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, and after that we shall be good for twenty years at least,” Elizabeth Cady Stanton told Susan B. Anthony in 1857. She was 41...
“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...
Harriot Kezia Hunt, a homeopathic doctor, campaigned for women’s suffrage and for women to be admitted to medical schools. Harriot applied multiple times unsuccessfully to attend Harvard Medical School, starting in 1847. Harvard Medical...
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 was the second state to give women the right to vote. To learn when American women across the United States were enfranchised, before or after the Nineteenth Amendment, see When did women in your...
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...
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...
If no one will promote or respect us, let us promote and respect ourselves. –Maria W. Stewart, 1831 In the 1830s, Maria W. Stewart, a free black abolitionist and feminist from Boston, was the...
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...
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