Saturday, June 11, 2005

28. attend a Chautauqua

Women's Suffrage and Mary Lease

The most famous people associated with the women's suffrage movement died before the 19th amendment passed in 1920. Mary Elizabeth Lease, however, lived into the 1930s. When she was interviewed at the time that the suffrage amendment passed, she said:


The seed we sowed in Kansas did not fall on barren ground.

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