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About Women's Right to Vote Day
Politics , Civil Rights
United States
Ends: Feb 12, 2022
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Who said religious societies aren't progressive? Islam was educating women for centuries, whilst Christianity remained in the dark ages; the Mormon territory of Utah granted women the right to vote a full 50 years before the United States government on February 12, 1870. The US Congress wasn't too happy with that and passed the Edmunds-Tucker Act in 1887, stripping them of their rights (as part of an anti-polygamy bill). Problem was, Utah was a territory at this time, not a state yet. Polygamy was the reason given for the territory not being invited into the Union.
Not to be deterred, the women of Utah, Mormon and not, were going to have none of that. They had been voting for 17 years! It wouldn't happen overnight, but once the LDS Church, (the predominant authority in the faith) ended polygamy in 1890, the path to statehood was revived. Upon Utah's grant of statehood in 1896, part of the deal was that women got their right to vote...and hold office...back. It was written into the state constitution.
Right to Vote Day commemorates that February 12, 1870, (highly progressive for the time), law and right in the Utah Territory for women. Though the Wyoming Territory had granted the right to its citizens six weeks earlier, the first actual vote cast by a woman in the US and its territories occurred in Utah on February 14, 1870.
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