State Marks Centennial of Being First to Ratify Women's Vote
06/10/19 | 2m 8s | Rating: NR
100 years ago today, Wisconsin was the first state in the nation to ratify the constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote. A celebration at the State Capitol today featured speakers delving into that history and unveiling Wisconsin’s original 19th Amendment document.
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State Marks Centennial of Being First to Ratify Women's Vote
Women will continue to be on the march for equality, because in the words of Susan B. Anthony, failure is impossible. Let us not lie to ourselves. The women suffrage movement at the time was controlled by white women at the expense of marginalizing the women of color. And I mean that when I said no women left behind. Let's not lose any women on this journey. It's the right to vote that these women and some good men struggled so mightily for for all of us. For themselves, of course. For us here today. And for our future generations. On Wisconsin.
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