How Ohio's women were essential to the national women's suffrage movement Conversations and legal battles surrounding voting rights, once again a topic looming large in the United States, reflect a long history of such debates and suffrage campaigns. The struggle for women's voting rights, in particular, required persistence in the face of defeat, and unbeknownst to most people, Ohio—the fifth state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment—played a key role in the national women's suffrage movement. Covering 70 years of the movement, from 1850 through 1920, Jamie Capuzza demonstrates that...
How Ohio's women were essential to the national women's suffrage movement Conversations and legal battles surrounding voting rights, once again a ...