NPC to commemorate women's suffrage centennial at reception, Feb. 28

The National Press Club will celebrate the 100th anniversary of suffragette Alice Paul's march to the White House with a reception and panel discussion with women leaders Thursday, Feb. 28 from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Ballroom.

Admission $10 for NPC members and $15 for guests. Click here to purchase a ticket. Members must be signed in to take advantage of the discount.

The event commemorates the Woman Suffrage Parade on March 3, 1913. Paul and more than 8,000 suffragists from around the nation and the world marched down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House a day before President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration to demand the right to vote. Seven years later, the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote.

The reception offers an opportunity to mingle with women leaders and descendants of suffragists, listen to music from the movement and enjoy food prepared by NPC Chef Susan Delbert.

Speakers include NPC President Angela Greiling Keane of Bloomberg News, WJLA anchor Maureen Bunyan, and National Women's History Museum President and CEO Joan Wages.

The panel discussion moderated by Eleanor Clift, contributing editor for Newsweek and the Daily Beast and author of "Founding Sisters and the 19th Amendment," includes J.D. Zahniser, co-author of a biography on Paul, and Erika Falk, of the Aspen Institute, a former public radio reporter and anchor, and author of "Women for President: Media Bias in Nine Campaigns."

For more information, contact Events Committee Chair Megan Cotten at [email protected].