WOW Museum: The Struggle for Women's Suffrage


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Timeline

1876-   Colorado State Constitution allows local school suffrage for women; Colorado Woman Suffrage Association founded.

1877-   State referendum for women's suffrage ends in defeat.

1879-   Caroline Churchill begins publishing the suffrage newspaper, The Colorado Antelope, later called The Queen Bee.

1890-   Journalist Ellis Meredith organizes Colorado Non-Partisan Equal Suffrage Association.

1892-   People's Party candidate Davis Waite elected governor on pro-suffrage platform.

1893-   Male voters approve full suffrage for women.





Posting Bills

As early voters, Colorado's women participated actively in the national suffrage campaign and party politics.
Colorado Historical Society

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