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Events
Trenton High School
Voter Registration
April 29, 2019

Our League was honored to host author Angela Dodson at a great public meeting Wednesday, March 6, 2019. She is seen here, seated (center) surrounded by members of LWVLT, Friends of the Library, and copies of her book, “Remember the Ladies.”


Angela P. Dodson spoke about her book, "Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box," at the Lawrence Headquarters Branch last week, March 6, 2019, in honor of Women's History Month.
Angela P. Dodson is an independent writer and former New York Times senior editor, and consultant. She has taught workshops on writing and editing for many organizations including the National Black Writers Conference, the National Association of Black Journalists, the American Press Institute, the American Society of Newspaper Editors and various colleges. She has also been an adjunct instructor in media studies at Mercer County Community College.
Her book, published in 2017, is about the women's suffrage movement in the United States and women’s political gains up to the present. This program was co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Lawrence Township and the Friends of the Lawrence Library.



From left to right:
Lois Riskin, Nicole Plett,
Ellen Maak,
Georganne D'Angelo, and Ann Wolf
LWVNJ 63rd Biennial Conference:
"Defending Democracy for the Next 100 Years!"
Saturday, May 4, 2019
at The Imperia Hotel,
1714 Easton Avenue, Somerset.
Nicole Plett, Lois Riskin, Ann Wolf, Georganne D'Angelo, and Ellen Maak attended.

NJ Senate honors
LWV 100th Birthday

Monday, February 10, 2020
A gathering was held on the floor of the New Jersey Senate where a proclamation in honor of the LWV 100th Birthday was read and presented by
Senator Loretta Weinberg.
A reception followed at the LWVNJ offices,
1 PM the Senate Chamber of the New Jersey State House.



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Reclaiming Our Voice: New Jersey’s Central Role in the Fight for Women’s Suffrage
Sunday, February 9 at 2 PM
Written and presented by Carol Simon Levin, co-sponsored with the Ewing Township Historic Preservation Society and the League of Women Voters of Lawrence Township. Through the persona of Ms. Feickert, Levin told the stories of many women activists with New Jersey ties.





The LWV of Lawrence Township
Voter Registration Events







Trenton Town Hall

June 12, 2019 Annual Meeting & Dinner
Cobblestone Creek Country Club



Town Council members Mike Powers, left, and Cathleen Lewis, with John Ryan, Mercer County Surrogate Judge Diane Gerofsky and Mercer County Freeholder Ann Cannon
The Lawrence League of Women Voters is thrilled to announce that our LWVLT Youth Leadership Awards were given to two Lawrence High School seniors who have excelled in raising their fellow students' awareness of the importance of voting, as well as educating and registering new teenaged voters.
Our 2019 Youth Leadership Awards go to Cassidy Stoneback (right) and Maura Freeland (left) of Lawrence HS.
Over the course of their Junior and Senior years, Maura and Cassidy registered 185 new student voters at three voter registration drives at Lawrence HS in June and September 2018, and April 2019.
In December 2018, Maura and Cassidy were awarded a $500 grant from the national LWV Educational Fund for its Youth Voter Registration project. This project is designed to "engage high school, community college, and/or vocational school students in the electoral process, and to mitigate the widespread disparities in youth voting among African Americans, Latinos, and young people with no college experience." The registration locations were: Lawrence HSl, the East Trenton Collaborative Spring Street Fair, MCCC James Kerney Campus, Trenton Central HS, and the STEM Civics Charter HS in Ewing and yielded 157 new student voter registrations in Mercer County.
We are delighted to learn that Maura will attend Rowan University as part of the Honors College with a major in political science. Cassidy will enter the honors program at American University in Washington, DC next fall, majoring in CLEG (Communication, Legal Institutions, Economics, and Government). We send them both our best wishes for the future!
Cassidy Stoneback (left) and Maura Freeland
Our LWVLT 2019 Youth Leadership Award Winners.
Lawrence High School
Voter Registration
April 24, 2019



Mercer County Community College
Voter Registration
April 27, 2019
East Trenton Collaborative
Spring Kick-Off Street Fair
Voter Registration-April 29, 2019






The LHS Senior Awards Ceremony was held on June 6, 2019.
Nicole Plett, Co-Chair of the LWVLT presented award certificates to
Maura Freeland
and
Cassidy Stoneback





LHS 2019 Awards

Lucy Branham addresses a crowd in 1919 during the campaign to win the vote for women
Celebrating the 100th Birthday
of The League of Women Voters!
February 14, 1920
Members of the LWV of Lawrence Township & Friends met on the steps of the Trenton Free Public Library at 120 Academy Street in Trenton to celebrate the centennial of the founding of the LWV.
The women's suffrage colors are Gold, White and Violet, and we wore our 'Votes for Women' sashes.
We honored the 150-year struggle endured by so many determined women who came before us to win the right to vote!
Inside the library you can visit our "Women Power the Vote" historical displays that tell the story of our struggle!
photo by Michael Mancuso
photo by Michael Mancuso

photo by Michael Mancuso
photo by Michael Mancuso


photo by Michael Mancuso

photo by Michael Mancuso
