Bartlesville rally, reenactment celebrates women's suffrage

BARTLESVILLE, Okla. - Women in Bartlesville on Saturday celebrated the 90th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment.

The celebrations began with a 10 a.m. rally at the Bartlesville Community Center. The hall was packed and nearly every seat taken as a storyteller — with the help of local community members dressed in in period clothing and playing the parts of key figures in the women's suffrage movement — recounted the events that lead up to the 1920 acceptance of women's suffrage as national law.

Following the rally was a parade to the Washington County Courthouse — to the third floor courtroom — where members of the community re-enacted the 1873 trail, United States vs. Susan B. Anthony, when Anthony was prosecuted in federal court for the felony offense of voting without a lawful right to vote.

The event was hosted by the Bartlesville Women's Network.