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Location Closure The Central Library will be closing Thursday, September 11 @ 5 PM due to a ticketed speaker event.

Announcement The Pennsylvania Avenue Branch is operating on a reduced schedule with limited services 10 am–4 pm until further notice due to a facilities maintenance issue.

Location Closure The Brooklyn, Forest Park, Govans, Hamilton, Herring Run, Reisterstown Road, and Washington Village branches are closed for facility improvements. Learn more here.

The year 2020 marked the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave the legal right to vote (suffrage) to women.

The Enoch Pratt Free Library is proud to give homage to the generations of activists who fought for this groundbreaking legislation. Their heroic efforts are crucial to our national story.

Browse the PDFs below to explore the exhibit:

Portraits of Nannie Helen Burroughs and Fannie Barrier Williams. Library of Congress.
Penn[sylvania] on the picket line, 1917. Library of Congress.
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton at a table. Library of Congress.
Lucy Branham in Occoquan prison dress, 1919. Library of Congress.
Just Government League of Maryland march signs: Votes for Women, Liberty or Death, Don't Tread on Me. MD State Archives.
Shirley Chisholm, Norman Rockefeller, and Walter Fauntroy at the Congressional Black Caucus forum, 1975. Library of Congress.
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