RALEIGH, N.C.— Just days after the primary election on Super Tuesday here in North Carolina, a new exhibit focusing on the history of voting rights in the Tar is Heel state will be front and center at the NC Museum of History.  Opening March 6^th, You Have to Start a Thing, explores how women and men fought for and against women’s suffrage leading up to the 19^th Amendment.

2020 marks the 100^th anniversary of the 19^th Amendment.  And this exhibit highlights the struggle for the women’s right to vote, the continued struggle for women of color, and the entry of women into political positions of power.  But before it’s doors open on March 6th, Spectrum News anchor Caroline Blair sat down with the Curator of Political and Social History, RaeLana Poteat, for more on whats featured and why this exhibit is so important to share. 

“You Have to Start a Thing” 

• Opens on March 6th  
• Learn about the national movement for woman suffrage 
• Find out how the campaign for suffrage was different in North Carolina than in other areas 
• Experience the suffrage debate by watching life-size videos of actors portraying suffragists and anti-suffragists 
• Listen to the words and opinions of real people, taken from actual speeches, letters, newspaper articles, and propaganda circulating in North Carolina between the 1890s and 1920
• Spin a wheel of enfranchisement to find out whether they would have been able to vote at various points in North Carolina’s past  
• Express opinions by voting on potential constitutional amendments in the “Have a Say—Vote Today!” interactive