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Nov 17, 2021 Books for Human Rights Day

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Human Rights Day is celebrated annually on December 10th in celebration of "the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights." We're celebrating this day with some book recommendations from librarian Allyson Mower....

Seraph Young, a niece of Brigham Young, was the first woman to legally vote in the United States. In 1870, Utah became one of the first territories/states to grant women full voting rights.

Oct 01, 2020 Rock the Vote: First Female Vote Was Cast in Utah

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A major milestone in the women’s suffrage movement occurred on February 14, 1870, about 150 years ago. A woman by the name of Seraph Young, a schoolteacher from Salt Lake City, stopped at the polls on her way to work to cast her vote in...