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Women's Votes, Women's Voices: The Campaign for Equal Rights in Washington

Women's Votes, Women's Voices: The Campaign for Equal Rights in Washington

Stevenson, Shanna

Paperback

Regional: Pacific NorthwestSocial MovementsWomen's Studies

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 0917048741
ISBN13: 9780917048746
Publisher: Washington State Historical Society
Published: Sep 25 2009
Pages: 128
Weight: 1.47
Height: 0.44 Width: 8.58 Depth: 10.98
Language: English

The right of citizens to vote is a pillar of democracy--a mainstay denied to Washington women until they united in a campaign to enact change. Suffragettes briefly achieved the right to vote through an 1883 legislative act, only to have a Territorial Supreme Court decision declare it invalid. Once again, women formed clubs and embarked on a grassroots crusade. They canvassed neighborhoods, circulated petitions, published a newspaper, conducted debates, sold a cookbook, participated in fairs, and more. Finally, in 1910, suffragettes persuaded Washington men to ratify a state constitutional amendment granting permanent voting rights for women, only the fifth state to do so. Their success revitalized the national movement, inspiring activists struggling toward another pivotal goal, the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Approved in 1920, the revision secured voting rights for women across the country.

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