This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was written by Amanda Shores Davis, Executive Director of the Star-Spangled Banner House. The reader is Kate Campbell Stevenson, member of the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center Board of Directors and Maryland Women’s Heritage Center Board Cultural Ambassador.
A resident of Baltimore for more than fifty years, Mary Young Pickersgill was a successful businesswoman and an outspoken advocate for the working women of the city. Mary Pickersgill’s greatest contribution to Maryland and to the entire United States was as a flag maker during the War of 1812. The Star-Spangled Banner made by Mrs. Pickersgill became the inspiration for Francis Scott Key to write the poem that became the national anthem of the United States in 1931. Today that flag resides in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History.
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Elizabeth Forbes | Jailed for Freedom
Clara Barton | Battlefield to Ballot Box
Edna Latimer | Hiking for Suffrage
U.S. Senator Verda Welcome | True Public Servant
Elizabeth King Ellicott | Women in Government
The Melvin Family | Rural Suffrage Leaders
Lucy Fisher Gwynne Branham & Lucy Branham | Mother-Daughter Suffrage Team
Henrietta Lacks | The Immortal
Ballot & Beyond: Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn | African American Suffrage History
Ballot & Beyond: Victorine Q. Adams | Energizing African American Voters
Ballot & Beyond: Lavinia Margaret Engle | Protecting Women's Voting Rights
Ballot & Beyond: Eunice Kennedy Shriver | Special Olympics Founder
Ballot & Beyond: Sandi Timmins | Reducing Domestic Violence Against Women
Ballot & Beyond: Maxwell, Kelly, Howard | First Female Voters of Maryland
Ballot & Beyond: Judge Diana G. Motz | Protecting Women's Rights
Ballot & Beyond: Lucille Clifton | Maryland State Poet Laureate
Ballot & Beyond: Lucy Diggs Slowe | First Lady of Tennis
Ballot & Beyond: The Honorable Rita C. Davidson | Serving Maryland's Highest Court
Ballot & Beyond: Dr. Liebe Sokol Diamond | Renowned Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon
Ballot & Beyond: Sara A. Whitehurst | Jury Service for Women
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