Our Literature Track events bring together K-State students and members of faculty with the greater Manhattan community to celebrate influential literary works and their lasting cultural impact.

On March 3, 2020, the literature track of the Department of English at Kansas State University along with 12 local organizations and donors presented “Kansas Women Have Done It! Agitating for the Women’s Vote.” The evening honored the centennial of the 19^th Amendment, which guarantees and protects women’s constitutional right to vote.

Scheduled in March, the Women’s History month, and celebrating Susanna Madora Salter’s March 2nd birthday, the event showcased performance, music, and discussion and stressed the on-going importance of the right to vote today. Salter was the first woman mayor in America. In fact, Salter and her hometown Argonia, Kansas, an hour southwest of Wichita, dominated national news in 1887 when the small town elected her as the first woman in any political office in the United States.