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Here are the suffrage anniversaries we'll commemorate this week, our latest book recommendations, and more.
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“If there is no struggle there is no progress. …Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” -Frederick Douglass, 1857

  “If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without...
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“The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball — the further I am rolled the more I gain.” -Susan B. Anthony, 1896

“The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball — the further I am rolled the more I gain.” -Susan B. Anthony, February...
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Women of Utah Territory voted in their first election on Valentine’s Day, 1870.

It was the first time American women voted since New Jersey women lost the right in 1807. Wyoming women also had the right to vote, but had not held an election yet since women...
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Utah Territory gave women the right to vote on February 12, 1870.

Utah Territory was the second place in America to extend voting rights to women, after its neighbor, Wyoming Territory.
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Arizona ratified the 19th Amendment on February 12, 1920.


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Idaho ratified the 19th Amendment on February 11, 1920.


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