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America's First Feminists
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Women of STEM: Harriot Hunt #19forthe19th
23 Aug, 2019
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Ask a Suffragist visits the home of Julia Ward Howe
27 Jul, 2019
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Commemorative Calendar
- June 28, 2022
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Texas ratified the 19th Amendment on this day in 1919.
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- July 1, 2022
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Better late than never! South Carolina ratified the 19th Amendment on this day in 1969. The 19th had become law in 1920.
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- July 2, 2022
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Iowa ratified the 19th Amendment on this day in 1919.
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- July 3, 2022
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Missouri ratified the 19th Amendment on this day in 1919.
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- July 4, 2022
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Independence Day
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New Jersey was the only state among the original 13 United States to enter the Union with women's voting rights in 1776. Unfortunately, the New Jersey legislature rescinded women's suffrage in 1807.
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- July 10, 2022
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Wyoming gained statehood, becoming the first state with equal voting rights for women, on this day in 1890.
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- July 28, 2022
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Arkansas ratified the 19th Amendment on this day in 1919.
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- August 2, 2022
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Montana & Nebraska ratified the 19th Amendment on this day in 1919.
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- August 6, 2022
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The Voting Rights Act became law on this day in 1965.
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- Better late than never! Louisiana ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on June 11, 1970. June 6, 2022
- Better late than never! Maryland ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on March 29, 1941. March 28, 2022