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A Nod to March
Women’s History Month
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In our country was on the heels of a worldwide pandemic, we were still bringing troops home from the battlefields of Europe at the conclusion of World War I, the fi rst commercial radio station was licensed and began broadcasting live events, and the American economic power would begin a decade of unprecedented prosperity and unfathomable depression all in a matter of years. In the midst of what is arguably the most iconic year in our nation’s existence an extraordinary event took place that would forever change the face of our politics and our nation. On November , , millions of American women voted for the fi rst time in our history, a hard won victory that had been in the
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OF THE MONTH making for centuries. It was when Jane Hunt fi rst invited four of her friends to tea. The guest list included Lucretia Mott and her sister Martha Wright, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Ann McClintock. Mott and Stanton were not strangers. They met originally in at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, where they were refused admittance because women were not allowed. We can’t overlook the irony of women being refused admittance due to their gender, to an event concerning equal rights for all. Th is event lit a spark in both women’s hearts which eight years later, at an afternoon tea was fanned into
flame starting a decades long battle to give women the right to vote. The topic of a woman’s place in society had long been discussed and set aside, actually since the fi rst settlers landed in North America, but in the mid-s when the fight against slavery fi nally came
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