Fulda Memorial Library is hosting speaker Rose Schmitt at Fulda City Hall on Tuesday, March 31, 7 p.m. Schmitt will be presenting her program on “Women’s Suffrage: From Seneca Falls to Slayton”. The presentation begins with a broad overview of the women’s suffrage movement and then zooms in on what was happening in Murray County.
Schmitt, who is the Site Manager at the Murray County museum, will share several stories of local history regarding the fight for Women’s Suffrage. “It was a long road for women to achieve equal suffrage in the United States,” Schmitt commented. “The first American women’s voting rights conference was held in 1848. It would take another 72 years to receive the right to vote under the 19th Amendment. With splits in the movement, stereotypes of how women were supposed to act, and the task of amending the Constitution, the individuals fighting for suffrage had many challenges to overcome.”
The 19th amendment is a very important amendment to the constitution as it gave women the right to vote in 1920.
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