“How Michigan Women Won the Vote”
The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote
for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to
win that right, and the campaign was not easy: Disagreements over strategy threatened
to cripple the movement more than once. But on August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment
to the Constitution was finally ratified; enfranchising all American women and
declaring for the first time that they like men, deserve all the rights and responsibilities
of citizenship.
The Michigan Women’s History Center has assembled 11 panels that describe the
history of the suffrage movement in Michigan. The panels will be displayed at
the CoBACH Center June 1 through August 23, 2019.
Download the complete Suffrage Brochure.
EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT CELEBRATION
FREE
Mona Shand (Rep. Slotkin’s Livingston County Liaison)
The BAHS will be conducting working session to continue scanning documents and photos in our historical archive from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm, every Thursday except on Thanksgiving. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact us.
The Lyon School is located on in Brighton Township, Michigan on Buno Road one quarter-mile west of Pleasant Valley Road.
During our Archive Scanning Working Session, the Lyon School is open to public. Please stop in and look around this historic that is fully restored and furnished as it would have been as a late 19th or early 20th century one-room school house.
The Lyon School is located on in Brighton Township, Michigan on Buno Road one quarter-mile west of Pleasant Valley Road.
Board meetings are open to the public.
If you are interested in getting involved, this is a good opportunity to learn how.
** No Meeting in December
202 W. Main Street, in downtown Brighton next to the Millpond. CoBACH is formally known as the City of Brighton, Arts, Culture and History Center. It is located in the former Town Hall building.
The BAHS will be conducting working session to continue scanning documents and photos in our historical archive from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm, every Thursday except on Thanksgiving. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact us.
The Lyon School is located on in Brighton Township, Michigan on Buno Road one quarter-mile west of Pleasant Valley Road.
During our Archive Scanning Working Session, the Lyon School is open to public. Please stop in and look around this historic that is fully restored and furnished as it would have been as a late 19th or early 20th century one-room school house.
The Lyon School is located on in Brighton Township, Michigan on Buno Road one quarter-mile west of Pleasant Valley Road.
Closed for the Labor Day Weekend Holiday
August 30 – September 2nd, 2019
Did you know that Brighton has had an African American community off Old 23 north of Spencer Road since 1919? Check out the early photos that show the cottages that came first and learn the early history of these families desiring a quite remote location on a lake.
These Detroiters purchased property on Lyons Lake located about 1/4 mile north of Spencer Road on the west side of today’s Old 23. At first these cottages were summer homes, but in later years many were converted to year-round homes. New construction is found here as in all areas of Brighton.
This informative exhibit will provide you with yet another story of the desirability of Brighton lake living.
CoBACH Center Hours:
Sunday-Friday, 5-8 pm
Saturday, 11 am-5 pm
Closed Monday
The BAHS will be conducting working session to continue scanning documents and photos in our historical archive from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm, every Thursday except on Thanksgiving. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact us.
The Lyon School is located on in Brighton Township, Michigan on Buno Road one quarter-mile west of Pleasant Valley Road.