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Jan 3, 2020 · As part of our commemoration of the Suffrage Centennial, the Ohio History Connection has created an exhibit that will travel the state to tell the sto
Aug 29, 2020 · Ms. Andrews’s parade blouse and jacket and two of the three suffrage sashes are featured in the exhibit Votes for Women: 100 Years of Change at the Ohio History Center. Like the traveling exhibit upon which it is based, the exhibit privileges Ohio women’s voices and provides a platform for them to continue their advocacy.
White women often discounted problems that they did not experience, so women of color had to fight for their voices to be heard. Even after the passage of the 19 th Amendment, women of color had to speak out to end discrimination that barred American Indian women, Asian American women, African American women, and many Latinas from voting.
Ohio is taking an important step in closing this representation gap. The Ohio Women’s Suffrage Commission imagines a future where women “rally at the monument” to build community and advocate for causes that impact Ohio’s future. Join us today to make history because we cannot be what we cannot see.
The OHIO WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION (OWSA) led and organized Ohio women in the long fight for the right to vote for almost half a century. Founded in Cincinnati in September 1869, with national suffrage leaders such as Susan B. Anthony and Lucy Stone in attendance, its purpose was to “advance the cause of woman suffrage and thereby to make our government in fact what it is in theory ...
Let Ohio Women Vote postcard. Women's rights issues in Ohio were put into the public eye in the early 1850s. Women inspired by the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention created newspapers and then set up their own conventions, including the 1850 Ohio Women's Rights Convention which was the first women's right's convention outside of New York and the first ...
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Women worked to create organizations and groups to influence politicians on women's suffrage. Several state constitutional amendments for women's suffrage did not pass. However, women in Ohio did get the right to vote in school board elections and in some municipalities before Ohio became the fifth state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment.
