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New Mexico

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Timeline

1910-   New Mexico statehood. State constitution guarantees school suffrage for women.

1912-   State chapter of National American Woman Suffrage Association formed.

1918-   Adelia Otero-Warren defeats male candidate in election for Santa Fe School superintendent.

1920-   Otero-Warren leads successful lobbying campaign to win New Mexico ratification of 19th Amendment.





Adobe Church

Children in their Sunday clothes pose in front of adobe church, Alamo National Forest, New Mexico Territory (now Lincoln National Forest). By A.M. Neal, May 13, 1908.
National Archives and Records Administration

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