Each summer, members of the AAUW Corpus Christi Branch share their knowledge and expertise with girls at the local YWCA’s YW Teen Summer Leadership camps.

The 19th Amendment Reenactment

On June 4, 2019, Dr. Diana Cardenas worked with a group of 15 YW Teens from the Mathis Independent School District.  The girls acted out events that led up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment — the right to vote for women.  Girls played the parts of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention in New York.  Other girls enacted the arrest and imprisonment of Alice Paul in 1917.

Girls also made banners calling for the Right to Vote.  Our favorite was a drawing of the sun with the statement, “The sun wants women to have the right to vote.”  What could be more right than a law of nature?