On this date in 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, was declared in effect. Mary Ann Freeze, whose diaries I am editing, was very involved in working for Utah women to get the vote.
Here is an entry from her diary:
January 1889
Thurs 10th Attended a meeting held for the purpose of organizing a Woman’s Suffrage Association of Utah. All went off smoothly the organization completed with some of our noblest women as officers. Sisters Caine & Emily Richards were nominated & sustained as delegates to go back to Washington & plead in our defense,
Mary died in 1912. Too bad it took eight more years for women to get the vote, though as we know, there’s been nothing but trouble ever since. Wish she could have seen it.
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