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This is a poster calling for a mass meeting in the Military Plaza on September 13, 1913 for speeches made by the Woman's Party. Handbills such as these publicized women's efforts to try to fight for women's suffrage. |
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This cartoon emphasizes on the woman riding the horse and riding with the US flag high in the air. The woman wants freedom (a.k.a the right to vote), and is doing this in a vigilante fashion meant to rally other women and girls to fights for their rights. |
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Adding to the trouble for the women suffragists besides conventional overbearing politicans and religious leadings were groups ready to dismantle progress that the Women's Suffrage Movement made. They were men usually. |
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A woman holds up a huge banner with "Colorado Women Are Citizens" written on it. Women won the right to vote in the state in 1893 after lengthy battles with the state government. |
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After much struggle, women finally won the right to vote nationally on August 26, 1920. Though this decision is a important milestone for women's rights, there is still sexism all over the world. To combat this, we shall need a new leader to guide us through the soon-to-be-coming "third wave" of the Women's Rights Movement. And this concludes my photo essay on women's suffrage. |
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