Suffrage in Sixty Seconds
Various Times, Daily
On July 28th, 1919, Arkansas became the twelfth state to ratify the nineteenth amendment, giving American women the right to vote. Suffrage in Sixty Seconds celebrates the centennial of Arkansas’s ratification and recounts the long journey to women’s suffrage and the state’s role in that journey.
Suffrage in Sixty Seconds is a production of the Arkansas Women's Suffrage Centennial Commemoration Committee and KUAR. It's written and hosted by Dr. Sharon Silzell, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Monticello.
For more information, visit ARvotesforwomen.com.
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On June 4, 1919, the United States Congress finally passed the Nineteenth Amendment, guaranteeing women’s right to vote.Before going into effect, the…
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In 1915 Florence Cotnam became the first woman to address the Arkansas State Assembly while in session.Cotnam was a member of the Political Equality…
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After several attempts to get an amendment added to the state constitution, Arkansas suffragists finally won a partial victory in 1917.In a front-page…
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The flu pandemic of 1918 hit the suffrage movement hard.Carrie Chapman Catt, the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, extremely…
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The Dec. 15, 1918 Arkansas Gazette attributed the defeat of a proposed Arkansas Constitution, which included a provision for women’s suffrage, to bad…
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By Oct. 1918, 12 states had recognized women’s right to vote, but a federal constitutional amendment was defeated in the Senate.With midterm elections…
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Just a few weeks after its formation, the new women’s suffrage organization in Little Rock was making great progress.The March 16 , 1911 edition of the…
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After a decade of near silence on the issue, in January 1910, Little Rock women, Lynn Hemingway, Julia Clarke, Nell Dooley, and Adolphine Fletcher…
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Rather than marching in the streets, the Arkansans involved in the women's suffrage movement in the 19th century limited their actions to public lectures…
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While the collaboration of religious leaders and women activists likely began during the temperance movement, many church leaders became active and…