2017 Reading List

Susan B. Anthony (reserved)
Ella Jo Baker
Mary McLeod Bethune (reserved)
Alice Stone Blackwell
Shirley Chisholm (reserved)
Septima Poinsette Clark (reserved)
Kathleen Cleaver
Myrlie Evers-Williams (reserved)
Elisabeth Freeman
Nikki Giovanni (reserved)
Fannie Lou Hamer (reserved)
Dorothy Irene Height (reserved)
Charlayne Hunter
Rosalie Gardiner Jones (reserved)
Barbara Charline Jordan (reserved)

Call for Readers
Freedom Sisters & Suffragists
A production by Dr. Georgette Grier-Key
presented by the Oyster Bay Historical Society

On Friday evening, August 18, the Oyster Bay Historical Society will present a special celebration of the centennial of women's right to vote in New York State. We invite you to take part in the program by reading a short passage from the writings of influential women in American history. A complete list of subjects appears here on the 2017 Reading List.

If you would like to read that evening, please let us know. Participants will be chosen on a first-come-first-served basis. Reader registration closes on July 12, so please don't wait!

To register as a reader, please contact the Society at 516-922-5032, or email obhsdirector@optonline.net.

Coretta Scott King (reserved)
Edna Buckman Kearns (reserved)
Constance Baker Motley
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
Sonia Sanchez
Betty Shabazz (reserved)
Mary Hayes Stackpole
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (reserved)
Mary Church Terrill
Sojourner Truth (reserved)
Harriet Ross Greene Tubman
C. Delores Tucker
Frances Watkins Harper
Ida B. Wells-Barnett (reserved)
Lisbeth Halsey White