Tagged: California

March 30, 2020

“That vote has been costly. Prize it!” -Carrie Chapman Catt #WomensHistoryMonth

“Women have suffered agony of soul which you can never comprehend, that you and your daughters might inherit political freedom. That vote has been costly. Prize it!” -Carrie Chapman Catt, 1920 March is Women’s...

History (and Her Story)

October 25, 2019

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...

History (and Her Story)

October 4, 2019

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...

History (and Her Story)

October 18, 2018

When did your state ratify the Nineteenth Amendment?

In 1920, the United States of America will celebrate the first 100 years of the Nineteenth Amendment. Want to celebrate the day your home state ratified the Nineteenth? Here it is. Congress approved the...

History (and Her Story)

October 15, 2018

When did women in your state get the right to vote?

While we commemorate the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 as when American women won the right to vote, in fact, some groups of American women were voting 50 years before the Nineteenth...