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Timeline

1859-   Kansas statehood.

1861-   Kansas state constitution grants local school suffrage for women.

1867-   Kansas Impartial Suffrage Association formed.

1878-   First group of 'Exodusters' arrive in Kansas.

1887-   Women win municipal suffrage.

1891-   The Farmers' Wife founded by Emma and Ira Pack.

1894-   Suffrage referendum defeated.

1912-   Male voters approve full women's suffrage.




Leavenworth Suffragists

Leavenworth ladies solicit voters in the 1880s. (From Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, April 16, 1887.
Denver Public Library, Western History/Genealogy Department

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