By Brandy Bailey, ElectWomen Magazine Contributor
At the time, Georgia Davis Powers had no idea she had made history in 1968 by becaming the first woman AND the first African-American elected to Kentucky’s State Senate.  All she knew was that she wanted to make a difference in her community.
It was never her intention to become a [...]

Kamala Lopez Produces Movie About America’s First Congresswoman
A Single Woman is about the first U.S. Congresswoman and lifelong pacifist, Jeannette Rankin. She ran for Congress in Montana in 1916 and won, against all odds.  Women in Montana were given the right to vote in 1914, six years before the U.S. Congress ratified the 19th amendment. [...]

by Kathy Groob
TIMELINE OF THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT

Elizabeth Cady Stanton is best remembered as the founder of The Women’s Movement.  She held the first conference in Seneca Falls, NY  in 1848.
In 1869 Wyoming and Utah allowed women the right to vote but that was quickly overturned by the Edmonds-Tucker Act of 1887.
In 1920 Congress ratified the [...]