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A very sad story.

A sad story... Sarah Ingersoll Cooper made her mark on California as a leader of the 1896 suffrage referendum - a painful defeat. She had already…

Anna Howard Shaw: Reverend, Doctor, NAWSA Leader

When Anna Howard Shaw was a young woman, she wore pants and short hair. She gave it up eventually because she got too many comments, but she couldn’t…

Idaho

Susan B toured Idaho in the 1880s - on horseback, people! - and western states crusader Abigail Scott Duniway was invited to the speak at the state's…

Passing the torch

The founding of the National Association of Colored Women in 1896 gathered two generations of prominent African-American women in the nation's…

Tye Leung Schulze

Tye Leung Schulze was the first Chinese-American woman to take the civil service exam and become a federal government employee. She was also the first…

Voting rights & plural marriage: The Utah Story

In Utah, suffrage was politically entwined w/polygamy. Women 1st voted in 1870, when UT was a territory seeking to preserve plural marriage vs a…