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.
women's suffrage
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.
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.
Engage 2020: Summer Series with Historian Brenda Tindal
The Library introduces Engage 2020 Summer Series - A conversation with educator, historian, and scholar Brenda Tindal. The conversation will focus on African American women and their long civil and human rights battles.
The origins of Women's History Month
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library's Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room provides a brief history of Women's History Month