How To Vote In The 2020 General Election
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Civic Engagement
Engage HER On Campus - Johnson C. Smith University Edition, Diverse Voices of Women in the Movement
Join us on Monday, Oct. 26, 2020, at 6 p.m. for Engage HER: Diverse Voices of Women In the Movement will feature keynote speaker Congresswoman Alma S. Adams, Ph.D., a panel discussion with JCSU recent graduates, and a special performance by Black Ink Monks, featuring Diashanna Logan poet and writer with videography Andrew Smith.
Early voting available at limited Library locations
Early voting is available at 33 locations in Mecklenburg County including four select Library locations.
Engage HER on Campus, Queens University Edition: Your Vote, Your Voice, Your Power
Mayor Vi Lyles is the keynote speaker for the September 17 Engage HER event with Queens University.
Teen IGNITE: Art & Writing for Social Justice
Calling all teens! Want to learn how to use your creativity for social change? Teen IGNITE is just for you.
Engage2020 presents a theatrical experience: "Failure is Impossible"
“Failure is Impossible” comes to Charlotte Mecklenburg Library in a centennial celebration of the 19th Amendment and women winning the right to vote.
How a suffrage parade float attracted so much attention
This month, our nation celebrates the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Learn more about the Women's Suffrage movement in Mecklenburg County and North Carolina with the Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room.
New South for the New Southerner: Women Vote!
WOMEN VOTE! Members of Charlotte’s League of Women Voters give an illustrated history of events leading up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution 100 years ago on August 18, 1920. This program is presented by Levine Museum of the New South, co-sponsored by the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library as part of Engage 2020: Look Back, Move Forward.
Engage 2020: Summer Series with Dr. Marjorie Spruill
Join Engage 2020: Summer Series - A Conversation with Marjorie Spruill on Aug. 13 at 7 p.m. on the Library's Facebook live.
The complicated history of the women's suffrage movement
The Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room details the good, the bad and the ugly history of the U.S. women's suffrage movement and the important voting progress and policy changes made up to today and Charlotte Mecklenburg Library's current Engage 2020 program.