Women -- Suffrage -- History; Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History; Women's rights -- History; Women's rights -- United States -- History
The comprehensive booklet published by Miss Selina Solomons, "How We
Won the Vote in California," preserves scores of these names and
contains a wealth of details in regard to this interesting campaign.
[16] After the election was over the College League at a general
request issued a pamphlet of 139 pages, edited by Louise Herrick Wall,
describing in detail its many activities during the campaign, every
page of which is a record of marvelous work.
[17] The consideration of Secretary of State Frank Jordan was
appreciated in placing the amendment on the ballot with an explanatory
footnote that would prevent any one from not recognizing it. The
victory was partly due to this advantage.
[18] The very complete résumé of the activities of these organizations
made by Miss Martha A. Ijams, Council Secretary, had to be much
condensed for lack of space.
CHAPTER V.
COLORADO.[19]
In Colorado the period from 1900 to 1920 began and ended with a
victory for equal suffrage. In 1901 the woman suffrage law of 1893 was
by vote of the people made a part of the State constitution. In 1919 a
special session of the Legislature ratified the Federal Suffrage
Amendment. A half-century ago, Jan. 4, 1870, Governor Edward M. McCook
in his biennial report to the Territorial Legislature had urged it to
be a leader in this "movement of progressive civilization," but it was
twenty-three years later when the lone example of the sister State,
Wyoming, was followed and Colorado became the second State to
enfranchise woman.
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