Instructor: Alexia Jones Helsley, Senior Instructor in History/University Archivist, worked for the SC Department of Archives and History before coming to USCA. Her recent book, The Lost History of Aiken, covers USCA’s Banksia beginnings. Recipient of the Governor’s Archives Award & a career achievement award from the SC Archival Association, Helsley currently serves on the association’s editorial board. Description: This three-session course will introduce attendees to the fascinating South Carolinians who advocated for women’s suffrage. Class presentations will cover South Carolina suffragists from the antebellum Grimke Sisters through the Rollins Sisters, Virginia Durant Young and many others to 1969 when the SC General Assembly finally ratified the Nineteenth Amendment. Aiken’s own Eulalie Salley, suffrage proponent, attended that historic occasion.