The Lombard Historical Society is proud to screen its original documentary, All Citizens: The Lombard Women Who Voted 29 Years Before the 19th Amendment, produced by Tim Frakes Productions, Inc.,This free event requires registration.

Discover the remarkable story of Ellen Martin and other Lombard women who boldly exercised their right to vote in 1891, nearly three decades before the 19th Amendment granted women’s suffrage nationwide. Join us for a screening of All Citizens: The Lombard Women Who Voted 29 Years Before the 19th Amendment and the Story of Those Who Made It Possible, a film by acclaimed local filmmaker Tim Frakes.

On April 6, 1891, fifteen Lombard women, led by Chicago attorney Ellen A. Martin, marched into their local polling place and demanded to vote—29 years before the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution secured women's suffrage nationwide.

Martin and her colleagues—prominent Lombard women—were able to vote thanks to Civil War General Benjamin Sweet, who, 22 years earlier, had deliberately written Lombard’s founding charter to state: “All citizens... shall be entitled to vote at any election.”