19th at 100: Commemorating the Suffrage Struggle and Its Legacies in Northeast Ohio

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The fight for suffrage was alive and well within the students at the College for Women of Western Reserve University. From pro-suffrage student organizations to mock campaigns, students across campus found ways to get involved with the fight for political equality. Students pressed for national suffrage for at least a decade before the 19th amendment was ratified, and some formed a College Equal Suffrage League chapter in 1911. Six years later, even as Ohio defeated a referendum to give women the right to vote for presidential electors, the measure won in a mock vote at the college, 308-13.

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