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Suffrage button, c. 1910

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Suffrage button, c. 1910

‘Votes for women’ were not easy to achieve. In 1878, suffragists first proposed a constitutional amendment to grant all women the right to vote. They reintroduced it each year until 1919, when Congress finally passed it.

Museum Collection, ICHi-061935