Our Fall lecture series continues on Thursday, October 12 at Marble House. This event begins 6pm with a reception to follow. Many know the names of Carrie Chapman Catt, co-founder of the League of Women Voters, and Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, who held two suffrage conferences at her Marble House. Both were crucial to the suffrage movement, culminating in American women winning the right to vote in 1920. But what were these two women’s interest in the Chinese Revolution of 1911 and how did it affect women suffragists in the US? Learn more about the women’s suffrage movement and Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, a 16-year-old woman who played an important role in cross-cultural exchange and the crusade for women’s rights early in her life. Our distinguished speakers for the evening: Dr. Cathleen D. Cahill, The Walter L. Ferree and Helen P. Ferree Professor in Middle-American History at Pennsylvania State University; Reverend Bayer Lee, Pastor of the First Chinese Baptist Church in Chinatown, New York a...