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The Oregon Historical Society, the University of Oregon Libraries, the Library of Congress, the National Library of Medicine, and the Women of the West Museum, for their indispensable research archives.
David Burke, Wade Major, Oliver Fabris, and Jamie Lucero for their help with Henri Reverie’s French. Merci! Any errors in translation are entirely my own.
Last of all, my deepest gratitude extends to every single woman and man who fought to end inequality at the voting polls in the United States and elsewhere. Their sacrifices and struggles to give the silenced a voice should never be forgotten.
May equality spread even farther across the globe in the very near future.
WHEN AND WHERE U.S. WOMEN GAINED FULL SUFFRAGE
1869 Wyoming territory1
1893 Colorado
1896 Utah2 and Idaho
1910 Washington State3
1911 California
1912 Oregon,4 Kansas, and Arizona
1913 Alaska5
1914 Montana and Nevada
1917 New York
1918 Michigan, South Dakota, and Oklahoma
1 Wyoming became a state in 1890, and Wyoming women retained the right to vote.
2 Women in the territory of Utah were given full suffrage in 1870. In 1887 that right was taken away until Utah became a state in 1896.
3 The territory of Washington briefly granted women, including African American women, full suffrage in 1883, but in 1887 the Territorial Supreme Court overturned that law.
4 The men of Oregon voted down suffrage referendums in 1884, 1900, 1906, 1908, and 1910, before approving the sixth measure in 1911.
5 The territory of Alaska granted women full suffrage forty-six years before it became a state in 1959.
August 26, 1920 The 19th Amendment to the Constitution is signed into law. Female U.S. citizens age twenty-one and older are granted the right to vote in all states.
1924 The Indian Citizenship Act gives Native Americans, both male and female, U.S. citizenship, yet Native Americans will not be granted suffrage in every state until 1962.
1965–2006 The U.S. government passes legislation to protect the voting rights of minorities, Americans with disabilities, and other citizens who had encountered obstacles in exercising their freedom to vote.
1971 The voting age is dropped to eighteen in all fifty states.
RECOMMENDED READING
Bly, Nellie. Ten Days in a Mad-House. New York: Ian L. Munro, 1887.
Browning, John Edgar (ed.). Bram Stoker’s Dracula: The Critical Feast. Berkeley, Calif.: Apocryphile Press, 2011.
Crichton, Judy. America 1900: The Turning Point. New York: Henry Holt, Inc., 1998.
Edwards, G. Thomas. Sowing Good Seeds: The Northwest Suffrage Campaigns of Susan B. Anthony. Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1990.
John, Finn J. D. Wicked Portland: The Wild and Lusty Underworld of a Frontier Seaport Town, Charleston, S.C.: History Press, 2012.
Lansing, Jewel. Portland: People, Politics, and Power, 1851–2001. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2005.
McGill, Ormond. The New Encyclopedia of Stage Hypnotism. Bethel, Conn.: Crown House Publishing, 1996.
Nation, Carry Amelia. The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation. Topeka, Kans.: F. M. Steves & Sons, 1908. (Note: Newspapers in 1900 spelled Mrs. Nation’s name “Carrie,” which is believed to be the official spelling. However, she opted to use “Carry” for her temperance campaign and autobiography.)
Ross-Nazzal, Jennifer M. Winning the West for Women: The Life of Suffragist Emma Smith Devoe. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011.
Sherr, Lynn. Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words. New York: Times Books, 1995.
Streeter, Michael. Hypnosis: Secrets of the Mind. Hauppauge, N.Y.: Barron’s, 2004.
Twain, Mark. “Happy Memories of the Dental Chair.” In Who Is Mark Twain?, 77–86. New York: HarperCollins, 2009.
Ward, Jean M., and Elaine A. Maveety (eds.). “Yours for Liberty”: Selections from Abigail Scott Duniway’s Suffrage Newspaper. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2000.
Winter, Alison. Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Wynbrandt, James. The Excruciating History of Dentistry: Toothsome Tales & Oral Oddities from Babylon to Braces. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2000.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CAT WINTERS is the author of In the Shadow of Blackbirds, which received three starred reviews and was a finalist for YALSA’s Morris Award for debut YA fiction. She grew up near Disneyland in Southern California. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her family.