Sounds and images from the women suffrage movement
As the first state to allow suffrage of any kind, Kentucky played an important role in the suffrage movement. Activists such as Laura Clay, Madeline McDowell Breckinridge, Eliza Calvert Obenchain, Mary Barr Clay, Mary Britton, and Josephine Henry played important roles in the women’s rights movement in both Kentucky and nationwide. While these women are the most well-known, many other Kentucky women worked to improve the status of women’s lives in Kentucky.
These images and sound clips represent the struggle for and against suffrage in Kentucky.
SOUNDS
Listen to the following sound clips to hear the Kentucky Suffragists in their own words.
To view a transcription of the the clip while you listen,
click on one of the names below, and then on "view the text."
View documents of those opposed to the idea of women voting.
Read Cassius Clay's views on woman's suffrage
as published in The Illustrated Kentuckian.
Follow these LINKS for more information about the Woman's Suffrage Movement:
To view Kentucky Governor Edwin P. Morrow signing the 19th amendment into
law to the Library of Congress' American Memory page and do a search with
the keyword "Kentucky."
Read the original text of the 19th Amendment.
One Woman One Vote includes suffrage timeline, discussion questions, information about the film.
Susan B Anthony’s House—includes a somewhat extensive biography as well as a timeline.
Library of Congress, Votes for Women Suffrage Photos, 1850-1920.
Once the vote was extended to women, the National American Woman Suffrage Association dissolved and reorganized as the League of Women Voters to operate on local, state, and national levels. The Kentucky Equal Rights Association became the Kentucky L.W.V.
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