Last week marked the end of Women’s History Month. At Better Days 2020, we didn’t let flipping the calendar distract us from a continued focus on excavating and amplifying the stories of women. For us, the time to delve into women’s history is all year long.
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Read MoreMaud May Fitch served as an ambulance driver in World War I. She was only one of several Utah women who descended into “the very vortex of the greatest conflict in the history of the world” to have their “heart and soul fire tried,” sometimes fatally, on behalf of their country.
Read MoreThis election day, meet Seraph Young, America’s first female voter. It’s her birthday!
Read MoreFiling into the Salt Lake City and County building in the spring of 1895, Utah women thought they had it in the bag. They had been working for years to build support for universal suffrage in the state constitution. And finally, the day arrived that the issue would be debated at the state constitutional convention.
Read MoreMany people have a question when they learn about Utah’s first female voter Seraph Young: what about Wyoming?
Read MoreOn this day in history, August 18, 1920, Tennessee’s youngest state representative, Harry T. Burn, sat in his Nashville hotel room, poring over a letter from his mother. Read about how this letter changed history.
Read MoreOn July 19, 1848, in the opening speech of the Seneca Falls Convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton declared, “We [women] now demand the right to vote.” Her audience applauded her gumption. But when she later presented the ninth resolution in her Declaration of Sentiments, “Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise,” they recognized her statement for what it was: A call to action. Few felt ready to answer.
Read More170 years ago today, on July 19, 1848, thirteen-year-old Daniel Cady Eaton broke into the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel with both his aunt’s blessing and her assistance.
Read MoreOn February 15, 1898, Susan B. Anthony led a delegation of women and men up the steps of the U.S. Capitol to speak in support of women’s suffrage. One of the seventeen people who joined Anthony that day was Utah State Senator Martha Hughes Cannon.
Read MoreBetter Days 2020 launches its Utah women’s history curriculum at www.utahwomenshistory.org.
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