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Here are the suffrage anniversaries we'll commemorate this week, our latest book recommendations, and more.
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Changing the world is a long-term project, April Young Bennett tells business leaders

In this clip, from the Next Level Leadership Women’s Program of the American Gas Association in Washington DC just prior to the COVID-19 crisis, April Young Bennett talks to business leaders about how they...
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal.” -Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848

In the Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first Woman’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton expanded the vision of the founding fathers, declaring that all men and...
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New Jersey was the only state in the Union with votes for women in 1776.


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Missouri ratified the 19th Amendment on July 3, 1919.


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Iowa ratified the 19th Amendment on July 2, 1919.

 
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Better late than never! South Carolina ratified the 19th Amendment on July 1, 1969.

The Nineteenth Amendment had become law in 1920.
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