Votes for Women: The U.S. and Nebraska Campaigns for Suffrage @ Eiseley Branch | For Adults

The 72-year campaign for women's suffrage in the U.S. culminated in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which declared that voting rights could not be denied or abridged based on sex. The Nebraska Legislature ratified the 19th Amendment on August 2, 1919, but only after 63 years of rallies, petition drives, and persistent defeats in campaigns that - had they been successful - would have made Nebraska the first territory and then the first state to grant its women voting rights. Instead, that place in U.S. history went to Wyoming as both a territory and state. This presentation tells the story of the women's suffrage movement in Nebraska, which began in 1856 within the framework of the 1848-1920 national movement.