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As we celebrate the Women’s Suffrage Centennial in 2019 and 2020, it is a great time to look back to what we can learn from the past as we work toward a better future....
Ask a Suffragist Stories and Wisdom from America's First Feminists
“Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.” –William Lloyd Garrison, 1853
“I have been derisively called a ‘Woman Rights Man.’ I know no such distinction. I claim to be a Human Rights Man; and wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent...
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.
In 1838, Angelina Grimké was the first woman to address an American legislative body. #WomensHistory
She drew crowds so large that a representative proposed “a committee be appointed to examine the foundations of the State House of Massachusetts, to see whether it will bear another lecture from Miss Grimké.”...
“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,...
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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...
Check out the suffrage centennial display at my local library! #19thAmendment #WomensHistory
I was just at the South Jordan Library and spotted my book on display! If you’re in my neighborhood, now is a great time to borrow it! #WomensHistory #19thamendment via Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B4V9chlhMXb/
“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.”...
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...
