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Forward Into Light: Greenville celebrates centennial of women’s right to vote
It took roughly 70 years and risk of arrest, imprisonment and other harms to self and family among many early suffragists. But ratification of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote finally came...
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Like many other celebrations during the coronavirus pandemic, events commemorating the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution have gone by the wayside. But Furman’s Distinguished University Public Historian and Scholar Courtney Tollison and...
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The 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote was celebrated Aug. 18 in Columbia, South Carolina. Among the more than 80 women lining the steps of the Statehouse for the...
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