Liberated Voices Changed Lives Exhibit

Discover the Quad Cites’ unique suffrage story, 100 years after the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote.

Find out how Quad-Cities women made the case for and against women's right to vote with an original Putnam exhibit-in-the-making, Liberated Voices / Changed Lives, opening Saturday, March 7.

Visitors will travel back in time to investigate the local roots of the women's suffrage movement from the perspective of local women and men from 1900 to 1920.

In Liberated Voices / Changed Lives, you'll see how household inventions — from the simple toaster to the more complex electric washing machine — created more free time for local women to organize in the movement, and transformed their lifestyle leading up to and directly after the signing of the 19th Amendment.

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This interactive exhibit will let visitors use touch-screens to learn about and explore legacies of suffragists such as:

     • Dr. Mabel Palmer, “First Lady of Chiropractic” from the Quad Cities;

     • Ms. Eldorado Jones, Moline factory owner and inventor;
     • Mrs. Francis Baker, African American rights leader from Davenport;

     • AND MANY MORE!