Joyce Spinelli - Our program on September 13th at 10 a.m. is
Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Women’s Right to Vote (19th Amendment to the Constitution) as ratified by the required 36 states on August 18, 1920.
Many Unitarian Universalist women were among the early inspirational women’s rights writers and suffragettes. To name just a few: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (organizer, writer), Olympia Brown (minister, suffragist), Julia Ward Howe (writer, abolitionist, author of Battle Hymn of the Republic) and Margaret Fuller (journalist, philosopher and friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson) *
* Note: book group will be discussing Fuller’s biography in October)
ORDER OF SERVICE
WELCOME AND OPENING WORDS.....JOYCE SPINELLI
LIGHTING THE CHALICE....SHANNON ANDERSON
POEM BY MAYA ANGELOU....ANGELA THOBURN
MUSIC: THEIR TRUTH IS MARCHING ON...PAUL VAN DAM
VIDEO: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE
MORE ABOUT THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT...JOYCE SPINELLI
THE EARLY VOTE OF WOMEN IN UTAH AND THE WESTERN STATES AND WORK THAT WAS LEFT TO BE DONE AFTER THE AMENDMENT....SHANNON ANDERSON
A DANCE: IN OUR E.R.A. ....PEGGY HACKNEY
EXTINGUISH THE CHALICE......SHANNON
ANNOUNCEMENTS...JOYCE
WELCOME & OPENING WORDS.....JOYCE SPINELLI
LIGHTING THE CHALICE....SHANNON ANDERSON
POEM BY MAYA ANGELOU....ANGELA THOBURN
Phenomenal Woman BY MAYA ANGELOU
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I’m telling lies.
I say,
It’s in the reach of my arms,
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.
I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It’s the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.
Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can’t touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them,
They say they still can’t see.
I say,
It’s in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.
Now you understand
Just why my head’s not bowed.
I don’t shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing,
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It’s in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need for my care.
’Cause I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.
MUSIC: THEIR TRUTH IS MARCHING ON...PAUL VAN DAM
VIDEO: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE
MORE ABOUT THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
...JOYCE SPINELLI
THE EARLY VOTE OF WOMEN IN UTAH AND THE WESTERN STATES AND WORK THAT WAS LEFT TO BE DONE AFTER THE AMENDMENT
....SHANNON ANDERSON
A DANCE: IN OUR E.R.A. ....PEGGY HACKNEY
A DANCE: IN OUR E.R.A. ....PEGGY HACKNEY
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