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The collections manager for the Monroe County History Center was selected for the May Wright Sewall Fellowship recently. The fellowship supports research on Indiana women’s participation in politics, to coincide with the centennial of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote.
Hilary Fleck was one of only four women statewide to receive the fellowship. The fellowship aims, in part, to increase the amount and quality of scholarship on Hoosier women of color and working-class women. It also serves to deepen and complicate our understanding of the past and the degree to which Indiana women were behind or ahead of their times.
Monroe County History Center Director Susan Dyar said what Fleck finds in her search will be a major part of an upcoming exhibit on the suffrage movement in Monroe County. That exhibit will run from January 24th to December 31st of 2020.
For more on events at the Monroe County History Center that honor the women’s suffrage centennial, visit monroehistory.org. For more information on events across the state, visit indianasuffrage100.org.
