Today in history: Women get to vote

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1925.

Women Get the Vote

September 30, 1889

While the women’s suffrage movement took root on the U.S. East Coast, led by such famous advocates as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, it was Wyoming that made history on September 30, 1889, as the first U.S. territory – and later state – to grant women the right to vote. During the state convention, Wyoming Governor John Allen Campbell included this provision into the territory’s constitution, paving a path toward equality for the rest of the country to follow. By 1914, all states west of the Rocky Mountains had followed suit, and in 1920, the 19th Amendment of the Constitution was ratified, granting women’s suffrage nationwide.

In popular culture, the Old West is often depicted as a harsh, gun-slinging, lawless land unfit for genteel womenfolk, but these territories did more for equal gender rights than they’re given credit for, and Wyoming is no exception. Nicknamed “The Equality State,” Wyoming was not only a trailblazer in the suffrage movement, it was also the first state to elect a female bailiff, justice of the peace, and governor, Nellie Tayloe Ross, who took office in

[niyad]

1. Thank you for posting this most imporrtant article. Would you consider cross-posting

in Women's Rights And Issues? Thanks in advance.

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2. Hard to believe that Wyoming was once a equal rights state-now pure RED!

.....In popular culture, the Old West is often depicted as a harsh, gun-slinging, lawless land unfit for genteel womenfolk, but these territories did more for equal gender rights than they’re given credit for, and Wyoming is no exception. Nicknamed “The Equality State,” Wyoming was not only a trailblazer in the suffrage movement, it was also the first state to elect a female bailiff, justice of the peace, and governor, Nellie Tayloe Ross, who took office in

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