Author: April Young Bennett
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...
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...
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...
Ask a Suffragist at Maria W. Stewart’s apartment building #WomensHistory #BlackHistory
The sign reads: Controversial Black Abolitionist. Essayist, lecturer, religious activist. Her speeches, published by William Lloyd Garrison, were first publicly delivered speeches by an American woman on politics & women’s rights. via Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B39ggPwBCf6/...
Good news, @BYU students! Your campus library now stocks Ask a Suffragist!
On a student budget? Check out Ask a Suffragist from the BYU Harold B. Lee Library and read it for free! #BYU #LDS via Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B39d32qBN41/
Learning from the Past to Become Better Activists with April Young Bennett
In this episode of the Religious Feminism interview series, April flips the script. Instead of interviewing a guest, April shares clips from recent radio interviews and podcasts in which other hosts interviewed April about...
