Ratification of 19th Amendment – Women’s Voting Rights
Early in 1919, the House of Representatives passed the 19th amendment by a vote of 304 to 90, and the Senate approved it 56 to …
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Susan B. Anthony cast her Vote on Election Day — Illegally
The tactics of the suffragists went beyond petitions and memorials to Congress. Testing another strategy, Susan B. Anthony registered and voted in the 1872 election …
Susan B. Anthony Delivers 100,000+ Signatures to U.S. Senate to Ban Slavery
Feminists and suffragists had agreed to suspend the women’s rights conventions until after the Civil War, but many of those same women continued the fight …
Emma Willard Officially Opens The Troy Female Seminary, the First School that Offers Higher Education for Women
The school was located in Troy, New York and acheived tremedous success. The school taught math, philosophy, geography, history, and science. Emma Hart Willard was born …