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As we celebrate the Women’s Suffrage Centennial, it is a great time to look back to what we can learn from the past as we work toward a better future. April Young Bennett, author...
Ask a Suffragist Stories and Wisdom from America's First Feminists
Wyoming Territory was the first to give women the right to vote on Dec. 10, 1869.
Wyoming Territory was the first to give women the right to vote on Dec. 10, 1869. This newspaper cover shows Wyoming women voting in 1888. At that time, Wyoming women were the only American...
South Dakota ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on December 4, 1919.
South Dakota ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on December 4, 1919.
North Dakota ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on December 1, 1919.
North Dakota ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on December 1, 1919.
“All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from our necks.” –Sarah Grimké, 1837
“All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from our necks and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy.” –Sarah Grimké,...
Washington Territory gave women the right to vote on Nov. 23, 1883.
Washington territory was the third territory to enfranchise women, before any state had done so, on November 23, 1883. Unfortunately, the courts invalidated Washington’s suffrage law in 1887. The Washington Territorial Legislature quickly passed...
“We shall not be in our prime before fifty.” -Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1857
“We shall not be in our prime before fifty, and after that we shall be good for twenty years at least,” Elizabeth Cady Stanton told Susan B. Anthony in 1857. She was 41...
“There are seasons…that team with power, when minds mingling for the first time produce electrical action.” -Harriot Kezia Hunt, 1856
“There are seasons, my medical brother and sister, that team with power, when minds mingling for the first time produce electrical action. Lose those moments, wait for a more convenient time, it never comes.”...
The ballot means bread, education, and so much more. #Vote
“Resolved, that the ballot, alike unto the woman and the negro, means bread, education, intelligence, self-protection, self-reliance and self-respect.” -American Equal Rights Association (AERA), New York City Convention, Dec. 7, 1866 That’s what...
Washington state gave women the right to vote on November 8, 1910.
Gaining the right to vote was tricky for Washington women. While Washington was still a territory, its territorial legislature granted women the right to vote twice, only to have its suffrage laws struck down...
Colorado gave women the right to vote on November 7, 1893.
Colorado was the second state to give women the right to vote.
New York gave women the right to vote on November 6, 1917.
Many of the earliest prominent suffragists were New Yorkers: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Ernestine Rose and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, to name a few. However their efforts were most often rewarded...
