The year 2017 celebrated the passage of votes for women in New York State.
In 2018, votes for women passed in South Dakota, Oklahoma and Texas.
INEZ MILHOLLAND BOISSEVAIN – Stories of an American suffragette, who led the 1913 Washington march, championing the black Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Her death in 1916 galvanized the National Woman's Party, which launched picketing of Wilson's White House. After arrests of the picketers, and a hunger strike and maltreatment of the prisoners (force-feeding), public opinion changed. Wilson did too, and the 19th Amendment became law in 1920.
Friday, January 19, 2018
CENTENNIAL | Suffrage Marches, January 20
The year 2017 celebrated the passage of votes for women in New York State.
In 2018, votes for women passed in South Dakota, Oklahoma and Texas.
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