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In 1896, 45% of the men in California voted to give women the ballot. It took 15 more years before enough men were persuaded - 51.7% of them, precisely. In 1911 California became only the sixth state to enfranchise women. #StateoftheWeek But wait,…

IHO Year of the Rat, a fearless teenager on a horse. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee was only 16 when she led New York City’s 1912 suffrage parade on horseback. She started college @Barnard that fall. She was a media magnet, profiled in the Tribune a month before…