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Where to See Utah's Suffrage History in Salt Lake City


Where to See Utah's Suffrage History in Salt Lake City

Temple Square brings together rich history, gorgeous gardens and architecture, and vivid art and culture in the center of downtown.

Walking Tour - Utah Women's History - Better Days

Learn about the downtown Salt Lake City sites involved in the Utah suffrage movement. This 3-mile loop begins at City Hall (Council Hall) and ends at the Utah ...

Suffrage Walking Tour of Salt Lake City - Civic Season

Retrace the steps of the first voting women in Salt Lake City while learning about the contentious and complicated twists and turns of their history.

Suffrage at Council Hall in Salt Lake City - Intermountain Histories

In February 2020, Utah women gathered to march from City Creek Park to Council Hall, honoring Young and the other women who were so important to Utah's history.

Suffrage and Stories of Utah Women - Utah State Archives

It marks the 100th anniversary of nation wide suffrage and 150 years of Utah woman suffrage. Along with the records that document the legislative history, the ...

10 Places to Honor Women's History on Your Trip to Utah

1. Temple Square. Utah women played a major role in the national suffrage movement during the early 20th century. · 4. Council Hall in Salt Lake City · 9. Hotel ...

Historic Suffrage Tours - Utah Women's History - Better Days

Historic Utah Suffrage Tours ... Salt Lake City has more standing women's suffrage sites than Seneca Falls, New York, the location of the first women's rights ...

Sisters for Suffrage - Church History

Celebrating 150 years since Utah women became the first in the nation to vote under an equal suffrage law, this exhibition highlights the pioneering role of ...

Suffrage at the Salt Lake Tabernacle - Intermountain Histories

In 1871, national women's suffrage leaders met at Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, a year after Seraph Young cast the nation's first vote.

Women's Suffrage: 1870-1896 - I Love History - Utah.gov

Women in Utah were the first in the nation to exercise the right to vote. This happened in 1870–fifty years before the 19th Amendment secured voting rights for ...

Utah women's history is on display at the LDS Church History Museum

See a bookcase and desk used by Utah's first female state senator. Read Utah's 1870 suffrage legislation. Check out a ballot box like the ...

Utah Women 20/20: Walking Tour Highlights Salt Lake City's ...

As we walk, Kitterman tells me Salt Lake City has more standing suffrage sites than the city of Seneca Falls, New York, the location of the ...

Women's Suffrage in Utah (U.S. National Park Service)

1 (Winter 1970): 24, 27, 29-30. Beverly Beeton, “Women Suffrage in Territorial Utah,” Utah Historical Quarterly 46, no. 2 (Spring 1978): 102-4, ...

Salt Lake City's Suffrage Streets - WWP - Wander Women Project

Explore downtown Salt Lake City following the places related to the Utah Suffrage Movement in this self-guided tour. Utah was the second territory to grant ...

3.14 “Female Suffrage in Utah,” February 8, 1870

“Female Suffrage in Utah,” Deseret Evening News (Salt Lake City, UT), Feb. 8, 1870, vol. 3, no. 65, p. [2]. See image of the original document at ...

women's suffrage in utah - Utah History Encyclopedia

In sharp contrast to the long fight for women's suffrage nationally, the vote came to Utah women in 1870 without any effort on their part. It had been promoted ...

Nat'l Women's History Museum | We're in Salt Lake City, Utah at The ...

Hi, everyone. Welcome to Salt Lake City. Um we're standing on the grounds of a memorial that was installed in August of 2020 where the ...

Better Days 2020

Celebrating Utah and national suffrage anniversaries in the year 2020 in creative and communal ways. By popularizing the history of women's rights and ...

First to Vote - Church History

Anthony visited Salt Lake City in 1871 to see how Utah's suffrage experiment was progressing. Susan B. Anthony ...

Power Of The Past: Retelling Utah's Suffragist History To Empower ...

Women in Utah became the first in America to vote under an equal suffrage law on Feb. 14, 1870. There are celebrations, but it means ...