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...
"The franchise conferred by a theocracy, exercised in dominance, made to conserve its power, to perpetuate polygamous life, and to clothe lawlessness with authority, is not the franchise of a Christian republic." Woman Suffrage in Utah Angelia French Thurston Newman (1837-1910) Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1886 JK1911 U8...
"[W]e will put woman suffrage in the Constitution; we will strike the fetters from the wrists of our wives, mothers, sisters and daughters; we will grant them the boon already granted to the black man under the pledge of the declaration that 'all men are...
Woman's Place — In the Fight for a Better World Elizabeth Gurley Flynn New York: New Century Publishers, 1947 HQ1426 F72 1947 Women's Day is celebrated globally on March 8th every year. It's origins, however, are much closer to home than we might expect. Spurred on by labor and...
“We protest against the movement to deprive us of the elective franchise, which we have exercised for over fifteen years. What have we done that we should thus be treated as felons? Our only crime is that we have not voted as our persecutors dictate....
“The most advanced philosophy of the day holds as one of its cardinal tenets that constant reiteration of an idea, whether embodied as fact or dogma, will so influence the mind as to make it a concrete reality for the person holding it, with most...
"I believe that God is honored as much when He tells me to do a thing and I obey, as when He says not to do it, and I obey." An Autobiography: The Story of the Lord's Dealings With Mrs. Amanda Smith, the Colored Evangelist...
“A woman might as well turn farmer, and undertake the plowing and ditching herself, because she wants a tulip-bed, as undertake the whole field of politics because the part which relates to her needs fresh seeding down.” -- Mary Abilgail Dodge Woman's Worth and Worthlessness Mary Abigail...
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There will soon be a changing of the guard in Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C. A statue of Martha Hughes Cannon, the nation’s first female state senator, will replace that of Philo T. Farnsworth. The Utah State Treasurer’s Office recently accepted a proposal from sculptor...