The Ask a Suffragist book series channels the stories and wisdom of first wave feminists to inform modern activists as we continue to fight the patriarchy. The first book in the series, America’s First Feminists, was launched in Spring 2019.
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Recent Posts
- Michigan, Oklahoma & South Dakota gave women the right to vote on November 5, 1918.by April Young Bennett on October 27, 2022 at 2:20 pm
To learn when American women across the United States were enfranchised, before or after the Nineteenth Amendment, see When did women in your state get the right to vote? Celebrate with us! Sign up for the...
- Montana and Nevada gave women the right to vote on November 3, 1914.by April Young Bennett on October 26, 2022 at 1:59 pm
To learn when American women across the United States were enfranchised, before or after the Nineteenth Amendment, see When did women in your state get the right to vote? Celebrate with us! Sign up for the...
- Idaho gave women the right to vote on November 3, 1896.by April Young Bennett on October 25, 2022 at 2:03 pm
Idaho was the fourth state to enfranchise women, after its neighbors, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, and it would be the last to do so for over a decade. To learn when American women across...
- California ratified the 19th Amendment on Nov. 1, 1919.by April Young Bennett on October 22, 2022 at 4:43 pm
California women had already been voting since 1911. To learn about when other states ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, see When did your state ratify the Nineteenth Amendment? To learn when American women across the...
- “I have worked for freedom.” -Sarah Winnemucca, 1885 #IndigenousPeoplesDayby April Young Bennett on October 8, 2022 at 2:06 pm
“I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent; I have worked for freedom. I have labored to give my race a voice in the affairs of the nation.” -Sarah...