Public library to host exhibit

MINERAL COUNTY - The Mineral County Public Library will host a five-panel exhibit which chronicles the civic political history of women in Montana. The exhibition will open at the Mineral County Fair on Thursday, July 31, and remain open through Saturday, Aug. 2.

On Aug. 3, the exhibit will move to the Courthouse lawn, where it can be viewed during the Centennial Celebration (from 2 p.m.)

Montana women seized their right to vote in November, 1914, when suffrage was extended to most women in the state. To help celebrate this important centennial, an ad hoc committee of the Mansfield Library/University of Montana faculty, staff, students, and alumni created the exhibit, “Leading the Way – Montana Woman Suffrage & The Struggle for Equal Citizenship,” with the support of Humanities Montana, an affiliate of the National Endowment for Humanities. Libraries across the Treasure State are hosting the exhibit and planning events to celebrate the centennial.

Many national suffrage supporters looked west for inspiration. Montana passed its suffrage referendum six years before the 20th amendment to the US Constitution became the law of the land. The traveling exhibit “Leading the Way: Montana Woman Suffrage and the Struggle for Equal Citizenship” uses historic photographs, archival documents, and other rare materials to highlight the role that Montana women played in fulfilling the promise of democracy and their full rights of citizenship.

View the exhibition at the Fair and at the Courthouse. The exhibition is free. For more information contact: Guna K. Chaberek , 822-3563, gchaberek@co.mineral.mt.us.

The library is located at 301 2nd Avenue East, Superior, and is open Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Our website is: www.mineralcountylibrary.org, and our Facebook page is at Facebook/Mineral County Library.