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Utah Women, the Search for International Peace, and World War I
by Amber Taylor, LDS Church History Library Most nineteenth-century women in the United States couldn’t yet vote at the national level, but they participated in benevolent societies and later clubs as a way to assert their influence locally and nationally. In the 1890s, many suffragists in the US and abroad began turning their club work […]Read More -
Winning Back the Vote: Ruth May Fox
Winning Back the Vote: Ruth May Fox Congress Took Away Utah Women’s Voting Rights in 1887. But Utah Suffragists Like Ruth May Fox Won Them Back. September 20, 2017 In February 1870, Utah women became the first to vote in the modern nation. For the next seventeen years they cast their ballots in high […]Read More