At 07:34 PM 5/23/01 -0500, you wrote:
>On Thu, 24 May 2001, K.Feete wrote:
>
> > Second, I know perfectly well that America has many accomplishments to
> > be proud of. There's women's sufferage, for example- I believe we were
> > the first to give women the vote, which I am far more proud of than
> > all the trinkets and moon-landings you list.
>
>This may be true of some US states, but women over 30 were given the right
>to vote in Britain in 1918, while the 19th Amendment here wasn't ratified
>until 1920.
>
> Julia
From <http://www.aracnet.com/~histgaz/hgv3n5.htm>:
In 1890, when Wyoming entered the Union as a state, it became the first
woman's suffrage state. Colorado soon followed in 1893. Utah became the
third state to join the suffragist states in 1896. Idaho gave women the
vote the same year Utah entered the Union. The victory in Colorado and
Idaho was won primarily by the efforts of Carrie Chapman Catt (founder of
League of Women Voters) who taught women how to lobby and organize.
---Bridget E. Smith, Historical Gazette
-- Ronn! :)
