The San Francisco Call reported in 1910 that San Francisco’s Glen Park had more women's improvement clubs than anywhere else in the city. Beginning with the founding of the Glen Park Outdoor Art League in February 1908, Glen Park women soon became impassioned suffragists, working to gain rights for access to city utilities and endeavoring to beautify and transform their new residential district. In August 1908, as part of these efforts, they dared to help organize and lead the first march for suffrage in the United States, an event that is not well documented in U.S. suffrage history.

This blend of presentation and dramatic performance features the history of suffrage activism in Glen Park and San Francisco, including the key history-making role played by Glen Park resident Johanna Pinther. The presentation will be given by Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project director and founder Evelyn Rose; the dramatic vignette that will follow is written and directed by GPNHP assistant project director Amy O'Hair; dramatic performances by Valerie Fachman and Haley Roth-Brown. 

The Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project was founded in 2014. Covering Glen Park, Glen Canyon Park, Sunnyside, Fairmount Heights, and Diamond Heights in San Francisco’s Old Rancho San Miguel, the GPNHP works to rediscover forgotten histories, document living histories, and share those histories with others. Visit www.GlenParkHistory.org and partner website www.SunnysideHistory.org for more information. The Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project is fiscally sponsored by Independent Arts and Media (www.artsandmedia.net), a California nonprofit corporation.

Doors open at 7 p.m. with refreshments and a historical book sale; presentation begins at 7:30 p.m. sharp. There is a $10 admission for nonmembers. Paid parking at CPMC on Webster, one block away, plus a limited amount of street parking.