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The movement for women's suffrage was a 72-year struggle that demanded a great deal from women emotionally, politically, and physically. Register by phone, in person, or online.
This lecture looks at what it was like to be a woman in the 19th century with little power to change her circumstances because she did not have access to the ballot box, how it was that women became convinced in the 1840s that it was time to take on that struggle, and how they finally won that struggle.
AGE GROUP: | Teen | Family | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | History |
TAGS: | women's suffrage | women's history | women | voting | Vote | Suffrage Voting |
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