Volume 17 , Issue 28

NW Okie's Journey

Did you know that women's Suffrage dates back to 1647? Woman suffrage first raised its voice in America in Maryland in 1647 when Mistress Margaret Brent, heir of Lord Calvert, demanded a place in the legislature of the colony as a property holder of wide extent.



Another little tidbit of knowledge, organized work for woman suffrage began in the United States with the Woman's Rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, which was called by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (early leaders of Massachusetts and New York) in response to the indignation aroused by the refusal to permit women to take part in the anti-slavery convention of 1840.

We also can look back and see what the woman's political rights movement had done for the sex. It had done much more, though. It had opened the colleges to coeducation; it had allowed woman to enter the professions upon a footing equal with men; it had given her a more independent and self-reliant force. Women were pre-eminently better off than they were when Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and a host of others began demanding that they be allowed a voice in affairs.

From the date of the 1848 convention the suffrage movement in the US began the fight that lasted seventy years and ended with victory, August 18, 1920.

Full suffrage was enjoyed August 18, 1920 by the women of 21 foreign countries including the new states of Czecho-Slovakia and Poland and the ancient nations of England, Germany and the Scandinavian countries.

Good Night! Good Luck!
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