The Sewall-Belmont House and Museum in Washington, DC

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From the Museum’s webpage:  

The Sewall-Belmont House and Museum, on Capitol Hill, explores the evolving role of women and their contributions to society through the continuing, and often untold, story of women’s pursuit for equality.

The Museum is the headquarters of the historic National Woman’s Party and was the Washington home of its founder and Equal Rights Amendment author Alice Paul.

Sewall-Belmont, named in the first Save America’s Treasures legislation, is the only museum in the nation’s capitol dedicated to preserving and showcasing a crucial piece of our history:the fight for the American woman’s right to vote. This struggle is documented through one of the most significant collections in the country focused on the suffrage and equal rights movements. …

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0 Responses to The Sewall-Belmont House and Museum in Washington, DC

  1. pippilli says:

    Ha! Amazing. I blogged about this very website at One Salford Feminist on Monday! Great minds think alike. (Or get their copy of Ms. containing advert for said museum on the same day!)

  2. Ann Bartow says:

    I like the “great minds think alike” theory myself!