The woman behind the name: Emmy Evald, pioneer champion for women’s rights

The author of a new biography of Emmy Carlsson Evald, for whom the Augustana building is named, will discuss her book at a meeting of the Augustana Historical Society.

The program is open the public via Zoom.

Sharon Wyman is the great-granddaughter of Emmy Evald, and the author of "Power, Passion, and Faith: Emmy Carlsson Evald, Suffragist and Social Activist."

Voted by the readers of a Swedish newspaper as the “most prominent Swede now living abroad” in 1922, Emmy Carlsson Evald marched with Susan B. Anthony to the U.S. Capitol to demand women’s right to vote, raised money to fund the construction of the Women's Building at Augustana College, and founded the Augustana Women’s Missionary Society, which helped to build scores of educational and health facilities around the world. 

The Women's Building was remodeled and renamed Carlsson-Evald Hall in 2008.