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Wyoming was the first place in the world to incorporate women's suffrage, although other jurisdictions had already given limited suffrage to women who met various property qualifications. [1] A U.S. territory in 1869, Wyoming's first territorial legislature voted to give women the right to vote and to hold public office. [ 2 ]
Just look at Wyoming, where women gained the right to vote all the way back in 1869, a full 20 years before the territory became the country’s 44th state in 1890, and more than 50 years before ...
The History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press. Irwin, Inez Haynes (1921). The Story of the Woman's Party. Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc. – via Internet Archive. Lamont, Victoria (2006). " "More than She Deserved:" Woman Suffrage Statues in the Equality State". Canadian Review of American Studies.
To Mrs. Esther Morris is due the credit and honor of advocating and originating woman's suffrage in the United States. [12] Nickerson's story gained widespread prominence after his friend, Wyoming historian Grace Raymond Hebard (1861–1936) published the account in a 1920 pamphlet entitled "How Woman Suffrage Came to Wyoming (1869)". [10]
Apr. 10—CHEYENNE — Everyone knows Wyoming earned its nickname as The Equality State because it was the first state to grant women the right to vote in 1890. What might not be as well known ...
During its territorial era, the Wyoming Legislature played a crucial role in the Suffragette Movement in the United States.In 1869, only four years following the American Civil War, and another 35 years before women's suffrage became a highly visible political issue in both the U.S., Britain, and elsewhere, the Wyoming Legislature granted all women above the age of 21 the right to vote.
The focus turns to working at the state level. Wyoming renewed general women's suffrage, becoming the first state to allow women to vote. [6] [3] [8] 1890: A suffrage campaign loses in South Dakota. [6] 1893: After a campaign led by Carrie Chapman Catt, Colorado men vote for women's suffrage. [6]
[202] [204] One attendee of the convention, John Allen Campbell, later went onto to grant women equal suffrage in Wyoming. [204] Frances Dana Barker Gage was the president of the next women's rights convention in Ohio, held in Akron in 1851. [202] [205] One of the speakers was Sojourner Truth who influenced Cleveland attendee, Caroline ...