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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
Michigan, Oklahoma & South Dakota gave women the right to vote on November 5, 1918.
To learn when American women across the United States were enfranchised, before or after the Nineteenth Amendment, see When did women in your state get the right to vote? Celebrate with us! Sign up for the...
Montana and Nevada gave women the right to vote on November 3, 1914.
To learn when American women across the United States were enfranchised, before or after the Nineteenth Amendment, see When did women in your state get the right to vote? Celebrate with us! Sign up for the...
Idaho gave women the right to vote on November 3, 1896.
Idaho was the fourth state to enfranchise women, after its neighbors, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, and it would be the last to do so for over a decade. To learn when American women across...
California ratified the 19th Amendment on Nov. 1, 1919.
California women had already been voting since 1911. To learn about when other states ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, see When did your state ratify the Nineteenth Amendment? To learn when American women across the...
“I have worked for freedom.” -Sarah Winnemucca, 1885 #IndigenousPeoplesDay
“I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent; I have worked for freedom. I have labored to give my race a voice in the affairs of the nation.” -Sarah...
“I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but nouns, not mere appendages made to qualify somebody else.” -Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1880. Happy International #DayOfTheGirl
“I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but nouns, not mere appendages made to qualify somebody else, but independent, responsible workers in carrying forward the grand eternal plans in the redemption of...
California women won the right to vote, doubling the nation’s female voters, on October 10, 1911.
California women’s strategy of organizing in rural counties, where opposition was less organized, paid off for California women when rural counties carried the vote for women’s suffrage in 1911. When California women won the...
“The fact that somebody is displeased is no evidence that we are wrong.” —Mary Ann Shadd, 1854
“The fact that somebody is displeased is no evidence that we are wrong.” —Mary Ann Shadd, 1854 Mary Ann Shadd Cary was the first black woman in North America to edit a newspaper and...
Utah ratified the 19th Amendment on October 3, 1919.
Utah ratified the 19th Amendment on October 3, 1919.
“Make me a grave where’er you will…but not in a land where men are slaves.” -Frances E.W. Harper, 1858
Make me a grave where’er you will, In a lowly plain, or a lofty hill; Make it among earth’s humblest graves, But not in a land where men are slaves. -Frances E.W. Harper, 1858...
It was already law, but Connecticut showed its support by ratifying the 19th Amendment on September 14, 1920.
It was already law, but Connecticut showed its support by ratifying the 19th Amendment on September 14, 1920.
New Hampshire ratified the 19th Amendment on September 10, 1919.
New Hampshire ratified the 19th Amendment on September 10, 1919.
