Category: History (and Her Story)
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...
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...
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...
Utah ratified the 19th Amendment on October 3, 1919.
Utah ratified the 19th Amendment on October 3, 1919.
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.
