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Utah Gov. Gary Herbert signs bill honoring the state's pioneering women suffragists on Wednesday. He's surrounded by state senators and representatives, and his wife, who are all wearing the yellow rose symbolizing suffrage.<em> </em>

Power Of The Past: Retelling Utah's Suffragette History To Empower Modern Women

Feb 14, 2020
Women in Utah became the first in America to vote under an equal suffrage law on Feb. 14, 1870. There are celebrations, but it means confronting the state's uncomfortable polygamy history, too.
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The Salt

On The Road To Women's Rights, Susan B. Anthony Stomached Plenty Of Bad Food

Mar 08, 2018
For 45 years, Anthony traveled the U.S. relentlessly, stumping for women's rights. She endured ridicule, was hanged in effigy and faced many horrid meals on the road. Nevertheless, she persisted.
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The Two-Way
The Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, N.Y., extended visiting hours on Election Day to accommodate those leaving "I Voted" stickers and other mementos at the grave of Susan B. Anthony.

At Susan B. Anthony's Grave, Visiting Hours Extended For Election Day Crowds

Nov 08, 2016
People were lining up to leave their "I Voted" stickers at the gravesite of the women's suffrage activist. Elsewhere, tributes popped up on Twitter and Instagram to other icons of the movement.
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The Salt
Julia Ward Howe, seen here in 1908, the year she became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her husband's death in 1876 had freed her to travel, give speeches, focus on the suffragist movement, and eat as she pleased, for

Battle Hymn At The Dining Table: A Famous Feminist Subjugated Through Food

Mar 16, 2016
Julia Ward Howe wrote the Civil War psalm The Battle Hymn of the Republic. She was adrift in a lonely war of her own, against a husband who controlled every aspect of her life, including what she ate.
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