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Remembering Memphis Rep. Joseph Hanover and his role in Tennessee’s women’s suffrage

  • Paula Casey

This week is a great week for celebrating Tennessee’s pivotal role in the 19th Amendment’s ratification.  On August 18, 1920, the Tennessee House of Representatives voted in a special session to ratify the 19th Amendment, which enshrined the right to vote for American women in the U.S. Constitution.  The House concurred with the Senate which […]

Colorado

Fifty for 150: Local boosters and ‘party trickery’ secured statehood for Colorado in 1876

  • Chase Woodruff

Colorado may have always been destined to attain statehood, but it owes its identity as the Centennial State to the partisan political interests of the Reconstruction-era Republican Party. The timing of Colorado’s admission into the union in 1876, weeks after the celebration of the nation’s centenary and just ahead of that year’s pivotal presidential election, […]

Colorado

Fifty for 150: Women in Colorado lobbied male voters to approve 1893 referendum on suffrage

  • Lindsey Toomer

A popular vote on a referendum granted women the right to vote in Colorado on Nov. 7, 1893.  Just under 55% of male voters supported the measure — 35,798 votes for, and 29,551 votes against.  While it’s debated which state was actually the first to grant women the right to vote, Colorado was the first […]