Celebrating 100 Years: Women Get the Vote Essay Contest
Rolling Hills Library partnered with Persisterhood of Saint Joseph to sponsor an essay contest to celebrate the centennial of women’s suffrage. November 3, 2020, marks 100 years of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution which gave women the right to vote in the United States.
Middle School Students, grades 6 -8, and High School Students, grades 9-12, wrote essays responding to the following prompt: What obstacles did suffragists--such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Alice Paul, Ida B. Wells, or Carrie Chapman Catt--overcome in getting the 19th amendment passed, giving women the right to vote in November 1920? Why should women today play active roles in politics?
Winners, the awards they received, and their schools are listed here. Click on the student’s name for a link to the .pdf of that student’s winning entry.
| Student’s Name | Winning Award | School |
| Reagan Watson | $200 Middle School Winner | St. Joseph Bode |
| Lucy Mullins | $50 Middle School Honorable Mention | Cascade Academy, Bend, OR |
| Elizabeth Lauren Fite | $10 Middle School Commendation | Home School |
| Mallory Hope Morgan | $200 High School Winner | St. Joseph Lafayette |
| Lydia Marie Sones | $50 High School Honorable Mention | St. Joseph Central |
| Ja'sha Allen | $10 High School Commendation | St. Joseph Lafayette |
| ShayLynn Gatrel | $10 High School Commendation | St. Joseph Lafayette |
| Dominic Nazzaro | $10 High School Commendation | Skyline High, Longmont, CO |
Watch the Zoom Video recording of the 10/28/2020 Persisterhood meeting where contest winners were announced and introduced and we presented a Reader’s Theater of the History of Women’s Suffrage, based on the students’ winning essays:
https://rhcl-org.zoom.us/rec/share/ooXi5fQuvz-ImfTvYfVtf5cYD59C7x8DMYML8z_ZzGkuWff27WyYZWjKjAg0ptag.icOIfYT-qOXiQAEn Passcode: vBX3=eeP
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