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Read more: A long social reform movement“Women staged one of the longest social reform movements in the history of the United States,” says historian Kate Clarke Lemay in the July 10,…
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Read more: Susan B. Anthony votesSusan B. Anthony and more than 150 other women around the country voted—illegally—in 1872. The judge at Susan B. Anthony’s trial was federal Judge Ward…
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Read more: Who couldn’t vote in 1891?The Illinois state constitution stated: “Idiots, lunatics, paupers, felons and women shall not be entitled to vote.” That law, we think, provides an indication of…
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Read more: Suffragette or suffragist?The term suffragette was most often used to refer to British women. American women generally preferred to be called suffragists—because they wanted to distance themselves…
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Read more: The battle to win the voteWhat event marked the beginning of women’s battle to win the vote in the United States? The Seneca Falls Convention on July 19 and 20,…
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Read more: The first women to voteWho were the first women to vote in the United States? Almost a thousand years ago, women in the Haudenosaunee Confederacy helped select the chiefs…
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Read more: It’s August in TexasYikes! It is too hot today in Dallas for me to go on my afternoon walk. I will have to take a walk after dinner.…
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Read more: Joy, like a pearlJames Lawson, the Civil Rights leader, read this Langston Hughes poem at John Lewis’ funeral services. I dream a world where man No other man…
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Read more: We will not be quiet“Let all of the people of the USA determine that we will not be quiet as long as any child dies in the first year…
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Read more: Celebrate women’s suffrageWomen won the right to vote 100 years ago in August 1920. Celebrate by wearing white. Suffragists often wore white dresses with yellow sashes. White…