Sexism and racism played a role in women's fight for the right to vote in Colorado.
DENVER — It's been more than a century since the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. In Colorado,Still, the push to secure suffrage here wasn't simple for suffragettes.
Politicians and religious leaders spoke out against it, writing pamphlets. Priest Joseph Machebeuf even wrote a sermon about it. First, they’d need to ask men for the right to vote. That’s where the suffragists came in. Women like Baby Doe Tabor, Ellis Meredith, Eliza Routt and Elizabeth Ensley were front and center.
Credit: Officers of the National American Women Suffrage Association, Washington, D.C., Feb 11, 1894. History Colorado. Accession #SHNH.10675.
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