! Your support and belief in the work of Chick History makes all the difference, and we can’t do this without you. Thanks to the generosity of the following donors: Organization Donors Humanities Tennessee Carpe Diem Copyright Management Pam Lewis Foundation Silly Sitterz Baby […]
On November 16-17-20, 2018, at the Beck Cultural Exchange Center, Chick History held its final Digitization Event as part of the Protecting the Legacy project. Thanks to the generosity of our participants and their commitment to sharing and preserving local history, we were able to digitize 53 items.
Please help us build the Tennessee Women's History Calendar! As we build this calendar, we want to make sure it has you in mind, and the things you are interested in learning about.
On May 18-20, 2018, at the Nashville Public Library - Downtown, Chick History held its second Digitization Event as part of the Protecting the Legacy project. Thanks to the generosity of our participants and their commitment to sharing and preserving local history, we were able to digitize 33 items and conduct 6 oral histories. This brings the total number of collected histories to date to 100.
Woman photographed is among the first generation of African American women voters in Tennessee.
On November 17-18, 2017, at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN, Chick History held its first Digitization Event as part of the Protecting the Legacy project. The event yielded a new archive of dozens of items, including interviews with several African American women in their mid-nineties, that will be accessible as a vital chapter in Tennessee's rich history.
Chick History has received a grant to digitize original photographs, letters, and memorabilia related to political activity of African American women in Middle Tennessee prior to 1930.
Statewide effort to preserve African American women’s political history prior to 1930 begins at National Civil Right Museum in Memphis on Nov. 17-18, 2017.
The #HerStory Podcast, one of Chick History's first projects, was featured in the new museum book Positioning Your Museum as a Critical Community Asset.
“Protecting the Legacy” is a state-wide effort to digitizing oral histories, photographs, documents, and other memorabilia on African American women's political activity, voting history and suffrage in Tennessee. The project is organized by Chick History, a women’s history nonprofit, in partnership with Humanities Tennessee and a diverse set of committees and partners across Tennessee – as part of a statewide project to commemorate the upcoming centennial of the Passage of the 19th Amendment in 2020.
In honor of the August 26, 2020 centennial celebration of woman suffrage in the United States, the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites (NCWHS) is leading the effort to develop a nation-wide Votes for Women Trail. The Trail will highlight the role of each state in the fight to achieve woman suffrage.
Five years ago Chick History embarked on its first independent programming, a 50-episode podcast called The #HerStoryPodcast. Over the course 2012, 50 contemporary women were interviewed via Skype and asked to share the story of the historical woman who inspired them.
This is the driving question behind the work of Phase II of March to the 19th. A state-wide task force comprised of subject and technical-matter experts is developing a methodology to answer this question and collect material across Tennessee.
THANK YOU to our donors who contributed to the 2016 Annual Fund! Your support and belief in the work of Chick History makes all the difference, and we can't do this without you. Thanks to the generosity of the following donors, we reached our $10,000 goal.
Over the past seven months, Chick History travelled across Tennessee building an incredible network of museum and history professionals through the Chick History Bootcamp. The Chick History Bootcamp was a one-day program designed specifically for museum and history professionals ready to do better women’s history.
What: A one-day training program for women's history, professional development, and networking. Who: Museum and history professionals, public historians, archivists, librarians, academia, educators, students, genealogists.