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Tuesday, August 18, 2020
As the nation prepares to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the 19th Amendment that granted women the right to …
One way to get an inkling of Amy Canfield’s conception of history is to compare, say, the Wikipedia photos of two of …
The 19th Amendment was a critical milestone for women but Latah County Historical Society Executive Director Dulce Ke…
Washington, D.C. — Anti-suffrage forces received another setback today when Justice Siddons of the District of Columbia supreme court refused to issue a “show cause” order against Secretary of State Colby, preliminary to the issuance of an injunction to restrain him from proclaiming the nineteenth amendment a law.
Karen Kiessling did not want to run for mayor of Pullman in 1975. In fact, she thought the idea was laughable.
Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 17. — Unexpected adjournment of the Tennessee house after three hours’ debate prevented final action on suffrage.
Cari Miller is a “lot of different things” — well-rounded, one might say.
Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 18. — The amendment extending equal suffrage to American women was ratified today for inclusion in the federal constitution, the Tennessee house voting 50 to 46 to concur in the senate resolution adopted Friday, 25 to 4.
Monika Lawrence decided to run for a political office because she disagreed with something a former Clarkston city co…
The fight for women’s suffrage was won in the West long before it was achieved nationwide, and Idaho was a leader in …
Washington, D.C., Aug. 26. — Without pomp or ceremony, Secretary Colby today signed the proclamation declaring the woman suffrage amendment “to all intents and purposes, a part of the constitution of the United States.”
The act of the Tennessee legislature in ratifying the equal suffrage amendment has followed the method prescribed by the federal constitution, and in that respect it seems unassailable. But as to whether the Tennessee legislature could, or should, have assumed to act under the requirements of the state constitution is another matter.
The Idaho State Historical Society and Idaho Women in Leadership have been commemorating the 100-year anniversary of …
Women in the Evergreen State were given the right to vote a decade before the rest of the country when the Washington…
Fannie Poe helped found a Methodist church in Lewiston, led the town’s women’s suffrage movement for a time and had a…
New York, Aug. 25. — Representative women leaders in political organizations here expressed gratification today over the achievements of the women of the United States during the first year of the national enfranchisement. The 19th amendment to the constitution was officially proclaimed August 26, 1920.
Washington, D.C., Aug. 25. — In nationwide celebration of the tenth anniversary of suffrage, women of America will turn again tomorrow to that 70-year-old pioneer campaigner of the woman’s cause, Carrie Chapman Catt, as chief spokesman.
The League of Women Voters has been helping Americans exercise their franchise for the last 100 years, and Maxine Mil…
Food served as a weapon in the fight for women’s suffrage.
Mount St. Helens erupted 40 years ago. This special section features stories and columns from the time of the eruption and in the years since.
