One of my favorite blogs is The New York History Blog. I try to check it each week to see what’s new in New York
State. This morning I found of
particular interest their article on The Spirit of 1776: A New Suffragette Anthem. On this day in 1920 the 19th amendment was passed
giving American women the right to vote.
What I had forgotten was that there were a number of states in which
women already had the right to vote.
The western states of Wyoming (1890), Colorado (1893), Utah
(1896), Idaho (1896) Washington (1910), California, Arizona, Montana, Nevada
and Oregon lead the way. New York’s centennial of Women’s Suffrage is scheduled
for 2017. For a more comprehensive
list see the timeline at Womens History at About.com.
I think this is an interesting piece of information when
writing about ancestors who traveled west in the late 1800s. Did those women, your ancestors, take advantage of the
state laws allowing them that freedom?
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