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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…